Balham Vineyard Church Podcasts

Alexander McLean - Psalm 139:1-16 - 04.08.19 by Vineyard 61 Church

Often overlooked by Psalm 23, Psalm 24 is the "too long; didn't read" and teaches us the importance of accepting God into our lives and into our hearts.

Kristen dives into Psalm 27 and discusses what it looks like to have confidence in God and His calling on your life, even when fear creeps in.

Psalm 139 is cherished for telling us that we are 'fearfully and wonderfully made'. We often use it in Christian culture to promote attitudes like body positivity and self-esteem. While this isn't wrong, it does miss the point. This psalm is not about how wonderful we are - it's about how wonderful God is.

Karen Hutchison- Summer in the Psalms - 21.07.19 by Vineyard 61 Church

In this next edition of our ‘Summer in the Psalms’ series, James unpacks Psalm 23, giving a fresh perspective of God as a generous host inviting us to practice hospitality as a way of changing our communities.

A message on the Psalm of David that calls us to praise and forget not all his benefits, with a testimony of how God redeems.

Who is sitting at the table of your heart? Unpacking Psalm 1 offers insight and challenge to guard, govern and grow our hearts in relationship with God through Jesus.

Elias starts with the series "Summer in the Psalms" and shares the impact that the Psalm 27 of King David had in his life through one of his darkest times.

Whilst this verse might be an evangelist’s dream scripture, it offers a deeper challenge for those who already call themselves followers of Jesus. In the midst our culture, where so much divides us, Jesus calls us to surrender ourselves to the foolishness of the Cross to meet the real cry of a broken world.

Rahil shares about the last statement of Jesus encouraging us to develop a lifestyle of abiding in God throughout our day. Relying and depending on Him for our source of Joy, Peace, love and affirmation.

Jesus declares that through Him we can enter fully in the kingdom of God, so that we can live fully in relationship with Him. The future vision of hope healing and peace that we can read about in the book of Revelation is a present reality available to us all.

Steve carries on our series on the ‘I am’ saying of Jesus, looking at ‘I am the resurrection and the life’ in John 11. When Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead. Jesus knew that by pulling his friend out of the grave it was going to put him in the grave. This is a sermon about death, suicide and the life that only Jesus brings.

Viv carries on the I am series by looking at when Jesus says I am the good shepherd from John 10 v 11-21. This is a text primarily about leadership and poses the question ‘who are we being led by?’

Holly shares about this IAM statement of Jesus and expose a world full of different ways and different truths to live your life by, and how can we trust and stand...by following him.

Steve Clifford who is the General Director of the evangelical alliance, talks about how to have a resilient faith in uncertain times.

Tabitha uses fun and abstract ideas to learn of how Jesus was the Light of the World, what that super power looked like, and how we too can harness and use that power of illumination.

At times, we find ourselves in dark situations and we can’t see clearly. Perhaps due to life’s circumstances or our own pride. This messages asks: what darkness in your life is attempting to hide God’s light? How can we as Jesus-followers expect to receive God’s hope and guidance in our lives?

Elias talks about the first of the seven "IAM" statements that Jesus said in the gospel of John: "I am the bread of life". The importance to understand that Jesus is the centre of our life, our saviour and that is actually the only thing that we need to worry about on our daily day.

It's easy to think that Jesus' statement about being the Bread of Life was a simple comforting metaphor, however Phil tries to explain how in that moment it was extremely controversial and challenging, and why it is just as challenging for us to hear today.