Vineyard Church - Chester Springs Podcast

We continue our series in Ephesians!

God is gracious! And no relationship can survive without grace!

In this message, we continue our series The Vision of God in Ephesians, exploring both who God is as our glorious Father and the life He invites us into as resurrected people. We walk through Paul’s sweeping opening in Ephesians 1, a powerful outpouring of praise that tells the story of God’s action—choosing, loving, redeeming, and gathering His people. Along the way, we’re invited to slow down in...

In this Message, we begin a new series in Ephesians by anchoring ourselves in Paul’s prayer for spiritual wisdom, deeper knowledge of God, and lives marked by hope and power. We explore what it means to not just know about God, but to relate to Him—turning our attention toward His beauty and allowing that to shape us. Ephesians gives us a vision of God as glorious and good, and at the same time re...

This message unpacks the scene of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane.

Jesus reframes the center of history as his death and resurrection. As often as we take the Lords Supper, we remember him!

In today's message, we explore Jesus’ surprising invitation to trust God in the middle of suffering, not in spite of it. We consider the real strength of faith, the reality that following Jesus will include grief and hardship and how sometimes that cost is actually part of discipleship. Rather than avoiding pain, we consider what it means to lean into grief as a necessary and even meaningful part...

In this message we continue our journey through the final week of Jesus’ life, using a scene from The Chosen to help us step into the moment of the Last Supper. Just after Judas leaves the table, Jesus gives a simple but profound command: love one another just as I have loved you. Before we can live that kind of love, we first need to root ourselves in the love revealed in the cross, where God’s g...

In this message, we continue our journey through the final week of Jesus’ life, using scenes from The Chosen to reflect on his words in Matthew 24. Jesus speaks about wars, suffering and the love of many growing cold, but he also invites his followers to live with hope and watchfulness as God’s kingdom breaks into the world. Are things getting worse, or better? In the tension of the “now and the n...

What does really means to be a “living sacrifice” in Romans 12? We reflect together, ask honest questions and discover how God meets us in both our strengths and our struggles. Through a scene from The Chosen and the story of Joseph of Arimathea, we wrestle with the cost of following Jesus and what we’re afraid to lose. We look at the things God invites us to lay down for healing and the parts of...

At the Vineyard-Chester Springs, partnership is based on honest intentions, grace, love and mutual respect. We don’t want to micromanage each other’s lives. We trust one another to keep our commitments consistently, not perfectly. We celebrate the mystery that despite our diversity and brokenness, it is by grace that we are all part of Jesus’ body. We believe commitment to a local church is an imp...

This message explores what trust really is and why it’s so much more than blind faith or “just believing harder.” Drawing from Scripture and Dr. Henry Cloud’s five essentials of trust, we look at how trust is built, broken and formed over time. We talk about what happens when our trust muscle is injured through betrayal, overload or chronic disappointment, and how those experiences shape the stori...

Trust is one of those words we use all the time, but rarely slow down to examine. In this episode, we explore Paul’s words in Galatians 5, where faith is described not as a set of ideas, but as trust that takes shape in love. We talk about how trust grows in real relationships, why love is the clearest evidence that trust is alive, and how fear and self-protection often reveal the places trust has...

What does it look like to be a community shaped by the love of Jesus in this moment? In this Vision Sunday conversation, Amos and Alison Groenendyk share the heart, hopes and direction of our church as we seek to Love Like Jesus together. We are invited into a shared vision of being a people of Word and Spirit—formed by Scripture, attentive to the work of the Holy Spirit and committed to integrate...

In our new Advent series, Humble King, we explore the ancient hymn of Philippians 2. Jesus’ kingship is revealed not through power and prestige but through self-giving love. Humility is not weakness but the very shape of God’s strength. We look honestly at the pain of waiting—the in-between tension of the “now and not yet”—and how Jesus’ own descent and exaltation anchor us in hope.

In our new Advent series, Humble King, we explore the ancient hymn of Philippians 2. Jesus’ kingship is revealed not through power and prestige but through self-giving love. Humility is not weakness but the very shape of God’s strength. We look honestly at the pain of waiting—the in-between tension of the “now and not yet”—and how Jesus’ own descent and exaltation anchor us in hope.

In our new Advent series, Humble King, we explore the ancient hymn of Philippians 2. Jesus’ kingship is revealed not through power and prestige but through self-giving love. Humility is not weakness but the very shape of God’s strength. We look honestly at the pain of waiting—the in-between tension of the “now and not yet”—and how Jesus’ own descent and exaltation anchor us in hope.

We conclude our Acts series with Paul's words: “And now I am bound by the Spirit to go to Jerusalem. I don’t know what awaits me, except that the Holy Spirit tells me in city after city that jail and suffering lie ahead. But my life is worth nothing to me unless I use it for finishing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus—the work of telling others the Good News about the wonderful grace of God."

In Acts 19 and Ephesians 6, we consider spiritual warfare and what it means to stand strong in the Lord, not against people but against the real enemy. Ephesus is a city full of spiritual power, occult practices, and a dramatic clash between the kingdom of God and the powers of darkness. We talk consider why many of us struggle to take the supernatural seriously because our worldview has been shap...

In this week’s teaching, we follow Paul into the city of Athens, where beauty, intellect, and idols all collide. As he walks among temples and statues, Paul feels deeply stirred—not with judgment, but with compassion for a people searching for meaning. Instead of retreating, he steps toward them, entering their marketplace and their conversations with curiosity and courage. From there, he points t...

Join us as co-lead pastor Amos Groenendyk continues our current teaching series "The Spirit of God in Acts", today with passages from Acts 16. 

Join us as co-lead pastor Amos Groenendyk continues our current teaching series "The Spirit of God in Acts", today with passages from Acts 13. 

Join us as co-lead pastor Amos Groenendyk continues our current teaching series "The Spirit of God in Acts", today with passages from Acts 12. Technical difficulties during recording means that some portions of this message were not captured.

Join us as co-lead pastor Amos Groenendyk continues our current teaching series "The Spirit of God in Acts", today with passages from Acts 10 - 11. Technical difficulties during recording means that some portions of this message were not captured.

Join us as co-lead pastor Amos Groenendyk continues our current teaching series "The Spirit of God in Acts", today with passages from Acts 10.