http://vcfp.org Vineyard Christian Fellowship Podcasts en Vineyard Christian Fellowship Podcasts Vineyard Christian Fellowship no Vineyard Christian Fellowship info@vcfp.org ℗ & © 2012 Vineyard Christian Fellowship 720 We are created to respond. Responding to God’s initiative by the Holy Spirit is the path to healing, joy and growth in this life. If we are passive, disengaged and unresponsive, we will stagnate and cease growing. Even when we don’t know what to do, say, or believe, we respond by asking and interacting with God and His people. We ask questions. We give thanks. We worship. We repent. We turn our attention, in whatever way we are able, to hear the voice of God more clearly. And when we hear Him telling us to do something, we do it. http://vcfp.org/sermons-resources/our-mission-respond http://vcfp.org/mediafiles/sermon120513.mp3 Sun, 13 May 2012 06:16:42 GMT Alex Van Riesen Our Mission respond,receive,risk,mission,love,obedience We are created to receive. Just knowing about God is not enough. God wants us to be actively dependent on Him to receive a constant flow of love, healing, belonging, wisdom, purpose and a myriad of other surprisingly great gifts. Receiving from God means expecting God to be present and active through the Holy Spirit, welcoming His input with a teachable heart, and remaining in ongoing communication with Him. Unfortunately, despite our best intentions, we are limited, broken, and sinful people who can so easily drift away from God’s initiative in our lives. Our only hope is to constantly return to God so that we can receive what we need to live, grow, and thrive. http://vcfp.org/sermons-resources/our-mission-receive http://vcfp.org/mediafiles/sermon120506.mp3 Sun, 06 May 2012 18:17:32 GMT Alex Van Riesen Our Mission receive,mission,respond,risk,so_that Looking at "so that the transforming love of Jesus can be experienced in the communities of the Silicon Valley". Learning from the exiles in Babylon to resist compartmentalizing or bubble wrapping our lives as Christians. Learning to dig in and actively seek for and pray for the shalom of our communities. To radically love the Silicon Valley and find that our health is bound up with the health of our communities. http://vcfp.org/sermons-resources/our-mission-so-that http://vcfp.org/mediafiles/sermon120429.mp3 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 01:26:22 GMT Liz Milner Our Mission silicon,valley,shalom,exile This is the first sermon in a 6 part series about our new mission. This sermon discusses both our vision and our mission, and what we hope it will lead to. This new mission begins now and will go until the Spring of 2015. http://vcfp.org/sermons-resources/our-new-mission http://vcfp.org/mediafiles/sermon20120422.mp3 Sun, 22 Apr 2012 21:04:26 GMT Alex Van Riesen Our Mission mission,vision,receive,respond,risk,transform Who did Jesus come for? What does it mean when Jesus says he came for the sick and not for the well? Jesus gives a picture of himself as a doctor, and as those who follow him as patients. The only question is how we will choose to see ourselves. http://vcfp.org/sermons-resources/time-for-a-spiritual-check-up http://vcfp.org/mediafiles/sermon20120415.mp3 Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:32:20 GMT Alex Van Riesen Who did Jesus come for? What does it mean when Jesus says he came for the sick and not for the well? Jesus gives a picture of himself as a doctor, and as those who follow him as patients. The only question is how we will choose to see ourselves. doctor_analogy,sickness,health,physician Why is Easter Sunday such a big celebration in the Christian calendar? What is so significant and critical about Jesus rising from the dead? http://vcfp.org/sermons-resources/why-celebrate-easter http://vcfp.org/mediafiles/sermon120408.mp3 Sun, 08 Apr 2012 05:09:07 GMT Alex Van Riesen Palm Sunday and Easter resurrection,easter At the height of Jesus' popularity, Jesus teaches about "a grain of wheat falling to the ground, dying, and bearing much fruit". He is explaining what He is about to do and the path that He is inviting us all to follow Him into. http://vcfp.org/sermons-resources/unless-a-grain-of-wheat-falls-to-the-earth-and-dies--- http://vcfp.org/mediafiles/sermon20120401.mp3 Sun, 01 Apr 2012 21:49:04 GMT Susan Van Riesen Palm Sunday and Easter grain_of_wheat,palm_sunday,lent,birth_mom_testimony,dying_to_ourselves What defines your identity and does the church have anything to do with that? Join us as we close our series on "Who are we?" as a church, by considering where our identity as individuals comes from... ultimately Jesus. http://vcfp.org/sermons-resources/who-are-you-who-are-you-becoming http://vcfp.org/mediafiles/sermon120325mp3.mp3 Sun, 25 Mar 2012 18:32:30 GMT Liz Milner Who are we? identity,child,clothed,unity What is a "spiritual gift"? Why does God give them? How are they to be used? As we do life together as a church, how do we receive the gifts God has given us and use them appropriately for the common good. http://vcfp.org/sermons-resources/we-are-a-church-of-many-spiritual-gifts http://vcfp.org/mediafiles/sermon120318.mp3 Sun, 18 Mar 2012 18:19:21 GMT Alex Van Riesen Who are we? gifts,spiritual_gift,common_good http://vcfp.org/sermons-resources/what-type-of-soil-are-you http://vcfp.org/mediafiles/sermon20120311.mp3 Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:12:44 GMT Alex Van Riesen Who are we? parables,sower,soil,bearing_fruit