Elm City Vineyard Church Talks: Recent Episodes
Elm City Vineyard Church
Elm City Vineyard Church Talks is a collection of talks from Elm City Vineyard Church, a faith community in New Haven, CT.
Join us this week as Kyanna shares about the power and importance of stories from our childhood.
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Revelation 12:11 says that we have overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony. Our stories are powerful tools that reveal how God has been and continues to be at work in our lives and are meant to be weapons against the enemy. Come and hear about the power of our stories.
Join us for our next sermon in our Be Not Afraid series. This Sunday, Shirley will be sharing about what it means to be not afraid in our speaking. Come and hear more!
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Scripture records variations of this phrase so many times. Be Not Afraid. Fear not. Do not be afraid for God is with you. God says it. Angels say it. Jesus says it. People say it. Why is it such a repeated exhortation and encouragement? Because we can struggle so mightily with fear. We can have a lack of trust in God and others, and we can feel a lack of love that God is with us. Or if He is with us, that it’s a good thing. The words from scripture are clear though: Be not afraid.
Today, we’ll reflect on our fears of disqualification. What does God have to say to us even when we feel constrained by our fears? Gather with us to receive Jesus’ encouragement from the gospel of Luke.
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Scripture records variations of this phrase so many times. Be Not Afraid. Fear not. Do not be afraid for God is with you. God says it. Angels say it. Jesus says it. People say it. Why is it such a repeated exhortation and encouragement? Because we can struggle so mightily with fear. We can have a lack of trust in God and others, and we can feel a lack of love that God is with us. Or if He is with us, that it’s a good thing. The words from scripture are clear though: Be not afraid.
Join us for our next sermon in our Be Not Afraid series. Scripture records variations of this phrase so many times.God says it. Angels say it. Jesus says it. People say it. But it's not always clear how we can do this, especially when facing trial or challenge. This week, Tina will be taking us deeper into God's invitation to not fear in the face of battle, through the lens of an ancient king who stood firm in battle by embracing his powerlessness and taking up worship as his weapon against the advancing enemy. Come this Sunday to hear more.
Before we dive into our next sermon series for the summer, we’ll be taking a three week detour on Leaning into Rest. Rest can seem so elusive in our fast-paced culture and our own choices to cooperate with such a breakneck speed. Yet, rest remains a gift from God for God’s people. As the school year winds down, we have a chance to reevaluate and reset before we just adopt a version of a speedy summer. Using the framework for a healthy Sabbath - pause, pray, and play, we’ll slow down to think about how we can foster Sabbath rhythms for us and our communities that last far beyond one day a week. As we continue, we’ll connect rest with play. Come and explore more!
Before we dive into our next sermon series for the summer, we’ll be taking a three week detour on Leaning into Rest. Rest can seem so elusive in our fast-paced culture and our own choices to cooperate with such a breakneck speed. Yet, rest remains a gift from God for God’s people. As the school year winds down, we have a chance to reevaluate and reset before we just adopt a version of a speedy summer. Using the framework for a healthy Sabbath - pause, pray, and play, we’ll slow down to think about how we can foster Sabbath rhythms for us and our communities that last far beyond one day a week. As we continue, we’ll connect rest with prayer. Come and explore more!
Rest can seem so elusive in our fast-paced culture and our own choices to cooperate with such a breakneck speed. Yet, rest remains a gift from God for God’s people. As the school year winds down, we have a chance to reevaluate and reset before we just adopt a version of a speedy summer. Using the framework for a healthy Sabbath - pause, pray, and play, we’ll slow down to think about how we can foster Sabbath rhythms for us and our communities that last far beyond one day a week. As we begin, we’ll connect rest with pausing and reflecting on God’s love. Come and explore more!
Join us for worship this week as we continue our series, Resurrected Lives. Each week we’re thinking together about how different facets of our lives are changed by the hope and power of the resurrection. As we near the end of the series, we'll reflect on corporate resurrection in the Body. Our hope is that our messages each week haven't made more individual to-do lists for us in the Church as we pursue our own resurrection. Instead, the Spirit brings the power of resurrection to our Church - to us individually and to one another. As kids of the Kingdom, we help one another recognize the glory of this resurrection, we keep one another far from the work of the flesh & the schemes of the law, and we practice playing well as siblings and co-heirs with Christ. Join us this Sunday as we learn and practice more together.
