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Grave, doctrinal sermon audio from West Monroe.
Weekly Sermons - Church of the Redeemer offers serious sermon audio from a West Monroe, Louisiana church. Its preaching moves through biblical texts with patient repetition, theological argument, and direct pastoral application.
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Weekly Sermons - Church of the Redeemer collects formal Christian preaching from Church of the Redeemer in West Monroe, Louisiana. The format is simple. A brief church introduction gives way to sermon audio, and the center of the show is sustained biblical exposition rather than interview, banter, or devotional fragments. The preaching moves slowly enough for an argument to gather force. It often begins with a biblical phrase, a church-season theme, or a theological question, then circles that point through Scripture until it becomes a claim about worship, obedience, history, and the life of the church. Christ stands at the center. He is described as the king of glory, the light that destroys darkness, the Alpha and Omega, the creator who gives meaning to the world, and Emmanuel who remains with his people. The show is especially interested in union with Christ, the church as a new humanity, the promises given through Israel, and the way Scripture interprets the whole created order. It is not afraid of judgment language. Sin, unbelief, false teaching, rebellion, persecution, reproach, and hell are treated as real moral categories, not as softened metaphors. At the same time, the sermons repeatedly turn toward joy, thanksgiving, worship, and confidence in God's promises. Prayer closes many episodes, giving the feed the feel of a church service preserved in audio form. Some sermons focus tightly on biblical imagery, as in the paired treatments of leaven and firstfruits. Others range into cultural criticism, including a harsh reassessment of the 1960s, influential writers, media power, education, and sexual morality. That cultural material is blunt and polemical. The show's natural audience is comfortable with confessional Christian language and with preaching that assumes Scripture has authority over private life, public culture, and historical interpretation. Its cadence is deliberate, repetitive, and insistent. The result is not casual encouragement, but extended sermon argument: doctrinally thick, morally serious, and aimed at forming a people who hear, believe, worship, and live accordingly.
Made for: Best suited to listeners seeking traditional Christian sermon teaching with sustained biblical exposition, theological themes, and direct moral application. It will fit those who prefer pulpit argument over casual religious conversation.
What sets it apart: The show distinguishes itself through long-form, rhetorically forceful sermons that connect biblical texts to worship, history, creation, and cultural critique. Its repeated images and doctrinal through-lines give each sermon a weightier, more formal character than a typical devotional feed.
Weekly sermons from Church of the Redeemer in West Monroe, Louisiana featuring Pastor Steve Wilkins and Assistant Pastor Drew Maney.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Close biblical reading becomes a map of creation, redemption, worship, and faithful life in these densely connected sermons.
Weekly Sermons - Church of the Redeemer follows biblical images until they open into full theological arguments. Steve Wilkins and Drew Maney move between close exegesis and broad claims about creation, redemption, worship, and public life, then press those claims toward…
A Bible dictionary gets cross-examined over leaven; your bread now has theological stakes.
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A Psalm 24 sermon that presents the king of glory as the answer to creation and meaning.
Church of the Redeemer's sermon on Psalm 24 treats Epiphany as a broad frame for one clear claim: the glory of God is revealed in Jesus, from the Magi and the baptism to the transfiguration and the resurrection.
Reproach, covenant, and blessing are held together in one steady sermon.
Rolled Away Your Reproach presents a sermon about the cost of belonging to Christ, and it keeps returning to that burden from several angles. Paul’s image of believers as the aroma of Christ and Joshua’s circumcision of the new generation after the wilderness are set beside one…
A sermon on the 1960s measures cultural influence against Christian standards of truth, conduct, wisdom, and discernment.
This sermon reads the 1960s as a decade shaped by inflated public stories, media distortion, and moral confusion. Working from Paul Johnson's phrase "the decade of illusion," it considers Norman Mailer's reputation, Herbert Marcuse's idea of "repressive tolerance," and Allen…
Ephesians is framed as one sustained claim about redemption, unity, and life in Christ.
This sermon treats Ephesians as a single sweeping account of God's plan, moving from election in Christ before the foundation of the world to redemption, forgiveness, and the promise that all things will be summed up in him.
A Christmas sermon that turns John 1 and John 3 into a clear, serious claim about light, unbelief, and joy.
The sermon treats Jesus' birth as history's turning point, using John 1 and John 3 to present light as the force that has entered while the old order of darkness fades.
A sermon on leaven as influence, turning Paul's warning to Corinth into a call for shared responsibility.
The sermon turns a familiar kitchen image into a question of shared moral responsibility. Leaven is treated as influence: something that works through dough and changes the whole, rather than only a ready-made symbol of corruption.
A grave Joshua 5 sermon on God's household, ritual belonging, and reproach borne for Christ.
This single-episode sermon reads scorn against God's people as the friction that comes when those claimed by God meet a world that recoils from Christ.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
A weekly sermon from Church of the Redeemer discussing the Christian struggle of being in the world but not of the world.
A guest preacher delivers a sermon at Church of the Redeemer, reflecting on Psalm 120 and the feeling of living in a hostile world.
A pastor reads and begins to expound on the Gospel of John chapter 4, the story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well.
A sermon from Church of the Redeemer on John's first letter, emphasizing faithful living, fellowship, and confession.
A pastor begins a study on the context of a strange biblical statute forbidding boiling a kid in its mother's milk.
Pastor Steve Wilkins preaches on the biblical theme of enduring and overcoming reproach.
Pastor Steve Wilkins reinterprets the biblical symbol of leaven, arguing it represents influence rather than corruption.
The sermon opens with reproach.
The sermon begins in Epiphany and gathers the Magi, the baptism, the healings, the transfiguration, and the resurrection into one season of revelation.
The sermon opens in Ephesians.
["Church of the Redeemer's \"Re-Examining the Sixties (4)\" calls the 1960s a \"decade of illusion\" and blames newspapers, television, and public relations for the distortion.", "The sermon names Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, and Norman Mailer, pairing their literary reputations with NAMBLA support, drug use, child-support disputes, and violence against wives.", "It then unpacks Herbert Marcuse's \"repressive tolerance,\" quotes David Horowitz and Peter Collier on radical self-recreation, and uses Malcolm Muggeridge's Soviet tour anecdote to describe propaganda.", "The closing warning says colleges and universities now function as indoctrination sites, argues for Christian education, and ends with Ginsberg's line, \"We'll get you through your children.\""]
The sermon opens with the birth of Jesus as the turning point of all history.
A sermon exploring the meaning of Emmanuel as Jesus' ongoing rule through the church, from Matthew's gospel.
A sermon from Galatians 5 discussing justification by faith and warning against false teaching requiring circumcision.
A pastor explains the biblical symbolism of leaven as influence rather than corruption.