Vineyard Richmond Weekly Message

Am I asking for more? Or perhaps more specifically—am I choosing to let this relationship be enough?

Something left you thinking, “Why God, why should I even try anymore?” Have you ever been there? It can be something huge or it can be just one more small straw, but how we deal with it will determine our future.

God calls us to be children, but many prefer the relative comfort and safety of workers. It’s possible to show up every week, to sing along to worship, to serve as a greeter or an usher or whatever, to go to retreats and conferences and all of it and never actually approach the throne of God.

Of all analogies for the Holy Spirit, fire can be the most troubling.

Where in life do you need fresh excitement or enthusiasm in order to stay engaged?

There are things that tie us down and hinder our growth that honestly shouldn’t. There are things in our lives that while they aren’t necessarily bad for us, they aren’t good for us as individuals.

While we celebrate mothers day, it takes a family, a community, to direct the path of a child to seek God and surrender to him.

We treat God this way too many times. He says something in his Word, we read it, then we twist it, complicate it, rethink it, and then change it to fit our circumstances. When all he wanted us to do was to turn around and do it the way he said.

Nobody getting healed, nobody getting taught, no grand spiritual impartation— and yet John sees fit to include this story. So why does John include this account?

What are you doing with this gift of life that God has given you?

The night can be so dark when you don’t understand the hand of God. Jesus tried to prepare his disciples for what was about to happen

He was looking down the barrel of the crucifixion but celebrating the Resurrection! His focus was on God’s promise to raise him from the dead! Jesus believed his father and acted on it.

Receive this from me today God. I am stating with this gift the importance that you hold in my life. What do we bring to God that indicates who he is to us?

Do you believe Jesus and take Him at His word? Do you reject it all? Do you treat it as a fairy tale, say it can’t possibly happen, say it was all made up and the Bible was just perpetuated by people with nefarious reasons?

What are you doing here? What are you hoping for?

38 years disabled. Laying by the pool day-in and day-out. Jesus asks him if he wants healing, but he never answers the question. Jesus heals him anyway. — His whole life was changed in that moment.

You are not so far from God that he cannot forgive you. He told the woman at the well, “You are seeking the right God, but the wrong way.” Then he unfolded it for her.

There is no Accelerated Reader class with Jesus. Smart folks do not have an advantage. They might even have a disadvantage!

What’s Jesus calling you to step up and take care of?

John is writing to convince us to believe in Jesus Christ as the anticipated messiah and savior. But as we read his account, he wants us to believe more than that.

At some point you have to choose to believe something about where you came from, why you are here, and where you are going when you die. Choose you this day whom you will serve, who you will believe.

Have you ever had someone say to you, “Are we going the right way?” and you keep going and going, even though you’re unknowingly headed in the wrong direction?

We are accountable to one another. Our lives will be a reflection of one another’s.

If the Apostle Paul was writing to us today, what would he say about the way we are practicing and sharing our faith?

The gathered church has built more orphanages than individuals ever did. The ability to gather resources and launch people is way more effective in the church than in loners. But what does it mean for us to be a Church community?