Grace Vineyard Purley

Mark Visser continues the New Beginnings series, on Father's Day, looking at the heart of the father in the parable of the Prodigal Son and how it reflects the heart of our heavenly Father. No matter how far we stray from Father God, like the father of the prodigal son, He is always looking for us to come back to Him and become a son or daughter of the Living God.

On Pentecost Sunday Mark Stoneham continues the New Beginnings series looking at the authority Jesus gave to His disciples as they declared that the Kingdom of Heaven had come. Jesus empowered them to heal the sick, raise the dead, cleans the lepers and drive out demons. After the day of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit was poured out, this same power has been given to all who are disciples of Jesu...

Gill carries on with the New Beginnings series looking at the Prayer of Jabez. In the midst of verses of genealogy this prayer pops up and in it Jabez asks God for five things, Gill looks at four of these requests and how we can pray and ask God to do the same for us.

Mark Visser continues the New Beginnings series looking at three unnamed people whose lives are transformed by Jesus. One was touched by Jesus, one reached out and touched Jesus' garment and the third one was placed before Jesus by his friends, Jesus only spoke to him and his life, like the previous two people was transformed.

Mark Visser continues the New Beginnings series looking at the life of Joseph. Joseph was hated by his brothers because he was their father's favourite child , when he had two dreams of his brothers bowing before him and then his parents and brothers bowing before him things went from bad to worse. He was sold into slavery, then wrongfully imprisoned. The New Beginnings he experienced did not look...

The leadership team of Gill and Mark Visser and Mark and Christine Stoneman share what spoke to them while at the Vineyard UK&I National Leaders Gathering at Trent Vineyard in Nottingham. Each share on something that touched their heart and that they felt would be beneficial to the family of Grace Vineyard.

Andy Belsey picks up again on the New Beginnings series, showing us a way that we can speak up for Jesus. He has based his talk on the book The Art of Neighbouring. There’s lots of training about how to do evangelism but evangelism is something that scares many of us! Very few of us actually like doing Evangelism. Even when we want to share our faith, many people don’t want to hear about God anywa...

Mark Visser looks at the events from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, from Jesus causing chaos in the Temple by chasing out the merchants selling their livestock, to Him being anointed with oil, washing his disciples feet during the Passover meal, His time of prayer in the garden to his betrayal, trial, punishment and execution. This all in preparation to Resurrection Sunday and what that means to yo...

Gill helps us to have a better understanding of Palm Sunday, celebrating the day Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey with his disciples and people of the city laying down their cloaks and palm branches on the road for Jesus to ride over. Why did the disciples and crowd behave like this? What is the significance of them doing it? Had it been done before, if so, who for? Gill gives answers to thes...

Mark Stoneham finishes off our mini-series on Who is Jesus? looking at the question. Why Did He Have To Die? The only way for sin to be atoned for was by the shedding of blood. The Jews brought sacrifices to the Temple to atone for their sin. Jesus came as the Lamb of God to be the atoning sacrifice once and for all.

Gill speaks about mothers and how we are commanded in scripture to honour our mothers. She looks at the attributes of a godly mother and how Jesus honoured his mother right up to the time of his death on the cross.

Mark Visser carries on with the second teaching in the mini-series, Who is Jesus? Mark looks at the Parable of the Lost Son, often called the Parable of the Prodigal Son. The younger son asks his father for his inheritance before his father is dead, he then goes to a foreign land and squanders his wealth on hedonistic living and ends up in a field feed pigs. He decides to return to his father and...

In the build up to Easter Mark Visser begins a mini series asking the question, "Who is Jesus?" When you are asked, "Who are you?" how do you answer? The disciples never asked Jesus who he is, but Jesus asked his disciples, "Who do you say I am?" How would you answer this question? Mark looks at once aspect of who Jesus is to his disciples, those of us who have received Jesus as Lord and Saviour.

Mark Stoneham carries on with the New Beginnings series looking at the interaction between Jesus and Peter on the shore of Lake Galilee after Peter had denied knowing Jesus three times before Jesus was crucified. This is the first encounter Jesus has with Peter after his resurrection. Jesus restores Peter in such a beautiful way.

Mark Visser goes back to the New Beginnings series, looking at The Priesthood of All Believers. All the Israelites were supposed be priests of the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. But when the Lord called them to come up to Mount Sinai they were afraid of the thunder and lightning and asked Moses to talk to God on their behalf. When the Tabernacle was established Aaron and his sons were...

Mark Stoneham, as treasurer of Grace Vineyard Church gives his annual report on the finances of the church as well as a message about being generous people. We are generous because God is generous, God sets the example and expects us to be like Him.

Gill and Mark Visser, but mainly Gill, bring a Valentines Day Family message, looking at where Valentines Day came from and what it means for us today. How big is God's love for us? How can we show the love that St Valentine did? What can we do to love others? These are things that Gill looks at and then we finish off with a craft.

Mark Visser continues the New Beginnings series looking at how the Tabernacle was set up as the place of worship for the Israelites when the were in the wilderness after their exodus from Egypt. Marl looks at how the Tabernacle is an image of Jesus Christ, with God needing to be the centre of our worship today.

Mark Visser continues the New Beginnings sermon series looking at Moses who experienced a number of New Beginnings in his life that Mark could have looked at but he chose to look at the job changes that Moses experienced in his life.

Mark Visser continues the New Beginnings sermon series looking at two families that had to relocate homes. Moving homes is one of the top five most stressful events one can experience alongside death of a loved one, divorce or separation, long-term illness and job loss. Mark looks at the two scenarios of these families having to relocate their homes, what led up to it and what was the effect of it...

Gill Visser continues with our new series on New Beginnings, looking at how we need to commit ourselves to God's hands. He is the creator and He wants to shape us and mould us, just like a potter shapes and moulds clay in the process of creating things. This is can be an ongoing process in our lives if we allow God to be the potter and we remain as pliable clay.

Gill Visser kicks off the New Year looking at New Beginnings, 2024 is behind us and 2025 lies ahead of us. What are your expectations and hope for this coming year. New beginnings can come at any time and in many ways. Some are joyfully anticipated, like the birth of a new baby, and some can seem daunting, like starting a new job. And some can hit us suddenly with sadness like the death of a loved...

Mark Visser concludes the Christmas Service with the final reading and then a short message from Max Lucado's book, One Incredible Moment - Celebrating the Majesty of the Manger.

Mark Visser continues the early start to the Advent mini-series in the build up to Christmas. The second message of Advent is Peace. We live in a world in turmoil where there hasn't been peace for hundreds of years, but despite this we, as believers in Jesus Christ can live in peace. How do we do that? That is what Mark looks at in his message.

Mark Visser kicks off the Advent mini-series in the build up to Christmas. It is early, but because of what else is happening in December we are starting this mini-series now. Mark looks at the first of the four themes, Hope. The Jews were waiting in Hope for their promised Messiah, and are still waiting because they missed the signs pointing to the baby born in Bethlehem during the time of the ce...