Capital Vineyard Community Church

When we look at Matthew the disciple and his tax collector friends we see a man who was rejected and despised by society and religious people everywhere and yet Jesus invited Matthew.  When Matthew left everything and followed Jesus he threw Him a party and droves of tax collectors and sinners showed up.  These men (and women) who were rejected by every other rabbi and religious person,...

Easter is the biggest party of the year, and You Are Invited!  Jesus is inviting you to a new understanding of who He is and why He came.  Often we are blinded to Him and His work because of our own expectations of who God is.  The day of His resurrection was the day that two of his followers saw Him for who He truly was.  This Easter can be that day for you too!

From the Junk Drawer- Daniel Rogers brings us a word about the significance of scripture in our lives and how memorizing it can be helpful in our daily walk.

Jonah ran from the opportunity that God gave him to participate in the work of His kingdom.  If God knows all things, He knew Jonah would run.  Why then did God still choose Jonah? This week as we wrap up the Next Steps series, let's look at what it means to miss a step and ask the question, "where do we go from here?"

1 John 1:5-10 Often light and dark are ways we refer to good and evil or purity and sin.  In 1 John however, a better understanding of what John is writing is that walking in the light is does not mean walking in good behaviors, it means walking in the knowledge that we are completely illuminated, exposed and known, by God and yet we are fully accepted and loved in Christ.  

Jesus healed a paralyzed man in two different ways...and the first way didn't meet the need that brought the man into the house...Do you sometimes feel like Jesus has said "your sins are forgiven" but still find yourself lying on the floor wondering if He's forgotten your other needs?  Our God has the power and authority to forgive our sins and make us new.  He also has the power and aut...

Galatians 5:16-25- "If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit."  What does it mean to live and walk by the Spirit, and what is the alternative?  Paul's statement in v. 25 would suggest that it is possible to live by the Spirit but walk by, or according, to the flesh.  Does this mean we have a duel and split personality within us?  Do we have the Spirit of God in...

Walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called... That sounds like an instruction to live up the standard we have attained in Christ...  Looking at Ephesians 4:1 more closely we find that's not at all what Paul is instructing the church in Ephesus.  We discover that what he is asking is that the church relate to one another on the basis of the grace (the calling o...

What is your next step of faith? 

Being honest and vulnerable about how life is going at the moment is scary, but it is the only way to have real relationships with other people.  If we are going to be a family within the church then we are going to have to invite one another into our lives.

This week we look at Matthew 12 and a scripture that often gets broken up into several different parts.  But when we do that, we risk taking scripture out of context and coming to wrong conclusions.  Looking at the entirety of Matthew 12:22-37 we get an accurate picture of what Jesus is describing when he mentions the strong man and plundering his house, blaspheming the Spirit, good and...

Our mission statement at CVCC is summed up in three words.  Grace. Family. Mission.  These three ideas also happen to be concentric circles of how we see grace permeating our church culture.  As I begin to understand grace and righteousness for me, I can begin to see that the same grace and righteousness applies to those in my church family, and when we as a family begin to make tha...

In Me. Then In You.  As we relate to other people in the church (our neighbors), we will view and treat them in the way we think God views us and treats us.  If we view God as treating us with condemnation, we will treat those in the church with condemnation.  If however, we can see that God has justified and made us right through the work of Jesus alone and not based on our perform...

Our faith comes in a not so logical progression: Heart, then mind.  We believe what God says about us is true even when it doesn't make sense in our minds.

The Vertical and the Horizontal.  Relationship with God and then everything else.  It's important that we get this order right.  Under the old covenant the law was all about the horizontal and getting the horizontal right in order to establish and maintain right relationship with God...Jesus flipped that process on its head and said that the vertical and relationship with God comes...

Capital Vineyard is moving on!  This Sunday was the last service we will ever meet in our current building.  Next week we will be meeting at our new location on Twilight Trail.  Our old building has a lot of history in it, both good and bad.  But from here we are moving on and moving forward into what the calling that God has placed on our church.  The physical move is jus...

Mary's story is pretty much the Christmas story.  We don't have any other background information about her, and yet when the angel greets her she is called "Favored One".  What does it mean to be favored?  What has Mary done to be favored?  What does this tell us about our savior about to be born? 

We've all heard a sermon on David and Bathsheba, just usually not at Christmas.  So what is there to learn from Bathsheba being included in the genealogy of Jesus?  Bathsheba's experience with her King is not exactly a story we want to remember when we talk about Jesus as our coming king.  But Jesus is a king, and is unlike any other king on earth.  Other kings take, Jesus give...

When we look at the book of Ruth we often focus on the faithfulness of Ruth to her mother in law, or the Boaz' generous response to the young widow, as models for our behavior.  But what if this story reveals to us more than just some moral characteristics that we should try and imitate?  What if Holy Spirit included the story of Ruth and Boaz in the genealogy of Jesus because in it we c...

Rahab was an unmarried woman, with no family of her own, a gentile citizen of Jericho, and a prostitute.  As an enemy of God her future only included death along with all of Jericho.  Rahab's only hope was to recognize the Lord God was her salvation, and when she made that decision she was no longer the same anymore.  Every single person on the planet has that same  decision in...

Entering into Christmas the focus is rightly on the birth of our Savior, but in our hurry to get to that event or even the story of the birth of Jesus we skip over some significant scripture.  It might not be very interesting to read on the surface, but the genealogy recorded in Matthew chapter 1 holds some pretty unexpected names.  Where Matthew notes that so and so was the son of so an...

In the last message of our Uncluttered series we explore the idea that our lives become cluttered when we carry emotional baggage from old wounds into our relationships with people and with God.  In order to walk in the healing that God has accomplished for us in Christ, we need to set down the baggage that is not ours and walk in freedom.

An uncluttered life is a life that is lived in the present moment, trusting God's future.  This week we look at Luke 10 and John 12 to find accounts of Mary living the "good part".  What's the good part?  Actually living our lives and being present in the moment and being present with the people we share these moments with.    

In this series we are exploring some of the reasons we clutter our lives with so many things.  One of the primary reasons we clutter is because we tend to seek out approval, both from people and from God.  But the reality of your righteousness in Christ means you have his approval.  The need to add more and do more hoping to one day make him proud, doesn't exist anymore in the New C...

In Joshua 316 Israel finally crossed the Jordan into the land that God had promised them-The Promised Land.  We often find Israel as a symbol or metaphor for those of us who walk with Christ.  So what is our promised land, what is the wilderness, and what is the Jordan river; that final barrier that stands between us and living in what God has promised us?