Sermons - Vine Church Poole: Recent Episodes
Vine Church Poole
Vine Church Poole is a New Frontiers church in the South of England. This is our Sunday morning, weekly sermon.
This in our final interview in our Home stories series. Today, we are hearing from Penny Sills and her lockdown experience and what God has been challenging her about.
In this episode we are speaking to John and Jackie Hayes about their lockdown experience. We also hear how their journey of becoming Christians.
In this episode we chat to Jamie and Vicky about their lockdown experience and how the last 4/5 months has been.
In this episode Tim and Becci interview Lucy Collins about her lockdown experiences. Hear abut her lockdown experience with three children being at home.
In this episode we have Al and Jane Forsyth with us. They share their lockdown experiences.
Jane recommended us a book which she has been reading called ‘Stories Bearer’ by Phil Knox.
In this episode Tim and Becci interview Stephen and Marie on their lockdown experience.
In this episode Stephen shares his experiences of lockdown and his thoughts on the last 4 and half months.
Home Stories with Dave and Sharon Gawler.
In this episode we interview Dave and Sharon Gawler about their lockdown experience.
What would you say is the greatest challenge to spiritual life and emotional health in Poole in the twenty-first century?
There are probably hundreds of possible answers, but hiding in plain sight is one that may not seem obvious, but is an underlying issue for many of us. It’s what Dallas Willard called ‘the great enemy of spiritual life in our day’: hurry. A life of hurry, speed, and anxiety is a serious danger to us. We may become so distracted, rushed and preoccupied that we will never fully experience the life that Jesus offers.
The cultural and technological trends of the last few decades have created what one author has called ‘the age of acceleration’. We increasingly live at a frenetic pace, rushing and hurrying through life, constantly distracted by our omnipresent digital devices. We sleep less, do more, and feel constant tiredness and low-grade anxiety as a result. And the danger is that because this has become our ‘new normal’, we fail even to realise that hurry is a threat not only to our emotional health but to our spiritual lives as well.
Love is the highest value in the Kingdom of God – but love requires a lot of time and patience. In fact, love and hurry are incompatible. The invitation of Jesus, however, is to an unhurried life: 'Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.'
This is a radical, countercultural invitation – to an unhurried life filled with love, joy and peace. Jesus’ life was exactly that: although his life was full, he didn’t rush. He had time to talk to people, to sleep, to eat meals, to accept interruptions. If there’s anything you pick up from reading the four Gospels, it’s that Jesus was rarely in a hurry. As John Mark Comer puts it: ‘If you want to experience the life of Jesus, you have to adopt the lifestyle of Jesus.’ Jesus put on display an unhurried life, where space for God and love for people were the top priorities. Jesus is meant to be our model, our pattern. If we want to experience the life that Jesus has on offer, for most of us, that means we need to slow down to Jesus’ pace of life. As Dallas Willard puts it: ‘You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.’
Paul kick starts our new preaching series "The Trellis" by speaking about being a disciple of Jesus.
Vine church Poole Christmas carol service and Tim continues our preaching series The Light.
1-12-19 Dave Gawler begins our advent preaching series The Light focusing on Jesus is the light.
24-11-19 Our Limitless Living preaching series concludes today with a youth led service on Limitless Love.
17-11-19 Tim continues our series on limitless Living this time focusing on limitless Grace.
3-11-19 Tim begins our new preaching series "limitless Living" Focusing on Limitless Faith.
27-10-19 Today we conclude our mini preaching series "Life of a prophet" with a tag team preach from husband and wife team, Jamie and Vicky Yeates sharing about Miriam.
5-5-19 Tim continues our preaching series on Transformed Mind, today he talks to us about Unwanted Thoughts.
28-4-19 Paul begins our new preaching series "Transformed Mind" by speaking on Identity.
14-4-19 Tim Buttler concludes our God's Name preaching series, speaking on Jealous God.
17-3-19 Taking a break from our 'God's Name' preaching series, Paul takes some time to remind us of the Vine Church Vision for 2019 and beyond.
2-9-18 Tim Buttler begins our new preaching series, Kingdom Builders - A vision and a heart for the lost.
26-7-18 Part 3 Questions from the audience. Darrell Tunningley shares his inspirational story of how he went from a life of crime which started at age 11 to now leading a church.
26-7-18 Part 2 Darrell Tunningley shares his inspirational story of how he went from a life of crime which started at age 11 to now leading a church.
26-7-18 Darrell Tunningley shares his inspirational story of how he went from a life of crime which started at age 11 to now leading a church.
15-7-18 Paul Wintle continues our preaching series following the Terry Virgo book - Life tastes better.