This Sunday, Josh shares about God's heart for everyday mission with the help of some special guests who God has sent out over the years.
Patrick Dunn continues our Allegiance series with a message on the allegiance of heart.
Shirley Kuang continues our Allegiance series with a message on the allegiance of our resources.
This week Matt continues our Allegiance series with a discussion of our allegiance of citizenship.
Birthdays, holidays, and anniversaries are all occasions for celebration. But what if celebration is a spiritual discipline we can rely on far more than a few special days out of the year? God commands us to rejoice. Why and what for? Josh teaches us that in the Church, we have have something to celebrate anytime, every day, and even in hard times.
This week, Josh closes our “Asking God” teaching series by exploring the questions, "How can I help them? How can I love them?”
This week, Josh continues our “Asking God” teaching series by exploring the question, "Do I need them?”
This week, Tina continues our “Asking God” teaching series by exploring the question, "What’s the point?” In a world full of activity and information and striving, it can be tempting to drift into autopilot or give into meaninglessness. But when we bring this question directly to God, the true source of all our meaning, we find a beautiful Kingdom that is worth everything.
This week, Moriah continues our Asking God series by examining the question, "Am I okay?" What is God's attitude towards us when we feel broken or have fallen short?
This week, Patrick helps us think about where we can turn when we are seeking God. Where does the Lord dwell and work? When can we find him?
Josh starts a new series called, Asking God, where we can wrestle with big questions we can ask God that will lead to formative and life-changing dialogues with Jesus.
This Sunday Asha looks at the final chapter in Paul’s letter to the Corinthians in which his practical exhortations to the Corinthians get really real: sacrifice, generous offerings, and the call to draw close to one another.
This Sunday, we explore Paul's conviction that Jesus’ bodily resurrection changes everything. Josh shares about the power of the resurrection to bring life to situations of death and dying.
This week, Todd shares about the Spirit's in-the-moment inspiration of members of the Body, which is to be both welcomed and weighed as the Body seeks to discern God's word in its gatherings.
This Sunday, we look at how Paul calls the Church a body. All parts of the body are needed for the sake of the whole. Is that how we view the Church? Josh shares about how Paul's first-century letter is still relevant in 2022 as we navigate the tensions of difference, weakness, and the hope for wholeness in the Church.
This week we turn to 1 Cor 12:1-11 in which Paul talks about spiritual gifts. The Corinthians had experience with “gods” who only seemed to speak and work. Now their community is founded on interaction with the living God—and that makes all the difference.
This Sunday, Shirley shares about how God meets our hunger both personally and communally.
This Sunday, Josh reflects on Paul’s advice about pursuing Jesus more than being right. In the midst of a litigious culture, the Church being a Body provides a model for a different way out of conflict than the harshness and gridlock we find in the broader culture of public lawsuits.
This week we continue our summer teaching series, Life in the Body, as Patrick reflects on Paul’s advice to us as we pursue Jesus through broken church experiences.
This week, Patrick will help us understand what the Bible has to say about discernment and what resources God gives us as we approach tough questions in our lives.
At the end of all things in the book of Revelation, a group of people cry out against an almost-defeated Babylon - the empire of Death at work in the world. The scripture says that this group cries out with their blood (Rev 6:5). This week we learn from Josh about the good news at the end of the story and what that means for our lives today.
This week, Matt invites us to consider what we can learn from the way God responds to the murder of Jesus. Here, too, the blood cries out. And, here, too, God does not respond with vengeance.
Josh kicks off our new series called, The Blood Cries Out, talking about the story of Cain and Abel. In the story, God doesn’t ignore the violence in the world He created. He moved towards it, even moving towards Cain, the one who killed his brother. In this series will move toward violence and death as people of Life.
This Easter, Josh shares that through the power of resurrection, we can now walk with Christ instead of walking alone.
After the Palm Sunday pageant, Kyanna shares how shouting unto the Lord to be rescued in times of trouble can help us bend towards the Lord’s will and way. We’ve all got things that hold us down and prevent us from living a life of freedom. But the Lord’s faithfulness leads us to freedom as He calls us and we respond.
This week, Josh continues our series on Postures of Humility with, Look Up. When we are tired, exhausted, and in need of rescue, God exhorts us: look up. God's word to us is not to work harder, numb ourselves, or indulge our worst instincts in a time of trouble. Instead, God invites us to look up and see where our help comes from.
