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Vineyard CovingtonThe Weight You Don't Have To Carry | Joe Long | April 27, 2025Forgiveness is central to the message of the Bible and the good news of Jesus, and it means we don't have to walk around carrying all the weight of hurt from our past. Ready to start the healing process of offloading unforgiveness in your life?
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2025-05-0242 minVineyard CovingtonChristus Victor | Tyler Garvey | April 20, 2025Jesus’ victory over sin and death on the cross introduced a new reality to the world setting us free from the power of sin and shame, and at the heart of this new reality is forgiveness.
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2025-04-2220 minVineyard CovingtonThe Expected/Unexpected King | Rachel Garvey | April 13, 2025Jesus is welcomed as a king with great hope and expectation. But what kind of kingdom is he bringing? And how should we approach this king?
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2025-04-2231 minVineyard CovingtonTuning In: How To Hear God’s Voice | Joe Long | March 23, 2025God wants to speak to us. And his voice can change everything. But to hear him, we have to push aside distractions like our digital devices. In this sermon, we look at John 10 and the Good Shepherd to help guide us.
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2025-03-2532 minVineyard CovingtonHow To Pass The Test | Joe Long | March 9, 2025As we step into the Lenten season, we take a look at the tests Jesus faced in the wilderness for 40 days. Jesus passed the tests his ancestors failed. What can we learn from how he passed them that can benefit us as we continue to learn to be more like him?
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2025-03-1134 minVineyard CovingtonBare Bones: Wherever The River Flows | Tyler Garvey | February 23, 2025The goodness can’t be contained! God’s vision of healing life was always meant to be overflowing outward for the good of others, especially to the poor, the marginalized, the hurting, & the places of pain in our city. Who are the people outside the family that you’re committed to be with and share what you’ve received?
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2025-02-2540 minVineyard CovingtonBare Bones: Loved Well | Joe Long | February 9, 2025Who are the people you are committing to love well in this season? And who are the people you are letting love you? With a focus on community, we looked at how the body of Christ has different parts essential to its health, diversity, and unity.
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2025-02-1231 minVineyard CovingtonBare Bones: The Loudest Voice | Rachel Garvey | January 26, 2025There’s a lot of noise in our world, isn’t there? Am I allowing God’s voice to be the loudest in my life? One of the best ways to cut out the noise and learn to hear and connect with God is through scripture. We’re committed to tucking his living Words away into our hearts so that it produces good fruit. “I have hidden your word in my heart…” Psalm 119:11a
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2025-01-2934 minVineyard CovingtonBare Bones: A Prophetic Vision For Life | Tyler Garvey | January 12, 2025Our lives often get so full and complicated that we lose sight of what it’s really all about. Why would we devote ourselves to following Jesus? Because in him is life. We’re invited to hear the word of life, and not just hear it, but be formed by it, and join in to speak it and see new life transforming others around us. What’s Jesus speaking to you right now?
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2025-01-1439 minVineyard CovingtonThe Path To Peace | Joe Long | December 8, 2024Week 2 of Advent focuses on peace. And while we find ourselves in a time and place where peace is hard to find, people like John the Baptist can help prepare the way for the kind of peace that Jesus offers, and that we need desperately.
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2024-12-1036 minVineyard CovingtonGiving: Good Stewards | Rachel Garvey | November 24, 2024God is creator, father, and the owner of everything. He loves to give good gifts to his children so we can fulfill our purpose as trusted caretakers or stewards. As we look at 3 postures when it comes to resources, consider what gifts you've received in your life and how God is guiding your stewardship role of them?
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2024-11-2727 minVineyard CovingtonGiving: Everything Is Yours | Grant Dawson | November 10, 2024What if the thing you love so much is the thing holding you back from receiving what you truly want deep down inside? Our hearts can't serve two masters, as much as we want to, so all throughout the Bible we see God giving his people specific practices to help train our hearts to trust him fully. What's he inviting you to right now?
Listen to the song we played after the message here: Everything's In Your Hands by Mission House
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2024-11-1238 minVineyard CovingtonExodus Part 5: What's God Like? | Joe Long | October 27, 2024Throughout the story of Exodus, God has slowly been revealing his character to Moses and the people of Israel. As we close our Exodus series, we walk through a dramatic failure followed by a deeper revelation of who God is and what He does.
