Vinelife Podcast

   Romans 13:1-14 18 September 2022 Often when we read in Romans 13:8, Owe no one anything, except to love each other… we think it is about not going into debt. While staying out of debt is in the Bible, that is not the point of the verse. Instead the verse is about keeping short accounts, especially with those whom we owe things like honor, respect, homage, etc. Another way of say...

   25 September 2022 Marc Dupont Ministries If you would like to support us in our ministry you can do so here: vinelife.church/give       The post 2022: Out of the Whirlwind! appeared first on VineLife Christian Church .

   Romans 12:1-21 18 September 2022 When we speak of transformation often we think in terms of moving from immoral to moral, the focus being on behavior management. And this often leads to what we call sin management, where we try to manage our image as moral, upstanding people, but fail to pursue real transformation. Whereas authentic transformation takes time (lots of it) and ever incr...

   Philippians 4:4-9 11 September 2022 When we allow worry to operate in our minds we are allowing God’s peace and joy to be stolen from us. If you would like to support us in our ministry you can do so here: vinelife.church/give       The post Worriers To Warriors appeared first on VineLife Christian Church .

   Romans 12:1-21 4 September 2022 Our entire approach to this letter has been built with the understanding that God wants us to fulfill this verse, not in our own strength, but through his provision in making us new creatures and empowering us with his Holy Spirit. With that in mind our study in Romans reaches a crescendo where we are called to action.   If you would like to support us...

   Romans 12:1-21 28 August 2022 Throughout this series we have seen how the letter to the Romans tracks through the entire scope of Biblical history from Creation to the New Creation and how God has been at work in the middle of it all, tirelessly and faithfully extending his hand to Israel and to the world, to see us come into relationship with him and to know the fullness of what he h...

   Romans 11:1-36 21 August 2022 Do you feel loved by God? I am not asking if you have accepted Christ. I am not asking you if you have accepted it mentally. I am asking if you feel the love of God for you. The truth is that the transformed life begins when we realize just what God has done, not only in Jesus, but from time eternal to demonstrate his love for us. Then we begin to relate...

   Romans 10.1-21 14 August 2022 Religion loves to use shame to manage people, and catches victims in precarious positions so that they cannot be authentic, nor can they find healing because of the need to control their image, limit their ongoing pain to privacy, and avoid public humiliation. But when we discover that the power of the gospel is not in managed behavior but in authentic tr...

   Romans 9.1-3 3 07 August 2022 Today we pick up in chapter 9 which focuses on this whole thing that God has chosen us, not that we deserved it, or that we were somehow deserving, but that he has chosen to rescue us despite having done nothing to deserve it. Not only that, but all of this works and wonders are not based on your worthiness, your performance, or your ability. Instead, all...

   Romans 8.1-39 31 July 2022 When we think of intercession we typically think of someone praying fervently for unending hours, but the actual meaning of intercession is a priestly intervention to stand between God and man, to petition God for the sake of another, while offering to take the hit for the other person in a sacrificial way. For example, what Jesus did for us on the cross is...

   Romans 8.1-39 24 July 2022 Because of the current political debates in our country, the church has found itself in the awkward place of often denying our role as stewards of the earth, or turning that stewardship into a form of political activism that best resembles works salvation. Somewhere in between these extremes is the biblical call to stewardship as both care of God’s creation...

   Romans 8.1-39 17 July 2022 Sonship is something not well understood in the church today, and often equated with gender, but sonship is all about relationship, adoption, and standing. It confers upon the son a new sense of identity and authority that is rooted in the one who confers those rights and privileges, rather than the one who is receiving them.  If you would like to suppo...

   Romans 7.1-23 10 July 2022 Have you ever wondered, how am I ever going to change? Why do I keep doing stuff that I don’t want and know better than to do? The life we want in Christ is hindered by the body, which sometimes seems to have a mind of its own. How do I reprogram the flesh so that it obeys? If you would like to support us in our ministry you can do so here: vinelife.church/g...

   Romans 6.1-23 03 July 2022 In the protestant church, things like baptism and communion, often become symbols of our spiritual reality but little more. Out of fear that someone might make them into works of salvation, or means of grace we tend to ignore that God does not do anything just for effect. Paul tells us in Romans 6 that baptism is a spiritual reality that not only proclaims o...

   Romans 5.1-21 (Part B) 26 June 2022 New Life is found in Jesus. This was something that Torah could not do because it was never the job of Torah. Torah’s job was to simply spell-out in detail what all of creation had told us in a general way (Romans 1), which is what Paul means when he says that the law makes sin abound. In other words, we abound in awareness, not that Torah increases...

   Romans 5:1-21 19 June 2022 Peace is a popular subject, but it is something few have. More often it is misunderstood as tranquility, but the moment life is disrupted they loose their peace. In a tumultuous world how does a person have peace? If you would like to support us in our ministry you can do so here: vinelife.church/give       The post Transformation: Peace appea...

   Hebrews 1:1-3, Hebrews 11:32-40, Hebrews 12:1-14 12 June 202 2 Because people are watching us, we need to watch Jesus. If you would like to support us in our ministry you can do so here: vinelife.church/give       The post Focused on Jesus appeared first on VineLife Christian Church .

   Psalm 13 Psalm 40:1-5, 9-10Psalm 73:14-21 5 June 202 2 What is Truth? How do you define that? What makes something true? What is it in your life, in our world, in our culture that you know without a shadow of doubt is true? If you would like to support us in our ministry you can do so here: vinelife.church/give       The post In Spirit And Truth appeared first on VineLi...

   Romans 4:1- 25 29 May 202 2 Typically when we discuss the wages vs gift problem in Romans 4, the focus is on how we don’t deserve heaven and have earned hell, but as we look at the reward of Abraham in Genesis 15 we see a completely different point of reference altogether that tells us of a greater reward than heaven, and a better hope than forgiveness alone; making transformati...

   Romans:3:1-31 22 May 202 2 Everyone likes to feel special, and there are a number of things that make you unique, special, and different from everybody else. At the same time there are some things that are universal to being human. We all have the same basic needs and problems regardless of our uniqueness, and the Bible explains that there is only one cure to actually fix that problem...

   Romans 2:1- 29 15 May 202 2 Many in the church are living lives that barely resemble that which we believe and yet all too often the world feels the sting of our judgement, rather than our mercy. Paul appeals to the self-assured that to be called by God is not about status, but rather an invitation to know him and be transformed by Him. If you would like to support us in our ministry...

   Romans 1:1-32 8 May 202 2 Creation tells us that God is good and noble, a lover of mankind, a lover of beauty, and creative and passionate about all he has created. It also tells us what is natural and therefore good, and what is contrary to God’s design for us and therefore not good, so that we are without excuse for not knowing him. So what does it tell us about ourselves? If you wo...

   Romans 1:1-15 1 May 202 2 In church and Western society the gospel of Jesus Christ has often been reduced to propositional statements about truth and life, but devoid of any real power to transform, becoming akin to psychological and sociological techniques for changing one’s self. But the gospel is not just ideas, philosophy, or technique. It isn’t about life improvement. It is a tot...

   Galatians 1:15-16 24 April 2022 Your doing is ahead of your being. If you would like to support us in our ministry you can do so here: vinelife.church/give       The post So That appeared first on VineLife Christian Church .

   Luke 24.1-32 17 April 2022 My wife can tell you that I am a terrible spoiler. I am always guessing the surprise ending, ruining the surprise for those watching. However, on occasion I am taken by surprise, not because the story is written poorly, but because it is written masterfully, and still the ending was not obvious. Those are my favorite stories for years to come. I love a maste...