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VUE CHURCH
by Live Recording of Sunday Gatherings
VUE Church is based in the Bellevue community of Nashville, TN. It’s pastored by George Stull. Find us online at www.vuechurch.org
Episodes
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10.18 On Rituals (wk5) To Pray Is To Live
Prayer is ultimately the experience of God's loving presence. Something is wrong when it feels like something we should or have to do. Prayer should be the natural language of our soul. A misunderstanding lies in thinking of prayer as something that we do, rather than “What God Does In Us.” Just...
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Just For Today! (a prayer of reflection)
Our whole community slowed down this past Sunday to gather in the park around the ritual of friendship, food, and creating space to just be together. Instead of a sermon or a teaching, here's a short prayer and reflection to begin a new week.
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10.4 On Rituals (wk4) Starting From Love: Baptism, Self-Rejection & The Spiritual Life
Rituals are practices that mark moments with meaning, create connection, and remind us what matters most—and in an increasingly digital, disembodied world, they can draw us back into our bodies, our communities, and the sacred. Through the story of Jesus’ baptism, we explore how baptism connects…
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9.27 Making The Most Of Every Day Life (Ian Watson)
Ian Watson our special guest from the UK and Kendal Beard's father taught from the book James: What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes-so make the most of every day.
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9.20 On Rituals (wk3) Foot-washing & The Ritual of Friendship
Rituals are powerful practices that shape our well-being, deepen relationships, signal belonging, and help us mark the moments that matter. Jesus gave his followers rituals such as Eucharist, baptism, prayer, and foot-washing, all pointing toward a life marked by love, friendship, hospitality…
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9.13 On Rituals (wk2) Eating & Drinking: A Natural Sacrament
Rituals give shape and significance to our time, relationships, and shared experiences—and people are returning to them because they work. In this conversation, George explores the profound meaning of shared meals, from the early church’s practice of “breaking bread together” to the way food...
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9.6 On Rituals (wk1) Absolute Necessities for a Modern World
George explores why rituals matter—not simply as religious traditions or routines, but as practices that give shape, meaning, and belonging to our everyday lives. From morning coffee and shared family habits to Sabbath, prayer, and worship, rituals can sustain the heart, strengthen relationships,...
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8.23 Moments of Surrender (wk3) Prayer Ropes & Haikus
Debbie Stull shares about some of her experiences on a recent study break and spiritual pilgrimage to discover some new practices. What happens when the faith you inherited taught you to approach God through fear, and life eventually leaves you desperate for a different way to pray? In a…
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8.16 Moments of Surrender (wk2) Flowers, Birds, Warp & Woof
Jesus invites us to look at the birds and flowers to see how they are cared for and grow to calm our anxious hearts. Inspite of all that is wrong, there is more good going on around us if we will only look at them. Creation remind us that we are being sustained by love and we too can flourish in...
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8.9 Moments of Surrender (wk1) Place to Stand When My Feet are Sore
Our lives are full of moments of surrender. What is a moment of surrender and to whom do we turn to find our place of standing when we don’t know what to do? The prophet, poet, preacher, and singer Bono of U2 says it's this: The moment of surrender is the moment you choose to lose control of your...
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7.26 Charge It To Me (Unmerited Kindness)
Kendal Beard - the apostle Paul shows us the power of kindness when he asks Philemon to forgive and welcome back his runaway slave, Onesimus, as a brother. In this teaching Kendal emphasizes the importance of kindness, even towards those who have wronged us, and how it can lead to repentance and...
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[POEM]: God of quarks, quantums, protons, & the poet's psalm
A poem by Joshua Luke Smith as read by Jason Campbell. Oh God, my thoughts of you have been too small, and they have been too few. Lift my eyes, so I can see you Above my cynicism, and the sin that sinks beneath my bones, blood, muscles, and sinew Remind me that I am in you. And in everything I...
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7.19 Whisper of God (in a noisy world)
Lee Beard — Our modern world is "noisy," filled with constant distractions and information overload. In contrast, Isaiah 30:15 invites us into a "quietness" where we discover strength and guidance in God's whisper, drawing us closer to God's heart and voice.
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7.12 Divine Therapy: The Church as a Safe Place to Talk About Mental Health
Mary Ann Green, a licensed professional counselor and registered dietitian, discusses the importance of addressing mental health within the church community. She highlights the prevalence of mental health issues, including depression and anxiety, and emphasizes the need for the church to be a…
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6.28 Sacred Conversations + Honest Questions (wk4) Why The Horrendous Death Of Jesus?
Why wouldn’t God find or use a different option than a horrendous death for his Son? Jesus’ Death is best understood not as God demanding payment through violence, but as the consequence of Jesus’ radical life of love, forgiveness, and justice confronting the powers of his day, revealing the...
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6.21 Sacred Conversations + Honest Questions (wk3) Reading The Bible Literally
The Bible is a diverse collection of writings that invites a lifetime of thoughtful study, requiring attention to genre, historical context, and the perspectives of its authors. Rather than reading it as a flat, static, dropped-out-of-heaven-from-God book, we are reading it more faithful when we...
