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Lent 2021
Lent begins this Wednesday, February 17th. Traditionally, Lent is a 40 day period of fasting, prayer and devotion towards remembering our brokenness and God’s work of redemption through the person and work of Jesus Christ. This season leads up to Good Friday, when we remember the crucifixion of Jesus, and…
Downtown Augusta Mural Guide
This year has been difficult to say the least. Redemption Church started holding our worship gatherings solely online on March 15th. In August, we made the difficult decision to not hold our regular Sunday worship gatherings throughout the Fall. We have missed one another, and we have missed gathering to…
Why We Say Black Lives Matter
This week we put up a new installation in our window on Broad St (pictured above) depicting a crowd of protestors with signs in the air. There are several Bible verses on the signs, and there is a banner across the top that says “Let Justice Roll,” which is taken…
Resources to Help You Listen, Recognize, Pray, & Act
Books Be The Bridge by Latasha Morrison Roadmap to Reconciliation by Brenda Salter McNeil Let Justice Roll Down by John M. Perkins Free at Last by Carl F. Ellis Jr. One New Man: The Cross and Racial Reconciliation in Pauline Theology by Jarvis Williams Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson United:…
Day 7 – Humility in the Death and Waiting
Luke 23:50-56 ESV Now there was a man named Joseph, from the Jewish town of Arimathea. He was a member of the council, a good and righteous man, who had not consented to their decision and action; and he was looking for the kingdom of God. This man went to…
Day 6 – Humility in Dying
Matthew 27:27-54 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the governor's headquarters, and they gathered the whole battalion before him. And they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on his head and put a reed…
Day 5 – Humility in Washing the Disciples’ Feet
John 13:1-17 ESV Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. During supper, when the devil had already put…
Day 4 – Humility in the Anointing and Betrayal
Mark 14:3-11 ESV And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head. There were some…
Day 3 – Humility in Cursing of the Fig Tree
Matthew 21:18-22 ESV In the morning, as he was returning to the city, he became hungry. And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” And…
Day 2 – Humility in Cleansing the Temple
Mark 11:15-19 ESV And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. And he would not allow anyone…