06/30/2019 Revelation 10-11 Andre Franklin   Andre Franklin is the pastor and planter of Vinea Church. The Franklins (wife Terri and little girls Mia & Minkah) are native Texans who moved to the East Durham community over a year ago. Andre loves to spend time with his family, travel , read, make specialty coffee, and try new foods.   “Thus […]

06/23/2019 Revelation 8:1-5 Chris Breslin   “Hope is a song in a weary throat.” -Pauli Murray   “I wanted to tell you to have a good, clear cantus firmus; that is the only way to a full and perfect sound, when the counterpoint has a firm support and can’t come adrift or get out of tune, while remaining a distinct […]

06/16/2019 Revelation 6-7 Chris Breslin   “Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore their names are Death, Destruction, Pestilence, and Famine. But those are aliases. Their real names are: Stuhldreher, Crowley, Miller and Layden. They formed the crest of the South Bend cyclone before which another fighting Army team was swept over the […]

06/09/2019 Revelation 4&5 Chris Breslin   “Christians worship with a conviction that they are in the presence of God. Worship is an act of attention to the living God who rules, speaks and reveals, creates and redeems, orders and blesses. Outsiders, observing these acts of worship, see nothing like that. They see a few people singing unpopular songs, sometimes off-key, […]

06/02/2019 Revelation 2 & 3 Jeremiah Dodson   “Revelation is not about the antichrist, but about the living Christ. It is not about a rapture out of this world but about faithful discipleship in this world. That is, like every other New Testament book, Revelation is about Jesus Christ-  ‘A revelation of Jesus Christ’ (Rev 1:1)- and about following him […]

05/26/2019 Revelation 1:12-20 Chris Breslin   “Christ is the center and at the center.” -Eugene Peterson   “Jesus is a perfect photo of the Unseen God…The result is that he’s tops any way you look at it.” – Cotton Patch Gospel paraphrase of Colossians 1   Scripture: Romans 8:16 Daniel 7:13-14 Psalm 100:3 Revelation 1:6 Daniel 2 Genesis 1:3 John […]

05/19/2019 Revelation 1:1-11 Chris Breslin   “The imagination is our way into the divine Imagination, permitting us to see wholly- as a whole and holy- what we perceive as scattered, as order what we perceive as random.” -Wendell Berry   “Apocalypse is shorthand for Jesus Christ.” -Douglas Harink   “Jesus is a perfect photo of the Unseen God…The result is […]

05/12/2019 Luke 1:46-55 Chris Breslin   “My mother and grandmother taught me to ignore Mother’s Day (a commercial gimmick) from as long as I can remember. They loved to quote an old Episcopal minister who began the service by saying, this is not Mother’s Day or Father’s Day, this is the fourth Sunday of Easter!” -Fleming Rutledge   “Discipleship is […]

05/05/2019 Matthew 28:16-20 Chris Breslin   “Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.” -Dallas Willard   “The difference between the one who goes to rural China and the one who goes to suburban Durham is geography and that’s it.” -Matt Hoffman   “We expect a trumpet and triumphant entry, but as always, God […]

04/28/2019 Matthew 28:1-10 Chris Breslin   “Those who had thought they were alive now discover that what they took for life is death. Jesus’ resurrection creates a life freed from the death that grips our everyday lives.” -Stanley Hauerwas   “The best of all, is God is with us.” – John Wesley   “Be not so nervous, be not so […]