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Send us Fan Mail Galatians 5 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking...

Send us Fan Mail He has risen Support the show Pastors Eric, Mark, Susan, Daniel, and other Village leaders open the Scriptures as the witness to God’s kingdom breaking into our lives. Scripture gives us more than abstract ideas. It is the Word of God, given to form us, confront us, comfort us, and teach us how to follow Jesus. Each episode invites us to listen and respond. We are learning to unde...

Send us Fan Mail Notes coming soon. The Grief and Gratitude series is based on a podcast series on the Allender Center's podcast Support the show Pastors Eric, Mark, Susan, Daniel, and other Village leaders open the Scriptures as the witness to God’s kingdom breaking into our lives. Scripture gives us more than abstract ideas. It is the Word of God, given to form us, confront us, comfort us,...

Send us Fan Mail Notes coming soon. The Grief and Gratitude series is based on a podcast series on the Allender podcast . Support the show Pastors Eric, Mark, Susan, Daniel, and other Village leaders open the Scriptures as the witness to God’s kingdom breaking into our lives. Scripture gives us more than abstract ideas. It is the Word of God, given to form us, confront us, comfort us, and teach us...

Send us Fan Mail Mark Crawford 3-27-22  The Grief and Gratitude series is based on a podcast series on the Allender podcast . Holding the Tension: You should also watch Corey and Colleen’s sermon from this morning!    Today we will talk about holding the tension between grief and gratitude: last week we talked about these two disciplines. How do we hold the tension? What does that look like? We’re...

Send us Fan Mail Grief and Gratitude: Our Story   Colleen & Corey Gilchrist  3-27-22  Prayer: Use us as instruments of your peace and that our words would be heard with kindness and mercy. Prevent the enemy from deceiving and distracting us.   Our background: We’ve been Villagers for a long time, me since 2007, Colleen longer than I. We’ve both been on the leadership team and our experiences w...

Send us Fan Mail Grief and Gratitude:  The Grief and Gratitude series is based on a podcast series on the Allender podcast . Engaging  Eric Cepin  3-20-22 We are in this series, and this is the third week. There is a movie star named Keanu Reeves who is supposed to be a nice guy. When asked where people go when they die, he responded, “What I do know is that the people they leave behind will miss...

Send us Fan Mail The Grief and Gratitude series is based on a podcast series on the Allender podcast . Eric: Grief and Gratitude are always about loss…you are actually always losing because you are moving forward. Ie: Babies don’t stay babies: this can be a loss and maybe even grief. And more intense losses of spouses, countries, friends, etc. In the world of psychology there are many processes of...

Send us Fan Mail The Cross Series (Lent, 2022) The Grief and Gratitude series is based on a podcast series on the Allender podcast . Grief and Gratitude 3-5-22 Rod Hugen In high school bible class, I was invited to pick out a life verse. I had difficulty memorizing things, so I told the teacher I was picking John 11:35, the shortest verse in the Bible, “Jesus wept.” I could memorize that! My teach...

Send us Fan Mail This is the last in the series Encounters with Jesus.   In my PG, we meditated on the feeding of the 4000 and I wondered what kind of fish they were. Ron Layman said they were Tilapia because at Christmas he wanted to have Jesus’s favorite food so he looked this up. To know this got me into the story.   My invitation is during Lent, continue to come back and read through these enc...

Send us Fan Mail Mark 10:17-31  Michael Cousineau 2-20-22 The Rich Young Ruler If you want to talk about this passage in the usual way, listen to the podcast from 2019 evening. I think it was a good sermon! I listened to and I said, “this guy is really on point!” However, today we will do things differently. Let’s go back to kindergarten…put on your imagination hat. Pick our someone you know well,...

Send us Fan Mail What does it mean to be with Jesus? What are the implications of Jesus’s compassion?  Eric’s Story: 9th grade at Rincon HS Physical Science class. There were mostly other students who were not headed to college in this class. Sam had stolen the workbook answer key. He offered it to me, but I declined. A couple of days later, the teacher found out someone had stolen the answer key...

