Vancouver Eastside Vineyard Church

Teaching by Gordie, Embalmed Embodiment (John 12.1-11), Oct 31, 2021, part of embodiment series. John 12:1-11 (NIVUK) 1 Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. 2 Here a dinner was given in Jesus’ honour. Martha served, while Lazarus was among those reclining at the table with him. 3 Then Mary took about...

Teaching by Gordie, Embodiment & Resurrection (John 11.38-57), Oct 24, 2021, part of embodiment series John 11.38-57 (NIVUK) 38  Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance. 39  ‘Take away the stone,’ he said. ‘But, Lord,’ said Martha, the sister of the dead man, ‘by this time there is a bad odour, for he has been there four da...

Teaching with Flo & Joanna, “Embodied Grief” (John 11.17-37), Oct 17, 2021, part of embodiment series. John 11.17-37 (NIVUK) 17  On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. 18  Now Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem, 19  and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them in the loss of their brother. 20  When Marth...

Teaching with Joanna & Flo (John 11.1-16), Oct 10, 2021, part of embodiment series. John 11.1-16 (NIVUK) 1 Now a man named Lazarus was ill. He was from Bethany, the village of  Mary and her sister Martha. 2 (This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay ill, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.) 3 So the sisters sent word to Jesus, ‘L...

VEV Intergenerational Service, Oct 3, 2021

Teaching by Tae, “The True Shepherd” (John 10.1–18), Sept 26, 2021, part of embodiment series. 0:00 - John 10.1-18 reading. 3:21 - Teaching, "The True Shepherd" by Tae. John 10.1-18 (NIVUK) 10:1 ‘Very truly I tell you Pharisees, anyone who does not enter the  sheepfold by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a  robber. 2 The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd...

Teaching by Gordie, “Embodiment: Who’s In and Who’s Out?” (John 9.13–41), Sept 19, 2021, part of embodiment series. Reflection song link: Jireh (by Elevation Worship & Maverick City) https://youtu.be/mC-zw0zCCtg John 9.13-41 (NIVUK) 13 They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind. 14 Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened the man’s eyes was a Sabbath. 15 Therefore t...

Teaching by Gordie, “Embodiment: The Miracle and the Mess” (John 9.1-12), Sept 12, 2021, part of embodiment series. Link to song mentioned, " He Has Time " (Common Hymnal, Jamie MacDonald). John 9.1-12 (NIVUK) 9:1 As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, ‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?’ 3 ‘Neither this man nor h...

Teaching by Sandra, John 8.48-59, Sept 5, 2021, part of embodiment series. John 8.48-59 (NIVUK) 48 The Jews answered him, ‘Aren’t we right in saying that you are a Samaritan and demon-possessed?’ 49 ‘I am not possessed by a demon,’ said Jesus, ‘but I honour my Father and you dishonour me. 50 I am not seeking glory for myself; but there is one who seeks it, and he is t...

Teaching by Tae, John 8.37-47, Aug 29, 2021, part of embodiment series.  John 8.37-47 (NIVUK) 37 I know you are Abraham’s descendants. Yet you are looking for a way  to kill me, because you have no room for my word. 38 I am telling you  what I have seen in the Father’s presence, and you are doing what you  have heard from your father.’ 39 ‘Abraham is our father,’ they answered....

Teaching by Dean, “The Misunderstood Jesus” (John 8.21–29), Aug 15, 2021, part of embodiment series. John 8.21-29 (NIVUK) 21 Once more Jesus said to them, ‘I am going away, and you will look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I go, you cannot come.’ 22 This made the Jews ask, ‘Will he kill himself? Is that why he says, “Where I go, you cannot come”?’ 23 But he continued, ‘You are from bel...

Teaching by Dawn, John 8.12-20, Aug 8, 2021, part of embodiment series. John 8.12-20 (NIVUK) 12  When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, ‘I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.’ 13  The Pharisees challenged him, ‘Here you are, appearing as your own witness; your testimony is not valid.’ 14  Jesus answ...

