Sermons
Coronavirus update
While we are unable to meet in person, Rugby Baptist Church's services have gone online. You can find the sermons below, but please see our Video page for a fuller experience. We hope they will bless you, and God be with you in this season.
Sermon archive
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| All’s Well That Ends Well (Esther 6:14‒7:10) | Garry Bosworth | 28th July 2019 | 16,594 Kb |
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| And so the story unfolds to its logical end. Haman’s worship of power overwhelmed him; Esther’s acceptance of the possibility of death (4:16) allowed her to find strength in her weakness. We, too, are called to lose our life in order to find it. | |||
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| Resurrection (Ezekiel 37:1‒14) | Peter den Haan | 21st July 2019 | 13,047 Kb |
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| The famous vision of the valley of dry bones is not just about Israel, but also a sign of God’s power over death: as so often, the Hebrew scriptures offer a foretaste of what is to come. | |||
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| The fate of injustice (Esther 5:9‒6:14) | Peter den Haan | 21st July 2019 | 19,622 Kb |
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| Haman plots for Mordecai’s downfall and his own exaltation—and the author of the book spells it out with glee, making sure that we, as readers, already spot how the tables will be turned. Justice is not always done as easily as this, of course, but our righteous God will see to it that, no matter how fallen our world, justice will emerge victorious in the end. | |||
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| The Suffering Servant (Isaiah 53) | Peter den Haan | 7th July 2019 | 22,256 Kb |
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| Scholars argue who Isaiah’s servant is, but the church has never been in doubt that we see here a foreshadowing of Jesus’ ministry. | |||
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| Courage in the Throne Room (Esther 4:15-5:8) | Peter den Haan | 7th July 2019 | 16,820 Kb |
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| Esther displays both bravery and cunning as she engineers her way out of the predicament. Perhaps we are reminded of the way Jesus encourages us to be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. | |||
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| Son of God (Hebrews 1:1-14) | David Mann | 30th June 2019 | 18,789 Kb |
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| In Hebrews 1, Jesus the Son stands revealed as 'the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being.' David explored with us what that means. | |||
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| I will give you rest (Matthew 11:25-30) | David Mann | 30th June 2019 | 17,007 Kb |
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| David reflects on Jesus' call for us to lay down our burdens and find rest in Jesus Christ. | |||
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| King David (2 Samuel 7:4‒17) | Peter den Haan | 23rd June 2019 | 18,253 Kb |
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| We are still going through the big story and consider this, the greatest king of Israel—until the last King in his line hundreds of years later, that is. Him is promised a throne to be established forever. | |||
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| What clothes are you wearing? (John 11:32-44) | Chris Burgess | 23rd June 2019 | 22,758 Kb |
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| Jesus' calling of Lazarus out of the tomb resembles the way he calls the spiritual dead to life. Are you still wearing your grave clothes? | |||
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| Standing at the Crossroads (Esther 4:1‒14) | Tony Finch | 16th June 2019 | 19,188 Kb |
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| Esther now stands before a terrible decision. Should she risk her life to save her people? Isn’t it interesting how God is silent at this crucial point, as he seems to have been throughout the book so far... or is he? | |||
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| Prayer of Agreement (Acts 4:23‒30) | Debra Green | 9th June 2019 | 24,780 Kb |
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| The REVIVE Unity Service this year focused on engagement with our communities. Debra Green of Redeeming our Communities (ROC) joined us with a powerful call to prayer. | |||
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| Babel's curse undone (Acts 2:1‒21) | Peter den Haan | 9th June 2019 | 17,087 Kb |
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| We reflect on the outpouring of the Spirit: what happened, why did it happen, and what do we expect today? | |||
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| The Passover Lamb (Exodus 12:21‒27) | Peter den Haan | 2nd June 2019 | 15,704 Kb |
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| We think about the sacrifice of the lamb, part of God’s design to free his people from slavery, pointing forward to another Lamb, a greater sacrifice, and a greater freedom from a more profound slavery. | |||
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| A Decree of Destruction (Esther 3:7‒15) | Peter den Haan | 2nd June 2019 | 16,153 Kb |
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| Haman persuades the king to decree the Israelites’ destruction. We would all like to believe that we would resist such an order, but recent history tells us that few do. What does the Lord call us to do? | |||
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| Mission in Thailand | Jacqui Wells | 26th May 2019 | 21,970 Kb |
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| Jacqui shares about her experiences as a missionary in Thailand, specifically among the Karen people. | |||
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| Conflicting Identities (Esther 2:19‒3:6) | Peter den Haan | 26th May 2019 | 23,108 Kb |
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| In our journey through the book of Esther, the tension between the Persian and Jewish identities starts to mount. Mordecai the good Persian prevents Xerxes’ assassination, but Mordecai the good Israelite’s refusal to render homage falls foul of the king’s advisor Haman. We reflect on the exercise of power, the role of victimhood as a group identity, and how Jesus calls us to vulnerability. | |||
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| Judah the King (Genesis 49:1-28) | David Higham | 19th May 2019 | 18,126 Kb |
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| In Jacob’s list of tribes, Judah is singled out as the kingly tribe, pointing us forward to the last king of Judah in the line of David. | |||
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| Resurrection witnesses (Matthew 28:16-20, Rev 1:10-18) | Graham Ridgway | 19th May 2019 | 7,466 Kb |
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| In this all age sermon, Graham takes us from Jesus' resurrection to our own role today as witnesses of the living Lord. | |||
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