Lagan Valley Vineyard

Lauren Jackson continues our series Grace & Peace. We've included some discussion questions for you to reflect on as a response to this teaching. Waiting, enduring delays, disappointments and discouragements without giving up or backing down is the opportunity for our faith to expand to faithfulness. It is impossible to grow in faithfulness if everything is instant and every prayer answered im...

Stuart Bothwell kicks off our teaching for 2022: - Stu shares a grid which can help us find our bearings and direction as we follow Jesus together.

Stuart Bothwell shares with us on Boxing Day 2021. We've included some discussion questions for you to reflect on as a response to this teaching. Q U E S T I O N  O N E  When in your own life story can you recall God being faithful? Take a moment and ask God to bring to your memory times of His faithfulness. Make a list and go back to it as you need a reminder! (If you find this hard to...

Stuart Bothwell continues our advent series. We've included some discussion questions for you to reflect on as a response to this teaching. Q U E S T I O N  O N E  Advent is a season of waiting, something we don't like to do. Oftentimes we can distract ourselves away from waiting or never bring our longings to God in honest prayer.  What are you waiting for?  Take time in the p...

Stuart Bothwell continues our Advent Series. We've included some discussion questions for you to reflect on as a response to this teaching. Q U E S T I O N  O N E  How do you define joy? Q U E S T I O N  T W O On Sunday, Stu talked about us living in the time of "no room." Does that rushed, hurried, preoccupied feeling resonate with you? Q U E S T I O N  T H R E E How can you m...

Chris McNaught continues our Advent Series. We've included some discussion questions for you to reflect on as a response to this teaching. Q U E S T I O N  O N E   How do you reflect on the last 12 months and where do you see a need for peace, both in your life and the world around us? Q U E S T I O N  T W O Peace played out in the world around us is focused on the absence of e...

Stuart Bothwell kicks off our Advent Series. We've included some discussion questions for you to reflect on as a response to this teaching. Q U E S T I O N  O N E   It's easy to rush ahead and begin celebrating Christmas before the waiting of advent. How can you and your family slow down and settle into a few weeks of practicing advent to open yourself up to a sense of expectation a...

Our dear friend Michelle Scott from Vineyard Church Dungannon teaches on what it means to be "Open-Broken-Hearted" like Jesus. We've included some discussion questions for you to reflect on as a response to this teaching. Q U E S T I O N  O N E  Consider the feelings of Jesus and the others in this passage, remembering that Jesus is as fully human (while still fully God) as the others ar...

Yvette Wilkinson our compassion pastor shares how we can get involved this Christmas as we partner with agencies in the Lagan Valley area who provide crucial social care and support to families in our communities. We've included some discussion questions for you to reflect on as a response to this teaching. Q U E S T I O N  O N E  What are some ways you and your family can get involved i...

Stu Bothwell finishes our 1 John series - Love Alive. We've included some discussion questions for you to reflect on as a response to this teaching. Q U E S T I O N  O N E  What has been your main takeaway from the 'Love Alive' series? Q U E S T I O N  T W O Do you find yourself at times narrowing down Jesus' desire for us by forgetting to see that others are loved by Jesus, just as...

Stuart Bothwell continues our series - Love Alive. We've included some discussion questions for you to reflect on as a response to this teaching. Q U E S T I O N  O N E  Do you feel the temptation to try to connect with God and by-pass others as you do it? Why may that be? Q U E S T I O N  T W O  In 1 John, we see him reminding us of our core identity as children of God, the be...

Stu Bothwell continues our 1 John series - Love Alive. We've included some discussion questions for you to reflect on as a response to this teaching. Q U E S T I O N  O N E  On Sunday, Stu highlighted how through individualism we have moved from living as a 'We' to living as an 'I'. Do you agree? If so, what everyday practices pull you towards individualism? Q U E S T I O N  T W O W...

Stu continues our series on John 1 - Love Alive. We've included some discussion questions for you to reflect on as a response to this teaching. Q U E S T I O N  O N E  Do fight the temptation to hold to a dream image of the 'perfect church'? Q U E S T I O N  T W O How have you experienced God's love through someone else's tangible, proactive, and sacrificial love in the past? Q...

