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Redeemer Lincoln Square Our vision is to joyfully live as reflections of God's love together in the city. We meet for worship on Sundays at 10:30 a.m., both in-person and online.

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10/06/2026

We all build our lives around something.
A career. A relationship. Our health. Financial security. Achievement. A picture of how we thought life would go.

Those things can be good. But none of them were meant to carry the full weight of our identity, security, and hope because none of them are guaranteed to last.

That’s what this image of the bird building its nest in the trees gets at. Sometimes the things we thought were solid start to shake.

That doesn’t mean every painful thing that happens is God personally knocking something down to teach us a lesson. And it doesn’t mean grief should be brushed aside with, “Everything happens for a reason.”

In John 11, Jesus doesn’t dismiss suffering. He weeps with people in the middle of it.

But Christianity makes another claim too: Jesus entered death himself and came out the other side.

So building your life on Jesus doesn’t mean nothing else will ever fall apart. It means the deepest thing holding your life together doesn’t have to fall apart with it.

Your career can change. Your body can change. Relationships can change. Life can look very different from what you planned.

The invitation is not to care less about those things.
It’s to stop asking them to be your rock.

09/30/2026

What happens when your child asks a question you’re not ready for?

Our instinct can be to protect them from hard questions, shut the conversation down, or rush to give the “right” answer.

But sometimes the better first response is much simpler: “What do you think?”

That question gives you a window into how your child is making sense of what they’re hearing, experiencing, and believing.

And it reminds us that navigating hard questions is often less about having the perfect response and more about creating the kind of relationship where those questions are safe to ask.

The new Q&R Podcast episode, Talking to Kids About Hard Things, is out today.

🎧 Watch or listen to the full episode at the link in bio.

09/28/2026

Sometimes hiding doesn’t look like disappearing.
It can look like being the dependable one. The successful one. The person who keeps showing up and keeps the harder parts of themselves out of view.

Because being liked for the version of us people can handle can feel safer than finding out what would happen if they saw more.

But that safety comes with a cost: we can be surrounded by people who love us and still wonder whether we would be loved if we were fully known.

This past Sunday, we looked at Psalm 139 and one of the deepest tensions we carry: we want to be known, but we’re afraid of what being known might cost us.

So maybe the question is not only, “Am I loved?”
It’s also: Where am I still hiding in order to stay loved?

09/21/2026

If religion can be divisive, is the answer simply to get rid of religion?

The problem may run deeper.

We can turn almost anything we believe into a reason to look down on someone else. Religion can do it. Secularism can do it. Any belief can become a way of deciding who’s in and who’s out.

But Christianity puts at its center a God who gave himself for his enemies.

And if that gospel is actually at the center of our lives, it should lead us to love and serve people who don’t believe what we believe.

09/15/2026

It’s easy to trust the parts of Scripture that already sound right to us. The harder question is what we do when the Bible challenges something we already believe, want, or would rather avoid.

That doesn’t mean we can’t have questions. We should ask them. We should wrestle with difficult passages, study context, and take interpretation seriously.

But there’s a difference between wrestling with Scripture and only accepting it when it agrees with us.

Part of taking the Bible seriously is being willing to ask: Am I actually letting God shape what I believe, or am I deciding ahead of time which parts I’m willing to hear?

09/10/2026

One question can reveal a lot about the way we lead: are the people around us flourishing, or do they have to become smaller around us?

Strength, vision, and leadership can all be good. The question is whether they’re shaped by control and entitlement, or by the character of Jesus.

This clip comes from our Q&R Podcast episode, Is Biblical Masculinity Toxic? Watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts.

09/08/2026

When we talk about idols, we usually talk about what they do to us. But they can cost the people around us too.

In the Christian sense, an idol doesn’t have to be something obviously religious. It can be something good, like your career, your family, being respected, being right, or feeling in control, that has become so important you need it to feel okay.

And once you need it that badly, someone else may start paying the price.

Your spouse gets whatever is left after work.
A disagreement becomes someone you have to defeat.
Your family feels responsible for making your life feel whole.

So maybe one question worth asking is: What am I holding onto so tightly that the people I love are feeling the strain?

The invitation isn’t to stop caring about your work, your family, or the things that matter to you. It’s to stop asking them to hold up your life.

God is not far. You can loosen your grip.

And when you stop needing these things to make you okay, the people around you no longer have to pay the price for keeping them there.

09/03/2026

One of the surprising things about Jesus’ family story is that the Bible doesn’t clean it up.

His family line includes outsiders, people with complicated pasts, and people who failed in very real ways. If Christianity were about being impressive enough for God, you’d expect those stories to be left out.

Instead, they’re included on purpose. They show us something about the kind of people God welcomes.

You don’t have to prove that you’re good enough before God will accept you. You don’t have to hide the parts of your life you wish were different, or keep working to make yourself look more put together than you feel.

God already sees the full story. And he still says, “There’s room for you here.”

08/27/2026

What happens when we use “toxic masculinity” to describe both real harm and nearly every expression of male strength, confidence, or conviction?

That question opens into a much bigger conversation in this episode of the Q&R Podcast:

🔹how power gets used
🔹why young men are looking for models of manhood
🔹how Scripture has been distorted to justify unhealthy behavior
🔹and what Jesus actually shows us about strength, humility, leadership, emotion, and service.

🎙️Watch Is Biblical Masculinity Toxic? on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts.

08/24/2026

Our culture often defines freedom as having as few restrictions as possible: keeping our options open and avoiding anything that might tie us down.

But what if protecting that freedom also keeps us from the vulnerability and commitment that deeper relationships require?

This isn’t simply about marriage. To really love and be loved means letting another person matter to us, see more of us, and have the ability to disappoint us. There’s no way to remove all of that risk.

The Christian hope is that our worth doesn’t ultimately depend on another person choosing us or never letting us down. God already sees the whole of who we are and still loves us.

And when we begin to trust that, we can become a little freer to be known and to love without needing another person to make us whole.

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