Redwood Church Preaching

Jan 31 2025 119 ep. 33 mins 2
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Teaching & instruction from Redwood Reformation Church, Rotorua NZ.

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Jacob was a perfect man (not a plain or quiet one)

Nov 17 2024 6 mins  
The original X thread referenced in this video: https://x.com/holzenkrieger/status/1857422361256989157 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

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

How the form of the law forms mature disciples

Jan 31 2025 44 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 43 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 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

Covenant bodies & hospitality

Jul 13 2024 45 mins  
Hospitality is a natural function of bodies. Giving the best of yourself for others works out not just at the personal level of individuals or families, but also in churches and even nations. What are some ways that New Zealand is hospitable, what does this hospitality reveal about its religion — and how should we then live? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss

Repentance, part 13: to consume God, he must first consume us

Jul 06 2024 30 mins  
We become like God by consuming him. But this pattern does not originate with us. To understand what it means to eat God — and how to do it — we must first know what it means that he eats us. 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

Receiving your national inheritance with gratitude

Jun 29 2024 44 mins  
Our nation, and everything that makes it unique, is Christ’s own inheritance. We therefore cannot despise it, ignore it, or reject it—but rather love it and build it up for him. An exposition and application of Deuteronomy 21:1–9. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit redwoodchurch.substack.co