..for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true. Acts 17:11
Welcome to the RBC Resource page
Our God is big, VERY BIG, and getting to know even a tiny fraction of who He is will take a lifetime of searching!
Here at RBC, we fully understand the need for effective teaching from books, websites, worship etc.. to enable believers to grow in their daily discipleship with the Lord. With this belief, we offer the following resources to help aid and teach you.
Here, you will find videos, sermon series, music, contributions from members of our congregation and much more. We will be continually adding more resources, so don’t forget to check back!
How to use this page
Select a subject you’re interested in, and then choose what type of resource you need. Click on the resource images to take you to external pages for purchases, videos etc..
The Prayer Course Pete Greig
The Prayer Course is an eight week journey that will help you grow and deepen your prayer life. The course is led by Pete Greig with each session having and introduction, video, questions for discussion and practical prayer activities
Lectio 365 24-7 Prayer
Lectio 365 is a daily devotional app from 24-7 Prayer and CWR that helps you pray the Bible every day. Free download on Apple ore Android.
Thy Kingdom Come
Thy Kingdom Come is a global prayer movement that invites Christians around the world to pray for more people to come to know Jesus.
How to Pray : A Simple Guide for Normal People by Pete Greig
This down-to-earth introduction to life's greatest adventure will guide you deeper in your relationship with God, helping you to become more centred and still, clearer in discerning God's voice, more able to make sense of your disappointments and more expectant for miraculous breakthroughs too.
Prayer : Finding the Heart’s True Home by Richard Foster
Richard Foster has captured the heart of any believer who longs for a closer relationship with God. In “Prayer, Finding the Heart’s True Home,” one finds a timeless treasures of ways to enter to the presence of God, how to communicate and how to listen to His voice.
The Creation Care scheme aims to encourage households to make changes to care for God’s earth. This includes a lifestyle audit for households and a great list of resources which we couldn’t match! >Traidcraft is the UK’s leading fair trade organisation dedicated to fighting poverty through trade. Check out their current campaigns.. A great place to find out where you can recycle the non recyclable. A fantastic podcast with 15 minute interviews with Christian activists all over the UK and beyond. BUEN - Spanish for 'good' - aims to inspire and enable the Baptists Together network of churches, associations and colleges to: -Recognise the goodness of God’s creation
-Share in God’s mission to care for it and respond to the climate and environmental crisis in practical ways at local, regional and national levels
-Work for justice for creation and people impacted by environmental change Since the day God challenged him, Dave Bookless has been on a mission: to share with others the compelling biblical case for caring for the planet God made for his glory and his people's enjoyment.
This is not another book on green issues to make you feel guilty. The message is that there is hope. God can take your small and insignificant efforts and multiply them in his great plan. How can we live more responsibly? In this A-Z, Ruth Valerio highlights the main threats to people and our planet, God's beloved creation. She shows us how, by making small but significant changes to our lifestyle, we can learn the secret of a life that is both fair and simple. From a text message to a war, from a Valentine's rose to a flight or even having a child, How Bad are Bananas? gives us the carbon answers we need and provides plenty of revelations. By talking through a hundred or so items, Mike Berners-Lee sets out to give us a carbon instinct for the footprint of literally anything we do, buy and think about.
Care for Creation
Creation Care
Traidcraft
Terracycle
Praxis Centre
Baptist Union Environment Network (BUEN)
Plant Wise
David Bookless
L is For Lifestyle
Ruth Valerios
How Bad Are Bananas?
Mike Berners-Lee
What Is Church? (Series)
There’s a lot of excitement at the moment about things beginning to return to normal, people are now having haircuts again, we can eat restaurant meals outdoors and we can once again shop for non-essential items.
Church communities are excited about what a return to normal will mean for them – a return to singing, meeting old friends and making new ones, refreshments and meals together and a lot more as we transition to meeting onsite again.
But what is normal for a church community?
In the book of Acts, the new church community was revolutionary in how it transformed the people and culture around it. In fact within just a few short verses ( Acts 2: 42-47) we discover five dynamics of church community life that still challenge and energise us today.
The remaining seven weeks will be thinking about the seven letters to the churches in Revelation (Revelation 2-3) exploring what can happen when these hallmarks are out of kilter.
As we ask the question ‘What is Church?’ our faith in Jesus and commitment to church community will be renewed and encouraged to help us be the community full of hope, love, praise and practical action, ‘Sharing God’s truth and Showing God’s Love'.
