Balham Vineyard Church Podcasts

Elias shares about how God can rebuild those parts in our life that look broken. Through his story and the book of Nehemiah he show us how important is to be open and vulnerable to other and close to God so He can rebuild in our lives, for us and for others.

This is the second of a two-part, advent message. The message explores Jesus’ return and the hope we have as Christians. Kenny looks at this through three questions: What does Jesus say about who we, really are? Where is time and history going? Where does that leave us today?

As we enter Advent, Phil takes us through the earliest written evidence of Jesus' human birth to remind us of the joy and the challenge to be found in 'God con carne'.

Do you sometimes feel a disconnect with God when you’re praying or reading your bible? Georgia talks about where God is when we experience silence and separation from Him and the strength of our prayers even when we don’t see God move immediately. She reminds us that it’s impossible for us to pray and have nothing happen and that God is always with us through every moment of our lives.

Andy Frost explores the context of revival and whether God could be doing something in this time that is helping us rediscover what it means to be his people.

God is not on pause. He is still working and we are called and invited to partner with Jesus - the Shepherd - as He pursues the one! Our Commission is still the same - our circumstances are just different. He wants to use all of us - including you - so don’t count yourself out!

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” -The 2 greatest commandments Jesus gave us are to love God and love others. Thats it. In this world of uncertainty, struggle and loss, NOW is the time to be loving and serving the people around us.

With all that is going on in the world right now, there has never been a more key moment to pray. Zeke encourages us as a community to pray as Jesus taught us. Let’s be a church and a community that begins to pray, seeking to learn and listen to our Heavenly Father, contending for a powerful move of the Spirit that we have never seen before in London and beyond.

Steve shares about the nature of faith and prayer from the example of Elijah shown in I Kings 18. The earliest revivals in human history was often was started by a small group of people praying, often ones and twos, often elderly women or earnest passionate individuals who knew their only option was to pray. Now is the time to pray: Persistently, Fervently and Faith-filled.

God longs to speak to us and one way He does that is through His word. Viv leads us in a Lectio Divina on Blind Bartimaeus.

Steve shares what it means Generosity for V61 based on the Gospel of John. Also its a chance to see in which areas and Charities is V61 Church investing on the community and worldwide.

Viv explores when Simon invites Jesus to his home and a woman pours her perfume over his feet. Jesus goes after impersonal religion, instead what really matters is that we believe in Him, love Him and have a personal and profound encounter with him.

Three ways to hold onto Christian Hope (1 Peter 3.15) In the second part of this teaching, Phil continues to explore how the Biblical authors teach us how we can hold onto our Christian hope in the most difficult of times.

Building from his own search for a more solid hope in these difficult times, Phil teaches through three foundational realities within the Bible on which Christian hope is based.

Steve gives a vision for V61's future and then ways we can be Together all in. A call to stir up hope and remind us in this moment of uncertainty, that we have this certain faith we carry within us. Our family business is, and will always be, evangelise or fossilise.

Phil takes us into Jesus' choice to spend 40 days in the desert alone in Luke 4 and the significance of what happened there. He explores what it can teach us about the role of the wilderness in our own formation as disciples of Christ.

Living a life of praise is not only the most enjoyable way to live, but it’s also one of the most powerful ways to change your life. David Oyedepo says this, “When we pray, God answers, but when we praise, He steps in, in all His glory, might, power and awesomeness!” There is POWER in praise!!

Steve proposes that in all the trials and testing we are facing, God is burning away all of our the impurities in order to make us more like Jesus.

Viv talks from 1 Peter 4 v 12-19 on how God uses trials to show us where our trusts are, and He puts us through the fire until he can see his own image reflected in us. Jesus says in John 16 that in this life we will have troubles but that He has overcome the world!

Steve explores what happened after Pentecost as the early church model of meeting in Homes fuelled revival in the city. He proposes that this may be our homes could be the next and greatest model for V61.