Lakewood Vineyard (OH)

Episode Summary   This message explores how money and possessions can reveal what is happening in our hearts. Looking at Luke 3:7-14, the sermon invites us to see wealth as a blessing from God, a thermometer of our spiritual condition, and an opportunity to grow in contentment, generosity, and trust in our Father. Key Takeaways   - Wealth is a blessing from God, not something we ultimately create...

Episode Summary   In “Fighting for Each Other,” Pastor Matt Shetler explores Paul’s call in Ephesians 6 to recognize the real battle behind our struggles and to stop treating people as the enemy. This message invites the church to stand in Christ’s victory, put on the armor of God, and fight for one another through faithful, persistent prayer. Key Takeaways   - Our real struggle is not against peo...

Episode Summary   This message explores Ephesians 5 through the lens of Jesus’ self-giving love, showing that mutual submission is not about control but about serving one another for the other’s good. Marriage is part of the picture, but the deeper point is Christ’s love for the church—and how that love frees us to help others flourish. Key Takeaways   - We are loved by Christ first, and from that...

Episode Summary   This message explores what it means to live wisely in a world where our days are spiritually contested. Rooted in Ephesians 5, it calls the church to resist isolation, make room for the Holy Spirit, and rediscover gathered worship as a vital way God forms, strengthens, and speaks to His people. Key Takeaways   - Biblical wisdom begins by orienting your life around God, not around...

Episode Summary   This message from Ephesians 5 calls the church to live as dearly loved children who walk in love, light, and holiness. By looking at Jesus’ victory over temptation, listeners are invited to resist shortcuts, repent honestly, and remember who they are in God. Key Takeaways   - You can’t walk in love until you first receive that you are deeply loved by God.   - Temptation often com...

Episode Summary  This message from Ephesians 4, week 2 of the One Another series, shows why truth and love can never be separated. Love without truth hides, and truth without love hurts, but together they help us love like Jesus. Listeners are invited to examine the motives behind their words, name the fear and pride that pull them toward hiding or hurting, and find the security to speak honestly...

Episode Summary   This message from Ephesians 4 calls the church to “make every effort” to protect the unity Jesus has already given. Through humility, gentleness, and patience, listeners are invited to bear with one another in love and to notice where distance, division, or drift may be forming in their relationships. Key Takeaways   - Unity in the church is not something we create from scratch,...

What do you talk about most: money, health, your kids, your career? Ron Hitchcock takes us to Jeremiah 9:23-24, where God says the thing worth boasting in is knowing him. Ron shows how our culture's versions of wisdom, riches, and strength (education, career, and health) can quietly become our focus, and why desperate people do desperate things. His answer is practical: bring the question &qu...

We all wrestle with the question of what's next — whether it's college, marriage, kids, a career change, or just the next season of life. This week we land in Acts 24–28, following Paul through two years of unjust imprisonment, an appeal to Caesar, a hurricane at sea, and a shipwreck — and the book of Acts ends without ever telling us how his story wraps up. From Paul's example, we...

Episode Summary   Paul’s testimony in Acts 22 shows how a real encounter with the risen Jesus can completely redirect a life—from resistance and blindness to baptism, healing, and purpose. This message invites listeners to see that the same Jesus still reveals himself, speaks to his people, and leads them through suffering with courage and hope. Key Takeaways   - Your story of meeting Jesus can be...

Episode Summary   In this message from Acts 17, we’re reminded that people have always searched for something to fill the space only God can fill. Through Paul’s words in Athens, this sermon points us away from idols and toward the God who is not unknown—God has made Himself known in Jesus. Key Takeaways   - Idols aren’t just statues; they can be anything we treat as ultimate or believe will final...

Episode Summary   In this message from Acts 16, we’re reminded that following God’s lead doesn’t always look like open doors and easy outcomes. Sometimes obedience includes closed doors, redirection, suffering, and unexpected opportunities—and on the other side of our yes, God may be reaching people we never could have imagined. Key Takeaways   - God’s “no” or “not yet” is not failure; it may be h...

Episode Summary   In this message from Acts 15, Matt explores the difference between grace and the exhausting pressure to prove ourselves before God. Through the early church’s debate over law, belonging, and salvation, the sermon reminds us that Jesus has already done what we could never do—and that freedom changes how we see ourselves and others. Key Takeaways   - Salvation is received by grace...

Episode Summary   In this message from Acts 13, we see how the church at Antioch listened together, fasted, and responded when the Holy Spirit called Barnabas and Saul to be sent out. This sermon invites us to consider how God speaks, how community helps confirm calling, and how making room for God can shape our next faithful step. Key Takeaways   - Fasting helps create intentional space to pay at...

From our Acts series

Acts 10

What if the most world-changing moments in your faith don't feel extraordinary at all? This week, Pastor Matt welcomes Casey Tobik — Prayer Pastor at King's Church and Midwest Regional Director for 24/7 Prayer — to unpack one of Scripture's most overlooked hinge-moments: Ananias in Acts 9. Not Saul. Not the Damascus road. The ordinary, hesitant, honest disciple God called to place h...

A woman moves to Philadelphia because her brother calls and says "God is here." College students sell their stuff to help a stranger. Three thousand strangers become one family overnight. This is the early church in Acts 2 — and it wasn't built by strategy or social engineering. It was built one heart at a time. This week we explore what it looks like when a community is actually de...