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2024-11-0533 minVineyard CovingtonExodus Part 4: Bear My Name | Tyler Garvey | October 6, 2024What do we do with our freedom? God invites Israel to a mountaintop experience that reveals their true identity and special purpose sealed with a covenant. Are we ready to receive that blessing and fully commit to representing God in the world?
Freedom Practice - Commit Are you ready to go all in with God? The unexpected secret to a life of real freedom is surrendering everything to the only one who is truly trustworthy. We're invited to an exclusive covenant relationship with the creator of the universe. How can you live out of that commitment this...2024-10-1643 minVineyard CovingtonExodus Part 3: Wilderness Training | Rachel Garvey | September 22, 2024Wilderness times are a training for God’s way of life, and God always provides. In the wilderness, the Israelites heard the voice of God, learned to follow him, and became a new people. The slavery was getting out of them! If you’re in the wilderness, are you willing to lose your old identity? To hear the voice of God, follow him, and become who you are meant to be?
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If we are to be people who live free like the Israelites are learning to, we want to keep...2024-10-0133 minVineyard CovingtonExodus Part 2: Know My Name | Tyler Garvey | September 8, 2024As the story continues we see a confrontation between 2 kings and 2 kinds of kingdoms. Who is this God of Israel? The God of justice and mercy. The one who creates order out of chaos. The one who hears the cries of his people and moves with the power to save and set captives free. Do you know that God?
Freedom Practice - REMEMBER - The passover meal was given to be a celebration remembering how God acted to set his people free. Take some time to reflect on the ways God has rescued you in the past a...2024-09-1147 minVineyard CovingtonExodus Part 1: Letting God Re-Write Your Story | Joe Long | August 25, 2024We begin a series on the book of Exodus and focus on a powerful encounter between God and Moses. God’s plan is in motion, and he’s asking Moses to play a significant role, but is the shame from Moses past the storyteller? Or will he let God re-write his story?
Freedom Practice - Take time to be quiet with God this week and ask him how he has re-written your story. Also ask him where shame continues to be the storyteller and how he wants to change that.
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2024-08-2829 minVineyard CovingtonThe Exodus Bridge | Dave Workman | August 11, 2024The Bible is an integrated story that leads to Jesus, revealing God as the savior of the world who comes to rescue and free his people he loves so much.
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2024-08-2032 minVineyard CovingtonSowing & Reaping | Tyler Garvey | July 28, 2024With a generous, extravagant love, Jesus sows the seeds of the Kingdom with words and actions so it will take root in our hearts. Out of that harvest in us he sends us out to join him on his mission of sowing and reaping, looking for people ready to receive the good news and see our city transformed!
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2024-07-3139 minVineyard CovingtonPersons of Peace | Joe Long | July 14, 2024In Luke 10, Jesus sends people out on mission to find people of peace. These people are ready to receive the good news and can open up doors to networks of others. So how do we find them today and what do we do next?
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2024-07-2332 minVineyard CovingtonThe Pressure's Off | Rachel Garvey | June 23, 2024Jesus’ way of looking for a person of peace gives us a framework for a pressure-is-off way of sharing God’s good news. A person of peace is someone ready to receive the message of the Kingdom and the King, someone who welcomes you, serves you, and listens to you.
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2024-06-2530 minVineyard CovingtonCore Values: Intentional Mission | Joe Long | June 9, 2024Jesus passed on his mission to the church to seek and save the lost and to make disciples who make disciples. Colossians 4:2-6 reminds us that how we pray, how we live, and how we talk are some important steps towards following Jesus on his mission.
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2024-06-1236 minVineyard CovingtonCore Values: Transformational Rhythms | Tyler Garvey | May 26, 2024Jesus invites us to grow and change to become like him and gives us the grace and power to do it! We get there not by trying really hard but by committing to a way of life walking with Jesus & others that helps us practice and participate with the transforming work of the Spirit in us.
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2024-05-3141 minVineyard CovingtonCore Values: Naturally Supernatural | Joe Long | May 12, 2024One of our core values is to live a Naturally Supernatural lifestyle as you go. This allows us to partner with the Holy Spirit everywhere we go without any hype or manipulation. This sermon helps us understand how to do this, and why our church and the Vineyard movement have embraced living this way.
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2024-05-1535 minVineyard CovingtonCore Values: Relational Hospitality | Rachel Garvey | April 28, 2024Our VCOV Core Value of relational hospitality means we prefer one another. Let’s prefer one another at work, on errands, at home with our kids, with friends, with strangers at the grocery store, anywhere and everywhere! We see the Kingdom coming and the future picture of worshiping as one family becoming more and more real as we continue to reconcile with one another because we’ve been reconciled with God.
