Testimony light

Our testimony, a light the world hates

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:05:48 — 113.0MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Sunday 01/23/22 Message –  Our testimony, a light the world hates ***Video is HERE*** Share this: Our testimony, a light the world hates So far, in John 15 we have covered that: The Father is the Vineyard Owner or Keeper As such He is the One Who watches over our development It is FOR HIM that the entire vineyard even exists and its fruit belongs to Him. He is the One Who ties us up closer to the Sun, Who prunes us and tends to the ground we grow out of. […]

Continue reading
Fruit useful

Fruit useful for the Husbandman

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:16:27 — 130.4MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Sunday 01/16/22 Message –  Fruit useful for the Husbandman ***Video is HERE*** Share this: Fruit useful for the Husbandman Last week we ended in John 15:16 “(16)  You did not choose Me, but I chose you. I appointed you that you should go out and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.” The idea here is that once a character trait of Christ has come to fruition in the life of a believer it should remain […]

Continue reading
Know Vine Keeper

Coming to Know the Vine Keeper

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:03:00 — 108.5MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Sunday 01/09/22 Message –  Coming to know the Vine Keeper ***Video is HERE*** Share this: Coming to Know the Vine Keeper We are still in John 15 where we are learning about our relationship with Jesus using the metaphor from the Old Testament which Jesus borrowed in His teaching.  As you remember, the idea that Jesus was revealing Himself to be the Vine and we the branches was a revolutionary idea. Israel had always been told THEY were the Vine of God’s planting. Now Jesus is claiming that role as His […]

Continue reading
Emptied

He emptied Himself by taking

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:26:12 — 147.2MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Sunday 12/26/21 Message –  He emptied Himself by taking ***Video is HERE*** Share this: During the Christmas season my mind always seems to turn to the miracle of the Incarnation. Jesus Christ, Co-eternal as part of the Tri-unity of God, become man. Perhaps it is my years of loving the music and rhyme of Michael Card, but I believe the incarnation is something best framed by paradox. The Infinite contained in the finite. The Creator now created. The Owner, Himself now owned. The Cause, becoming the effect. The Life, becoming One […]

Continue reading
Remain in Him

Remaining in Him

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:26:12 — 147.2MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Sunday 12/19/21 Message –  Remaining in Him ***Video is HERE*** Share this: Remaining in Him Why are we not talking about Christmas? Ok, You may think I’m unaware that many times my teaching builds on multiple themes simultaneously but I’m not…it’s just the way my mind works. I’ve tried to simplify my thoughts, but when I go back over my notes to do so, I wind up lengthening them.  For example, I started out with this message last week, and in a few hours I had 31 pages of notes which […]

Continue reading