CityLight Vineyard Church

HOW DO I START READING THE BIBLE? We've had so many conversations the past two weeks about the struggle we have with finding time to read the Bible, knowing what to choose to read, understanding it, and more.  Maybe you grew up with the bible being rammed down your throat, or maybe you have no real background with the Bible, good or bad. Either way, there may be hurdles to reading the Bible f...

A good place to start our practice of reading the Bible is with what Jesus thought about the Bible. Your history with the Bible probably has a mixture of both positive and negative experiences. Looking at how Jesus viewed it, gives us a good starting point.

In today's episode we interview Amanda Jackson about how she dealt with uncertainty during her pregnancy with Harper, who was diagnosed with a serious heart issue in utero.

We all love to be in control, but life teaches us that is rarely possible. How can we learn to thrive in uncertainty, rather than just getting by?

Do you ever wonder if all you are doing is worth it? Today we look at one verse that should encourage us!

Many of the recorded prayers in the Bible are prayers of lament. Raw, honest, and even "in God's face" kind of prayers that reveal just how gracious God is with us. Sometimes what we need to grieve the loss we are experiencing Is this language of lament that our faith offers us.

Every week we release a short encouragement in the middle of the week. This week's centers on the fact that God has gifted you, and part of your joy comes from sharing your gifts with others!

In this teaching we discuss how resilience is a skill you can learn, not just something you are either born with, or without. We offer three ways you can develop this skill during the Lockdown so you are better prepared for "normal" life afterwards!

In the middle of hard times, we can develop a skill for finding the good, even when it's hard to find! In this teaching we discuss how to change our perspective in order to change our experience.

Have you felt frustrated with your spiritual growth lately? Here are three ideas that may help you!

For our first lesson from lockdown we are going to re-examine our "rule of life." What structures do you have in to get you to where you want to be spiritually? Are they working? Maybe now is a good time to rethink some of them!

Every week we send out a short 3-4 minute encouragement that follows up the talk from Sunday morning. We hope it brightens your day and encourages you to face each day with Jesus.

Jesus was buried In a tomb located in the middle of a Garden. But when he rose, he turned that upside down! And he is still turning graves into gardens in our lives!

Every week we send out a short 3-4 minute encouragement that follows up the talk from Sunday morning. We hope it brightens your day and encourages you to face each day with Jesus.

On Palm Sunday we reflect on the suffering that Jesus endured on our behalf. And we find meaning in our own suffering, and a path towards suffering well.

Every week we send out a short 3-4 minute encouragement that follows up the talk from Sunday morning. We hope it brightens your day and encourages you to face each day with Jesus.

How do we respond as the Church to a crisis like this? Can we still find ways to love our neighbors?

Every week we send out a short 3-4 minute encouragement that follows up the talk from Sunday morning. We hope it brightens your day and encourages you to face each day with Jesus.

It can be easy to start thinking that Christianity is all about what we believe. And while belief is important, what we do as a result of that belief is what really matters. 

Every week we send out a short 3-4 minute encouragement that follows up the talk from Sunday morning. We hope it brightens your day and encourages you to face each day with Jesus.

In our first week doing LiveStream church thanks to the Coronavirus, we continued our series on Influence. This week we ask the question: "Tolerance is good - but is it enough?" Join us as we tackle this question and lean into what God's love looks like.

What happens when God's call to surrender interferes with our own desire to "be free" and "do what we want?" It can be frustrating at times, but we discuss how surrendering to God's plan leads us to TRUE freedom!

How does our desire to be happy line up with the call of Jesus to be sacrificial? And has the American ideal of happiness (such as materialism and wealth) gotten confused within Christianity's message of blessing? These are a few of the tensions we tackle in Week 2!

Every week we send out a short 3-4 minute encouragement that follows up the talk from Sunday morning. We hope it brightens your day and encourages you to face each day with Jesus.

An ancient blessing used of people who chose a teacher to follow was, "May you be covered by the dust of your rabbi (teacher)." The meaning was, "may you so closely follow your teacher that you are metaphorically covered by the dust from his sandles." We will be using that concept to talk about who we are being influenced by in our lives. Are we more influenced by Jesus, or by...