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2024-05-0129 minVineyard CovingtonCore Values: Healthy Family | Tyler Garvey | April 14, 2024God is our father, and in Jesus we’ve been adopted into a new family through which he is uniting and reconciling all things. In a culture shaped by radical individualism and loneliness, Jesus invites us to live like a healthy family.
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2024-04-1740 minVineyard CovingtonLiving In The Tension: Palm Sunday | Joe Long | March 24, 2024Holy Week is here, and on Palm Sunday we celebrate the entry of the King while recognizing that Jesus is getting closer and closer to the cross. Sitting in that tension can stretch us in powerful, but uncomfortable ways.
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2024-03-3129 minVineyard CovingtonLike Cold Water For A Weary Soul | Joe Long | March 10, 2024How is Lent going? Today we take a moment to get refreshed and refocused in the middle of this important season using one of the most famous passages in the Bible.
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2024-03-1832 minVineyard CovingtonAbiding As Resistance | Tyler Garvey | February 25, 2024Jesus never tells us to go do it alone. He doesn’t expect us to prove anything. He pours out his love on us and tells us to remain in his love. We fight the lies and temptations in our lives by learning to listen to his Spirit at work in us.
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2024-02-2844 minVineyard CovingtonHow To Remember Who You Are | Joe Long | February 11, 2024What is shaping your identity? As we navigate the formation machine of the world, we find wisdom in the story of Jesus. Four verses in Mark 1 guide this talk, where Jesus leaves home, is baptized, and tested in the wilderness.
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2024-02-1331 minVineyard CovingtonTuned To The Music of Heaven | Tyler Garvey | January 28, 2024We were created to live lives of love, and even though so many things in life are pulling us away, we can practice quieting the other noises to become fully present and tuned to the loving voice of God.
"Help me to journey beyond the familiar
and into the unknown.
Give me the faith to leave old ways
and break fresh ground with You.
Christ of the mysteries, I trust You
to be stronger than each storm within me.
I will trust in t...2024-02-0537 minVineyard CovingtonKnit Together In Love | Tyler Garvey | January 14, 2024The bible paints a beautiful picture of a loving father that stitched us together in our mothers' wombs, and is constantly at work stitching back together all the broken things in our world. We’re invited to join in this process through a shared way of life centered on Jesus.
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2024-01-1838 minVineyard CovingtonCelebrating God With Us | Rachel Garvey | December 24, 2023God's Kingdom breaks in through the birth of his son and changes everything.
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2024-01-1820 minVineyard CovingtonKeep A Grip On Hope | Joe Long | December 10, 2023During Advent, we remember the arrival of Jesus and look forward to his second coming. How do we hold on to hope while we wait?
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2023-12-1425 minVineyard CovingtonWhat are you watching? | Tyler Garvey | November 26, 2023People watched Jesus because he lived a life exploding with the power of the Kingdom. Each of us have the same opportunity to see the Kingdom break into the ordinary moments of our real lives, and the people around us are watching.
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2023-11-2842 minVineyard CovingtonThe Kingdom Breaking In | Joe Long | November 12, 2023Jesus came announcing and demonstrating amazing good news: The Kingdom of God is breaking in to this world and it changes everything! What if we learned to live with an expectation for the Kingdom to break in to our lives at any moment?
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2023-11-1732 minVineyard CovingtonThe ABCDs of Worship | Jesse Carpenter | October, 22, 2023Why do we get together and sing songs as a core rhythm of following Jesus together, and what happens when we do? Corporate worship is a powerful practice that connects us to God, unites us together, and literally transforms us.
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2023-10-2434 minVineyard CovingtonSeeing & Reflecting | Tyler Garvey | October 8, 2023Humans were created as image bearers with a special purpose and relationship, designed to see and reflect the glory of God. The problem is ultimately a failure of worship, becoming enslaved to other powers, but Jesus won the victory setting us free from sin and shame. Worshipping Jesus is one of the most powerful ways we can practice and participate in this ongoing act of transformation through the Spirit.
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2023-10-1340 minVineyard CovingtonAdopting the Worldview of Jesus | Joe Long | September 24, 2023Our worldview is a set of assumptions about the nature of reality that determines the way we process our experiences in life. It shapes where we're starting from and where we're going. What if we could learn to see the world like Jesus believing and expecting God to be involved and interacting supernaturally in everything we do?
