EPIC: Cain and Abel – Monday
We’ve just been through the Christmas season, when people feel all kinds of anxiety about gift-giving. When we buy a gift for someone, we can find our stomach in knots wondering if they’ll like it. With kids, we watch with horror as they take the amazing, cool gift we bought them, and leave it behind […]
Group Study Guide: EPIC: Cain and Abel
Are you meeting regularly with a discussion group? If you meet just once a week, you can find all of this week’s discussion questions in one place right here. Question: What kinds of offerings, or gifts, do you think God wants from us? Have you ever tried giving God something, anything, before? What happened? Now […]
EPIC: Adam and Eve – Friday
We pray and reflect about God’s plan, even from the beginning, to deal with sin and brokenness. Reminder: We are reading the Bible in sync as one community – so check out today’s reading at https://www.redeemthecommute.com/readingplan Meeting with a Group? Your discussion questions are in this week’s Group Study Guide [permalink append=”#comments”]Discuss the Challenge[/permalink]
EPIC: Adam and Eve – Thursday
So far, this week’s story has been pretty sad. The story of Adam & Eve’s fall explains why the world is so messed up. Why our kids don’t listen. Why we consistently fail to meet expectations. Why disasters happen, cancer hurts, violence ensues and more. But what about hope? I promised we’d find Jesus in […]
EPIC: Adam and Eve – Wednesday
This week, in our new EPIC series, we’re learning about Adam & Eve in the Garden of Eden. God created the world, then humans, and put them in the Garden of Eden essentially as gardeners, to tend and care for the garden. He only asked them not to try and take his places, as God. […]
EPIC: Adam and Eve – Tuesday
This week, in our new EPIC series, we’re learning about Adam & Eve in the Garden of Eden. God created the world, then humans, and put them in the Garden of Eden essentially as gardeners, to tend and care for the garden. We’re not going to prove whether or how God created the universe. That’s […]
Group Study Guide: EPIC: Adam and Eve
Are you meeting regularly with a discussion group? If you meet just once a week, you can find all of this week’s discussion questions in one place right here. Question: What temptations do you give into most easily? Reading: Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD […]
Best of 2014: Friday
We pray and reflect on this week’s closing out of 2014. [permalink append=”#comments”]Discuss the Challenge[/permalink]
Best of 2014: Redeemer’s First Baptisms – Thursday
Redeem the Commute is a mobile app and web site for busy commuters. We like to call our marriage, parenting and Christianity 101 courses life changing, but is it true? April’s story is one of life change. She started taking the Christianity 101 course in the fall of 2013, and encountered the story of God’s […]
Best of 2014: Pioneer Spirit – Wednesday
What was the meaning of all this about Jesus’ followers speaking different languages or “tongues”? It was a sign that the impossible mission they’d been sent to accomplish was actually possible. I love to rock climb, and I used to pride myself on never needing chalk. I considered myself a good climber with just my […]
Best of 2014: Jesus the Shepherd – Tuesday
We asked yesterday what kind of item might be so important that if you lost it, then found it again, that you’d throw a party to celebrate its return. I can’t imagine there is much, beyond other people, we’d do that for! Well, Jesus told a story about this in the book of Luke. 1 […]
Best of 2014: Reset Body & Food – Monday
Hi! Welcome to Redeem the Commute. I’m Ryan, you host for the daily challenges. These daily challenges are meant to help people explore what it means to follow Jesus even during our busy commuting lifestyle. If you’ve never looked into what that means in the first place, I’d really encourage you, check out our Christianity […]
Christmas – Friday
We pray and reflect on this week’s topic. Meeting with a Group? Your discussion questions are in this week’s Group Study Guide [permalink append=”#comments”]Discuss the Challenge[/permalink]
Christmas – Thursday
We’ve talked this week about toys that mimic real life, but are missing the key ingredient – even though it might bring danger and difficulty. I’m not here to rant about the toys of today and tell you they’re better or worse than before, like some kind of grinch. I’d rather talk about emptiness of […]
Christmas – Wednesday
We’ve been considering if our world, and us humans, are like a broken masterpiece. If so, how would God fix it? He could play it safe and digitally touch it up. There’d be no more mistakes, no more explosions. Or, he could use the same dangerous ingredient that made the whole mess in the first […]
