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Redwood Church Preaching — 182 episodes
Psalm 149, part 2: psalm-singing as God’s gameplan for political change
How to perceive the qualities of a suitable judge
We’re all Danites now: pragmatic voting and political idolatry
Psalm 149, part 1: delighting in God because he delights in us
Psalm 111, God’s acrostic love for his people
Good kissing & glorious dancing (Song of Songs part 2)
Tuning the modern ear to biblical poetry (Song of Songs part 1)
The truth that grounds every new year, and time itself
The inconvenience of Christmas
Judges 8, part 4: the connection between spiritual and marital whoredom
Judges 8, part 3: the snare of Gideon in Israel and the church
Judges 8, part 2: the judicial wisdom of Gideon
Psalm 63, part 2: satisfied as with fat
Judges 8, part 1: the pastoral wisdom of Gideon
Judges 7, part 4: how we continue Gideon’s pursuit
Psalm 103, the sacrifices of a compassionate father
What kind of father would slaughter his own son? (Father’s Day)
Psalm 63, part 1: the concentration of covenant love in gathered worship
Judges 7, part 3: holy war still involves torches, horns & jars
Judges 7, part 2: a model for discerning dreams
Judges 7, part 1: crouching soldier, lapping dog-man
Psalm 58, the hidden violence of self-righteous politics
Judges 6, part 4: fear, faith, and fleece
Judges 6, part 3: the significance of Gideon’s offerings
Judges 6, part 2: Gideon, an unlikely savior
Jesus’ arguments against anxiety, part 5: Christian clothing and beauty
Judges 6, part 1: the enduring problem of Christians fearing other gods
Judges 5, part 4: emulating God’s mockery and gloating
Judges 5, part 3: should Christians curse their enemies?
Psalm 32, the necessity of confession
Judges 5, part 2: the active work of God in every event of our lives
Judges 5, part 1: how the church should write victory psalms
Judges 4, part 3: Yael, deceiver and piercer of the serpent
Jesus’ arguments against anxiety, part 4: the counterproductiveness of worry
How are we to let go of rage and forgive our enemies?
What does it mean to forgive our enemies?
Jesus’ arguments against anxiety, part 3: God’s provision for those he values
Judges 4, part 2: the faith of Baraq
Judges 4, part 1: Deborah, mother of the savior
Jesus’ arguments against anxiety, part 2: rightly ordering our concerns
Judges 3, part 4: Shamgar, the anti-Ehud
Judges 3, part 3: Ehud in the church age?
Jesus’ arguments against anxiety, part 1: letting go of earthly concerns
Judges 3, part 2: Ehud’s sacrifice of Eglon
Psalm 95, part 2: covenantal election and apostate sheep
Judges 3, part 1: Othniel as the paradigm of all the judges
Psalm 137, part 2: Singing psalms beyond their original context
Psalm 137, part 1: Praise God for cutting off Babylonian seed
Judges 2, part 3: failures of modern (spiritual) warfare
How the form of the law forms mature disciples
Psalm 95, part 1: Thankful & loud worship
Judges 2, part 2: culture and conquest
Judges 2, part 1: how to keep a new generation from bowing to the world
A vision for living another year in the world
Judges 1, part 4: compromise by covenants of convenience
What Mary Knew
Judges 1, part 3: Fear & faithlessness in Israel and the church
Psalm 98: The wondrousness of Christmas
Judges 1, part 2: Israel’s success as the Church’s success
Judges 1, part 1: Judges as typological of the church age
Repentance, part 16: the forward-looking nature of biblical happiness
Rightly ordered affections: natural vs covenantal identity
What does it mean to pray in faith?
How we overcome by faith…even (especially) when we fail
Repentance, part 21: individual transformation through Christ’s body
The biblical lawlessness of IVF
Repentance, part 19: we are all Cretans now
Repentance, part 18: fasting—scripture’s answer to consumerism
Repentance, part 15: what is happiness?
Repentance, part 14: three applications of biblical meditation
Covenant bodies & hospitality
Repentance, part 13: to consume God, he must first consume us
Receiving your national inheritance with gratitude
Psalm 132: Driven to establish worship
Repentance, part 11: we’re always consuming either life or death
Romans 1: Why idolatry makes you gay
Psalm 124, part 2: Cannibalism—not whether, but which
Repentance, part 10: attention as worship
Romans 1: A Christian response to pride month
Psalm 124, part 1: God sides with the baptised
Repentance, part 9: sanctification via sustained attention
Repentance, part 12: the fallen vs redeemed pattern for consumption
2 Timothy 3, part 3: the scope of the postmil pulpit
Acts 16: How a household is saved
Repentance, part 7: how Christ models peace and joy in Gethsemane
2 Timothy 3, part 2: Timothy’s lesson from the last days
Repentance, part 6: war as the precondition of peace
Repentance, part 5: why peace surpasses understanding
Repentance, part 8: look where you want to go
2 Timothy 3, part 1: Wolves are after our women
Repentance, part 3: its sorrow
Psalm 134: Blessing the members of your body
Repentance, part 2: its exhaustiveness
Repentance, part 1: what actually is it?
