Redwood Church Preaching

Feb 07 2025 122 ep. 33 mins 2
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Teaching & instruction from Redwood Reformation Church, Rotorua NZ.

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Rightly ordered affections: natural vs covenantal identity

Nov 16 2024 51 mins  
As Western civilization collapses, Western Christians are struggling for identity. For some, the pendulum is swinging from woke radical individualism to ethnic allegiances. But without recovering these natural bonds as covenantal categories, we are trading one form of identity politics for another. To rightly order the bonds of blood and soil, they must ultimately be fitted togethe

Psalm 137, part 2: Singing psalms beyond their original context

Feb 07 2025 31 mins  
Psalm 137 expresses Israel’s grief in exile and longing for true worship. Though contextually bound to Babylon, the psalm applies to the church today as we seek worship that pleases God, mourn sin, trust in divine justice, and anticipate the perfect worship of heaven. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episode

Psalm 137, part 1: Praise God for cutting off Babylonian seed

Feb 03 2025 43 mins  
Worship should shape us—not be reshaped to our comfort. Psalm 137 calls believers to unashamedly embrace God’s justice, long for his kingdom, and trust his sovereignty in judgment. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit redwoodchurch.substack.com

How the form of the law forms mature disciples

Jan 31 2025 40 mins  
An exposition and application of Psalm 132. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit redwoodchurch.substack.com

The biblical lawlessness of IVF

Sep 14 2024 40 mins  
IVF violates three different biblical laws: (1) gross negligence, as many embryos die; (2) adultery, by introducing a third party into the sex act; (3) presumption, by creating life without the certainty of birth. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit redwoodchurch.substack.com

Repentance, part 19: we are all Cretans now

Sep 07 2024 45 mins  
Cretans are liars, sluggards and gluttons—and from this, Paul infers that they will desire to go after fables and myths. Why? Because they want to waste themselves on consumption, without care for whether it is false. Unfortunately, social media algorithms and on-demand entertainment is now shaping us all into Cretans. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this w

Repentance, part 18: fasting—scripture’s answer to consumerism

Aug 31 2024 44 mins  
The consumerism of our age shapes our souls, by instant gratification, to covetousness and impatience. These are antithetical to contentment and faith, and leave us numb. The biblical remedy is not to ascetically resist the urge to indulge—but rather to reorder our desires toward God. Fasting teaches us how to do this. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this w

Repentance, part 16: the forward-looking nature of biblical happiness

Nov 22 2024 38 mins  
As with all sanctification, the pursuit of happiness is already and not yet. It is a forward-looking anticipation of the perfection we already have in Christ, which will become ours when we are glorified. By faith, we anticipate the perfect bliss of eternal union with God, but we also know we already are united to him in Christ. And so we seek to participate in that union now, as p

Repentance, part 15: what is happiness?

Jul 27 2024 39 mins  
Scripture has much to say about the happiness of those who consume God’s word. But how should we understand this, when antidepressant usage is common among Christians and non-Christians alike? Part of the answer is that biblical happiness is not a feeling, but an action of faith ordering the affections. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscr

Repentance, part 14: three applications of biblical meditation

Jul 20 2024 37 mins  
To consume God via his word, he tells us to be speaking the scriptures to ourselves, singing the scriptures to ourselves, and dialoging the scriptures between ourselves. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit redwoodchurch.substack.com