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2023-09-2829 minVineyard CovingtonGenerational Bridge Builders | Rachel Garvey | September 10, 2023Our church is to be one made up of generational bridge builders. We honor and seek the welfare of the generations ahead of us and behind us. No matter our age, we have a gift we bring to the body of Christ. We must be generational bridge builders if we are to have any lasting impact on our city, and that means, ALL of us, no matter what generation we come from, get to play.
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2023-09-2833 minVineyard CovingtonEncounters | Joe Long | August 27, 2023Encounters with the living God change the way we see the world and lead us on a path to new places with new people to see the family of God expand more and more. The good news of Jesus is a gift available to everyone.
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2023-09-2827 minVineyard CovingtonDevoted | Tyler Garvey | July 23, 2023God gives us extraordinary new experiences that connect us to a new family and a new way of life that leads to amazing transformation and mission, and most of it happens through a lifetime of ordinary, mundaneness as we devote ourselves to him, his people, and his practices. To what people and way of life are you committed to?
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2023-07-2832 minVineyard CovingtonBe Seen, See Others | Rachel Garvey | June 25, 2023Jesus is the good King who came to find us and free us from all the things that keep us in bondage. He sees us and helps us learn to see others and invite everyone to the party.
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2023-07-2825 minVineyard CovingtonPeople of God’s Presence | Joe Long | May 28, 2023What if life with Jesus was less about getting into heaven and more about getting heaven into us?
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2023-04-2326 minVineyard CovingtonOpen Womb, Open Tomb | Rachel Garvey | March 26, 2023Out of the darkness of the womb and the tomb comes new life. Reflect with us on John 11 and John 20 and how Jesus is with us in our grief. He's with us. He calls us. He sends us.
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2023-03-3058 minVineyard CovingtonPraying For One More | February 26, 2023 | Joe LongWe’re focused on one more person starting life with Jesus this year. And prayer is at the center of that focus. Grounded in Luke 18 and the parable of the persistent widow, this talk unpacks how we plan to be intentional, consistent, and persistent in prayer for “one more."
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2023-02-2732 minVineyard CovingtonNew Ingredients | Tyler Garvey | January 29, 2023We all need a fresh start but not just a redo with the same ingredients. We need something new – new power to experience a new life. The good news is that God loves people so much that he sends his son to set us free from trying fix ourselves on our own and birth his new, never-ending life inside of us.
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2023-02-1534 minVineyard CovingtonGiving Practice - MoneyGod's not out to get our money; He wants our hearts. He wants us to be truly free, and he knows the power money can hold over us. Living a life of giving helps us to acknowledge everything we have comes from God and to put our trust in him in a really practical way. Investing in the local church also connects us together with the family on mission around us to see more transformation and fruit flowing out.
THIS WEEK: Have an honest conversation and process with God around money to see how he's inviting you...2022-12-3006 minVineyard CovingtonOrdination Celebration | November 27, 2022A special night honoring and celebrating the unique callings and commitments the pastors are playing in our community with the ordination of Rachel & Joe. We also want to recognize and receive all the gifts Jesus gives so everyone gets to play and find their role in the family on mission.
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2022-12-3048 minVineyard CovingtonGiving Practice - Give ThanksWe might say what we're thankful for once a year at Thanksgiving, but what if we lived everyday with a posture of gratitude noticing the good things in our lives? Paul actually tells the church that is God's will for us. Giving thanks can actually be a transformative spiritual practice in our lives.
THIS WEEK: Start a daily practice of intentionally giving thanks. Maybe start a gratitude journal to take note of the good things in your life or share what you're thankful for with your friends and family.
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2022-12-3004 minVineyard CovingtonGiving Practice - Sharing Our GiftsYou are beautifully and wonderfully made, and God gives each of us unique gifts and abilities to be able to serve others. Part of living like a healthy family is everyone has part to play, and we all benefit when everyone is operating in their gifts. What is your gift and how can you give it away to benefit others? What if we saw our whole lives that way – our jobs, relationships, and calling in life?
THIS WEEK: Take some time to identify one of your gifts and find a way to share it to serve others. Pr...2022-11-1204 minVineyard CovingtonGiving Practice - Encouraging WordsOur words have power and they can be used to build up or cut down. In a culture steeped in attacks and criticism, what if we were generous with our words and freely gave them as gifts to build people up? THIS WEEK: Be generous with your words to encourage others around you. Call out the good you see in others. Tell people what you love about them. Use your words as a gift to build people up and speak life.