Psalm 126 (part 2): Covenantal Concern for Disobedient Brethren
Repentance, part 4: the head, the chest and the belly
Psalm 126 (part 1): The laughter of the liberated
Walking into a new year of wicked days
How we participate in Christ through gift-giving and Christmas trees
Liturgical conquest through celebrating Christmas
The subtle snare of lifted eyes & false tongues
Psalm 121 (part 2): Who does God keep?
Vocation, part 13: the call to rest
Psalm 121 (part 1): The Wisdom of Faith in the Invisible
Vocation, part 12: living sacrificially
Psalm 120 part 1: A Song for the Christian in a Lying Land
Psalm 129 part 3: Fruitfulness from Flogging
Vocation, part 11: the calling to sacrifice
Psalm 129 part 2: Voting in Gutter Grass
Vocation, part 10: the calling of mothers
Vocation, part 9: how God calls mothers to image him as life-givers
Psalm 129 part 1: Kids and Covenantal Identity
Psalm 130 part 3: The Sanctification of Israel
Vocation, part 8: how God calls fathers to image him as name-givers
Vocation, part 7: how men are to rule their houses
Vocation, part 6: obstacles to husbands obeying their calling
Vocation, part 5: obstacles to wives obeying their calling
Vocation, part 4: household calling
Vocation, part 3: the calling of women
Psalm 130 part 2: Eagerly Waiting for Final Salvation
Psalm 130 part 1: Out of the depths to mountain air
Vocation, part 2: the end of our work
Vocation, part 1: the calling of mankind
Psalm 127 part 5: Open Carry with a Full Quiver
Psalm 127 part 4: The Renovations of Sanctification
Psalm 127 part 3: Building a Lasting Heritage Through Babies
Psalm 127 part 2: Security in Yahweh or the State?
Psalm 127 part 1: The Beams That God Builds With
Psalm 131: Having faith with an uncertain future
Psalm 123: Singing with Eyes to the Skies
How should we worship? Part 13: the Lord's Day as the Day of the Lord
What makes a church a church? Part 6: Christians as divine council members
How should we worship? Part 14: song and warfare
How should we worship? Part 12: worship as divine council meeting
How should we worship? Part 10: the sacrificial significance of bread and wine
How should we worship? Part 11: covering our glory to magnify God's
How should we worship? Part 9: the Lord's Supper as the center of life
How should we worship? Part 8: the Lord's Supper as covenant remembrance
How should we worship? Part 7: the covenant logic & obligation of infant baptism
Psalm 20: Sing for Your Kings
How should we worship? Part 6: worship as the center of life
Psalm 29: The Glory of Wild Weather
How should we worship? Part 5: body language & song
Psalm 18: Coming on the Clouds Once More
What makes a church a church? Part 5: enrollment by covenant
How should we worship? Part 4: the meaning of what we wear
Psalm 104: Let Creation Please Its Creator
How should we worship? Part 3: liturgical order of worship in scripture
Psalm 19: The Perfections of God's Speech
How should we worship? Part 2: liturgy as true magic
Psalm 2: Fitting Kings with Fetters
Why Christmas carols are so postmillennial
How should we worship? Part 1: the regulative principle
Psalm 128: Praise Yahweh for The Patriarchal Blessing
What makes a church a church? Part 4: communion with God
Psalm 125: Saints as an Immovable City
What makes a church a church? Part 3: key ingredients
What makes a church a church? Part 2: duty & jurisdiction
Psalm 122: Praise God for Christian Prosperity
Psalm 133: The Blessing of an Oily Beard
What makes a church a church? Part 1: governance
Psalm 17: The Pleas of a Righteous Man
Scriptural patterns should shape our thought patterns
Psalm 14: Fools that Deny the Obvious
Psalm 13: Singing of Someone Else's Sorrow
Psalm 100: Marked by Thankfulness
Psalm 65: Breaking the Untenable Silence
Psalm 12: In the Midst of Apostates
Psalm 29: Praise God for Destructive Weather
Qualifications for pastors that pastors won’t preach
Psalm 15: The Works of the True Worshipers
Psalm 119: Loving a Minister of Death
Guardian angels or ghosts? Testing scripture with scripture
Psalm 96: Singing Outside the Church
Psalm 11: A Remedy for Escapism
Psalm 6: How to Sing Through Troubles
Psalm 1: A Song that Teaches Happiness
Psalm 9: Nations Sinking into Their Own Pit
Psalm 8: The Intangible Strength of Children in Church
Psalm 7: Give Me Justice, Even if it Hurts
Psalm 5: The Hatred of God Toward Sinners
Hermeneutics and Christianese