Elm City Vineyard Church Talks

Josh starts a new series called, Asking God, where we can wrestle with big questions we can ask God that will lead to formative and life-changing dialogues with Jesus. This would be a great week to invite your friends as we continue to grow a curious community that trusts in a living God who is both bigger than and responsive to our questions. - Series Description - Life is full of questions. How...

This Sunday Asha looks at the final chapter in Paul’s letter to the Corinthians in which his practical exhortations to the Corinthians get really real: sacrifice, generous offerings, and the call to draw close to one another.

This Sunday, we explore Paul's conviction that Jesus’ bodily resurrection changes everything. Josh shares about the power of the resurrection to bring life to situations of death and dying.

This week, Todd shares about the Spirit's in-the-moment inspiration of members of the Body, which is to be both welcomed and weighed as the Body seeks to discern God's word in its gatherings.

This week we turn to 1 Cor 12:1-11 in which Paul talks about spiritual gifts. The Corinthians had experience with “gods” who only seemed to speak and work. Now their community is founded on interaction with the living God—and that makes all the difference.

This Sunday, Shirley shares about how God meets our hunger both personally and communally.

This week, Josh shares more about the peculiar nature of freedom and love in the Body.

This Sunday, Josh reflects on Paul’s advice about pursuing Jesus more than being right. In the midst of a litigious culture, the Church being a Body provides a model for a different way out of conflict than the harshness and gridlock we find in the broader culture of public lawsuits.

This week we continue our summer teaching series, Life in the Body, as Patrick reflects on Paul’s advice to us as we pursue Jesus through broken church experiences.

This week, Patrick will help us understand what the Bible has to say about discernment and what resources God gives us as we approach tough questions in our lives.

At the end of all things in the book of Revelation, a group of people cry out against an almost-defeated Babylon - the empire of Death at work in the world. The scripture says that this group cries out with their blood (Rev 6:5). This week we learn from Josh about the good news at the end of the story and what that means for our lives today.

This week, Matt invites us to consider what we can learn from the way God responds to the murder of Jesus. Here, too, the blood cries out. And, here, too, God does not respond with vengeance.

Josh kicks off our new series called, The Blood Cries Out, talking about the story of Cain and Abel. In the story, God doesn’t ignore the violence in the world He created. He moved towards it, even moving towards Cain, the one who killed his brother. In this series will move toward violence and death as people of Life.

This Easter, Josh shares that through the power of resurrection, we can now walk with Christ instead of walking alone.

After the Palm Sunday pageant, Kyanna shares how shouting unto the Lord to be rescued in times of trouble can help us bend towards the Lord’s will and way. We’ve all got things that hold us down and prevent us from living a life of freedom. But the Lord’s faithfulness leads us to freedom as He calls us and we respond.

This week, Josh continues our series on Postures of Humility with, Look Up. When we are tired, exhausted, and in need of rescue, God exhorts us: look up. God's word to us is not to work harder, numb ourselves, or indulge our worst instincts in a time of trouble. Instead, God invites us to look up and see where our help comes from.

On Sunday, Tina will be sharing with us about laying down. Especially the face of chaos and turmoil, laying can seem irresponsible and even dangerous. But Jesus invites us to enter this radical posture of total trust and vulnerability, to lay down our defenses and our striving, and to receive total peace in Him.

When we bow down in worship, we communicate with our bodies that God is God (and we are not)—and that we are prepared to be obedient to God’s will for us. But there’s also a natural next step when we bow down: God lifts us up, following the pattern of Jesus who humbled himself and was then exalted by his--and our-- Heavenly Father. In our bowing, we enter into the humility—and exaltation—of Jesus.

Lent is a season in the life of the church where we remember Jesus’ sacrificial living and re-commit to live like Him. This Lent, we’ll be doing that by exploring Postures of Humility. We will choose to humble ourselves through remembering that God is our Maker and that our bodies can be positioned to tell a story of humility. As we bow, lay, look up, stand, shout, bend, and walk, we can ask the L...

When we fail to bless across generations, God still blesses. It’s part of the scandalous generosity of God. This week, Matt closes out our series by asking how can we live with the God whose blessings overflow the boundaries we try to set up?

In the third week of our Blessing Generations series, Tina walks us through the Biblical story of Esther and what it teaches about holy script-breaking and being agents of healing across generational lines.

This week Moriah shares how God invites us to commit to one another across generations, which is not only a blessing but can be truly healing. What new things might God do with our commitment to bless one another this way?

As we think about how to do church together, it is vitally important that our generations in ECV bless one another. That's what a healthy family does. This week, we'll see how God calls us to trust that we can find family and support in the Church even when - maybe especially when - life is challenging.

This Sunday, Josh closes our series with a talk about holding on to a picture of God's future Kingdom even if it only begins with a dream. When we are too weak to act -- to go, to build, to start-- all of us can receive a picture from the Lord that at least gives us hope.

It takes faith to build with God. Sometimes we don’t know how to get the resources to construct what’s needed. Other times, people around us don’t know why we’re building what we are. What might God be asking you to build? What is God desiring to build at ECV? This week, Josh talks about the faith to (re)build.