Community - Where Truth Meets Life
In this message, we explore why community is essential to following Jesus and how our relationships shape our spiritual growth. While our culture often tells us that faith is primarily private and that church is optional, Scripture presents a different picture. God calls us into community - a place where truth meets life. The essential context in which we learn to follow Jesus together, and where Christ meets us in the midst of our relationships, struggles, joys, and everyday lives.
The Art of Belonging - The Power and Problem of Belonging
God created us for deep fellowship with Him and meaningful relationships with one another - to know and be known, to belong and to grow together. Yet relationships can bring both great joy and deep challenge, exposing our brokenness through conflict, disappointment and hurt.
Psalm 51 - Create in me a pure heart
What happens when we’ve blown it? What happens when we end up doing things we never imagined possible?
Psalm 51 gives us David’s brutally honest response to failure, guilt and shame and shows us a way back to God. Through confession, surrender, cleansing and renewal, David discovers that our brokenness doesn’t have to be the end of the story. There is hope.
In you, Lord my God, I put my trust
Psalm 25 is a beautiful prayer for protection, guidance, forgiveness and deliverance. In this sermon we reflect on how, like its author, king David, we can boldly approach God in prayer. We can pray as he did, reminding ourselves of the character of God, of his goodness, his mercy his steadfast love and faithfulness.
Invitation to Intimacy with God
This message is the beginning of our series in the Psalms. Looking at Psalm 131, we are looking for the ways that God invites us to a place of deeper intimacy and time with him and some practical ways to walk that out.
The Lord Our Shepherd
This message closes out our series on the Names of God, and focuses on the Lord our Shepherd. In Psalm 23, we meet the God who guides and leads us into green pastures and beside still waters, even as we walk through valley of the shadow of death. This Psalm is also a picture of the gospel, of Jesus our Good Shepherd, who came to find and rescue us.
The Lord Will Provide
In this message we explore how God challenges Abraham to surrender the thing he values most, and how that surrender becomes the doorway to God's miraculous provision. We see that this is the pattern God calls us to embrace: surrender that leads to His provision, ultimately pointing us to Jesus, whose sacrifice on the cross makes God's greatest provision possible.
I am the Lord, who heals you!
In this fourth message of our Knowing God series, we explore the meaning of God’s promise, “I am the Lord, who heals you,” first spoken to Israel after He made the bitter waters of Marah drinkable. While it promised healing and restoration to God’s people then, the New Testament reveals it as a picture of God’s continuing desire to heal and restore all who place their trust in Jesus.
Jehovah Nissi: The Lord is my victory
In this sermon Hsoc looks at Exodus 17:8-16 where we discover the name of God: Jehovah Nissi. It covers various aspects of living in the victory available to us through Jesus.
El Roi - the God Who Sees Me
This week in our Knowing God series, we encounter El Roi - the God who sees me. Through the story of Hagar in Genesis 16, we discover a God who actively seeks the lost, notices the overlooked, and meets people in their wilderness places. More than learning another name of God, this message invites us into an encounter with the One who knows us by name, sees our pain, and speaks hope over our lives.
God reveals His Personal Name
Vahé starts off the series on the Names of God explaining how knowing who God shapes who we are and who we are becoming, and how we are designed to live a God-centred life. He looks at the significance behind God revealing His Name at the burning bush, what His Name tells us about who He is and how this revelation can change us.
The Holy Spirit - Receive, walk, follow.
In this message, we explore the vital role of the Holy Spirit in the life of every believer. We look at God's invitation to each of us to receive the Spirit, walk with the Spirit, and be led by the Spirit each day.
Gratitude for the Past, Faith for the Future
As we celebrate the fourth anniversary of the beginning of Redeemer Rotterdam, we reflect with gratitude on all that God has done among us. We share some of the many reasons we are thankful, and we look ahead with faith, considering what we are praying for and hoping to see in the years to come.
Gideon - Let your kingdom come
In this message we explore Gideon’s victory over Midian and how it points to God’s Kingdom coming through Jesus. God uses ordinary, available people. Like Gideon, we are called to trust God’s promises and walk by faith, even when we feel weak or afraid. God hasn’t simply come to change our personal lives, He has come to draw us into His greater purposes as His Kingdom advances. Our stories are now part of something much bigger: God’s work in the world through His coming kingdom.
From fear to faith
In this message we look at how Gideon had to face challenges and fears when God thinned out his army from 30.000 men to only 300. In preparation of the battle to come, Gideon was tested in his obedience to God and learned to walk in humility and surrender. In our own lives we also face fears. The question is; do we follow the voice of our fear or God’s voice? We explore practical steps that can build our trust in God and help us to move from fear towards faith.
Hearing from God
In this message, Vahé looks at the life and story of Gideon and unpacks what Scripture has to say about developing a conversational relationship with God. A relationship where we converse together and ask for guidance. Vahé also explores how we can become the kind of people who naturally recognise God's voice and act on it.
Gideon – Dethroning Idols
In this message, we see how, before facing the Midianites, God calls Gideon to deal with the idols in his own life. We explore how God calls us to identify and confront the idols we cling to, and why turning and looking to Him is always so much better.
Gideon - Call and response
In this message, we explore Gideon’s encounter with God in Judges 6 - his doubts, God’s call, and Gideon’s response. We see how God initiates, calls the weak, and transforms lives. We also see how Gideon co-operates with God’s call, which raises the question, how do we keep our hearts receptive what God is saying and doing?
Gideon, Breaking the Cycle
Judges reveals a cycle of complacency, compromise, and struggle that speaks to the human condition and at times can even mirror our own lives. Yet when people cry out, God responds with grace. Gideon’s story shows our need for transformation, God’s willingness to rescue, and reminds us how critical it is to believe God’s word as we seek to break the cycle.
Emmaus road: journeying with Jesus
In this message we look at how Jesus journeys with us through hard seasons and the challenge to us to believe Him, to remember His word and to know that we are not alone.