Grace Vineyard Purley

Gill Visser continues the series on The Kingdom, encouraging us to do what Jesus tells - Seek First the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God is currently centred in heaven. The Bible also calls it the Kingdom of heaven. Jesus started teaching about the Kingdom the moment He began His ministry.

Mark Visser continues the series on The Kingdom. God has called us to be a Kingdom of Priests, and it has been the call on the people of God since the beginning of time, but we have not always got it right. The role of a priest is to come into the presence of God, to be in the presence of God, to hear from God and to speak to God.

Andy Belsey continues the sermon series on The Kingdom. Andy looks at the culture of the modern world where so much is changing and it is happening so fast, where technology dominates our lives and has such an influence on our every day life. The Kingdom of God is different, as disciples of Christ we are called to live a Counter Cultural lifestyle.

Having celebrated the dedication of Isaac, Mark Visser teaches on why we do dedications and not infant baptisms or christenings. He draws from Scripture, both Old and New Testaments to show where we see a precedent for dedicating our children to the Lord.

Mark Visser continues the series on The Kingdom. When God tells Moses to go back to Egypt and tell Pharaoh to let God's people, the Israelites, go so they can worship God outside of Egypt. Moses said to God, “When I say to the people of Israel, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?” He is effectively saying to God what is your...

Mark Visser continues the series on The Kingdom, looking at how we see The Kingdom is revealed in the Old Testament. The Exodus story is the account of Israel, the nation that God chose out of all the nations of the world to be His people, and their release from slavery in Egypt. In the Exodus story we see a clash of two kingdoms, the Israelites and the Egyptians. The power of God against the powe...

Mark Visser continues the series on The Kingdom, sharing a personal testimony, and then he speaks about the three kingdoms over which God rules and reigns, the kingdom of power, the kingdom of grace, and the kingdom of glory.

Mark Visser continues the series on The Kingdom. There are two kingdoms at war with one another, the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of Satan. As disciples of Jesus Christ, we are involved in spiritual warfare, and in any warfare, one of the most important things to know is to know your enemy. Ask any military commander about this, and he or she will tell you, it is true. The more you know about yo...

Last Friday and Saturday 14 people from Grace Vineyard were part of Team Jackie, a team of 40 people working alongside Jackie Pullinger at a conference for the CofE diocese of Guildford. The conference was called, Everyone Has, Everyone Can, based on 1 Corinthians 14:26. The 25 vicars of the diocese were invited to bring their worship leader and 10 more people from their church to be trained and e...

Mark Visser begins the new series on The Kingdom. When Satan offered Jesus “all the kingdoms of the world and their splendour”, in exchange for Jesus bowing before him and worshipping him, Jesus never challenged the devil on his authority to make that offer, because He knew the offer was valid, rather He quoted scripture telling the devil who we are to worship. How did Satan come to have this auth...

Mark Visser kicks off the New Year with a message of where God is taking us. He says, "I believe God is taking us into A New Season, building on the foundations that have been laid in the life of Grace Vineyard these past years, God is taking us into a new season as a church. I believe God is a God of seasons, not just months and years. We might be at the beginning of a new year, 2023, but we are...

Gill delivers the final Advent message at our Christmas Carols service speaking on Hope. We hope for love, joy and peace because this is what Christmas is all about. We can get so distracted with all the preparations and parties and presents but, underneath all that, some people are struggling with how to afford it all, worrying about the energy crisis, or dealing with ill health, loneliness and l...

Mark Stoneham speaks on Love for this third week of Advent. What are the things that we love, and what are the things that God loves? God loves us so much that He sent His son Jesus to this world, Jesus came as a baby, and that is the focus of Christmas, and so often that is the only way that people see Jesus, the baby in the manger, but Jesus came to show what love is, He lives a sinless life, su...

Mark Visser speaks on the second Sunday of Advent, looking at Joy. The angel came declaring he had good news of great joy for all people. The good news of Jesus Christ is to bring great joy to all people. Jesus came into the world to bring liberty from sin and death and eternal life to all people. This is the Good News of Jesus Christ.

Gill brings the message on this first Sunday of Advent looking at Peace. Advent means coming and we remember the coming of Jesus into this world; 3 meanings of coming that we, as Christians, celebrate at Advent 1st – coming of Jesus about 2000 years ago – he came as a babe to live as a man and die for us. 2nd – Jesus comes into our lives when we are born again – accept Him as Lord and Saviour. Can...

Mark Visser concludes the two-part mini-series on The Great Commandment, by looking at The Second Commandment. This Second Commandment is interesting, on initial reading it seems like a fairly simple thing, love your neighbour, and that is where most people tend to stop. Mark explains who Your Neighbour is and then speaks about Love Yourself, the part many people skip in this commandment or strugg...

Mark Visser begins a two-part mini-series looking at The Great Commandment. God has commissioned us to go into all the world and make disciples of all peoples, that is the Great Commission that Jesus has given to us, but why do we do it? That is the important questions to ask and answer. This is what Mark does by looking at The Great Commandment.

Following our time of going out on the streets last week, Andy comes back to the Parables of Jesus. Andy puts into context the parable of The Great Feast and explains how invitations to a feast worked at that time. He then digs into what Jesus was saying to the Pharisees through this parable. He then looks at the cost of following Jesus found in the short parables following The Great Feast

Being the 5th Sunday of the month and the day before Halloween we did something different. We went out on the streets of Purley with gift bags to bless the people we encountered on the streets. To prepare for this, on Saturday morning we did something different in our monthly prayer breakfast. We had breakfast together, had a brief time of prayer, and then we went Prayer Walking the streets of Pur...

Two weeks ago Bob and Yvonne shared the pulpit and taught us on Spiritual Warfare and Spiritual Gifts, today they lead us in a Spiritual Gifts Workshop. There is a bit of teaching and grounding by Bob before emphasising the Gift of Tongues, then inviting people to begin to practice using Spiritual Gifts. Yvonne took a group who wanted the gift of tongues off to one side to help facilitate the rele...

Andy based this sermon on a message from Jay Pathak at the VCUKI Leaders Gathering a few years ago. Andy gives us the framework of how to speak about Jesus in our everyday lives without being weird or religious. 1. Focus On Jesus. 2. Listen To People And Connect With Them As Deeply As Possible. 3. Share Stories Helped By The Holy Spirit 4. Never Argue! 5. Demonstrate What It’s Like To Follow Jesus...

Yvonne & Robert (Bob) Dover spent many years in the Far East under the leadership of a very gifted leader who taught them much about Spiritual Warfare and how and when to use the Spiritual Gifts that we, as believers, have been given. They share this wisdom and understanding with us in this message.

Mark and Gill Visser share the platform as they look at the Vision and Mission statements that God gave them when they took on the leadership of the church. They speak about what God has been saying to Grace Vineyard for the past year and at the direction that God is leading them along, looking at the prophetic words and pictures that have come through during the monthly corporate prayer meetings...

Mark Visser takes us through what is often considered the most difficult parable to understand. Once you understand the cultural context of the parable, it is easier to understand. On the surface, it looks like the master praises his manager, whom he has just fired, for cheating out of his wealth. Find out why the master praises the shrewd manager as you listen to this talk.

On the eve of the Queen's funeral, what do you speak on? Do you speak about her unwavering service and her being welcomed into heaven with the words, "Well done, good and faithful servant"? That was the dilema Mark Visser faced in preparing this sermon. He chose to look at the Parable of the Lost Son, but focus on the father and his character traits and compare them to the characteristics of Fathe...