We believe that every person’s highest good is to become like Jesus. This sits at the core of our identity. This week, we answer the questions “Why is this so important to us?” and “How do we do it?”
This week, we explore our second congregational value, arguably the most important defining value of the Vineyard movement of churches. Acts 2 anchors this key distinctive.
This week we begin a new series on our congregational values. Our first value comes straight from the apocalyptic letter of Revelation: Worshipping the True and Beautiful God.
Jesus lived a radically simple life marked by few possessions and dependence on God, and His followers imitated him with abundant generosity for one another. What could it look like to practice this sort of simplicity and generosity in 21st-century America?
Devotional prayer is a well-known but often taken-for-granted practice of the Christian life. Why is a life of devotional prayer important, and how does it affect us? What might a private prayer life look like?
Jesus practiced radical hospitality and welcome toward strangers and people in need. We can follow His lead today by being people who open our homes and hearts to others.
Jesus was led by the Spirit to pray for people. We should too. Prayer is a gift that we give freely to anyone and anywhere.
In a culture that idolizes success and security, we are pressured to endlessly produce and desire more. How do we find rest in having and in being enough? What does God have to say about this?
Jesus loved the scriptures and we can too. By building the habit of reading scripture, we set the table for communion with God.
How did Jesus resist the constant pressure of the people’s demands during his life on earth? Through solitude and silence. We can do the same.
Letitia Suk on the spiritual practice of meeting God by ourselves, in a quiet place, to get some rest.
Today we begin a nine week series on spiritual practices that help us become like Jesus. In this introduction, Ted gives us a way to think about transformation.
Paul has great cause for celebration! Why? Because of the generosity of the church in Philippi. In these verses, we learn three important lessons about giving and flourishing.
Joy is meant to be nurtured, but how do we do it? What gets in the way of our joy growing and flourishing? We look at Philippians 4:4-7 for guidance.
After spending five weeks in joy, we now come to a passage that answers the question, “Why is joy so hard to find?” The Apostle Paul gives us some helpful insight and a huge encouragement.
In Philippians 3 we see that joy comes from finding our identity in Christ: being marked by the Spirit, boasting in Christ, and placing no confidence in the flesh.
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What are you building with your life? In this passage, Paul shows us how we can build something with our lives that will last beyond us and give us joy.
It can be hard to locate joy when life is difficult or in transition. Paul shows us where to locate our joy and how it sustains us.
Today we are beginning a new series in the book of Philippians. In this beautiful, uplifting letter, we find Paul full of joy. Why? Can we share in that joy, and if so, how? The first 11 verses get us off to a good start.
In our liminal space, between what was and what will be, we are reordering our lives. Jesus helps Peter and us through this process with love and kindness.
What does the miraculous catch have to teach us about the return with great joy? Much, as it turns out. The future and the past hold the sea. But Jesus calls us to the present, where he is on the shore, so that we can breakfast with him.
As we return with great joy, there is room for our doubt and uncertainty. In fact, we can meet Jesus in our doubt and ask for His help. Thomas’s encounter with the risen Jesus shows us what’s possible.
Today we begin a new series looking at four episodes from the book of John of life after the resurrection. Can we return to life after Covid with “great joy” as the disciples returned to Jerusalem after the resurrection? We believe we can. Mary Magdalene shows us how this week.
Message to the church on the importance of God’s intervention.
The resurrection is not just for when we die, it’s present power for today. Luke 24 shows us four ways resurrection breaks into our present.
The Triumphal Entry demonstrates the “lifelong mismatch between what we think we need and what we need.” The Jews wanted another Judas Maccabaeus. They got Someone far better. That’s good news for us, too.
The parables of Jesus expand our imagination and vision for the kingdom of God. Watching the Father and his two sons, we see that God loves us so very much. He searches for us and rejoices when we come home to be with Him.
Jesus tells us how to avoid hypocrisy.
We get a glimpse at the real Jesus, and it’s glorious. How will we respond? Will we respond like Peter and put him in a shelter? Or will we let ourselves be surrounded by the cloud and “listen to him?”
