Village Green Community Church Podcast

For many, identity is everything. It is what opens doors, gives us purpose, and even defines our sense of value. Two prominent influences to our identity are culture and the people around us. In this message we learn that believers have an identity that is not dependent on either of these.

No one wants to be different or stand out, especially if it means being ridiculed or even attacked. But just being a Follower of Christ potentially makes us a target. In this message, Peter reminds us what it is we stand for, and why its important to maintain it.

As believers we can sometimes feel like we are living in a hostile environment, where more and more the traces of the Christian faith are being eliminated all around us. The pressures, both internally and externally can become a challenge in living out our faith with integrity. How do we protect ourselves from capitulating to the culture around us? How can we stand when everything is trying to knock us down?

The journey of the Wise Men is one of the best known Christmas stories. In this message we learn what the story teaches us about our own journey and how God uses it to shape our lives with meaning and purpose. Date: 2012-Dec-23,Duration: 40 minutes,Series: The Unpredictable Journey – Part 3,Speaker: Jon Korkidakis,Passage: Matthew 2:1-6

We long for and recognize it when we have it, and know immediately when we’ve lost it. The biblical story of Christmas helps us to define it and how to keep it as we navigate life.

Every year a cultural war begins, one which centres on the meaning of Christmas. Opinions abound; is it a season of giving, of being with loved ones, or is there something more? As Christians, we know a part of the story that is often missed, and ultimately the secret to why it remains the greatest story ever told.

This week’s message looks at King Solomon’s dedication of the temple in 2 Chronicles 7:1-10. It examines the response of the Israelites to the presence of God and His dwelling among them.

The Apostle Paul has written some of the most memorable prayers and related quotes in all of Scripture. As we conclude our series, we look at what Paul taught, and the one key he reveals that we all are given when our lives are saturated with prayer.

We have all experienced moments when we have been lost for words and have difficulty expressing ourselves in prayer. But God, being aware of our weaknesses, has given us a way to communicate even when our words fail.

In this message we look at a miraculous deliverance that has both a sobering and humorous lesson. It’s one that helps us to understand that even the early believers struggled with doubt when they prayed.

In the full and final recorded prayer of Jesus we get a glimpse into the heart of the Master.

In this message we look at the best known prayer in the entire Bible. We hear it recited at weddings, at formal gatherings and anywhere a communal prayer is needed. Yet, for all its familiarity, we can forget the reason Jesus taught it in the first place.

This message is a podcast lecture by Jon Korkidakis for an unrecorded sermon preached on October 14, 2012. In this message we look at a topic that does not rank high on most of our radars when it comes to prayer. We often think of prayer as an intimate conversation between God and us, and rarely think of it as an invitation to a battle.

In this message we look at a King who is faced with an Assyrian invasion. His prayer flies in the face of the evidence around him but teaches us about one of the most important principles about prayer.

There are two great tensions when it comes to prayer and at some point we struggle with both to one degree or another. In today’s message we look at a story that deals with these tensions, at a time when a nation and a king are confronted with a crisis that will test their faith and the power of prayer.

Where did prayer originate? How did it start or why did it start? What prompts us to go to prayer? In this study we look at the lessons we can learn from the earliest mention of prayer in the Bible.

In this message, based on 2 Timothy 1:1-2, we look at what happens when we choose to invest in another person's life.

In the third installment of the series, we learn how God takes our scars and rewrites them into a story of hope and redemption.

The prophet Isaiah predicted that Jesus would suffer terribly and be rejected. In this second message, we continue to look at the message of scars, especially as it relates to the subject of rejection. Based on Isaiah 53:1-3.