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6.14 Sacred Conversations + Honest Questions (wk2) Politics & Peacemaking
This conversation explored how politics and faith can both serve the common good—politics by organizing our shared life and religion by bringing people together. Centered on the teaching of Jesus, George emphasized that while ideas and information matter, lasting transformation come through love...
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6.7 Sacred Conversations + Honest Questions (wk1) God, Heaven, What Follows Death?
This conversation explores honest questions about God, heaven, and life after death, presenting God not as a doctrine to master but as the love, grace, and goodness that draw us toward deeper humanity. Heaven is described less as a distant destination and more as God's renewing presence breaking...
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5.31 Resurrectional (wk6) Death Nor The Tyrant Has The Last Word
The resurrection of Jesus is not just about life after death but about a new reality beginning now—one where love, forgiveness, and restoration reshape how we live and relate to others. Through Jesus’ gracious restoration of Peter in John 21, we see how death and redemptive violence no longer…
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5.24 [Conversation] Buc-ee's, Upluggling, & Rest
Debbie Stull-This reflection uses the surprising cultural phenomenon of Buc-ee's as a doorway into a deeper conversation about exhaustion, distraction, and the human longing for true rest. By comparing road trips, social media, and modern life, it argues that while we often seek stimulation, what...
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5.17 Resurrectional (wk5) You Can't Stay Here
If you celebrate Christ's resurrection only one day a year, we may be missing something really BIG. The end of Matthew's gospel invites us into the meaning and wonder of it all. At the heart of this story is the belief that in Jesus' resurrection a new world is being brought into existence and we...
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5.10 Resurrectional (wk4) What Comes Next Is Very Important
Kendal Beard-Following his resurrection Jesus introduces us to a different kind of power, no grandiose exit from the tomb or dramatic appearance but a presence that wants to walk, talk and eat with us, a steady, faithful, consistent power that sustains and gives life.
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4.26 Resurrectional (wk3) Questions Thinking Christians Ask
As we continue to explore resurrectional life on the other side of Easter Sunday, George explored some questions from our community about the resurrection stories in the Bible, teaching us to practice holding doubt and faith together in the same way they are held in the scripture.
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4.19 Resurrectional (wk2) making room for doubt & faith
This episode explores how doubt and faith work together (Thomas’ honest response), and the need for communities that hold questions with compassion as we move toward living unafraid. Eastertide’s 50 days celebrate the resurrection as a life-changing, joy-filled reality of Jesus’ presence with us...
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4.12 Resurrectional (wk1) Paschaltide
George introduced us to the practice of Paschaltide, which is a period of unmitigated joy celebrated in many churches around the world during the “fifty days OF Easter.” Easter and Jesus’ resurrection are more than just a historical event we talk about on one Sunday each year; they are a daily,...
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4.5 An Easter Sermon Without A Title!?
Easter is about what it means to be human—for everyone. And asks the question: "What is the better way to live?" Because resurrection says that what we do with our lives now matters. *SONG CREDIT: "Wait" by Matt Maher
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3.29 Palm Sunday (not what I ordered)
Lee Beard teaches us from John 12 about what the people of Israel were expecting of Jesus and how we also bring our own expectations to Jesus sometimes leading to disappointment.
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3.22 40 Days to Wander (wk5) Who's Searching For Who?
The biblical story is portrayed as a continual journey—of wandering, searching, leaving, and returning—where faith is an ongoing pilgrimage of the heart rather than loyalty to a fixed shrine. Drawing on Abraham Joshua Heschel’s idea in God in Search of Man, George suggest that God is actively...
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3.15 40 Days to Wander (wk4) Freedom to Improvise
Jesus, in Luke 4, returns to his hometown and reveals a vision of God centered on inclusion, compassion, and transformation rather than vengeance, even omitting violent language from his own sacred scripture and simplifying religious law to focus on love. When Jesus points out that God has...
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3.8 40 Days to Wander (wk3) Holy Curiosity
Kendal Beard's teaching this Sunday explored Jesus' holy curiosity as a child to listen and ask questions of the teachers in the temple.
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3.1 40 Days to Wander (wk2) Rooted, Not Showy or Spectacular
Our Temptation is to think that knowing ourselves is unimportant in knowing God. But from the earliest days of the church, Knowing God and Knowing Self are interdependent. This is ancient Christian understanding. In this teaching, George lead us in some observations of Luke 4 to see what we can...
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2.22 40 Days to Wander (And Why You Should)
Does the spiritual life look like an arrow that points up and to the right? Or does it look more like following a winding course & exploring a non-linear path that looks a lot like wandering. In this Lenten season, we are being invited to a kind of wandering that moves us toward God and the gift…
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2.15 Ordinary Time (wk3) Little More Like Love
The letter to the Ephesians offers a sweeping vision of God’s plan for the world—revealing Jesus, redefining humanity, and forming an “impossible” community rooted and established in love. In Ephesians 3:16–19, Paul prays that believers would grasp the depth of Christ’s love, because history…
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1.18 Ordinary Time (wk2) Salvation's Many Angles
A new year invites us to return to the heart and to a “lessening” that strips away excess so we can rediscover who we are becoming in Christ rather than what we achieve. Drawing on Ephesians and Galatians, it centers on grace as the core of the gospel—being loved exactly as we are—and calls us to...