On Sunday, Tina will be sharing with us about laying down. Especially the face of chaos and turmoil, laying can seem irresponsible and even dangerous. But Jesus invites us to enter this radical posture of total trust and vulnerability, to lay down our defenses and our striving, and to receive total peace in Him.
When we bow down in worship, we communicate with our bodies that God is God (and we are not)—and that we are prepared to be obedient to God’s will for us. But there’s also a natural next step when we bow down: God lifts us up, following the pattern of Jesus who humbled himself and was then exalted by his--and our-- Heavenly Father. In our bowing, we enter into the humility—and exaltation—of Jesus.
Lent is a season in the life of the church where we remember Jesus’ sacrificial living and re-commit to live like Him. This Lent, we’ll be doing that by exploring Postures of Humility. We will choose to humble ourselves through remembering that God is our Maker and that our bodies can be positioned to tell a story of humility. As we bow, lay, look up, stand, shout, bend, and walk, we can ask the Lord to gift us this Lenten season with an embodied obedience that will renew our bodies and our Body.
When we fail to bless across generations, God still blesses. It’s part of the scandalous generosity of God. This week, Matt closes out our series by asking how can we live with the God whose blessings overflow the boundaries we try to set up?
In the third week of our Blessing Generations series, Tina walks us through the Biblical story of Esther and what it teaches about holy script-breaking and being agents of healing across generational lines.
This week Moriah shares how God invites us to commit to one another across generations, which is not only a blessing but can be truly healing. What new things might God do with our commitment to bless one another this way?
As we think about how to do church together, it is vitally important that our generations in ECV bless one another. That's what a healthy family does. This week, we'll see how God calls us to trust that we can find family and support in the Church even when - maybe especially when - life is challenging.
This Sunday, Josh closes our series with a talk about holding on to a picture of God's future Kingdom even if it only begins with a dream. When we are too weak to act -- to go, to build, to start-- all of us can receive a picture from the Lord that at least gives us hope.
It takes faith to build with God. Sometimes we don’t know how to get the resources to construct what’s needed. Other times, people around us don’t know why we’re building what we are. What might God be asking you to build? What is God desiring to build at ECV? This week, Josh talks about the faith to (re)build.
This month, Josh leads us as we look at heroes from the Hebrew Bible, modern-day heroes from the Civil Rights movement led by the Spirit, and…us as we seek to live with a radical faith that will impact the world around us. This week, we explore the story of Abraham and his faith to follow God.
Over Advent, we spent time learning about God's heart for us revealed in the incarnation of Jesus at Christmas. This Sunday, Patrick finishes the series with some practical suggestions about what it means to live with the significance of the incarnation.
This week Moriah offers a short talk on the messiness of the Incarnation following the annual No-Stress Christmas Pageant.
This week Matt leads us into a consideration of the power of the incarnation. In God’s Son drawing near to us in Jesus, we are given the opportunity to become God’s children. What would it look like to take up this new identity? What would we learn about God? What would we learn about ourselves?
God becoming human in the form of a baby, God drawing near to a people who have rejected Him many times before. This is strikingly vulnerable, but it can also be instructive for us as we ask the question: where are we becoming vulnerable for the sake of relationship? Josh kicks off our Advent series, The Vulnerability of the Incarnation.
This Sunday, Shirley Kuang shares about a life lived in light of the already and not yet kingdom of God-- in which we lament that which is broken even as we celebrate God's intervention, healing, and good gifts.
This week we ask what can be a great diagnostic question for how closely we're following Jesus: where is our love costing us? Is our love simply for our own gain -- love that flows to friends and family? Or does our love flow outward in a way where we lose something for a greater gain? This Sunday, Josh shares more about how Jesus models this costly love by staying close to God, providing a way for us to go and do likewise.
This Sunday, Moriah shares how God invites us into rest--and how living into God’s Sabbath rest is a part of our Kingdom work.
This Sunday, Matt considers how living in a community that talks about sin allows us to pursue wholeness in relation to God and one another.
This Sunday, Michelle Ting considers how our peace is wrapped up in the peace of our city. She talks about our true identity as exiles, an identity that joins us with Jesus and with those made outcasts by empire, and asks: why return to the places of poverty, violence, and captivity we've worked so hard to escape?
This week, Kyanna Joseph talks about seasons of waiting and the invitations that God has for us in them. Waiting is inevitable. What do we do in our waiting?
