Posts by Jon Chasteen

Sunday P.R.E.P - March 1, 2015

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Sunday P.R.E.P. is a weekly tool designed to enhance our Sunday gatherings at Redemption Hill. As we individually pray, reflect, expect and pursue, God will prepare us for his great work in our worship together.  PRAYPray and ask your heavenly Father to reveal ways you can live as Gospel...

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Sunday P.R.E.P - February 1, 2015

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This is the first installment of Sunday P.R.E.P., a weekly tool that we are starting to help you prepare for corporate worship gatherings at Redemption Hill Church. As you individually pray, reflect, expect and pursue, God will prepare you for worshiping him corporately as a church.   1...

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Quote of the Week: Invest in Eternity

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"As base a thing as money often is, it yet can be transmuted into everlasting treasure. It can be converted into food for the hungry and clothing for the poor; it can keep a missionary actively winning lost men to the light of the gospel and thus transmute itself into heavenly values. Any...

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Foundations: The Cost of Discipleship (Part 2)

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There is another important implication from the cost of discipleship. Discipleship is not only essential for leading people to surrender their plans to follow Jesus wherever he desires to send them, it is also essential for “making” disciples. Think about it, how can you make a...

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Foundations: The Cost of Discipleship (Part 1)

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On August 9, 2005, the direction of my life (Jon) was radically changed. While leading a group of college students at the National Collegiate Week at Ridgecrest Conference Center in Black Mountain, NC, I heard David Platt preach a sermon on the “Cost of Discipleship” from Luke...

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Foundations: Prayer and Fasting

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We began this series highlighting the sovereignty of God as a key foundation for planting a church. While the sovereignty of God is essential for church planting, one could be tempted to ask, “If God is sovereign, why pray?” The short answer to this question is that while God is...

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