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1.11 Ordinary Time (wk1) Bald and Unburdened
Early Christian reflection centers on the conviction that “in Christ” every thing is being held together. Rooted in God’s love and articulated in texts like Ephesians, we get a bird's-eye-view of God, the world, Jesus, the church, the meaning of salvation, and what it means to be genuinely human....
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12.24 Christmas Eve at Dream Streets
Live recording of the reflection and candle-lighting part of our Christmas Eve gathering at Dream Streets in Nashville, TN. May your hearts be full and your days be long filled with the light and love of Christ Merry Christmas to you all SLIDE GEORGE READ IN OUR GATHERING “We want life to have...
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12.21 Architecture of Joy (wk 3) a revolutionary christmas
The Christmas story announces a new kind of joy rooted in the reality of hope and imagination, not power or coercion: a Savior born who redefines lordship through love, humility, and peace rather than violence or control. In a world that proclaimed Caesar as savior and lord, Jesus’ birth offered…
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12.14 Architecture of Joy (wk 2) cosmic significance
Joy is the response to the gift that is life. This Advent invitation calls us to reclaim joy as a daily choice and a gift from God that makes life worth living. In this teaching George continues a conversation on the nature and obstacles of joy. HERE'S SOME NEWS: Scientific studies are…
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12.7 Architecture of Joy (wk1) every permissible thing
From its very beginning, Christianity has been the proclamation of joy as read in the Christmas story of the gospel of Luke. Joy is a spacious way of seeing the world—one that embraces the full, messy, beautiful fabric of human experience. It stands in sharp contrast to cynicism, which shrinks…
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11.23 Country Roads, Eucharist, & Everyone’s Longing for Belonging
In this teaching and practice George explores humanity’s universal longing for belonging—a longing expressed in a song, fulfilled at Christ’s table, and embodied through the shared meal that unites us beyond what divides us. The Eucharist forms us into people who share ourselves with others,...
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11.9 What Direction Is Heaven Traveling?
Throughout the Gospels, Jesus repeatedly uses one particular phrase: “the Kingdom of Heaven.” It seems important to what Jesus was trying to teach us—that heaven and earth overlap and interlock in a number of different ways. While the Bible doesn’t give us many explicit descriptions of Heaven,...
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11.2 KAVOD & Sacred Smallness
Psalm 19, Psalm 8, and Romans 8 invite us to see God’s glory—Kavod—in the vastness of creation and the dignity of humanity. As the James Webb Space Telescope unveils the universe’s breathtaking scale, we’re reminded that feeling small can be sacred, connecting us to something infinitely greater....
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10.26 Listening to the Hieroglyphics of Our Lives
God is the mystery and love at the center of reality that we call our lives, and we are here to pay attention to that! Because God speaks through the hieroglyphics of the things that happen in our actual lives. At the Eucharist table, we experience that God works through life, through people, and...
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10.19 (Sight) Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
Kendal Beard-your calling as a follower of Jesus is to truly see people and love them. In this teaching Kendal talks with us about how to see a person and names some common things hindering us from seeing others. SLIDE KENDAL READ IN OUR GATHERING “The quality of our lives and the health of…
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10.13 (Humanity) Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
Drawing from Genesis and teachings of Jesus and Paul, it presents the view that being human means being made in God's image—infused with dignity, worth, and goodness. Rather than escaping our humanity to become holy, we reflect divine love by embracing it fully, with compassion and generosity....
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9.28 (Generosity) Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
Generosity is more than giving material resources—it is a flow of life itself. Rooted in the prefix gen which means to produce, create, bring to life, generosity opens our hearts to both give and receive. Jesus lived in this flow (Philippians 2:5–9), showing us that the most beautiful form of...
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9.21 (Prayer) Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
Prayer is often thought of as something distant, lofty, or formal. But in truth, as Richard Foster reminds us, countless people pray far more than they know. Prayer weaves through ordinary life—in laughter, conversations, work, play, and love. As Henri Nouwen put it so simply: to pray is to live....
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9.14 (Wisdom) Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
Today we’ll explore how wisdom of the heart helps us live well. The ancient wisdom writings of Proverbs speaks to issues we still face—violence, not just as force but as injustice and cruelty; the power of words to heal or harm; and the wisdom needed for friendship, marriage, family, and peace.…
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9.7 (Ambition) Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
Ambition is a gift and needs a proper place in our lives. When it seeks power alone, it leaves us empty—but when rooted in love, service, and God’s glory, it becomes magnanimity (“greatness of soul”), helping us live with courage, gratitude, and joy. SLIDES GEORGE READ IN OUR GATHERING “I am not...
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8.24 (Community) Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
Community is where our shared image of God, personal freedom, and responsibility to one another come together to bless the world. Our experience of God is both personal and relational: not solely or primarily based on the authority of someone else, but also lived best in connection with others.…
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VUE Church is based in the Bellevue community of Nashville, TN. It’s pastored by George Stull. Find us online at www.vuechurch.org
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