This week, Matt talks about the Vineyard value of being people who "pursue culturally relevant mission in the world." What would it mean for us to reclaim Paul's phrase? What would it look like to become all things to all people for the sake of God’s mission in the world?
This week, Ndubisi Okeke, Trinity Brandt, and Cindy Chen talk about the Vineyard value of being people who "reconcile people with God and all creation.
This week, Patrick talks about the Vineyard's desire to be people who "engage in compassionate ministry."
This week, Pastor Josh shares a special announcement and explores the Vineyard value and practice of saying yes.
This Sunday, Pastor Josh starts a new series called “Living Letters” about the biblical basis for the 5 Core Values of the Vineyard Movement. This week he shares about the Vineyard value of Experiencing God.
Josh closes out our summer series by looking at the prayer Jesus taught us, where we're invited to say, "let your Kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven."
This week, we see how Jesus includes his disciples in participating in a harvest of Kingdom activity that begins with vulnerability then moves to peace, hospitality, and healing.
This week, Deniqua leads us through the double miracle story of the healing of the bleeding woman and the 12 year old girl raised from the dead in Luke 8.
No matter what's happening in our lives, the seed of the Kingdom is always trying to grow. Are we letting it flourish? What might be getting in the way?
We’re continuing in our series Behold: A Kingdom Summer in which we are learning to recognize the shape of life in God’s presence that we call the Kingdom. This week, Patrick helps us discover how the Kingdom of God is upside-down from our normal assumptions about the world.
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This week, as we continue our series on the Kingdom of God, we consider what the call of Kingdom means for our lives. How are our life trajectories redirected? How are our vocations transformed and deepened? Everything’s on the table when Jesus calls us to the Kingdom of God.
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Last week Josh talked about the tension, timing and tenor of the Kingdom. This week, the Kingdom of God is on the move. How do we respond when we receive a foretaste of the Kingdom? Moriah will share how glimpses of the Kingdom invite us to follow Jesus further into the Kingdom.
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Our series continues with Jesus' Kingdom mission statement. How can we behold some of Jesus' priorities and wrestle with the reality that they're not simply for us...but also for our enemies? A few weeks ago, we wondered what Jubilee could mean for us now? Is this part of the mystery?
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This summer, we hope to be witnesses of God’s Kingdom work. While we always hope to be people who behold God’s Kingdom regardless of the season, we are aware that prioritizing the Kingdom might fall on the wayside in our “post-pandemic” summer. What would it mean to seek first the Kingdom this summer? So much of our “reopened” life this summer focuses on what we want to do. This summer, first receive an invitation to behold the Kingdom. Then, see the fruit of becoming what you behold.
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Our Grace on the Other Side series wrapped up Sunday on Pentecost, the day we mark the coming of the Holy Spirit and the birth of God’s Church. Even though the Pentecost story is from the book of Acts in the New Testament, the Spirit has been working all through God’s story from the very beginning. Josh shared how the Spirit came at the end of Exodus, the account of God leading His people out of slavery in Egypt. As God led the people out of their collective trauma, God provided a Cloud & Glory of Presence & Fire for the people to follow. They already had a destination of the promised land; at the end of the story, they finally have a way of arriving there: God’s very presence.
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Our Grace on the Other Side series continues with another way God is good to us as we come out of challenges in our lives: practices of deep abiding rest and long lasting habits of justice and uplift. In the story of Moses, this is called Sabbath and Jubilee. What if boundaries and sacrifice are God's gift to us? Learn more about how God's grace means very practical things for your schedule and for your wallet.
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This week, Patrick tells us about the grace God gives us when he allows our idols to fail us. Join us as we hear more about the goodness of God’s presence and provision!
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When is a story a “commandment”? When the story it tells is so foundational that opens up an entire way of life. This week, Grace on the other side takes a perhaps surprising form: a command that’s actually a statement that tells a story. “I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, the house of slavery.” Having been set free, God’s people enter into a relationship with God marked by life-giving service. How can we receive God-given boundaries and limits as grace in which new life takes root?
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This week, Deniqua shared with us how God gives provision in the wilderness. She talked about God’s longing to provide for us, and how hopelessness and fear can make that difficult to receive.
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God invites us to receive grace. Grace to celebrate, to receive provision, to become a people, to worship God alone, to do justice, and to experience the presence of God. This is the story of what happens after the Exodus, after God saved His people from Egyptian slavery. This is also our story too. What have we been freed from and where is our invitation to receive the grace of God for our next steps?
