When most people think about love they may think about marriage. So it is fitting that in Ephesians 5:22-33, Paul spoke of Jesus like a groom that loved his bride the church so much he died for her. Paul used this love as a comparison for Christian marriage which ultimately exists to share and show Christs love.

Welcome to Vcast where church and culture come together. When Jesus died on the Cross for us, it meant more than just simply washing away our sins. We get adopted in the family of God and become apart of God’s new chosen people, the Church. Our relationship with God becomes different and our relationship with each other because closer and better than ever.

Welcome to Vcast where church and culture come together. In Christ, we have been forgiven of our sin but we vary rarely ever look at it through the perspective that we must forgive others just as we have been. We can sometimes follow a cycle of bitterness where we believe people do not deserve our forgiveness, even though we don’t deserve His forgiveness. We must learn what forgiveness is, what it isn’t, and how to use it for the freedom of bitterness for others and for ourselves.

Welcome to Vcast where church and culture come together. Once we accept Christ into our lives we have become a new creation. We have been made externally and internally new and one day we will be eternally new. Everyday we walk in this newness putting off the old desires of our flesh and walk on the new path that Jesus has revealed to us.

Welcome to Vcast where church and culture come together. All of us that are in Christ have been given specific and different gifting in order to advance God’s message. Our gifts need cultivating and maturity through discipleship, and all of our gifting are meant to help the church so we should all be involved in the church in some way.

Welcome to Vcast where church and culture come together. Praying is one of the most humbling acts we could do. In prayer we bring out our deepest desires, emotions and fears to God making it incredibly personal. God knows exactly all of the things that you may be feeling and going through. So prayer is not what you do to let God in on all the details, rather prayer is the acknowledgement that regardless of the fact that you may be going through tough times that you need him.

Welcome to Vcast where church and culture come together. The church in Ephesus was in a season of discouragement . They were facing many afflictions whether these afflictions be testimonial, demonic, empathetic and even vicarious. However Paul, who was most likely in a lonely cold and dark prison (which would have most likely been a literal hole in the ground), writing to his church “not to lose heart”. How can we be like Paul and not have our afflictions make us lose affection?

Welcome to Vcast where church and culture come together. Today there are many physical walls that separate people all over the world, and within the spiritual realm it's no different. Many people today have what is known as “identity idolatry”. People will idolize their nation, culture, race, class and even generation leading to things like nationalism, racism, classism, sexism and even ageism. It can even trickle down into the church of God. However one day, the local church as we know it will become the kingdom of God and those who inhabit this kingdom will be extremely diverse. Because we will all be with God forever despite our differences we must have reconciliation in this life.

It is common in ministry today for many people to feel as if they are under-appreciated. When nobody sees us, God does. We are God’s workmanship and whenever people appreciate you, they are inadvertently praising the creator for His creation. We should change our perspective since attention and praise from people only last for so long, but God appreciates us and that will be worth more than anyone else’s praise. His praise is enough.