Elm City Vineyard Church Talks

This month, Josh leads us as we look at heroes from the Hebrew Bible, modern-day heroes from the Civil Rights movement led by the Spirit, and…us as we seek to live with a radical faith that will impact the world around us. This week, we explore the story of Abraham and his faith to follow God.

Over Advent, we spent time learning about God's heart for us revealed in the incarnation of Jesus at Christmas. This Sunday, Patrick finishes the series with some practical suggestions about what it means to live with the significance of the incarnation.

This week Moriah offers a short talk on the messiness of the Incarnation following the annual No-Stress Christmas Pageant.

This week Matt leads us into a consideration of the power of the incarnation. In God’s Son drawing near to us in Jesus, we are given the opportunity to become God’s children. What would it look like to take up this new identity? What would we learn about God? What would we learn about ourselves?

God becoming human in the form of a baby, God drawing near to a people who have rejected Him many times before. This is strikingly vulnerable, but it can also be instructive for us as we ask the question: where are we becoming vulnerable for the sake of relationship? Josh kicks off our Advent series, The Vulnerability of the Incarnation.

This Sunday, Shirley Kuang shares about a life lived in light of the already and not yet kingdom of God-- in which we lament that which is broken even as we celebrate God's intervention, healing, and good gifts.

This week we ask what can be a great diagnostic question for how closely we're following Jesus: where is our love costing us? Is our love simply for our own gain -- love that flows to friends and family? Or does our love flow outward in a way where we lose something for a greater gain? This Sunday, Josh shares more about how Jesus models this costly love by staying close to God, providing a way fo...

This Sunday, Moriah shares how God invites us into rest--and how living into God’s Sabbath rest is a part of our Kingdom work.

This Sunday, Matt considers how living in a community that talks about sin allows us to pursue wholeness in relation to God and one another.

This Sunday, Michelle Ting considers how our peace is wrapped up in the peace of our city. She talks about our true identity as exiles, an identity that joins us with Jesus and with those made outcasts by empire, and asks: why return to the places of poverty, violence, and captivity we've worked so hard to escape?

This week, Kyanna Joseph talks about seasons of waiting and the invitations that God has for us in them. Waiting is inevitable. What do we do in our waiting?

This week, Matt talks about the Vineyard value of being people who "pursue culturally relevant mission in the world." What would it mean for us to reclaim Paul's phrase? What would it look like to become all things to all people for the sake of God’s mission in the world?

This week, Ndubisi Okeke, Trinity Brandt, and Cindy Chen talk about the Vineyard value of being people who "reconcile people with God and all creation.

This week, Patrick talks about the Vineyard's desire to be people who "engage in compassionate ministry."

This week, Pastor Josh shares a special announcement and explores the Vineyard value and practice of saying yes.

This Sunday, Pastor Josh starts a new series called “Living Letters” about the biblical basis for the 5 Core Values of the Vineyard Movement. This week he shares about the Vineyard value of Experiencing God.

Josh closes out our summer series by looking at the prayer Jesus taught us, where we're invited to say, "let your Kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven."

This week, we see how Jesus includes his disciples in participating in a harvest of Kingdom activity that begins with vulnerability then moves to peace, hospitality, and healing.

This week, Deniqua leads us through the double miracle story of the healing of the bleeding woman and the 12 year old girl raised from the dead in Luke 8.

This week, Matt teaches on who Jesus is and what Jesus calls us to.

No matter what's happening in our lives, the seed of the Kingdom is always trying to grow. Are we letting it flourish? What might be getting in the way?

This week, Moriah shares about what forgiveness looks like in the Kingdom of God.

We’re continuing in our series Behold: A Kingdom Summer in which we are learning to recognize the shape of life in God’s presence that we call the Kingdom. This week, Patrick helps us discover how the Kingdom of God is upside-down from our normal assumptions about the world. For more about Elm City Vineyard Church: http://elmcityvineyard.org/

This week, as we continue our series on the Kingdom of God, we consider what the call of Kingdom means for our lives. How are our life trajectories redirected? How are our vocations transformed and deepened? Everything’s on the table when Jesus calls us to the Kingdom of God. For more about Elm City Vineyard Church: http://elmcityvineyard.org/

Last week Josh talked about the tension, timing and tenor of the Kingdom. This week, the Kingdom of God is on the move. How do we respond when we receive a foretaste of the Kingdom?  Moriah will share how glimpses of the Kingdom invite us to follow Jesus further into the Kingdom.  More about Elm City Vineyard Church: http://elmcityvineyard.org/