The Vine Austin

RUTH - Chapter 1 by The Vine; a church in Austin, TX

To finish the LIVE A BETTER STORY series, The Vine welcomed our friends from Africa New Life. Pastor Charles shares a message about the two hands of the Gospel (how Jesus' resolution continues to unfold). This message was followed up by a moving version of "Forever" led by a young woman who has graduated from this ministry in Rwanda. www.thevineaustin.org

The ups and downs of a story lead us to a resolution. In this message, Ted shares how Jesus' resurrection changes everything. www.thevineaustin.org

We are drawn to stories of a hero who can save us. In this message, Mark shares about the hero in God's Larger Story and how we can experience true greatness. www.thevineaustin.org

This fourth week in the LIVE A BETTER STORY series, we are considering the narrative element called THE CRISIS. In particular, we are looking at Elijah's moment of crisis and how God showed up for him. 1 Kings 19 www.thevineaustin.org

This is the third week in the series, LIVE A BETTER STORY. This message is on the importance of conflict in the life of a story... and a person. www.thevineaustin.org

Guest and community member, Stefanie Ragsdale, shares on the role of the protagonist in God's Story as she considers the life of Paul and her own story. Acts 9:1-19 www.thevineaustin.org

Live A Better Story is a 7 week series. In this week, we will discuss the nature of the exposition and how Genesis 1-3 teaches us our identity, purpose, and genesis. www.thevineaustin.org

As The Vine gets ready to launch into the Fall, this message reminds us why the Church exists. www.thevineaustin.org

This guardrail reminds us that an aspect of following Jesus is meeting people on their turf, on their terms. www.thevineaustin.org

Church community member, Ron Ragsdale, teaches on the next guardrail- "God loves a teachable spirit." www.thevineaustin.org

The third guardrail in our series deals with how we hope to deal with conflict resolution. "We will keep short, direct accounts of grace." MATTHEW 7:1-5 www.thevineaustin.org

The second guardrail for our community is this statement- "It is a sin to bore people with the Gospel." Listen to Mark share how Jesus' first miracle, turning water into wine, teaches us a deeper truth about the Gospel. John 2:1-11 www.thevineaustin.org

This is our first sermon in a series called GUARDRAILS. Guardrails are a set of statements that describe the culture and values The Vine has. In this first sermon, Mark shares on the first guardrail- "There is no better place to plant your life than in God's Word." www.thevineaustin.org

Guest preacher, Zach Lambert, closes out our series on the parables with this study of Luke 7:36-50. This message combines the danger of judgement, the power of forgiveness, and Jesus' Kingdom of grace. www.thevineaustin.org

MORAL OF THE STORY- Two Debtors by The Vine; a church in Austin, TX

In this sermon, we are lead by guest preacher, Alex Rahill. Alex is the Director of Church Planting for the ECC. He shares a great follow up on the Parable of the Mustard Seeds with this commentary on the Feeding of the 5,000. Matthew 14:13-21 www.thevineaustin.org

In this sermon on Jesus' parables, Mark talks about the parables of the mustard seeds and the yeast. Also in this sermon, Mark is joined by Brooke Crowder to speak of the issue of child sex trafficking and a ministry called The Refuge. Matthew 13:31-35 www.thevineaustin.org

This is the second week in our parables series, Moral of the Story. We are learning about the Parable of the Good Samaritan. Andrew Fike is our guest preacher this evening. Andrew is a member of our community and works at a local non-profit organization. www.thevineaustin.org

This is the first week in our series on Jesus' parables called MORAL OF THE STORY. In this first sermon, Mark shares about the Parable of the 10 Bridesmaids. Matthew 25:1-13 www.thevineaustin.org

This is the fourth and final week in our AT THE MOVIES series. This Sunday, we discuss THE BLACK PANTHER. Due to copyright law, we could not share the audio from the movie. www.thevineaustin.org

At the Movies is a summer sermon series where we look at popular movies to see the messages of goodness, beauty and meaning that point to the Gospel. In this 3rd message, Ted Thulin preaches on the movie COCO and our desire to be remembered.

This is the second sermon in our AT THE MOVIES series. This week, we are looking at Darkest Hour, a biopic on Winston Churchill's first 3 weeks in office during WWII. www.thevineaustin.org

This is the first week of our June series, AT THE MOVIES. In this sermon, Mark takes a look at the movie, The Greatest Showman. www.thevineaustin.org

This is the fourth and final week in our Philippians series, "Discovering Joy." In this sermon, Cole Ellerbrock shares on Paul's secret to contentment. www.thevineaustin.org