The Village Church Denton Sermons: Recent Episodes
The Village Church Denton
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Seeking Gods Face: Praying with the Bible through the Year
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Pray Daily
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Be Thou My Vision: A Liturgy for Daily Worship
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Every Moment Holy: Liturgies for Daily Life
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Seeking Gods Face: Praying with the Bible through the Year
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The Church's own bible reading plan
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The Bread Book
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Practicing the Way's Scripture Practice
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Pray Daily Booklet
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Seeking God's Face Booklet
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Lectio 365 App
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Practicing the Way: The Prayer Practice Course
"Fasting is the natural, inevitable response of a person (or community) to a grievous sacred moment in life." - Scot McKnight, "Fasting"
In a culture where the gift of food is so "violently profaned," our feasting and fasting are crucial means by which we practice active, embodied, attentive, expectant, patient, and defiant waiting on God.
Liturgy comes from two Greek words meaning "public work", often interpreted as "the work of the people". It refers to the work of faith, hope, and love that a local congregation practices when it gathers. We come together each Sunday to take an active posture in working out our salvation together!
Prayer is calling on God to deliver on his promises, as we actively wait on him to act upon us.
Just as the story of scripture, and the gospel of God that’s at the heart of it, is the story that all our church’s rhythms of abiding are centered upon, waiting is a primary posture that all of our rhythms of abiding assume.
Because we are a people whose rhythms of abiding in Christ are rooted in the story of scripture, and the gospel of Jesus Christ that is at the heart of it, we are a people who wait.
Our waiting is active, embodied, attentive, expectant, patient, and defiant.
Our church’s rhythms of abiding in Christ are rooted in the primary story we’re living into as a church: the story about God and his vision for the world that we find in holy scripture.