Vintage Grace's Podcast

The joy of Jesus is for everyone because it occurs by grace through faith alone. Joy comes from trusting in and fully relying on what Christ has done through his life, death and resurrection every moment of every day as we live in community on mission together.  

Paul teaches that faith in Jesus alone is the only basis of our being justified and declared righteous. He shows us that this has been God’s plan from the beginning by pointing to two of the biggest witnesses of the Old Testament.

New Year, Same Vision: 
Faithfully follow y(our) Rabbi (our Father). Invite others into the journey, start with prayer for His Glory & our Unity, & be ready for action!  The Spirit is moving & lives are eternally being changed!

Why behind the what of Prayer

If you lose your WHY then you lose your WAY
The depth of your WHY determines the length of your WHAT
WHO > How

Worldly Hope: desire for something- wishing on a star, crossing fingers, sending up empty prayers
Biblical Hope: trusting & waiting expectantly and with certainty
We experience hope by looking for God in our gaps, giving God the entirety of our gaps, and trusting Jesus as the solution to our gaps.

The message of hope in Zechariah is not just for the people of God in antiquity, it means hope for us today. We have hope in the Messiah, God helps us make sense of our past and see him in it, and God gives us a picture of the future that helps us hold onto hope, even in the darkest times.

When we lose our why, we will faithfully lose our way; this is true of Israel and true of me and you. God's grace does not give up on Israel then, or us now and it is His mercy that gives us HOPE.  We are all in the middle of the greatest redemption story of ALL time, and we get the privilege of being used by Him to bring the Kingdom to Sacramento as it is in Heaven.

Israelites regathered and rebuilt after a season of exile. Though we weren’t exiled, we have regathered the past couple years and can learn from the lessons of the Israelites. May we, like them, remember God’s past faithfulness, and may it motivate us to press on in overwhelming seasons. Hold fast to the the truth that He is going to rebuild. The final product is not only worth it, but the process of journeying with Him is for His glory, our good, and a watching world!

God’s justice and His love collide in the cross. God’s righteous demand that sin be punished runs straight into His love for us. 
The inevitable result of this collision is the death of Jesus, and unity with God for us! 
Paul gives us 3 implications of what this great love does for us: humility, unification and righteous living.

The righteousness of God, that we heard about in the Old Testament, is now on full display in the person and work of Jesus. None of us are better than any of us and all of us fail to measure up to God's perfect standard. The good news is that God has made us right with Him through Jesus, so that everyone would know that our standing with God depends on faith alone.