Grace Vineyard Purley

Mark continues the series on the Character of God looking at God is Love. Many people who do not know God struggle with this concept that God is love, because of events they have experienced or world events that they have witnessed or read about, clouding their understanding of a loving God. Love is who God is, it is His identity. It always has been and always will be. Even when nothing existed th...

Following on from Mark Stoneham's message last week about God 'The Speaking One', Mark and Gill tag-team teach on Hearing From God, teaching 4 different ways that God speaks to us, and then the congregation get to workshop and practice what they have just been taught. The audio has been edited to remove the times when the congregation was workshopping what they had just been taught. Some of the ch...

Continuing the series, The Character of God, Mark Stoneham shares that the Bible clearly teaches that God delights to speak to and communicate with His people. Therefore we should expect Him to speak to us in a variety of ways and to learn to hear His voice.

Gill acknowledges James Jackson for his input into this message. Gill continues the series, The Character of God, looking at Psalm 103 as the frame for the reasons why and how we are to worship God.

Mark continues the series on The Character of God, looking at another two aspects of God. God is Spirit, he has no bodily form in the way that we have a bodily form in which our spirits are contained, while we are alive on the earth. God is not constrained by a bodily form, this is why He can be everywhere at the same time, and it is why the Israelites were told not to make idols. Darkness cannot...

Mark continues the series on The Character of God by looking at two topics of God being Incomparable, and God being Unknowable yet Knowable. How do you normally describe something to someone, by comparing it to something that they would be familiar with or something that is similar to what you are describing, but you can't do that with God. Likewise, we cannot know God in his fullness because He i...

Ray Cross continues the series on The Character of God as he takes through three truths about God: 1. God Exists; 2. "In the Beginning, God" and 3. God the Creator. God existed before creation and He exists outside of time and space and He is the one who created the heavens and the earth.

Gill begins her message with this statement, "Many of us believe that God’s love is conditional and, depending on our behaviour, God either loves us or doesn’t. He loves us when we’re good and doesn’t love us when we sin. That is a false narrative." She takes us through the Parable of the Prodigal Son, showing us just how false this narrative is.

When you hear the word, Father, what comes to mind? We all have different pictures in our minds, different thoughts in our heads, each one influenced by what our fathers were or are like. For some of us, it would be a happy thought or picture, a special time of you and your dad together, or even of your dad together with you and your siblings. Happy times, happy thoughts. But not everybody was for...

Christmas might be over, but the Christmas story is not, it never is. Mark looks at the rest of the Christmas story where the Magi come looking for Jesus and when they find him they give him gifts. This is one of the reasons we give gifts at Christmas. God has given us the gift of the Holy Spirit, who, when we invite him into our lives gives us gifts that we are to give away. What gifts do you hav...

The National Directors of the Vineyard Churches UK & Ireland invited the senior pastors to join them in 21 days of prayer and fasting in the month of January, fasting Mondays to Fridays. We have extended the invitation to the whole church. Mark teaches on fasting, looking at 1. Are we still called to fast? 2. Who is called to fast? 3. When do we fast? 4. How do we fast? 5. Why do we fast? He then...

Our Carols service should have been in person in the building, but due to the current situation, it was decided to do it on Zoom. Mark Visser looks at the 4th week of Advent looking at Joy. The shepherds were chosen to find the Christ child, why?

Mark Stoneham looks at the third topic of Advent - Love. He poses the question, "What is Love?" and then shows us who is Love and how we are to love.

Ray takes us along the journey that God had planned out centuries before the birth of Christ. He shows us how God had it all prepared for the Messiah to be born in Bethlehem.

Gill begins the Advent series posing a question and then leading us into it. This time of the year shapes our lives as hope is often a part of our lives as we look forward to something. What do we hope for? Sometimes there’s a chance element to our hope; I hope I get that job, I hope I pass my exams, I hope I get that Christmas present I’ve been wanting, even, I hope I win the lottery! The Bible l...

Gill transitions us from Transformation to Advent. The picture of the first Christmas has a lot of pieces that have to come together to fulfill the prophecies of Christ, but there is a missing piece, what is it. or who is it?

Mark concludes the series on Transformation by proposing that love is a choice, it is not a feeling. Falling in love means we can also fall out of love. Choosing to love is what God did for man and what He expects of us. Mark shares how he did not fall in love with his wife but that he chose to love his wife, and chooses every day to love her.

Mark Stoneham presents the financial review of Grace Vineyard to the church and then speaks about giving that pleases God looking at how we are to give, why do we give and what our attitude to giving should be.

Gill continues the series on Transformation and likens our lives to a jigsaw puzzle where we do not have the picture of the finished product. Do we need it, or do we trust God to put our lives together in the way He has planned?

Oliver continues the Transformation series. Transformation is at the core of the Church's mission - we are called to be witnesses to who Jesus is and one of the ways for us to do this is to share with people who we were before, who we are now and what a difference Jesus has made to our lives.

Mark Visser continues the Transformation series. Too many people expect instant transformation when they meet Jesus Christ and invite Him to become their Lord and Saviour. Transformation takes time, we live in an instant society where we expect everything to do instantly available or ready, but spiritual transformation takes time especially as God is transforming us for significance.

Gill poses the question and then leads us into an understanding of God's goal for your life. Do you long to hear Jesus’ voice? Do you want to really know Him, to experience His love so profoundly that He transforms your life? If we truly want to follow Jesus, we must follow Him the way He follows the Father. God has a goal for your life! Do you know what it is?

God is at work in our lives all the time. He wants to transform us into the person He intended us to be. He wants His church to be the church He intended it to be and He has been busy transforming it since the early years of the church.

Gill continues the Transformation series looking at Martha and Mary encountering Jesus after Lazarus had died. She shares a story about the painting, The Tears of Christ by Makoto Fujimura

Mark Stoneham takes us through what worshipping God is all about. It is not just about the songs we sing. There is a whole lot more to Worship than what most of us think. We had some technology issues on Sunday, so the message is a hybrid one.