Vinelife Church Manchester Podcast

This week Phil looks at how our lives are orientated towards seeking God (2 Chronicles 7:14). The concept of seeking is reflected as we ‘crave’ God and ‘require Him as a necessity’. Do those two things resemble our pursuit of God?

Emma Hodges shares from Psalm 37, encouraging us that a season of waiting, however long or uncertain it might be, can have as much purpose as the fulfilment of that waiting.

When Jesus is the editor-in-chief of our lives we understand that we're not reading from a script, instead we're writing our own story. This week Mark explores the power in re-writing our stories and believing the narrative that Jesus speaks over us.

This week Lizete looks at how we called to be living stones that God is building together into a house where he lives. We each have a part to play in showing up, building each other up, connecting you one another and having our lives built on and in alignment with Jesus, the living cornerstone.

This week, Phil looks at how the church is built around the infrastructure of people growing in maturity.

This week Sarah looks at what Romans 4 teaches us about walking into God's promises by faith. We need to be able to face facts but be unwavering in not only what God has said but that He is fully able to fulfil his word.

This week, special guest speaker Danny Silk encourages us that seeing hopes and dreams realised will lead to a fulfilled life.

In this weeks podcast, guest speaker Shawn Bolz speaks to us about how we are hard-wired for a life lived in connection.

Phil closes out the Faithfulness to Fruitfulness series by looking at God’s design for us living a full and blessed and fruitful life, and how we steward what we've been given really well.

This week Sarah looks at the journey of maturity that requires us to be intentional about the things we need to 'put off' and 'put on' when it comes to our finances.

This week Sarah looks at how being sure of our identity is vital for us to be set free and to become more forward in our journey to maturity in how we handle our money.

This week Sarah looks at some of the things that stop us from responding to the call to be a generous people who have firmly decided that we will serve God, and not money.

For City Group Sunday Phil talks about living in community, and how your life is an open letter displaying God's heart for those around us to read.

In Matthew 6:21 Jesus tells us that there's a direct correlation between our heart and our treasure. Saying, "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also..." In this talk, San challenges the motivation of our hearts, and our attitudes toward giving. Then outlines what a generous lifestyle can look like, as we each take personal responsibility to cultivate new motives of the heart. A heart that ultimately looks like Jesus!In Matthew 6:21 Jesus tells us that there's a direct correlation between our heart and our treasure. Saying, "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also..." In this talk, San challenges the motivation of our hearts, and our attitudes toward giving. Then outlines what a generous lifestyle can look like, as we each take personal responsibility to cultivate new motives of the heart. A heart that ultimately looks like Jesus!

In Luke 15 Jesus connects us to the deep reality of a good father; a God who meets us on the road of our story and comes running to meet us, love us, restore us and forgive us.

What should our lives look like when it comes to being generous with our money? This week Santino spoke on some principles that we can put into practice from 2 Corinthians 9:6-11. He looked at the principle of sowing and reaping; that generosity is actually a heart issue - what we give comes from the condition of the heart. Santino looked at how God is more than able to provide all we need in all seasons of life, and he also looked at how what we sow multiplies and gets bigger, giving us more to be generous with. But ultimately, everything we do, and every generous act, all points to an incredible God!

This week Sarah looks at what tithing looks like in the new covenant where we not required by the law but empowered by grace to walk in Gods principles and promises.

In the second part of our series, Phil explores how our finances are a fundamental part of living a life of integrity - especially what we choose to do with the “first-fruits”. Placing God at the centre of how use our money is a fundamental part of preparing ourselves to see God move throughout our world!

This week Sarah starts our new series Faithfulness to Fruitfulness and looks at the consistent promises of God to bless his people. In this first part, she challenges us to realise that this goes much further than our bank balance, that it matters for Manchester that we learn to be good stewards of what we have been given.

Phil invites us to embrace the season God has for us, and calls us to be prepared with the right tools for the job!