Celebrating 2 years of Mid-City Vineyard! A community of faith, in the community, for the community.

We often experience stress and anxiety and a complete loss of personal freedom when we allow ourselves to be consumed with the things in life that we don't have or the people that we aren't as opposed to focusing on what we do have and who we are. Sometimes, we just need to learn to stay in our lane.

We continue our series on learning to live into true freedom through learning to accept others as they are.

For many, difficulties have the incredible ability to derail us. In the book of James however, James encourages us to take a different look at difficulties in our lives and allow ourselves to be formed and shaped by the Spirit in these times.

Jesus tells us that we are to love others as we love ourselves. Most of the time, we spend our time talking about and trying to figure out how to love God and love others, but oddly enough, we spend very little time talking about what it means to actually love and accept ourselves. Today, we look at self acceptance.

Everything that we are and everything that we do is because of and by grace. All of us desire to experience freedom in our lives apart from our external circumstances. Through grace we learn and experience the ways of faith, hope and love.

On Epiphany, we celebrate God revealed as a God for all people, not just a select few. In this message, we unpack the elements of Matthew 2, when the astronomers find their way to the Christ and how an encounter with the Christ sets us on a new pathway forward.

In the final week of our Advent series, we take a look at the invitation extended to Mary as the angel Gabriel revealed to her the Divine's plan for the Christ to come in the flesh. Mary was filled with great anticipation, but more importantly was Mary choice to cooperate with the Holy Spirit

The prophet Isaiah speaks of a reality in which the poor are cared for, the prisoners are forgiven, the sick are healed and those in need are given good news for a change. In the third part of our Advent series we look at Isaiah 61 and discuss what it means to stay the course of being and bringing good news as we actively cooperate with the Spirit while we wait for the return of the Cosmic Christ.

In part 2 of our Advent 2017 series, we read from 2 Peter about the incredible patience of God for the salvation of all people.