Everywhere You Look:Discovering the church right where you are -Tim Soerens
A vision of the church grounded in a grassroots movement of ordinary people living out what it means to be the church in their everyday lives. https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/50923106-everywhere-you-look
Why Church: A Basic Introduction -Scott W Sunquist
Is a church just something we create to serve our purposes or to maintain old traditions? Or is it something more vital, more meaningful, and more powerful? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44229602-why-church
Letters To The Church -Francis Chan
Do you want more from your church experience? Does the pure gospel put you in a place of awe? Are you ready to rethink church as you know it? https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/39975223-letters-to-the-church
Why bother with church? -Sam Allberry
Why bother with church and other questions about why you need it and why it needs you. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27181047-why-bother-with-church
Why Bother With Church? : The Struggle to Belong -Simon Jones
The church is central to God's plan for the world, but we need to understand about how we use the church and why.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7949260-struggling-to-belong
Lent 2021 : 'Walk On'
Followers of Jesus are encouraged to ‘walk just as he walked’ ( I john 2: 6 NRSV)! Yet this is not always easy through the ups and downs of life. However, even Jesus experienced his own times of wilderness- 40 days in isolation following his baptism. So we do not walk alone! In the Bible although the wilderness was a dangerous dry place of chaos and disorder, it also became a place of solitude, nourishment, revelation and life affirming faith . We’re not always good at addressing themes like sorrow guilt or doubt yet these thoughts and experiences are often closer than we like to acknowledge As we ‘walk on’ through these 6 Sundays of lent together we will discover the dunes of the desert can still be places of great worship and surprising intimacy with God. This series is based on ‘Worship in the Wilderness’ by Engage worship
Engage Worship
For many people the past year has felt like a wilderness. Simplicity, sacrifice and sorrow may have become daily realities, yet the Bible is full of characters who have transformational encounters with God in the desert.
This resource comes as a set of services for church leaders and planners, alongside a book of devotions for use by individuals.
Explore engaging ways to simplify and deepen your Sunday and Small Group worship times. "A must-have book!" - Jason and Rachel Gardner.
Worship in the Wilderness - Personal Devotions
Engage Worship
A Lent series, journeying with Jesus through the desert. Explore this rich biblical theme, which touches on subjects such as simplicity, silence, sorrow, truth-speaking and being led by the Spirit. The Personal Devotions book is an A5, 56 page full colour book. It contains five daily readings per week up to Palm Sunday. There are biblical reflections, creative responses and practical applications for earthing the ideas in real life. Ideal for personal devotions or growth groups.
Walk on: Life, Loss, Trust & Other realities
John Goldingay
One of Graham & Mairi’s favourite books - A sensible and sophisticated look at the realities of living the Christian life.
Hills and Valleys
Tauren Wells
An amazingly uplifting song of faith and struggle
Check it out on YouTube
Walk on
U2
A classic song from 2000 about nobility, sacrifice faith and resilience A great soundtrack to the series
Walk on for Lent
Playlist
A wilderness playlist of songs and spoken word, inspired by our Walk On series
Walk On Sermon Series
Catch up our Lent : Walk On Series. Inspired by 'Worship In The Wilderness' by Engage Worship
Generosity (Series)
Generosity is at the heart of the Christian faith. It sparked Creation, fuelled Salvation and is intrinsic to any understanding of the Trinity. The choice to share and live selflessly for the benefit of others is one of the defining characteristics of the Christian life. It combats social problems, strengthens community and draws us closer to God. In every season of life, the decision to embrace a generous world-view will benefit not only others, but ourselves as well.
This series is based on ‘Seasons of Giving’ by Stewardship
Seasons of Giving
Stewardship
Two four week courses exploring generosity in four areas – talents, money, time and giving.
This could be used as a resource for personal devotion or for a small group focussed study
Money Counts
Graham Beynon
How to handle money in your heart and with your hands
Serving Without Sinking
John Hindley
One of Graham’s ‘go to’ books about remembering why we serve not how we serve. Highly Recommended!
COMING SOON
COMING SOON
How To Worship A King:Prepare the way -Zach Neese
True worship is a process that is poorly understood and widely neglected in the Church. Too few believers ever experience the indescribable joy and radical transformation that come from stepping fully and properly into that priestly role.
In this deep yet highly accessible book, Pastor Zach Neese, a worship leader and composer of numerous beloved worship songs, brings you powerful encouragement to step into that role along with a practical, biblical roadmap to help you on your journey.
Exploring Worship Third Edition:A Practical Guide to Praise and Worship -Bob Sorge
EXPLORING WORSHIP is a 240-page textbook that gives worshipers a balanced theology of worship, and trains your worship team in the art of leading worship. This book covers all the bases, both devotional and practical. Equip them with one of the most comprehensive tools available today for worship leaders, musicians, songwriters, and singers.
First written in 1986, Bob completely rewrote the book in 2018, producing this THIRD EDITION. This new edition is stronger than ever and relevant for today's changing worship landscape. Used as a text internationally, Exploring Worship is a "must read" for worshipers. It lays a scriptural foundation for understanding what praise and worship really is, and then provides a practical framework for implementing praise and worship in the local church. This is one of the foremost worship texts used today by Bible Schools, Universities, and local church worship ministries.