Teaching by Sandra (John 7.45-53), July 25, 2021, part of embodiment series. Click for link to “This Is Me” video clip, https://youtu.be/XLFEvHWD_NE John 7.45-53 (NIVUK) 45 Finally the temple guards went back to the chief priests and the Pharisees, who asked them, ‘Why didn’t you bring him in?’ 46 ‘No one ever spoke the way this man does,’ the guards replied. 47 ‘You mean he has deceived you also?...

Sharing & Reflection by Frances & Gordie, July 18, 2021. John 7.37-39 (NIVUK) 37 On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, ‘Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.’ 39 By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to...

Teaching by Gordie, July 11, 2021. 1 Corinthians 12.12-14, 21-26 (NIVUK) 12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For we were all baptised by one Spirit so as to form one body – whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free – and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. 14 And so the body is not made up of one part but of many. 21 Th...

Lectio Divina with Sandra, July 4, 2021. Lectio Divina on Van Gogh quote: ‘How much good it does a person if one is in a gloomy mood to walk on the empty beach and look into the grey-green sea with the long white lines of the waves. Yet if one has a need for something great, something infinite, something in which one can see God, one needn't look far. I thought I saw something – deeper, more infin...

Teaching by Gordie, “To Whom Shall We Go?”,  John 6.60-71 , June 27, 2021, part of embodiment series on the book of John. John 6.60-71 (NIVUK) 60  On hearing it, many of his disciples said, ‘This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?’ 61  Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, ‘Does this offend you?  62  Then what if you see the Son o...

Teaching by Gordie, John 6.36-59 , June 20, 2021, part of embodiment series on the book of John. John 6.36-59 (NIVUK) 36  But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. 37  All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. 38  For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. 39&...

Teaching by Flo, John 6.25-35 , June 13, 2021, part of embodiment series on the book of John. 25  When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, ‘Rabbi, when did you get here?’ 26  Jesus answered, ‘Very truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw the signs I performed but because you ate the loaves and had your fill. 27  Do not work for food tha...

Teaching by Gordie, "Is the Universe Friendly?", John 6.16-24, June 6, 2021, part of embodiment series. John 6:16-24 (NIVUK) 16 When evening came, his disciples went down to the lake, 17 where they got into a boat and set off across the lake for Capernaum. By now it was dark, and Jesus had not yet joined them. 18 A strong wind was blowing and the waters grew rough. 19...

May 30, Teaching by Gordie, "What Glass Are You Wearing?", part of embodiment series. John 6:1-15 (NIVUK) 1  Some time after this, Jesus crossed to the far shore of the Sea of Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias), 2  and a great crowd of people followed him because they saw the signs he had performed by healing those who were ill. 3  Then Jesus went up on a mountainside and sat do...

Teaching by Nathan, “Testify!” John 5:31-47 (NIVUK) , May 16, 2021, part of embodied series on the book of John. 31  ‘If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true. 32  There is another who testifies in my favour, and I know that his testimony about me is true. 33  ‘You have sent to John and he has testified to the truth. 34  Not that I accept human testimony; but I menti...

Teaching by Gordie, “‘Christ’ Is Not Jesus’ Last Name!” ( John 5:16-30 NIVUK ), May 9, 2021, part of embodied series on the book of John. 16  So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him.  17  In his defence Jesus said to them, ‘My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.’  18  For this...

Teaching by Gordie, John 5:1-15 , May 2, 2021, part of embodied series on the book of John. John 5:1-15 (NIVUK) 5  Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. 2  Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3  Here a great number of disabled people used t...

Teaching by Sandra, John 4:43-54 (NIVUK), Apr 25, 2021, part of embodied series on the book of John. John 4:43-54 (NIVUK) 43  After the two days he left for Galilee. 44  (Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honour in his own country.) 45  When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him. They had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the Passover Festiv...