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2022-11-0304 minVineyard CovingtonKingdom Abundance | October 23, 2022 | Rachel GarveyJesus modeled living a life in his Kingdom with an abundant mindset – that our good father can be trusted and the good things he created don't run out. There is enough for everyone! As we walk with Jesus and practice his abundant way of life, the Spirit renews our minds to live generous and sacrificial lives inviting everyone to the party!
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2022-10-2628 minVineyard CovingtonGiving Practice - Give to Those in NeedThe things we own can end up owning us in an endless pursuit for more and more. Sacrificing to help others not only forms us in powerful ways as our trust in Jesus grows, but it also blesses people in practical ways with a tangible expression of God's love for them.
THIS WEEK: Pay attention to the people around you and ask God to show you someone to bless. When you see a need, find a way to meet it. Practice sacrificing something of ourselves to be generous with those in need.
We also have a great opportunity with o...2022-10-2603 minVineyard CovingtonGiving Practice WorshipWhile we can easily make it all about ourselves, true worship is a sacrificial act of offering up and giving all of ourselves to God. Our love, our attention and adoration, our emotions, and perhaps one of the most valuable resources in our culture – our time. Worship costs us something. Of course it's easier to do this when we learn to see everything as a gift from God... How can you engage in extravagantly pouring out your love to God ?
THIS WEEK: Practice giving with us by spending time in intentional worship to God. What kind of rhy...2022-10-2103 minVineyard CovingtonGiving Practice IntroWhat kind of story are we living in? Is it all about us and what we can get for ourselves or are we part of something bigger? We believe God is so generous with us and he pours out good gifts for us to share with others to release good and beauty into the world. Because of this, we want to practice living with open-handed generosity in all we do and say. As Jesus said, "Freely you have received, freely give."
THIS WEEK: Practice taking a posture of open hands and repeating a simple breath prayer throughout the da...2022-10-1405 minVineyard CovingtonThe Gift of Rest | September 25, 2022 | Joe LongSabbath is a gift to us from God waiting to be opened. It's an invitation, not an obligation, and it's not something we have to earn. Receiving this gift allows us to experience the good life in a concentrated time slot that over time infiltrates our whole week. How can you practice intentionally stopping to rest and delight in God this week?
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2022-09-2925 minVineyard CovingtonInvited to the Party | August 28, 2022 | Tyler GarveyThe good news of the Kingdom of God breaking into our world is that everyone is invited and there's always room for more. Jesus' way of life is so often unexpected and seemingly upside down, but it is our receiving and participating in the story of God that unites us all together as a family on mission.
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2022-09-0415 minVineyard CovingtonBecoming Something New | July 24, 2022 | Tyler GarveyJesus' invitation to follow him is an invitation to change and become something new. But not just any change - to become like him. Why? Because it’s the good way we were created to be AND it’s how the world is being set right. When regular people like you and me let go of the old and surrender to lives of love with Jesus. How are you changing? What are you becoming?
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2022-08-2829 minVineyard CovingtonEmbracing The Wilderness | June 26, 2022 | Joe LongSeasons in the wilderness can form us in ways that places of comfort can't. But how can we find hope and meaning in the midst of times of desolation and distress? If we follow the guides available to us from God within community we can make it out the other side transformed and better equipped for the things Jesus is inviting us into. (Note: The audio clears up after 35 seconds)
2022-06-2926 minVineyard CovingtonApril 24, 2022 | A Dead Man Came Back To Life And Changed Everything | Barry LongWhen Jesus died and rose again 2,000 years ago something amazing began with evil being defeated and God's loving rule breaking into our world making all things new. We've been set free and invited to a new way of being human where we look more and more like Jesus. What would your life be like if you were really free of fear?
2022-05-0230 minVineyard CovingtonMarch 27, 2022 | Being, Becoming, Doing | Rachel, Tyler & JoeJesus invites us into his transforming way of life. One, integrated life of being with him, becoming like him, and doing what he did. This is great news and we move forward by learning to see where Jesus is inviting us right now. We start where we really are, not where we think we should be. What might
Jesus be inviting you into right now?