Lead Pastor, Josh Williams shares Elm City Vineyard Church's talk from Easter Sunday 2021. This was recorded from our outdoor gathering on the New Haven Green.
This week, Asha explores the role of faith in a community seeking to be met and transformed by God. What does it mean to be among a people of faith?
Josh shares how suffering draws us towards God and others; even though many of us grow uncomfortable being with others who are suffering or suffering with others openly.
This week, Patrick talks about the way that sin comes between us and between our community and God.
This week, Deniqua shares how our new lives of being drawn to Jesus equally pulls us toward one another.
Pastor Josh kicks off our Lenten series, Drawing Near: The Blood that Opens a New and Living Way
This week, Josh closes our Nonviolence series with a look at how Jesus’ life of peacemaking runs right into the Cross.
This week, Josh helps us think through what it means to have "eyes open" obedience. We don't simply applaud nonviolence or merely value or agree with it; we practice it -- at home, at work, and on the streets.
This Sunday, Josh unpacks our options when faced with injustice and wrongdoing with two words for our resistance: loyalty and subversion
This week, Josh gives us a big tip from the story of God about living a nonviolent life. So much of our violence comes from anger and frustration over lack, ours and others. What if in the face of lack, we ask God for what we need?
This Sunday, we will further explore how the power of Jesus’ creative approach to nonviolence names and exposes evil. Sometimes, we mistake nonviolence as weak and passive.
Lead Pastor Josh Williams starts our new series, Nonviolence: How to Seek Peace and Pursue it at Home, at Work, and on the Streets. he reminds us of the power of Jesus' invitation to love our enemies, turn the other cheek, and pray for those who persecute you.
Kathy Maskell kicks off our New Year by leading us in reexamining the Parable of the Sower.
This week, Matt leads us as we consider the true joy of Advent: what it means to rejoice in hope, rejoice in the truth, and to rejoice always (but not only). At the end of the day, there really is a special sort of joy available to us in the coming of Christ: much more profound and much more enduring than what often passes for “Christmas joy.”
We are continuing our Advent series called “Great Light,” as we hear the good news of waiting for the glory of God to shine in our lives. This week, Deniqua shared with us about PEACE. In a world that seems filled with anxieties and so many reasons to not have rest, what does peace in light of a coming Savior look like?
We began the season of Advent with a new series called Great Light. Together, we talked about God’s hope, peace, joy, and love—the promises that sustain us as we wait to see the dawn of Jesus’ birth. This week, Patrick shared about how we can discern true hope through the light of God’s love.
This is the audio guide to do our devotional nature walk called "A Walk with God." This was designed for an event on September 19, 2020. However feel free to use it whenever taking a walk or hike.
Before you start read this guide:
http://elmcityvineyard.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Guided-Devotional-Nature-Walk-Details.pdf
Due to recent events that have shaken our country, we have witnessed and taken part in demonstrations around the nation and in our city. These protests have displayed the pain of our Black brothers and sisters as well as our own need for healing. Amidst all of this, we want to continue asking ourselves the question: What is Church? This week, Patrick talks about ways in which we, the church, are called to radical repentance. Hear about how the Spirit leads us and meets us as we seek wholeness despite our sin.
For more and to watch the video:
http://elmcityvineyard.org/sermon/the-ecv-livestream-what-is-church/
Before Jesus started working from home, he told his disciples to shelter in place in their city and to wait for the Spirit to come. This is the part of the story we’re in as we near the celebration of Pentecost, the coming of the Spirit, this Sunday. As we live with a quarantine, we might begin to see Pentecost Sunday with new eyes. 50 days after Easter, the joy of Jesus’ resurrections seems a bit far off. The disciples are waiting around in an upper room together. Each day must have felt achingly familiar. Still, no Jesus in the flesh. Still, no awareness of the Spirit. Then, the Spirit came and the world was never the same. Repentance, salvation, radical community, miracles, tensions within the Church, persecution, and a great flourishing of authentic Jesus following — all while Jesus remains in heaven. This time, Jesus is working through the Church in the power of the God’s Spirit, the Holy Spirit. This is still our story. As we wait for Pentecost Sunday, how are we waiting for the Spirit? What do we want to change? Here Josh explores these questions and we’ll pray a powerful and ancient prayer together: come, Holy Spirit.
