November 4, 2014
by Jesse Phillips
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Cultural Values
| Tags: Redeemer Church, Lake Nona Church, lake Nona, Redeemer Church at Lake Nona, elections, politics, voting, government, constitution, Romans 13, 1 Peter 2
How we contextualize Romans 13 and 1 Peter 2 within the United States' governmental structure? What does it mean to honor the governing authorities if the government under which we live is a government "of the people, by the people, for the people"? Jesse Phillips argues the answer is to locate the supreme authority within a governmental structure, and to apply the command...
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September 5, 2014
by Jesse Phillips
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Parenting
| Tags: parenting, Redeemer Church, Lake Nona Church, blog, lake Nona, Lake Nona Churches, Faith, lee vista, family, lee vista church, redeemerchurch, redeemer, lakenonachurch, redeemer blog, church blog
The other lesson we have learned as parents is to trust. With each new child comes a new challenge. As each child enters a new season of life, a new challenge is introduced. As parents we are constantly relearning how to be parents, trying to remember how we did things with our older kids and driven to our knees to trust God for wisdom when we have none of our own. If your...
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July 4, 2014
by Jesse Phillips
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Category:
Cultural Values
| Tags: Redeemer Church, Lake Nona Church, Lake Nona Churches, Jesse Phillips, lee vista, lee vista church, redeemerchurch, redeemer, lakenonachurch, Freedom, 4th of July, founding fathers, liberty, pursuit of happiness,
It’s the 4th of July. So naturally I was the chosen contributor for today’s blog. Running for office and naming my daughter Liberty has probably guaranteed me a featured column on this blog for every civic-related occasion until the end of time....
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February 25, 2014
by Jesse Phillips
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Redeemer Church News
| Tags: Lake Nona Church, church life, Lake Nona Churches, Victory, lee vista, Suffering, lee vista church
Walking with Jesus is not for the faint of heart. Like the Hunger Games, we’re in a hostile world and should be on guard as we fight the good fight....
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February 24, 2014
by Jesse Phillips
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Redeemer Church News
| Tags: Lake Nona Church, lake Nona, church life, Lake Nona Churches, lee vista, lee vista church
It’s a popular storyline--"a princess kisses a frog that is magically transformed into a prince. The obvious moral of the story is that handsome princes are better than frogs. But advancements in understanding of the human heart have cast doubt on this conventional wisdom. It may be that people, even handsome princes, are actually worse off than frogs....
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February 18, 2014
by Jesse Phillips
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I am Ananias
| Tags: Lake Nona Church, lake Nona, Lake Nona Churches, Idolatry, Idol, lee vista, lee vista church, acts, ananias
What are some of the idols in your heart? What are some good desires that have been twisted by your internal idol factory into a substitute for God? As we identify the ways that we are like Ananias, let's do what Ananias and Sapphira did not do, and refuse to serve them....
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February 16, 2014
by Jesse Phillips
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I am Ananias
| Tags: propelled, Holy Spirit, acts, ananias, About Us, Redeemer Church, Orlando Church, lee vista church, lee vista, Lake Nona Churches, Lake Nona Church, lake Nona
Soon after the church took Jerusalem by storm - adding thousands of members in its opening sermon - it began to encounter stiff opposition. The gospel will never go unopposed by Satan. One of his initial strategies in Acts was to derail the church's momentum through the trial of moral corruption....
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October 9, 2013
by Jesse Phillips
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Redeemer Church News
| Tags: About Us, church life, Lake Nona Church, Lake Nona Churches, news
Beginning on Sunday, November 3rd, Redeemer Church will hold its weekly meetings at Odyssey Middle School. Located just 5 minutes from Redeemer's current meeting place, Odyssey offers a recognizable landmark, room for growth and a number of practical benefits the church has been seeking for several months....
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August 28, 2013
by Jesse Phillips
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Redeemer Church News
| Tags: Benny Phillips, church life, evangelism, Racism, Reconciliation, Orlando Church, Redeemer Church, Lake Nona Church
It was 50 years ago today that, arguably, one of the greatest speeches in American history was given on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Today we contemplate that historic day. As a local church, I want us to demonstrate this gospel-centered perspective of reconciliation in our personal lives and in our corporate expression....