2022-04-0437 minVineyard CovingtonFebruary 27, 2022 | A Way of Life We Can Invite The City Into | Tyler GarveyJesus invites us to a new way of living by following him with our whole life. We get to be with him, to become like him, and do what he did. His amazing Kingdom vision of seeing all things made new, on earth as it is in heaven, comes through his family living out and training others around them in this transforming way of life.
2022-03-0231 minVineyard CovingtonJanuary 23, 2022 | Made To Worship | Joe LongWe were created to worship and the father is looking for us to reconnect us with his presence and the purpose over our lives. Jesus finds us in our broken-down state and restores us to our original, glorious design.
2022-03-0221 minVineyard CovingtonNovember 28, 2021 | Practicing Thankfulness | Ray HollenbachHaving thankful hearts is God's will for us -- an invitation into a better way of experiencing the world and having our eyes opened to God every day. Gratitude is a spiritual practice we engage in that over time transforms our lives as we become more attuned to seeing the love and goodness of God.
Big thanks to Ray Hollenbach from Campbellsville for sharing with us!
2021-12-0237 minVineyard CovingtonNeighboring Practice: People of PeaceIs all this just a ploy to tell people about Jesus? The answer is no! Or maybe, loving our neighbors and inviting them into community IS telling them about Jesus. Ultimately, our hope is for everyone to have a meaningful relationship with Jesus, but it can’t be some ulterior motive for love.
Jesus gave us a strategy we call looking for people of peace. God is already at work in our neighborhoods, and as we go loving everyone, we look for people who are open for more. So the pressure's not on us to make something ha...2021-11-1107 minVineyard CovingtonNeighboring Practice: PartyJesus loved parties and spent a lot of time hanging out with unexpected people. Those of us who've found life in Jesus should be the best partiers on the planet! Most of the time we just don't celebrate or we only invite those on the inside, but what if we spent more time enjoying the hope and good things in our lives and invited the ones who don't normally get invited? This kind of open and invitational life within community is a great picture of what God and his family are like. Plus parties are one of the best wa...2021-11-0305 minVineyard CovingtonNeighboring Practice: ReceiveWe typically think we have to be the ones to give everything, but real relationships allow others to give as well. When Jesus sent out his followers he instructed them not to bring extra supplies and to accept the hospitality of the people around them. Allowing others to serve and use their gifts actually helps them feel like part of the community.
THIS WEEK: Allow yourself to receive from a neighbor. Ask for help. Accept an invitation. Get advice. Allow your needs to be seen.
What current need do you have that a neighbor might...2021-10-2606 minVineyard CovingtonNeighboring Practice: ServeJesus came among us revealing the love of God by serving others. How can you share love in a practical way to your neighbors?
THIS WEEK: Do something to serve your neighbors. If you see a need, how can you meet it? What do you have that you can give away to the people around you?
Rake leaves, make some food, help move, be home and give the best candy on Halloween...
2021-10-1904 minVineyard CovingtonNeighboring Practice: ListenOur world loves to talk so when someone really listens it stands out. Maybe one of the best ways to love our neighbors is by being good listeners. Show them you care by taking the time to listen and become a safe person for them.
THIS WEEK: Practice listening to your neighbors. Be curious. Ask questions. Learn their stories. God is already at work in their lives and sometimes we get to play a part in that.
2021-10-1504 minVineyard CovingtonNeighboring Practice: Front PorchHow often do you see the people who live around you? We can get stuck isolating ourselves inside, but when we physically put ourselves in position to see our neighbors, it's amazing how many more opportunities for conversations we find.
THIS WEEK: Practice being available for simple interactions with your neighbors by moving to the front porch. Instead of spending all your time at home inside or in the backyard, start hanging out in the front. Drink your morning coffee out front. Play a game with the family in the front yard, read a book, go for a walk, ea...2021-10-0505 minVineyard CovingtonNeighboring Practice: Share MealsEveryone has to eat. We do it everyday, and no matter how busy we are, we find time to get food. So why not use these times to invite and connect with our neighbors?
In the Bible we see Jesus constantly having meals with all kinds of people. Hospitality is a powerful way to show love and welcome people in because deeper connection happens when we break bread around a table. We talk. We laugh. And we move from just acquaintances to real relationship.
So what neighbor around you can you invite to share a...2021-09-2803 minVineyard CovingtonNeighboring Practice: Learn NamesJesus said the most important commandment is to love God, AND to love our neighbor as ourselves. If it's a priority for the amazing life Jesus has for us, then it's worth examining and practicing together.
