Weekly talks from Redeemer Central.
David Armstrong speaks with Chloe Higginon (née Loughridge) about her new role on staff as ‘Children & Families Ministry Co-Ordinator’ and what the first steps of Redeemer Kids returning will look like. We also get to know more about Chloe, her time at school and Bible College and her passion working for Invisible Traffic educating children in schools about this heartbreaking yet vitally important issue.
David Armstrong sat down with friend Pastor John Perrine to discuss his upcoming sermon series at Redeemer as guest speaker during August and September 2021. We also hear about John’s story from being raised in a christian family in Illinois US, meeting his wife Jenna, becoming a pastor in the mega-church Willowcreek Community Church (Chicago) and his discovery ancient spiritual practices and their power to nourish and sustain a deeper and embodied faith.
Stephanie Wilson reflects on what the Gospel of shalom might say when life doesn’t go well, when we have to deal with the difficult realities of illness and death — especially in the midst of a pandemic — and how we are invited to surrender the need for certainty and step into deep trust and faith in the goodness of God who is with us through all of it.
David Armstrong considers how the Gospel of shalom calls us to examine our relationship with the earth and our environment and see creation care as a core value in the Kingdom God.
Stephanie Wilson looks at how the Gospel of shalom informs and shapes how we think about issues of gender.
David Armstrong looks at how the Gospel of shalom informs and shapes how we think about issues of race, ethnicity, nationality and empire and how the way of Jesus calls us to a different way: the Kingdom of Peace.
Stephanie Wilson considers what the Gospel of shalom means for our families and relationships to those closest to us. However, perhaps more importantly the Gospel of Good News also wants to reshape and broaden our view of what family actually is and call us to create places of belonging and relationships across all societal boundaries — welcoming one and all into the family of God. Stephanie shares what this might mean for our community in Redeemer and the parish we live in, in Donegall Street and beyond.
Stephanie Wilson looks at what the Gospel of shalom and wholeness might mean for living at peace with who we are and who God made us to be. Drawing from the story of Hagar we find the root of our shalom comes from a compassionate and kind God who sees us.
David Armstrong — drawing from the story of Jesus encounter with the Samaritan Woman in the Gospel of John (Chapter 4) — explores the deep human longing in all of us for home and how that leads us to relationship and knowing God - the source of all life.
Stephanie Wilson —drawing on the image of shalom and goodness from our origins story in the book of Genesis — shows how this is the blueprint of what the Kingdom of God looks like and calls us to in our world today.
David Armstrong begins the series with a beautiful vision of the gospel as restoration and wholeness for a broken and fragmented world and contrasts this with the small, limited 'gospel' that is so often preached from soap boxes and plastered on the walls of our city.
David Armstrong continues the series Encounters with the Risen Christ looking at another personal moment between Jesus and a disciple. In John 21 Jesus speaks words of grace and life to Peter, freeing him from the old world that had him stuck and inviting him into a new world of possibilities in the Kingdom.
David Armstrong speaks about the impact of COVID on life including church life and — drawing on the words of Jesus to Mary in John 20 — points a way forward, encouraging us to follow Jesus into the new world.
David Armstrong continues our series 'Encounters with the Risen Jesus' looking at the attentive presence of Jesus towards Mary Magdalene as she sees him through her tears and grief.
David Armstrong begins 'Encounters with the Risen Jesus' looking at the terrifying reality of Easter... an invitation to dare to hope in the power of God to raise dead things to life, and to live that out here and now.
Stephanie Wilson reflects beautifully on what the cross of Jesus means to her and how taking another fresh look at the meaning of it all brings hope, peace and a way to live by.
Encounters with Jesus is a Lenten Journey on the road to Easter, joining us in solidarity with Christ and carving open space within us for the life of God to spring forth.
David Armstrong continues 'Encounters with Jesus' with a reflection on Palm Sunday, the anticipation and arrival of Jesus into Jerusalem as he begins the week of his passion and the events of Good Friday.
Encounters with Jesus is a Lenten Journey on the road to Easter, joining us in solidarity with Christ and carving open space within us for the life of God to spring forth.
David Armstrong continues 'Encounters with Jesus' with Jesus call to his disciples to live the way of the cross everyday, and enter into the great paradox of the Kingdom of God: that through death comes abundant life and joy.
Encounters with Jesus is a Lenten Journey on the road to Easter, joining us in solidarity with Christ and carving open space within us for the life of God to spring forth.
David Armstrong continues 'Encounters with Jesus' with a reflection on the love of God from John 15 and the call for followers of Jesus to bear the fruit of love in their lives, a love that flows from our connection and friendship with Jesus.
Encounters with Jesus is a Lenten Journey on the road to Easter, joining us in solidarity with Christ and carving open space within us for the life of God to spring forth.
David Armstrong continues 'Encounters with Jesus' with the third and final of Jesus temptations in the wilderness showing that the way of the Kingdom of God comes not by power or force but by the way of self-sacrificial love, seen clearest at the cross.
![[Conversation] with Chloe Higginson](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5551114de4b0b7c50bbd5abd/1634315444341-60FY169XJMGFKLY3JUY3/Chloe%2BLoughridge%2BHigginson%2BProfile%2BPicture.jpg)
![[Conversation] with John Perrine](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5551114de4b0b7c50bbd5abd/1634315365281-3XG9CBM4AK51DS1DUZN2/John%2BPerrine%2B1%2BLarge.jpg)