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August 2, 2013
by Jesse Phillips
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Redeemer Church News
| Tags: events, Metro Life Church, Launch Sunday, Redeemer Church, danny jones
Redeemer Church is happy to welcome guest speaker Danny Jones this Sunday. Danny is the founding pastor of Metro Life Church, from which Redeemer was planted over a year ago. This will be his first opportunity to address the Lake Nona congregation, whose pastor Benny Phillips served alongside Danny on Metro's leadership team for more than a decade....
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July 7, 2013
by Jesse Phillips
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Redeemer Church News
| Tags: Benny Phillips, blog, church life
Launching a new teaching series, Benny Phillips, pastor of Redeemer Church at Lake Nona, claimed that humanity faces an identity crisis. Citing a new book by Mark Driscoll ("Who Do You Think You Are"), he argued that most human problems can be traced to a lack of self-understanding....
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June 3, 2013
by Jesse Phillips
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Redeemer Church News
| Tags: Benny Phillips, events, church life, Sheree Phillips, parenting, Lake Nona Church
Parenting is hard. You can get help! Please share it will your friends to invite them to our Redemptive Parenting seminar, June 14-15. More information and signup here....
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May 19, 2013
by Jesse Phillips
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Redeemer Church News
| Tags: Benny Phillips, blog, lake Nona, seminar, parenting
Are you a parent? Need help? Join Benny and Sheree Phillips, a pastor and wife with seven children, eleven grandchildren and authors of five books on parenting and related topics, as they host “Redemptive Parenting”, a free two-day event that will equip and envision parents of kids of all ages. Check it out here http://tinyurl.com/c3h3ewe...
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May 5, 2013
by Jesse Phillips
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Redeemer Church News
| Tags: Benny Phillips, Gospel According to Isaiah, bible, church life
As Christians we are tempted to push God away from the center of our lives, and to replace him with heart idols. Through the power of the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ helps us to identify idols, turn from them and keep God in his rightful place at the center of our lives....
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April 25, 2013
by Jesse Phillips
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Redeemer Church News
| Tags: Benny Phillips, lake Nona, Lake Nona Church, Gospel According to Isaiah
Are you a broken reed, bruised by the cares of life, broken and hurting? Are you smoldering? Once a bright burning flame now exhausted, smoking, coughing about to go out? Put your hope in Jesus Christ, who died on the cross for you. He was bruised to save the bruised reed. His lamp was put out in his death on the cross so that your lamp could be relit with love for him....
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April 23, 2013
by Jesse Phillips
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Redeemer Church News
| Tags: Gospel According to Isaiah, Benny Phillips, Hope, Redeemer Church, Lake Nona Church
Like reeds, people can become bruised, hurt, knocked over, easily. We can be knocked over by life, broken relationships, disease and sickness, by the thoughtlessness and carelessness of other people. There are many people that are bruised, broken, and hurting, all around us, living next door, shopping where we shop, playing where we play. Jesus is the answer for the bruise...
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April 21, 2013
by Jesse Phillips
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Member Testimony
| Tags: cancer, Prayer, healing
Debbie has been fighting cancer for three years. We prayed for her healing on April 14th. Watch her share the news she received when she visited the doctor the very next week.
Debbie Lorch Testimony from Redeemer Church at Lake Nona on Vimeo....
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March 31, 2013
by Jesse Phillips
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Redeemer Church News
| Tags: bible, Benny Phillips, gospel, Gospel According to Isaiah
Propitiation and expiation are some big words, deep truths and cause for great joy on this big day! The wrath of God has been appeased and the guilt of sin removed....
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March 24, 2013
by Jesse Phillips
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Redeemer Church News
| Tags: grace, gospel, church life, Benny Phillips
Today we rehearsed a story of humiliation and triumph, in which Jesus Christ bore the penalty for sins that he did not commit in order to save the very people whose rejection of him led to his death (Isaiah 52-53)....
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March 10, 2013
by Jesse Phillips
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Redeemer Church News
| Tags: Isaiah, Metro Life Church, Orlando Church, Redeemer Church, Worship, Benny Phillips, bible, Hope, blog, church life
Recap of our Sunday gathering. Benny Phillips preached on our Abounding Hope from Isaiah 11:1-10, continuing our series on the Gospel According to Isaiah....
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March 3, 2013
by Jesse Phillips
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Redeemer Church News
| Tags: Redeemer Church, Eric Garrett, Isaiah
Eric Garret's message on Isaiah 9 asking us where we find our hope. Is it in earthly things or in Jesus Christ?...
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