We can easily become numb to this idea and metaphorically try to "love" everyone. But what if we took this commandment literally and started being intentional to love the people who live right next to us? It's a lot easier to love someone when you know their name.
THIS WEEK: Start learning the names of the people who live...2021-09-2803 minVineyard CovingtonAugust 29, 2021 | Praise Like Children | Rachel GarveyGod runs things differently. He chooses the weak and the vulnerable to advance His Kingdom here on earth. He uses praise to silence enemies. We are all God's children, we're all invited into the awe and wonder of this adventurous life, and we can all be empowered to share this good news with others!
2021-09-0810 minVineyard CovingtonJuly 25, 2021 | What Are You Wearing? | Tyler GarveyJesus invites us all to a life of transformation. Everyone is welcome at the table, but coming to the table changes us. Spending time with Jesus, being part of his family, and putting his way of life into practice produces the fruit of love in our lives. The point of the story is character transformation. Come as you are, but don’t stay as you are. There's so much more.
How are you responding to the invitation of Jesus in your life?
2021-07-3031 minVineyard CovingtonWhat is the Kingdom | Everything I HaveEverything I have is yours. How would our lives look different if we fully aware of all the Father has placed at our disposal in order to bring the Kingdom of God to others?
Shoutout to Dana Cochran, a Vineyard Cincinnati original for sharing with us!
2021-07-0306 minVineyard CovingtonThe Reconciling Kingdom | Joe LongWe believe the church should be a force of racial reconciliation in the world. Not seeking to justify our rights, freedoms, and privilege, but giving those things up to achieve peace. Because we can easily slip into a place where we let the world and our culture set the agenda rather than letting the Kingdom be its own distinct witness, one way to live this out is to listen culturally and respond spiritually and biblically. What does that look like?
2021-07-0231 minVineyard CovingtonWhat is the Kingdom? Not From HereThe Kingdom of God is another realm with different values and priorities than this world.
So how do we enter that kingdom?
Shoutout to @wilson_cochrane_ for sharing with us!
2021-06-2204 minVineyard CovingtonWhat is the Kingdom? Invited to the Party!Jesus invites the ones who don't normally get invited, the ones on the margins who can't reciprocate because there is a place for everyone at the table.
And there's still more room! How can you say yes to Jesus' invitation and partner with him to invite others around you?
So great to have @mellywinder share with us from Chattanooga, TN!
2021-06-1505 minVineyard CovingtonWhat is the Kingdom? TreasureIt’s like a treasure hidden in a field…
A merchant in search of fine pearls…
The Kingdom of God could take us by surprise or it could be found through careful searching, but the good news is that the treasure is available to everyone for the same price: everything you have.
What do these stories spark in your mind and heart right now? Get with a friend or two and engage your imagination as you read these quick parables in Matthew 13:44-46.
Big thanks to Ray Hollenbach @rayhbach for sharing with u...2021-06-1204 minVineyard CovingtonWhat is the Kingdom? LightningThe kingdom of restoring love that Jesus came to bring is at war with the kingdom of darkness. Now, everyone who follows Jesus gets to play in continuing that expansive mission of healing and freedom that Jesus started until he returns again.
Conditions right now are perfect for lightning to strike which keeps us aggressive, because at any moment the Kingdom could break in with power, healing and deliverance.
2021-06-0905 minVineyard CovingtonWhat is the Kingdom of God? Back to the FutureJesus taught his followers to pray for his kingdom to come, to seek his kingdom first, and as we go doing the stuff he did to proclaim his kingdom has come near. Seems like a pretty important thing we should learn about...
The kingdom is God's saving rule and reign on earth as it is in heaven. It's what life is like when all things are set right and restored to the perfect way they should be. What if you could partner with the Spirit of God to experience the future breaking into our present reality with...2021-05-3005 minVineyard CovingtonApril 25, 2021 | Upgrading In The Kingdom of God | Dave WorkmanWhat is the Kingdom of God? Jesus wanted to make sure his followers understood the great value of the Kingdom of God -- that it was something worth trading everything we have for.
What is the thing keeping you from trading up to experience everything God has for you in his Kingdom?
2021-05-0228 minVineyard CovingtonMarch 28, 2021 | I Choose You | Tyler GarveyJesus chooses us to be with him and to send us out like him. What is the goal of life? Ultimately it’s all about love. Receiving his love and expressing it to others. This is why we practice abiding. We can’t give away what we haven’t received. A life overflowing with the love of God looks like a life sent out and laid down for the sake of others.
