Duluth Vineyard Podcast

We all want to receive a fair wage. We're even willing to work hard to be rewarded well. But God's kingdom doesn't work like that. Through Jesus' generosity, we can be free from having to earn our way to a great life. When we accept his overwhelming generosity, it helps us in turn, bless others.

We all want to live the good life, full of meaning, purpose, beauty, love, joy (what Jesus in the Bible calls “eternal life”). We look for that good life in all sorts of ways, but unless we let God rule our lives, it will always go badly. John shows us how surrendering to God's love, trusting him, and obeying his guidance, will lead us to that really great life.

If following Jesus is about anything, it's about forgiveness.  John continues our series on how God's kingdom works, talking about what real forgiveness looks like and how we can both receive it and extend it to others.

We are all looking for significance and to find it, we must go back to square one.  Justin shares out of Matthew on what it means to become like a child to find significance in the Kingdom.

Why does Jesus use parables?  What do they mean?  How do I apply them to my life?  Michael answers these questions and more in this message on becoming active participants in God's kingdom.

Brian shares on what we mean when we talk about the "already and the not yet" kingdom and talks about how we should respond to it.

Michael shares about how the kingdom of God actually works and how we can access this amazing new world that Jesus is inviting us into.

We all want to live life to the fullest, but our efforts always seem to disappoint.  Jesus offers us the way to find a life of meaning, purpose, and goodness.  What are you willing to pay to find your life?

The personal search for identity is one of the strongest urges we have as humans. Michael shares on the way to find our truest identity.

For compassion weekend, we looked at how Jesus responds to poverty and the poor and how we can be like him.  Brenda shares about her trip to Uganda, her Compassion sponsor child and what's going on in our compassion ministries here at the Vineyard.