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Viva Vineyard Church — 177 episodes
Leviticus: All the fat is the Lord's
Exodus 25-40: The Tabernacle - God's re-Edening tent
Zacchaeus: Blessing or selling?
Genesis 11&12: The gospel according to Disney meets the God of Abram
Genesis 3. Hiding, blame and the practice of confession
Genesis 2. The architecture and activity of God's delightful dwelling
What God wants
Devastation. Dissolution. Samuel.
God gives freedom that money can't buy
Peace or understanding?
What are we to value?
In Christ
Why it's so hard to look out for someone else's interests
Will joy always be an ever-moving oasis?
How do we pray for other Christians?
When Jesus pokes the bear
When you still think God is a slave master
When things go from bad to worse
When God meets Moses: What we learn about identity
Exodus always starts with a groan
Grace to the humble
Drawing life from God's smile
Am I in the place of God?
Forgiveness: Joseph does it but how do we it?
Pentecost Sunday
God lifts Joseph up for a purpose
Living well in the weight of the wait
Mother's Day: Being with the God who is love
Joseph in the pit
On purpose: Joseph's story, our story. Ep. 1
Why does making Jesus our king bring peace?
Jacob: Lifelong lessons in letting go
The house that Abraham built
God doesn't do contracts, he makes covenants
God blesses Abraham
What to do with the evil in the human heart?
Cain and Abel and dealing honestly with jealousy
Made to What?
The beat of Genesis
2025 Sunday
Church: Hotel or home?
What the Father wants to talk to us about each day
Exploring God and justice
Receiving your identity as a child of God
The haunting and the arrows
The presence and power of the Spirit
Face time
Armour of God
What has your allegiance?
Submit to one another
Imitating God
Good gifts
How are we to approach God?
The wall of hostility is gone
Chosen in Christ
Introducing Ephesians & the best meal you've ever had
Exodus is always on offer
Pentecost - The transforming gift
Is faith actually denial? Is faith just positive thinking?
Hezekiah: God is my strength
Neither son knew their father...
Doing healing
God is community
Resurrection Sunday
Showdown: The Jesus Revolution v the Establishment
You can't serve two masters
How to recover Jesus' heart for community
A little talk about appetite suppressants
True prayer = the daily practice of relying on God
In a world of "Come to me's" what makes Jesus invitation so different?
How to see heaven on earth
In Hornsby as it is in heaven
Rebuilders: Opposition is inevitable for a reason
How to face the brutal facts with hope
Rebuilders Pt. 2: Are you willing? Not, Are you able?
Who creates new things out of nothing
Healing
Power without abuse
What's love got to do with it?
What time is it?
The Spirit reveals
Body life
What is the normal Christian life?
When Jesus cleans house
Pentecost - When God gives His Spirit
Ascension Sunday? Why would you celebrate that?
Witness - G.R.O.W.
Obedience - Losing your life, and a comment about puppies
Resurrection lingering: John 20
Reconciliation - The Easter Theme
The finance update
Give - G.R.O.W. Pt. 1
Helen's story
How to see the person in front of you
Tired? Why the holiday didn't fix that and what will
Hope
Getting the Bible: Pt. 7 The church
Pt. 6 - Jesus
Pt. 5 - Exile is not an endgame
Getting the Bible: Pt 4. Saul or David?
Getting the Bible: Pt. 3 - I AM has sent you
Getting the Bible: Pt. 2 - Why things are so very broken - Us included
Getting the Bible Pt. 1: The beginning
Gotta to see a man about a house, a basketball, anything
Sent amongst the people, ready or not
The presence among the people
The surprising Jesus
Jesus is among the people
What happens to the Holy Spirit on Monday?
Why would I want the Holy Spirit's gifts?
Can I trust the Holy Spirit?
Is the Holy Spirit for me?
Red pill, blue pill?
Restoration is only the beginning
Don't waste your disaster
The Old Testament - Why bother?
Spider or starfish - we choose
Feaster 2022 - The Easter Story Read by the Viva crew
How to find hope when the prognosis is terminal
The pleasures of worship
The pain of worship
The purpose of worship
Three ways to miss having your life radically transformed by Jesus’ teaching
What are you asking God for?
Don't dine out on your plank
The Fruit of Secret Place - Pt 4
How to build a secret place with God - Pt. 3 - The barriers
How to build a secret place with God - Part 2 - TIME
Why bother? - How to build a secret place with God - Pt 1
God became a baby, really?
What we're about
Getting hungry for God
Pt. 13 - Jesus on revenge
Pt 12. ReMeeting Jesus: Jesus on ending the puff and bluster and speaking straight
Why are you staring up at the sky?
Pt. 11 - What does Jesus say about adultery and divorce
What does Jesus say about anger?
When God commanded his people to camp and party and remember
Freedom Sunday
Pt. 9 Jesus and the law
Pt 8. Flavouring the world
Rethinking the Beatitudes as Good News
Pt. 6. What is the Kingdom of God?
Pt 5. Jesus healing
Pt.4 Jesus in lockdown - Matthew 4
Pt 3. Fire and water - Matthew 3
The practice of Centering Prayer
Disruption a very grand scale
Pt 1. Next Guru Syndrome - Remeeting Jesus
Pt 8 - Your life needs a trellis
Pt 7 - When the wheels fall off
Pt. 6 Rest as resistance
How to have that conversation
Pt 4. Journey through the Wall
Going back to go forward - Tooling Up to Love Pt 3
Pt - 2 Knowing yourself enough to ditch the armour
Tooling Up to Love Pt 1: Emotional health and spiritual health are inseparable
Pt 5 - Instant or real?
Easter Sunday - Getting the ship unstuck
Pt 4 - What does forgiveness of sins actually look like IRL?
What actually happened at the Cross?
Pt2. Why did Jesus die at Passover
Pt 1 - What exactly is the problem?
The D word
Transfiguration Sunday
Saliva and dust and dreams for the year
4 ways to get the net off your neck
Sunrises and Bible bingeing
Why God became an embryo
Eternity in their hearts
Pickled by God
What a shovel taught me about wonder
Alerting not converting
Compassion and authority
Where's the Viva bus going?
Honey, I shrank god - Emotions of God Pt. 1
Pilot. Go low