We take a break from our series on John 1 to hear from John Dickinson. John is a dear friend of ours at LVV and he is Minister Emeritus at Carnmoney Church. We've included some discussion questions for you to reflect on as a response to this teaching. Q U E S T I O N  O N E  How have you experienced loss in the past 18 months? Remember, every part of the human experience is a valid entry...

Yvette Wilkinson our Compassion Pastor shares ways we can spend local in our community and continues our series 'Love Alive.' We've included some discussion questions for you to reflect on as a response to this teaching. Q U E S T I O N  O N E  Would you describe yourself as a "disciple whom Jesus loves"? If that feels awkward, we encourage you to lean into the awkwardness and practice s...

Stuart Bothwell continues our new series Love Alive. We've included some discussion questions for you to reflect on as a response to this teaching. Q U E S T I O N  O N E  In the pilgrimage of becoming more like Jesus, at what stage would you locate yourself? Q U E S T I O N  T W O "In Jesus' life we do not just see a legacy to be admired, but a lifestyle to be imitated." Are you ac...

Stu introduces our new teaching series 'Love Alive'. We've included some discussion questions for you to reflect on as a response to this teaching.  Q U E S T I O N  O N E  How has the crisis of covid affected your life with Jesus and with others? Q U E S T I O N  T W O Could you describe yourself as a 'disciple whom Jesus loves'? If not, what is holding you back from embracing...

Andy Smith who leads Belfast City Vineyard joins us this week. Andy along with his wife Harmony set the vision and direction for BCV and lead the staff team. Together, Andy and Harmony also provide leadership for the Vineyard churches in Ireland.

Andy Masters interviews Julie Hoey. We've included some discussion questions for you to reflect on as a response to this teaching. Q U E S T I O N  O N E  How intentional are you in the way you engage with your local community? Q U E S T I O N  T W O How could you more intentionally seek to be a blessing to those in your local community? Q U E S T I O N  T H R E E Would you con...

Andy Masters continues our summer series - The Rebuild. We've included some discussion questions for you to reflect on as a response to this teaching. Q U E S T I O N  O N E What is the most valuable thing in your life? Q U E S T I O N  T W O   How can you grow in your acceptance of God’s love for you? Q U E S T I O N  T H R E E What does it look like for you to love others mor...

Stuart Bothwell continues our summer series - The Rebuild. We've included some discussion questions for you to reflect on as a response to this teaching. Q U E S T I O N  O N E  Do you feel you need to hide your vulnerabilities and weaknesses away from Jesus, like a beachball under the water? Why might that be? Q U E S T I O N  T W O When have you experienced the power of Jesus...

Dana Masters continues our summer series - The Rebuild. We've included some discussion questions for you to reflect on as a response to this teaching. Q U E S T I O N  O N E  Am I in the “good times” or am I at the wall? Q U E S T I O N  T W O What is my relationship like with Sacrifice? Q U E S T I O N  T H R E E What is my relationship like with Joy?

Emma Wilson continues our summer series - The Rebuild. We've included some discussion questions for you to reflect on as a response to this teaching. Q U E S T I O N  O N E  What areas of you life do you feel pressure to look or act a certain way or to conform to a certain type of behaviour? Take time this week to seek freedom by bringing these to Jesus in prayer. Q U E S T I O N  T...

This Sunday Lauren Jackson continued our series - The Rebuild.  We've included some discussion questions for you to reflect on as a response to this teaching. Lauren challenged us to reflect on what Pete Scarzzero refers to as God's three phases of processing grief and loss: O N E  Pay attention to pain What are you angry about? (a betrayal, a hurtful word, unanswered prayer, not being a...

Mark Wilkinson continues our summer series: The Rebuild. We've included some discussion questions for you to reflect on as a response to this teaching. Q U E S T I O N  O N E  We are all equal in value and worth (made in the image of God) but we all have different talents, gifts, abilities, and capacities. Is this something you feel you have embraced or do you sometimes expect too much f...