For more and the video:
http://elmcityvineyard.org/sermon/ecv-livestream-pentecost-sunday/
ECV FROM THE ARCHIVES — from 02/24/19
We are bringing back old talks from ECV's history for you to listen to during the COVID-19 crisis.
Family Pastor, Asha Evans delivered the third talk in a series called "Love
ECV FROM THE ARCHIVES — from 02/17/19
We are bringing back old talks from ECV's history for you to listen to during the COVID-19 crisis.
Lead Pastor, Josh Williams gave the second talk in a series called "Love
ECV FROM THE ARCHIVES — from 02/10/19
We are bringing back old talks from ECV's history for you to listen to during the COVID-19 crisis.
Staff Pastor, Matt Croasmin gave the first talk in a series called "Love
ECV FROM THE ARCHIVES — from 08/25/19
Lead Pastor Josh Williams gave a talk that challenged us to look at the warning signs in our lives and to ask ourselves whether or not we are paying attention to them.
This is the first of many archived talks that we'll be uploading to the ECV Talks Podcast during the COVID-19 crisis.
Link to the site and video:
http://elmcityvineyard.org/sermon/words-from-the-wilderness-josh-williams/
Change Your Mind: "I Can’t Be Vulnerable"
Staff Pastor Matt Croasmun, brings us the second installment in our Lenten series, "Change Your Mind: Embracing the Truth of God’s Goodness."
About the series:
Jesus invites us to “repent and believe the good news.” What does that mean for us this Lent, the historic season of reflection and devotion around the person of Jesus – his life, death, and resurrection? Repent can seem like such a judgmental word, yet the word simply means to change one’s mind, to have a whole life turning towards Jesus. What keeps us from that? Often, lies. Lies that the good news isn’t so good. That God isn’t so good. That we’re doomed not to be good. These lies drag us down and make change not just seem unattractive, but impossible. This Lent, we are going to tackle lies with the help of the Spirit and receive Jesus’ invitation to turn towards Him.
link to our site and the video:
http://elmcityvineyard.org/sermon/change-your-mind-i-cant-be-vulnerable/
Change Your Mind: "I Should Be Enough"
Lead Pastor, Josh Williams, brings us the first installment in our Lenten series, Change Your Mind: Embracing the Truth of God’s Goodness.
About the series:
Jesus invites us to “repent and believe the good news.” What does that mean for us this Lent, the historic season of reflection and devotion around the person of Jesus – his life, death, and resurrection? Repent can seem like such a judgmental word, yet the word simply means to change one’s mind, to have a whole life turning towards Jesus. What keeps us from that? Often, lies. Lies that the good news isn’t so good. That God isn’t so good. That we’re doomed not to be good. These lies drag us down and make change not just seem unattractive, but impossible. This Lent, we are going to tackle lies with the help of the Spirit and receive Jesus’ invitation to turn towards Him.
link to our site and the video:
http://elmcityvineyard.org/sermon/change-your-mind-i-should-be-enough/
Worth Sharing Part 3: Power Worth Sharing
Lead Pastor, Josh Williams finishes our series by inviting us to explore what it means that we have power through the Spirit worth sharing with others. While a lot of the ways we can share about God’s goodness include words, we can also demonstrate the Spirit’s power through our actions. What does that look like? Is that accessible to all of us? What if the most powerful things we can do for our neighbors and friends isn’t saying anything incredibly wise or profound but praying for them and expecting to see God move in their lives?
link to our site and the video:
http://elmcityvineyard.org/sermon/power-worth-sharing/
Worth Sharing Part 2: A Story Worth Sharing
In the previous talk, Josh started a series called Worth Sharing and invited us to think about whether we share the goodness of God with others in our lives
In this talk, Lead Pastor, Josh Williams explores how we have a story worth sharing. As people, stories are so important for us to understand one another. What if the same is true for God? We really need to know God’s story to understand God. So, what’s God’s story? It’s beautiful, tragic, moving, and curious. And we’re involved! Hear how we have a story in God that’s worth sharing.
link to the video:
http://elmcityvineyard.org/sermon/a-story-worth-sharing/
Worth Sharing Part 1: Goodness With Sharing
Lead Pastor, Josh Williams begins a new series called "Worth Sharing." In this talk, he explores practices to help recognize God’s goodness in our lives and in our own experiences. Hear how our stories bring power and encouragement to those who get to listen.
link to the video on our site:
http://elmcityvineyard.org/sermon/goodness-worth-sharing/