Valley Life Church

On Sunday, January 1, 2023, VLC gathered in person which was also broadcasted online via YouTube. Today, Pastor Stuart Nice shared a message encouraging us to make the most of the new year by focusing on our relationship with Christ, asking for the empowerment of the Holy Spirit, and renewing our faith commitments. Pastor Stuart shared with us these journal prompts to help us with our faith commitments in the new year.

1. What's one thing you can do this year to increase your enjoyment of God?

2. What's an impossible prayer you can pray?

3. What's the most important thing you could do to improve your family life?

4. In which spiritual discipline do you most want to make progress this year?

5. What's the single biggest time-waster in your life, and how can you redeem the time?

6. What's the most helpful new way you could strengthen your church?

7. For whose salvation will you pray most fervently this year?

8. What's the most important way, by God's grace, you will try to make this year different from last?

9. What one thing could you do to improve your prayer life this year?

10. What single thing can you plan to do this year that will matter most in ten years? In eternity?

So we keep on praying for you, asking our God to enable you to live a life worthy of his call. May he give you the power to accomplish all the good things your faith prompts you to do. Then the name of our Lord Jesus will be honored because of the way you live, and you will be honored along with him. This is all made possible because of the grace of our God and Lord, Jesus Christ.

2 Thessalonians 1:11-12 (NLT)

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On Sunday, December 18, 2022, VLC gathered in person which was also broadcasted online via YouTube. Today, Gio Serrato shared a message about the cost of discipleship, explaining that there is a give and take in every relationship, including with the Lord. When we embrace this reality within our relationships, we can experience peace.

Matthew 13:45-46 (NIV)

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it.

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On Sunday, December 11, 2022, VLC gathered in person which was also broadcasted online via YouTube. Today, Pastor Stuart Nice shared a message with a challenge to prepare our hearts to receive Jesus this Christmas season by setting our anticipation to see in a new light, to allow God to restore hope, and to embrace the language of anticipation.

In the time of Herod king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah; his wife Elizabeth was also a descendant of Aaron. Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, observing all the Lord’s commands and decrees blamelessly. But they were childless because Elizabeth was not able to conceive, and they were both very old.
Luke 1:5-7 (NIV)

On Sunday, December 4, 2022, VLC gathered in person which was also broadcasted online via YouTube. Today, Pastor Stuart Nice shared a message with a challenge to prepare our hearts with open eyes, open arms, and open ears to receive Jesus this Christmas season.

The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.

John 1:9-12 (NIV)

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On Sunday, November 27, 2022, VLC gathered in person which was also broadcasted online via YouTube. Today, Pastor Stuart Nice shared an encouraging message about the effects of generosity on our spiritual lives by being the pivot between gratitude and action, which leads to maturity.

Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share. In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life.
1 Timothy 6:18-19 (NIV)

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On Sunday, November 20, 2022, VLC gathered in person which was also broadcasted online via YouTube. Today, Pastor Stuart Nice shared an encouraging message about gratitude, reminding us that thankfulness opens our eyes to Kingdom living, ushers in God’s resources, and restores, renews, and transforms us.

Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4:6-7 (NIV)

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On Sunday, November 13, 2022, VLC gathered in person which was also broadcasted online via YouTube. Today, Pastor Stuart Nice continued leading us in exploring the pattern of prayer Jesus gave us when he taught his disciples to pray. The statements, “your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven,” is an invitation to partner with God in the mission to see God’s kingdom expand by being light and love in the world, bringing a glimpse of heaven down to earth.

Matthew 6:9-13 (NIV) 
1) Submission: 
“This, then, is how you should pray: 
“‘Our Father in heaven, 
hallowed be your name, 
your kingdom come, 
your will be done,
 on earth as it is in heaven. 
2) Petition:
 Give us today our daily bread. 
3) Relational Alignment:
 And forgive us our debts,
 as we also have forgiven our debtors. 
4) Battle:
 And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.’ 
5) Rest: 
For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. 
Amen.’”

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On Sunday, November 6, 2022, VLC gathered in person which was also broadcasted online via YouTube. Today, Pastor Stuart Nice continued leading us in exploring the pattern of prayer Jesus gave us when he taught his disciples to pray. The statement, “hallowed by your name,” is an invitation to worship God who is holy above all others, yet calls us to an intimate relationship that also desires us to be holy as the Lord is holy.

Matthew 6:9-13 (NIV) 


1) Submission:


“This, then, is how you should pray:


“‘Our Father in heaven,


hallowed be your name,


your kingdom come,


your will be done,


on earth as it is in heaven.


2) Petition:


Give us today our daily bread.


3) Relational Alignment:


And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.


4) Battle:


And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.’


5) Rest:


For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. 
Amen.’”

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On Sunday, October 30, 2022, VLC gathered in person which was also broadcasted online via YouTube. Today, Pastor Stuart Nice led us in exploring the pattern of prayer Jesus gave us when he taught his disciples to pray, starting with submission as a relational posture before God and a prerequisite to life-changing prayer.

Matthew 6:9-13 (NIV)

1) Submission:

“This, then, is how you should pray:
“‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
2) Petition:

Give us today our daily bread.
3) Relational Alignment:

And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
4) Battle:

And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.’
5) Rest:
For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.
Amen.’”

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On Sunday, October 23, 2022, VLC gathered in person which was also broadcasted online via YouTube. Today, Pastor Stuart Nice led us in exploring the pattern of petition in the Lord’s Prayer, highlighting that this pattern reestablishes our priorities and our passions when we rest upon the promises found in this prayer.

Matthew 6:9-13 (NIV) “This, then, is how you should pray:

“‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.’
for yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.
Amen.’”

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