Holy Redeemer

Welcome! Take a moment to see what’s meant by worship that...

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:11:00 -0500

Welcome!

Take a moment to see what’s meant by worship that magnifies Jesus Christ in Word, Sacrament and Spirit and read a letter of welcome from our pastor.

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Tomorrow, the majority of Christ followers around the...

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:48:00 -0500

Tomorrow, the majority of Christ followers around the world—Eastern and Western Christians, whether Protestant, Eastern Orthodox or Roman Catholic—will, like the first Christians, join in a Great Fast, an annual 40-day season of self-examination, repentance, self-denial, prayer, and meditation on the saving acts of Jesus Christ.

Lent reminds us that when we come to Jesus we do not come to him alone. We enter a community of his disciples who, like the first Christians, share common spiritual disciplines and practices, including fasts we undertake together.

Jesus doesn’t need our fasting, of course, to save us. He paid our sin debt already in his body on the Cross. But spiritual disciplines—holy practices that involve our minds, wills, hands, ears, eyes, knees, and feet—attune our hearts to God’s already-granted forgiveness and to eternal relationship with Christ.

God doesn’t want our pious or petty denials of self (be it food or creature comforts or whatever), he wants our hearts! Lent is not about fasting or self-denial; it’s about serious participation—here and now—in God’s divine forgiveness with all his people. It doesn’t change God, it changes us. It changes our hearts.

On Ash Wednesday, February 22, at 7 p.m. Lent gets underway at Holy Redeemer with a special Eucharist (“Thanksgiving”) at which we confess our sins and—as a reminder of our mortal nature—inscribe a cross of dust on our foreheads.

I invite you to dive into the deep end of Lent, to join this global, ancient, and cross-denominational adventure in sweeping the houses of our hearts, inventorying their shelves, and throwing out the debris and idols we find there; of turning away from fallen habits, the ways of the world, and the spirit of this age. Jesus waits with joyful expectation for your greater participation in his body, in his gift of forgiveness, and in his divine life.

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Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:26:00 -0500

Sermon: Bought with a Price

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:13:00 -0500

Sermon: Bought with a Price:

When he met his disciples for a final meal, Jesus uses the language of Ancient Near Eastern marriage contracts to assure his followers that he is preparing a place for them; that the Bridegroom will return for his Bride. Trevor Hults on John 14:1-6 and what it means to be Bought with a Price. Click on the title above or here to immediately download this sermon.

The 411

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 02:45:00 -0500

Church: 3050 Grant Rd, Rochester Hills MI 48309

Parish House (and all mail to): 2225 W Auburn Rd, Rochester Hills MI 48309

Telephone: 248-852-4081

Email: contactholyredeemer (at) gmail (dot) com

Location: The church is half a block south of Auburn Road, a quarter mile west of the intersection of Crooks Road and Auburn Road...just a few minutes from the Crooks Road exits off both I-75 and M-59. Turn-by-turn directions to the church from anywhere available at the "DIRECTIONS" link up and to the left. The Parish House (office, meeting rooms, food pantry) is adjacent to the church and faces Auburn Road.