Vinelife Church Manchester Podcast

This week Mark explores the topic of community, and how we are fundamentally designed to live in relationship.

In this week's podcast Phil and Sarah launch us into Pray First, our 14 day journey of fasting and prayer. They explore what fasting is and why it is significant to our Christian journey.

In this weeks podcast Phil looks at Psalm 27 where he explores the concepts of devotion and dedication, and how we as christians balance both our devotion to Jesus and the discipline of the call to live the normal christian life.

The Psalms are full of fighting talk and while our battle is now spiritual not physical there is some fighting to be done. In this week's podcast Sarah looks at Psalm 17 and encourages us to hold onto God’s ways, his word, and his work as the basics of our spiritual battle.

Psalm 57 gives a beautiful invitation to anchor ourselves to God, even through the greatest trail. The key is found in our ability to bring praise despite our circumstances.

This week Sarah looks at Psalm 91 and asks what it looks like fo reach of us to make God our dwelling place, and not just an occasional place of refuge.

This week guest speaker Jimmy Horner looks at how we view faith. As Christians, we are called to do the impossible and lead wherever you are, and often there is a journey of faith. Jimmy explores how we shouldn't deny the existence of doubt, and instead acknowledge and allow it as part of your faith journey.

As we jump back into our series Authentic Humanity, San look at Psalm 131. This Psalm has been described as “short to read but long to learn." In this message we look at the tension that goes on in every human heart - pride and humility. We learn how to walk in the ways of humility, as this is what it means to follow Jesus.

This week we had Celebration Sunday, where looked back over everything that's happened over the last year and in looking forwards, Phil shared his vision to see each one of us to spend a year pointing our lives at others to see more of the kingdom of god across Europe.

This week Mark closes out his series The Table, where he explores mission as being more than an auditorium and how we bring it to our homes and to our table. He sits at the table with Mephibosheth, the Queen of Sheba, and Zacchaeus, where he looks at the gifts we can give those who sit with us.

Jesus instructed us to take communion regularly with one another, and in this second part of his series Mark explores why communion is so significant for us as Christians.

This week Mark launches us into a three part series called The Table. The table is an increasingly overlooked part of community, and it's something that is present throughout the bible. In this first instalment Mark invites us to start a conversation on how we can use the table to help build our communities big and build them well.

Phil continues our series Authentic Humanity, where he looks at Psalm 139. This Psalm reveals how deeply God knows us and how dedicated he is to us. Phil asks the question - Do we live according to the reality of who we are and whose we are?

Throughout our lives, we encounter things that shake our faith. This week Sarah looks at Psalm 73, and how it teaches us to have secure footing and make our way back to faith.

This week Sarah kicks off our new series; Authentic Humanity: Lessons from Psalms. To have the right perspective on life we first need to have our position right before God, and Sarah looks importance of knowing God is sovereign and He is on the throne and yet he invites each of us to draw near.

City group Sunday saw us launch into this season of discovering and walking in the way of Jesus.

In this week's podcast, Sarah continues to look at our humanity and encourages us that as much as we must acknowledge weakness we should also expect God's power.

In this week's podcast, Ralph takes a looks at Mark 14:3-9 and what we can learn from the extravagant worship that we find there.

Our approach to weakness is often to deny, tolerate or despise it when Hebrews 4 tells us Jesus both understands and sympathises with it. This week Sarah looks at what we need to do with weakness and how we can accept Jesus' consistent invitation to embrace and restore our humanity.

What does success mean to you? Is it measured by performance, position or possessions? The danger is, all these things will never be enough. God defines success in a completely different way, from a completely different place. Could it actually be as simple as loving Jesus and loving those he puts in our lives. That’s success from heavens point of view!