Send us Fan Mail Support the show Pastors Eric, Mark, Susan, Daniel, and other Village leaders open the Scriptures as the witness to God’s kingdom breaking into our lives. Scripture gives us more than abstract ideas. It is the Word of God, given to form us, confront us, comfort us, and teach us how to follow Jesus. Each episode invites us to listen and respond. We are learning to understand the Bi...

Send us Fan Mail Encounters with Jesus Series #4 1-23-21 Eric Cepin Eric: This is another part of a series on encounters with Jesus to anchor our thinking about putting ourselves into the place and action of Jesus. This helps us become a disciple of Jesus. In Mark 6:12-13 Jesus sends out his disciples.  Mark 6:12 So the disciples went out, telling everyone they met to repent of their sins and turn...

Send us Fan Mail Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath 23 One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain. 24 The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?” 25 He answered, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need? 26 In the days of Abiathar th...

Send us Fan Mail Jesus Calls Levi and Eats With Sinners 13 Once again Jesus went out beside the lake. A large crowd came to him, and he began to teach them. 14 As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” Jesus told him, and Levi got up and followed him. 15 While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eati...

Send us Fan Mail The Paralytic Man Mark 9:1-8 Encounters with Jesus series (#1) 1-2-22 Rod Hugen A friend of his who is a prayer warrior named Harriet contracted COVID and passed away. Her ongoing wish was that Rod would get a haircut and in her honor, he did! Let’s pray: Help us be like Harriet in that we bring others life through you. As I open your word and see your beauty, thank you for the gi...

Send us Fan Mail Support the show Pastors Eric, Mark, Susan, Daniel, and other Village leaders open the Scriptures as the witness to God’s kingdom breaking into our lives. Scripture gives us more than abstract ideas. It is the Word of God, given to form us, confront us, comfort us, and teach us how to follow Jesus. Each episode invites us to listen and respond. We are learning to understand the Bi...

Send us Fan Mail Support the show Pastors Eric, Mark, Susan, Daniel, and other Village leaders open the Scriptures as the witness to God’s kingdom breaking into our lives. Scripture gives us more than abstract ideas. It is the Word of God, given to form us, confront us, comfort us, and teach us how to follow Jesus. Each episode invites us to listen and respond. We are learning to understand the Bi...

Send us Fan Mail Support the show Pastors Eric, Mark, Susan, Daniel, and other Village leaders open the Scriptures as the witness to God’s kingdom breaking into our lives. Scripture gives us more than abstract ideas. It is the Word of God, given to form us, confront us, comfort us, and teach us how to follow Jesus. Each episode invites us to listen and respond. We are learning to understand the Bi...

Send us Fan Mail (NIV) 1Timotyh 6 All who are under the yoke of slavery should consider their masters worthy of full respect, so that God’s name and our teaching may not be slandered. 2 Those who have believing masters should not show them disrespect just because they are fellow believers. Instead, they should serve them even better because their masters are dear to them as fellow believers and ar...

Send us Fan Mail (NIV) 1Timotyh 6 All who are under the yoke of slavery should consider their masters worthy of full respect, so that God’s name and our teaching may not be slandered. 2 Those who have believing masters should not show them disrespect just because they are fellow believers. Instead, they should serve them even better because their masters are dear to them as fellow believers and ar...

Send us Fan Mail Support the show Pastors Eric, Mark, Susan, Daniel, and other Village leaders open the Scriptures as the witness to God’s kingdom breaking into our lives. Scripture gives us more than abstract ideas. It is the Word of God, given to form us, confront us, comfort us, and teach us how to follow Jesus. Each episode invites us to listen and respond. We are learning to understand the Bi...

Send us Fan Mail Support the show Pastors Eric, Mark, Susan, Daniel, and other Village leaders open the Scriptures as the witness to God’s kingdom breaking into our lives. Scripture gives us more than abstract ideas. It is the Word of God, given to form us, confront us, comfort us, and teach us how to follow Jesus. Each episode invites us to listen and respond. We are learning to understand the Bi...

Send us Fan Mail Support the show Pastors Eric, Mark, Susan, Daniel, and other Village leaders open the Scriptures as the witness to God’s kingdom breaking into our lives. Scripture gives us more than abstract ideas. It is the Word of God, given to form us, confront us, comfort us, and teach us how to follow Jesus. Each episode invites us to listen and respond. We are learning to understand the Bi...