Sermon, Leadership Philip Varley Sermon, Leadership Philip Varley

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.

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Sermon, Leadership Csilla Fabian Sermon, Leadership Csilla Fabian

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.

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Sermon, Leadership Csilla Fabian Sermon, Leadership Csilla Fabian

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?

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Sermon, Leadership Csilla Fabian Sermon, Leadership Csilla Fabian

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.

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God is still at work

In the second message of our series on Ruth, we consider the truth that even in the midst of loss, when we cannot see it, God is still at work. Here we explore the question: How do you believe when you cannot see?

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Believe - living a life marked by faith

Everyone wants to live a life that counts—bold, courageous, and shaped by deep conviction. Yet living that way isn’t easy. In this message, we explore what faith in Jesus really looks like, and how trust in Him is formed and expressed through both the big, defining moments and the small, everyday decisions of life. How do we grow, cultivate, and step into a life truly marked by faith?

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Sermon, Leadership Csilla Fabian Sermon, Leadership Csilla Fabian

Culture: Come With Us and We Will Do You Good

So often in leadership, the focus falls on structures, roles, vision, and goals. All of these matter. But there is another aspect of leadership that is sometimes less obvious, harder to define, yet just as important: culture.

In this talk, we reflect on what healthy culture looks like, why it shapes people more than we often realise, and how healthy leadership intentionally creates environments that do people good.

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Leading together

In this new season at Redeemer, we’re revisiting the issue of leadership and why it is foundational to church life. In this message we explore the biblical vision for elders and deacons, reframing leadership as servant-hearted responsibility, shared authority, and care for God’s people, so the church can flourish and bless the city.

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Sermon, Leadership Csilla Fabian Sermon, Leadership Csilla Fabian

Leading well

In this new season of church life here at Redeemer, we’re revisiting the issue of leadership, and why it is such a foundation issue in church life.

In this message, we explore why leadership matters, why it can be sensitive, and how Scripture shapes a vision of leadership rooted in service, character, and humility. Drawing from the life of Jesus and the New Testament, we reflect on what it means to lead as stewards, not owners, so that the whole church can flourish.

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Our Father

In this opening message of the series, we explore the importance of prayer in our lives and why Jesus teaches us to begin by knowing God as our Father.

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Where is the King?

In this message we explore Matthew’s contrast of Herod, the Magi, and the newborn King, revealing the challenge of Jesus’ authority, the wideness of His mercy, and His call for us to surrender and walk a new way.

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A Light Dawns

As we approach the Advent season and reflect once again on the birth of Jesus, this first message in the series explores what it means to be a people who were “walking in darkness” but have now seen and experienced “a great light.”

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Compassion in the city

In this message we explore the call on the Church to love the city. In particular to care for the disadvantaged and the marginalised. We consider what this means for us and how can we each get involved.

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Gospel freedom

In this message, we explore the meaning of freedom and what it signifies when Jesus proclaims that he has come to bring freedom to the oppressed.

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Recovery - the power of forgiveness

In this message we look again at Jesus’ desire to not only ‘release to captives’ but bring recovery and restoration to our lives. In particular we focus on how learning to forgive others is such a powerful way of experiencing healing in our own lives.

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