Branches Vineyard Church

In this community, the Kingdom of God, we are family. That is an important statement and worth spending time considering what that means for you and those around you. Listen to this message to discover more.

We are back with Mary and Martha this week as learn an important lesson about suffering. Jesus demonstrated how he is with us through our suffering, but also, we learn here how disciples are with people through their suffering. That is an opportunity for us to participate in the Kingdom of God.

Reconciliation is an important and hopeful word. It is our hope for relationships, divisions, and more importantly, all of God's creation. Listen to hear Jesus' heart for reconciliation and our opportunity to participate.

This week we spend time looking at this well-known story, but maybe we'll find a special new invitation to be who we are as we seek to be committed disciples — loving God with all of our heart, and soul, and mind, and loving our neighbor as ourselves.

Jesus' disciples have a job to do, but they aren't alone. God will provide. We know this because God has provided before. Listen to understand how God's miracle to feed the 5,000 better prepares us to be the church.

This week we get a glimpse at the intentional way Jesus would flip cultural norms to establish the hierarchy of the Kingdom of God. It is a powerful rethinking of who we are, who Jesus is, and what it looks like to participate in the redemption of all of creation.

It's time to put our mission statement to work! "Building a loving, Spirit-Centered Community" is a phrase we want to live by. Join us as we learn about God's heart to pursue those who need pursuing. Listen to find out what this means.

Sometimes it is important to recenter. This is one of those days. Join us as we focus on the steps for the church as we work to accomplish our mission by building a loving, Spirit-centered community. What do you think? Are you on board?

This week we continue in our series on the Lord's Prayer with a dive into what we learn from Jesus about how God walks with us through trials and temptation. This is an important topic that can answer some very confusing and common questions.

This week we conclude our series on the Lord's Prayer with something very special. Dr. Ben Snyder shares a very special communion with us as we conclude and are challenged to actively and spontaneously practice, participate in, and work through our prayer with our Heavenly Father.

Join us this week as we continue in our series on The Lord's Prayer. This week we are learning about forgiveness — both in how we receive forgiveness from God and in how we can share it with others. It's a critical part of what it means to be a member of the Kingdom of God, and it is worth a listen.

The best survival advice ever: trust God! He's the one who has your interest in mind. You can trust and depend on God to provide for your needs. This is not a promise to make life easy, but God is greater and a relationship with Him will review what Kingdom Living looks like.

We're continuing in our Imago Dei series as we take a look at what we were meant to be, but understand how evil has corrupted that perfect image of our creator. But there is hope! Give this a listen. It's okay to understand where we are, but the good news is wrapped up in where we are going. 

We have a special guest sharing with us to introduce our new series on the Lord's Prayer. Join us as we hear from Dylan Stillman from the North Manchester Church of the Brethren as we discover our loving Father and recognize how THIS Father is FAITHFUL and never lets us down.

Continuing in our series on The Lord's Prayer, we spend some important time digging into what Jesus meant when he referenced the Kingdom of God, and even more important, how we orient ourselves to seek first this Kingdom. This is an ongoing and important concept we can grow in our understanding as time goes on.

This is a valuable message as we kick off the new year. Listen for guidance to heal, prepare, and take your next steps forward as a loved child of the King and member of the Kingdom of God.

We are renewed and transformed by the Holy Spirit, but it isn't instantaneous. God graciously takes us and shapes us into what He wants us to be. Join us a we kick off this new series as we move forward in our process of becoming more like our Savior.

Interested in deepening your relationship with God? Spiritual formation is all about communing with our creator, and prayer is an important way to make that happen. Join us as we learn and grow in our love for God.

God? Risking? How could that be? Oh, it's true! This is important. It helps us to understand our "God With Us" who knows what it is to suffer and can provide a real invitation to life and redemption. Give this one a listen.  This is the one who we follow and call Lord, and He took on great risk for YOU.

We continue our series looking at the challenging risk God presented as He invited Mary and Joseph to participate in the world-changing plan launched as Jesus came to earth. As we build to the arrival of our King, we are learning and excited by what God is doing around us now as we consider the Christmas story.

This is a special service, and it IS special. We'll spend some time learning, then putting what we've learned to practice as we celebrate with thanksgiving everything that God has done. Come join us for this special celebration of the Branches family.   

Join us in this new advent series as we seek to understand more deeply God's plan for His creation, and how it involves our "yes" to participate in all God is doing. Listen and plan to come back for these coming important weeks of teaching.

This week we consider our opportunity to mourn with those who mourn as we press on to be participants in the making of the Kingdom of God. This is something that the American church is not particularly good at doing, but is critically important.

How do you spell faith? For us who seek to live by the leading of the Holy Spirit, it may be risky  business, but it is well worth the risk. Join us this week as we seek to understand what it means to walk with the Holy Spirit.

This might be a tough one. We don't like to address the pain and disappointment we might have in the world, ourselves or even God. This week we look at our Biblical example, and part of our worship, to express lament. Listen to learn more.