The Vineyard Church Of Central Illinois

Growth can be hard, painful, and confusing; sometimes we even stop growing. Mike continues our series, "Fresh" as he talks about how to experience fresh growth in every season of our lives, despite our challenges and circumstances.

Each of us is different, with our unique gifts. Continuing our series, "Fresh" Curtis Plank shares how we can all use our individual talents together as one family to be the body of Christ.

Some of us have let our new hearts become hard or burdened with the weeds of worry. As Daniel continues our series, "Fresh" he explores how we can guard against this by letting Jesus garden our hearts.

Unfortunately, there is a lot of hopelessness around us; in our lives, in the lives of those we love, & in the world. As Julie continues our series, "Fresh" she explores how we receive hope and how we can give it away.

Samuel opens up our new series “Fresh” and compares our lives to the altar in the story of Elijah. He explains that when we make our lives an altar for the Father’s fire, whatever we put on the altar is consumed. All of it. It is all for His glory.

Putty Putman

Dianne explains how God’s love is unconditional and yet it is also correctional. We can learn to submit to His life-giving discipline. As Hebrews 12:11 says “Now all discipline seems to be more pain than pleasure at the time, yet later it will produce a transformation of character, bringing a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who yield to it.” The Heavenly Father parents us through our r...

After begging to be healed of condition that prevented her from getting pregnant, Julie realized that something had to change in her faith, even though it wasn’t the change she expected. Through this revelation she realized her relationship with Jesus became a friendship instead of a formula.

How can we have compassion for the things that we aren't excited about? Jim explains how a simple call to Jesus can make way for a powerful shift in our heart posture.

A life without contempt and full of compassion is only possible through our union with Jesus. This union releases Jesus' love, mercy and healing to others.

Clay shares how we can hit a ceiling in our relationship with Christ when we live in the guilt and the shame that come as a result of striving. Jesus wants intimacy with us, not imitation of Him! He wants participation, not performance. He just wants us.

Sometimes it can feel like we are constantly living in the tension of how to truly live as a new creation. Mike explains that when we allow God to wreck our old identity as sinners, Holy Spirit can empower us to live a life as a joyful saint.

What does it mean for sin to have no claim on your life? Jamie shares how Jesus in us can help us declare our victory to the world because we are free in Him.

Hinderances like religion and sometimes even the Bible, can harm us and become a roadblock to our relationship with Jesus. But there's good news, Holy Spirit is our helper. This journey of transformation takes time and trust. Our next step is to embrace the Spirit, who lives inside you, to overcome these hinderances. We want to be wrecked for God and wrecked for good.

As we enter our new series ‘Wrecked For God’ inspired by Dianne Leman’s book, she unpacks what prompted her to write this book. She shares that as she was seeking the secret to the Christian life, she found that we not only have a relationship with God, but He is alive in us. We can’t reach transformation by self-effort and trying harder - it takes time and trust and a leap of faith. As we move fo...

Julie Yoder

We wrapped up our series on Revelation with a Q&A with Dianne Leman, Clay Harrington, Putty Putman, and Daniel Goulet answering your questions about the spiritual realm and spiritual beings, how to interpret Revelation, how to allow Revelation to influence how we approach tension-filled issues like racism in America.

So often we can be consumed with the problem, pain and panic of our lives that we can slip into the me-centered mindset where God is calling us back to a Him-centered worship. In Revelation, John was looking for a strong lion, but what he saw was a slaughtered lamb. As Christians we can often get confused and want God to make a difference like a roaring lion. Clay explains that just like Jesus we...

We often find ourselves stuck in the law of the Old Testament. We have failed to fully comprehend the New Covenant. We forget that grace is free but instead settle for just “getting by”. We end up living with some law and some grace, leaving us to lead a lukewarm life. Ultimately, grace is the way to enjoy Jesus to the fullest.

We can find ourselves seeking significance from what we do and fall into the mentality of doing things out of works and not in the knowledge that we are surrounded by God’s grace. In these situations our motives matter. Why do we do what we do and where is that coming from? We can lose touch of the fact that Jesus knows us in way that we can’t even comprehend. Jesus doesn’t just have the answer, H...

Putty unpacks how the letters to the seven churches in Revelation can reflect our relationship with God. Putty explains that God gently shows us areas in our lives that we are in bondage, but He also shows us that we are not alone in the fight. God has set us free and given us His authority. He will bring us back to Himself and bring us from bondage back into the authority He has given us.

When looking more closely at the book of Revelation, we can see that there is a lot to gleam from its pages. It can show us a fuller picture of Jesus and the freedom He can bring, specifically when we encounter problems in our day to day lives. While looking through the letters written to the seven churches in Asia, we catch onto a pattern that we can live by. Jesus shows us a picture of who He is...

Dianne Leman (Co-founding Pastor of The Vineyard Church of Central Illinois) sits down with host Daniel Goulet (Communications Pastor) to address questions and concerns regarding the Book of Revelation, theological positions like the Rapture, conspiracy theories, the end times, and more!

People often approach the book of Revelation in fear and are often trying to expose the anti-christ rather than encounter the Living Christ. Revelation can be confusing and it can be difficult to grasp everything happening within its pages. The good news is that we can ask Holy Spirit to give us “ears to hear,” and He will indeed unveil Jesus Christ while we navigate through the complexities of th...

We love others because He first loved us, and God’s love will fuel us in everyday encounters. Any discussions that pull us away for loving like Christ are meaningless distractions. The Holy Spirit will empower us to press in for more.