VG Placerville Sermons

Genuine faith is a total surrender and active reliance on Him. Genuine faith is a trust and treasure in Jesus that produces genuine obedience and joy!

We are able to truly worship when we encounter the authority and compassion of Jesus. And when we do, we can be changed forever.

The King who comes to us is the humble, self-giving King whose goodness makes His reign beautiful. This king confronts us with the question… Who is this?

Jesus shows us that there are people who see but are blind, and there are people who are blind who see. He invites us to see who we are and who He is as messiah.

Jesus unveils the plot of the greatest reversal story ever.  His story.  He descended to the grave, only to ascend to the glory of heaven and He invites us to enter and enjoy His story.

God is sovereign and delights to lavish His grace, not according to our merit, but according to His goodness.

The cloud of witnesses testify by their lives that our spiritual race can be completed. By faith, even with stumbles, falls, mistakes, and sin, they endured and completed the race faithfully and so can we.

God is sovereign and does what He pleases. We question Him when we miss His goodness. He is inviting us to see that He is extraordinarily generous to those who treasure Him!

When we treasure Jesus He transforms our lives and creates joy-filled, unified people within His Church.

Jesus calls us beyond the values of our day to God’s original design intended for His glory and our joy, while also making clear, His grace is available to all of us who live in this broken world. 

The mercy we remember shapes the mercy we give. The grace we have been given should reflect the grace we give. The forgiveness we have received, should shape the forgiveness we offer.

Jesus leads His Church through His people to restore someone who has gone astray for His glory and our joy!

Despising any of God's children has eternal consequences. We mirror the love of the Father whenever we joyfully pursue His wandering sheep.

Jesus warns us to turn from our sin so that we can find the fullness of life in Him!

In Jesus’ kingdom, greatness is not measured by the world’s standards- it’s not power, money, recognition... but rather by humble, wholehearted dependence on Christ and loving care for those who belong to Him.

Where does Jesus need to bring clarity?What is He asking you to stop, start, or have faith for?Don't forget to praise Him for all He has provided!

God doesn't ask us to have great faith, but to have a little faith in His greatness.

Matthew reveals that Jesus alone deserves glory. And when we truly encounter Him for who He is, we cannot help but find our deepest joy in worshiping Him.

To wholeheartedly follow Jesus is costly to Him and us. But it is also the place where we find the fullness of life!

Jesus is the Christ and He will build His church.

What we believe about Jesus shapes our life. He warns that false views lead to spiritual lifelessness, but seeing Him rightly leads to powerful new affections.

Jesus compassionately meets real needs to reveal that He alone fully satisfies. So come to the King and be satisfied.

Jesus delights to share His love where it is not always expected, and He celebrates the greatness of faith that clings to Him alone.

Jesus meets our doubts with Himself, so that our faith delights in Him as Lord and God.

Those who enjoy the greatness of the kingdom express it. So taste the kingdom and invite any and all to enjoy!

Jesus reveals that our hearts deceive and leave us dead. In His goodness He gives us a new heart that is ALIVE and delights in Him!

Tradition vs TransformationJesus shows that replacing God’s truth with human tradition produces empty worship, but true and joyful worship flows from hearts shaped by Him and His Word.

Jesus allows storms in our lives to reveal who He is and to draw us into a deeper faith by drawing us to Himself.

In our inability, the kindness of Jesus welcomes us regardless of how inconvenient it may seem to Him. Jesus tells us to bring anything and anyone to Him where we can be fully satisfied.

We are passionate about building joy-filled communities of faith, whose very existence inspires individuals to live an abundant Christian life—made up of three key relationships: a deepening relationship with God (r1), a life-changing relationship with others (r2), and an engaging relationship with those yet to believe (r3).

Matthew shows us the clear difference between someone who treasures Jesus and someone who doesn't. Either we experience the emptiness of our own pleasures here and now or the fullness of joy now and for eternity. Experience the fullness of joy!

Knowing about Jesus is not the same as trusting Jesus. Jesus’ hometown crowd recognized His wisdom but refused to TRUST in Him and their unbelief closed them off to experiencing His work. Matthew urges us to move beyond recognition of Jesus to full allegiance and discipleship to Him.

There is nothing better than Kingdom Living! Missing it is the worst, but we happily give everything to enjoy it.

God’s kingdom advances quietly and steadily, often in ways that are almost imperceptible and that may appear insignificant, yet it is unstoppable and grounded in God’s eternal plan.

God allows good and evil to grow together for a time, but He alone will bring justice in the end. While we wait for that day, we keep sowing the goodness of the kingdom!

Jesus teaches that the kingdom grows not by our control of the soil, but by the power of the Sower and His seed, so we sow faithfully and rejoice when God brings growth.

Jesus uses parables to reveal His sovereign grace to those who cannot save themselves. The hardened can’t see, but offers it to those who receive it. So receive and ENJOY!

We need to be rooted in Jesus to actually grow.

A Savior is born! God gives Himself to us, and that’s where we find good news of great joy.

The tongue reveals what we treasure. Left to ourselves, our words destroy, but Jesus gives wisdom that brings a life of flourishing.

True faith is always demonstrated by action. What we do reveals what we truly believe.

Gospel joy grows in trials; as it is heard and obeyed, it transforms a community.

Kingdom over empire.God's faithfulness is not dictated by our circumstances.

The Sign That Points to the SaviorGod's sign is meant to draw us to Himself, not to serve ourselves.

What we treasure leads to works and words.

Jesus is viewed in two different ways, either He’s Savior or He’s Satan. And it's the same question he asks us today.

In Jesus, the quiet strength of God’s chosen Servant is finally found; Jesus is the One who brings justice to all through gentleness, compassion and ultimate hope.

Jesus is the LORD over the Sabbath.

To miss Jesus is disastrous; to come to Him is delight beyond anything we can imagine.

The key to the abundant life is seeing Jesus clearly.