The weekly sermons from Vineyard City Church in Redding, CA – where we have the vision of being a people devoted to the person and purposes of Jesus, with the mission of making disciples who make disciples!
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Professor Thomas Middlebrook teaches about two Saints today. He starts with Saint Anthony the Great and ends with the story of Saint Julian of Norwich.
Vineyard City Church Pastor, Todd, begins our series exploring the saints, the part they played in Church history, and the life of Saint Francis of Assisi specifically.
Siena McMasters wraps up the Book of James while looking at prayer as on of the themes of the book. Asking what does James have to say to us about prayer?
Pastor Todd continues in the Book of James. He observes how , because this letter is so small it means James would have had to cleary choose what information he wanted to emphasize on. James spends a good deal of the letter on one specific topic which shows us how important this bit of wisdom must be.
Professor James Middlebrook opens up our continuation on the Book of James by asking us, what do we do with out own hypocrisy? He goes on to explain how hypocrisy is when we call a moral or religious identity without claiming our sinful identity as well.
Pastor Todd begins his new series looking for wisdom in the Book of James for the month of July . He describes the book as wonderfully bite sized because of it 5 chapters.
Pastor Sean continues our segment on Spiritual Formation. He details the way we look at this in the Vineyard is by looking at three different things in a relational triangle. The Up, growing in Christ. The In, in intentional community and then the Out, with God’s love. All these parts are needed to reflect the love of God.
Today guest speaker Tony Stolzfus speaks about getting hurt by the church . He goes over ways it happens and ways to cope with that hurt. Tony also focuses in on one aspect of church hurt, which is what we believe about getting hurt by the church.
Pastor Sean opens up a new topic on Spiritual Formation. He asks , how can we be formed into the image of Christ and what practices can we participate in, in order to nurture our relationship with the Father ,the Son and the Holy Spirit.
On the 5th Sunday of the month we do Testimonies. This Sunday we got to hear from Juliano , a new member of our Vineyard Church. Pastor Sean also brought his friend and Executive Director of the Living Hope, Mike Mojarro, to share his testimony.
Pastor Todd wraps up our exploration on The Book of Acts.Todd summarizes what was spoken over the past few weeks and brings forth one more additional truth in Paul's story, which has a lot of significance in the ending of The Book of Acts.
Pastor Todd continues our segment on the Book of Acts. Today focusing on compromises and how there may be places in our lives we are tempted to compromise on and it is within those places God does his greatest work.
Pastor Sean speaks on Chapter 2 of Acts, which he thinks is the coolest chapter in scripture. He explains how there is so much interesting stuff happening in this chapter, that he could spend a month on it.
For today's sermon Pastor Sean opens up the floor to questions from the church. Church leaders Ericka Tuggle and Pastor Todd Moegerle were brought forth to answer any theological questions, the congregation might have.
Pastor Todd wraps up the last segment in the Evangelism series. He brings back an answer to a question he asked at the beginning about how we hold the idea of our part in the Ministry that Jesus loves so much. The congregation also shared from their own personal experiences of sharing the love and reality of God with others.
Pastor Sean asks us how has God uniquely created us to be evangelistic? God created us all to have different gifts with which we can both share and exhibit the love of God to the people around us.
Pastor Todd continues with the 3rd week of Songs of Solomon , focusing on reading the chapter in an allegorical sensed and what we can draw out of it besides the wisdom it offers for married couples.
Pastor Sean continues on the theology of sex and pleasure and the " foxes" which refer to the things that can get in the way of healthy sex life within a marriage.
Pastor Sean opens up the book Songs of Solomon and elaborates on the subject of love and intimacy. He discusses the theology of sex and pleasure ,in marriage and what we can learn from it.
Pastor Sean concluded his segment on Peace by focusing on Peace in our homes and marriages by having a few families from our Church come up and answer questions about peace in their own homes.
Pastor Todd picks up the third segment on Paths of Peace focusing on the important relationships in our lives in the realms of forgiveness and reconciliation.
Pastor Sean speaks about being or becoming a peacemaker and what is Jesus's perspective on peace.
Professor Thomas Middlebrook teaches about the Biblical review of Shalom and Isaiah 32
Pastor Sean speaks about peace and the difference between worldly peace and the peace found in Christ's plan for us regardless of what we are going through.
Pastor Sean starts a new sermon on the joy of advent in the season of anticipation of Jesu's birth and the desire for him to return again. Christmas is the solution to sin and death
