Exeter Vineyard Church

We are revisiting some of those classic Bible stories, often a staple of Sunday school classes, where we think we know what they're about - often simple morality tales - and examining whether there is anything more in there that connects with our real (and often confusingly messy) experience of God and everyday life. Today Josh looks at the story of David and Goliath and thinks about how God might...

Churches in Exeter have spent a week spreading joy, so today we look at what joy is, where (or who) it comes from and the amazing power it gives us.

We’re looking at six incidents in the Book of Acts to see how the Good News about Jesus overflowed into new people, new areas and new opportunities. We’re asking how these incidents might help us see how God wants to overflow from our Hubs and everyday lives. Today Dave looks at the persecution experienced by the disciples. They find themselves facing something really bad, totally out of their con...

We’re looking at six incidents in the Book of Acts to see how the Good News about Jesus overflowed into new people, new areas and new opportunities. We’re asking how these incidents might help us see how God wants to overflow from our Hubs and everyday lives. Today Dave looks how a seemingly mundane organisational change in the early church was not only a spiritual act, but something that allowed...

We’re looking at six incidents in the Book of Acts to see how the Good News about Jesus overflowed into new people, new areas and new opportunities. We’re asking how these incidents might help us see how God wants to overflow from our Hubs and everyday lives. Today Dave looks at a decision the Apostles need to make - do they keep Jesus private and personal, or do they go public? We think about tho...

We’re looking at six incidents in the Book of Acts to see how the Good News about Jesus overflowed into new people, new areas and new opportunities. We’re asking how these incidents might help us see how God wants to overflow from our Hubs and everyday lives. Today Dave looks at brave prayers - the ones that need God to do something. We think about how we can learn and practice brave prayers and w...

We’re looking at six incidents in the Book of Acts to see how the Good News about Jesus overflowed into new people, new areas and new opportunities. We’re asking how these incidents might help us see how God wants to overflow from our Hubs and everyday lives. Today Dave looks at the normal practice of the first church. In many ways it seems pretty unremarkable, but there is something going on that...

Alan continues our series looking at how so much of what we read about Jesus’ ministry in the Bible happened when he was interrupted. It helps us to see that God is far more active in our normal, everyday life than we might think. Today Jesus faces an interruption within an interruption and acts counterintuitively as he follows his Father’s leading.

We’re looking at six incidents in the Book of Acts to see how the Good News about Jesus overflowed into new people, new areas and new opportunities. We’re asking how these incidents might help us see how God wants to overflow from our Hubs and everyday lives. Today Dave looks at what has been called ‘the Birth of the Church’ - a fundamental change to how God connects to us and calls us into his sa...

The resurrection changed everything, yet despite that we meet two dejected and disillusioned disciples unsure what it all means. This morning we look at Luke 24:13-32 and think about how we often find ourselves in similar situations - excited about Jesus, but living a life that hasn’t worked out like we hoped and unsure what God might be doing… if anything at all! We consider how to understand the...

It’s easy to think that the amazing things Jesus did and said happened in religious settings - at the synagogue, in the temple, during formal teaching… but if we read the Gospels closely we see that so much happened when Jesus’ normal, everyday life was interrupted. Whether he was commuting, hanging out with friends, going for a stroll, at a dinner party or a wedding, Jesus was often interrupted a...

It’s easy to think that the amazing things Jesus did and said happened in religious settings - at the synagogue, in the temple, during formal teaching… but if we read the Gospels closely we see that so much happened when Jesus’ normal, everyday life was interrupted. Whether he was commuting, hanging out with friends, going for a stroll, at a dinner party or a wedding, Jesus was often interrupted a...

It’s easy to think that the amazing things Jesus did and said happened in religious settings - at the synagogue, in the temple, during formal teaching… but if we read the Gospels closely we see that so much happened when Jesus’ normal, everyday life was interrupted. Whether he was commuting, hanging out with friends, going for a stroll, at a dinner party or a wedding, Jesus was often interrupted a...

We feel God is prompting us to explore how our Hubs can be more intentional in being outward looking. We are starting a process of asking God to help us discover his unique and creative ways each of our Hubs can do this.  In this session we look at how Jesus and the disciples made a difference to people around them. We’re thinking about how God might be directing us to do something similar in...

Today Dave looks back at 2025, telling the story of our church family. And we think about what God is prompting us about for the year ahead.

We feel God is prompting us to explore how our Hubs can be more intentional in being outward looking. We are starting a process of asking God to help us discover his unique and creative ways each of our Hubs can do this.

We’re spending two Sundays thinking about the political moment we find ourselves in and how we can have good tools to form our own opinions. Today Dave thinks about power - what it is, what it’s for and how did Jesus understand power?

We’re spending two Sundays thinking about the political moment we find ourselves in and how we can have good tools to form our own opinions. Today Dave thinks about two battles - the spiritual battle Paul talks about in Ephesians 6 and the culture war battle for what our society should aim to be. Please note: this Sunday there was a technical issue, so Dave re-recorded the talk at home after the s...

As we look at the lyrics of the songs we sing, in this Festive Edition Joe looks at the Christmas banger, “Hark The Herald Angels Sing”. He takes us through this theology powerhouse of a song, considering just how much of God’s eternal plan, incarnated in Jesus, is captured in these lyrics we can so easily sing without thinking.

We look at the lyrics and imagery in the song “Another in the Fire” by Hillsong United. Rachel looks at the imagary they use in the song, exploring where it comes from in the Bible and what it means for us.

We look at the lyrics and imagery in the song “Great Are You Lord” by All Sons and Daughters, a song we’ve been singing for a number of years now. We’re thinking about the hard times, when hope seems lost and God feels distant. What can we learn from Ezekiel at times like these?

This Sunday we tried something a little different and, instead of a talk, we left space for God to speak to any and all of us, then collated the responses and invited people to share as we pressed into the themes.

Today we have Matt Smith, from the charities Home For Good and Safer Families, sharing a challenging call to love in a way that stretches us out of our personal comfort to connect with others in need. He is introduced by Sarah, a long-term foster carer.

As school and colleges go back and as the memories of summer holidays and sunny days fade, Dave talks about our plans for the term ahead and the sense that God is calling us to press into him.

We're spending a number of weeks thinking about the spiritual reality of being ‘In Christ’. In this Bible study Adam Porter thinks about what it means to be “Justified in Christ”.