Verso Vineyard Church - Weekly Talk's Podcast

We don’t like to talk about money in church and yet the whole world talks about, with thousands of marketing messages a day bombarding us with the lie that we need to accumulate to spend on ourselves. Yet what does the bible say about money, if anything? As we look into the Bible we find out God’s blueprint for money in our lives and the promises for those who follow it.

How do you respond to a change in season? With excitement and hope or anxiety and dread? As we gear up for a new school term, Mark contrasts how the world would counsel us to approach it and how the Bible lays out our approach. Diving into the often mis-understood Book of Ecclesiastes, we see that ultimately, everything is Vanity! A message of hope!? You bet.

As the summer ends and we gear up for another year of routine, Prit spends looks at three lies we might believe that can stop us giving the Lord our "yes", and some truths about who God is and how He loves to work with us.

Are there times where you just don’t feel seen by anyone, let alone God? Join us this morning as we unpack Genesis 16 and are reminded that God is the God who sees – El Roi.

Journeying through John 4 and the women at Samaria’s encounter with Jesus, we become witnesses to impact (and challenge!) of the outrageous compassion of Jesus, that began with a simple question and ended in the transformation not of just one woman but many in Samaria.

Rom 12:2 says don’t be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your minds… We experience three transforming exchanges that renew our minds as we spend quality time in God’s presence :

• Exchanging Imposter Syndrome for Position and Purpose

• Exchanging Striving for Partnership and Pace

• Exchanging Fear for Protection and Provision

And as we are transformed, we are empowered by the Holy Spirit to bring God’s presence and power into our lives and the lives of those around us.

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As we continue in our Talk Series ‘Presence and Power’ Chris offers a whistle stop tour of why testimonies help us as individuals and as a church, specifically: