the Vine with Chris Green

Does God still speak today? The testimony of Scripture is an overwhelming, "yes". But how can we hear Him speak? Today we look at Acts 13 and how we can cultivate a heart of listening by waiting on the Lord.

Every command of God is an invitation to trust and obey. You can resist. But if you trust Him, why would you? The gap between your faith and the life for which you were created is closed by your obedience to the Lord's command.

How can we tell when a new thing that replaces our good thing is actually a God thing? This morning we take a look at Acts 11 (as well as a story from John Wimber) to discover the answer to that question.

What about the “spiritual but not religious” among us? How does God view those who focus on being good, doing good, and believing in a higher power but who don’t make their home in Christianity? In the account of Cornelius we find that God sees them, hears them, and calls them to one thing…

When Saul set our for Damascus he was arguably the most violent opposer of the Way of Jesus. But on that road he encounters the risen Lord himself in a powerful way. This is for us yet another picture that God can and does break through in powerful ways in people's lives, in order that they might come to know Him.

Every person that comes to faith comes by way of a few crossroads. The second of three crossroads that we're looking at is the Crossroads of Truth. These crossroads seem to be especially marked by a combination of thoughts that just will not let us go and "coincidences" that aare truly divine appointments hiding in plain sight.

Every person that comes to faith comes by way of a few crossroads. The first of three crossroads that we're looking at is the Crossroads of Identity. At the this crossroads, we are confronted with the reality that we can't just add Jesus to our lives. He must become the very center of it.

In the first martyr of the church we see a shining example of what it means to endure in our faith. And in our journey of faith, we find that we aren't alone. We're surrounded by a great "cloud of witnesses".

In a fallen world where humanity has broken ties with our Maker, things will always moved toward disorder. Is there anything we can do about it? Today, our scripture shows us that there is, in fact, a way to undo the disorder that we encounter. It isn't through passivity, but action. It isn't through control, but service. Disorder is undone by servant leadership.

In a fallen world where humanity has broken ties with our Maker, things will always moved toward disorder. Is there anything we can do about it? Today, our scripture shows us that there is, in fact, a way to undo the disorder that we encounter. It isn't through passivity, but action. It isn't through control, but service. Disorder is undone by servant leadership.