2021-04-0226 minVineyard CovingtonAbiding Practice RecapJesus invites us to come be with him so we can learn to live a life of love. Abiding practices train us in a posture of receiving and expressing his love to the people around us. We can’t give away what we haven’t received.
Which aspects of abiding have stuck with you the most? Where do you need to focus on practicing right now? Keep going to find sustainable, healthy rhythms because this part of our way of life following Jesus together.
2021-03-3102 minVineyard CovingtonAbiding Practices: Sabbath Part TwoSabbath should be a day we look forward to all week and get filled with energy for the week to come. It's a day set apart for rest and worship. The Hebrew word shabbat means "to stop" but can also be translated "to delight." It takes some time thinking and planning to figure this out and find a rhythm, but it is absolutely worth it. Keep practicing, have patience and give yourself grace establishing this for whatever season of life you're in right now.
This week, stop working and delight in the wonder of life and creation w...2021-03-1607 minVineyard CovingtonAbiding Practice: SabbathWe were created to do meaningful work and be fruitful, but we weren't meant to become slaves to work and productivity. Our world of hurry never stops, but we can develop a counter-habit of stopping each week to rest in the goodness of God's creation together.
Sabbath comes from the Hebrew word, Shabbat, which means "to stop."
This week set aside a day or specific time to stop working, unplug and enjoy rest with God and community. Try starting with a meal to kickoff Sabbath. Light a candle, say a prayer, bless your kids or f...2021-03-0906 minVineyard CovingtonAbiding Practice: ScriptureThere’s a way of reading the Bible for relationship rather than information. We can encounter the living God through his word and allow ourselves to be formed through it. Remember we’re practicing abiding in the love of Jesus — that means relational connection and intimacy, not just gathering facts. Let's practice slowing down as we read to become steeped in the word drawing out the full flavor of God in us.
This week, practice meditating on a passage of scripture to encounter the goodness of God.
Check out the Lectio 365 app as a helpful tool in...2021-03-0305 minVineyard CovingtonAbiding Practice: FastingFasting is emptying ourselves of the things we crave and replacing them with more of Jesus. It's designed to reveal our dependence and remind us that we are apprenticing to Jesus with our whole selves, including our bodies. In these practices we’re cutting things out to create more room for God to fill and meet us in a deeper way.
This week we're fasting together! Pick a day or other length of time, and choose a meal, specific food or something else to cut out as we fast (and pray).
Remember, fasting without prayer is...2021-02-2206 minVineyard CovingtonAbiding Practice: Centering PrayerWhat do I do now that I’m quiet? It’s not just about creating a vibe; we really want to engage with God. Centering prayer is an intentional way to develop an inner reflex of turning our attention back to God over and over again. We learn to pray not just from our heads but our hearts and experience a deeper way of knowing God.
THIS WEEK: Practice centering prayer with us. Choose a word to center you on God, set a timer for 5-10 minutes (or more), and just be still with God. As thoughts pop...2021-02-2020 minVineyard CovingtonAbiding Practice: Silence and Solitude - Part TwoGetting quiet and alone with God helps us turn our attention to the father’s voice of truth and love. In that space our hearts are open and we face the fears and lies that can so often control us.
Keep practicing silence & solitude with us this week! Find a time and place to turn off the external noises and tend to your heart and mind with God.
2021-02-2005 minVineyard CovingtonAbiding Practice: Silence and SolitudeYou need a break from the constant noise and chaos of this world.
We're practicing a rhythm that creates space to silence the other voices so we can clarify and turn up the volume on the loving voice of the father in our lives.
This week be intentional about creating space to turn off the noise and withdraw from other voices to connect with God. It's simple, but not easy!
Put your phone in another room, find a quiet place, or maybe get outside for a walk. And then just be present to...2021-02-2005 minVineyard CovingtonAbiding Practice: Remain in My LoveJesus invites us to learn a new way of living life with him, in constant connection with his love for us. That's where all the good fruit comes from, but it's easy to miss, get distracted, and move on.
What are the ways you make space for staying connected to Jesus?
What are the ways throughout your days where you find yourself wandering off from the love of God?
***Thanks to the amazing Jon Pauly for creating this hopeful song!
2021-02-2005 minVineyard CovingtonMissional Practice: Prophetic WordsWhen I look at you I see...
As we go about a life of mission with Jesus, the Holy Spirit often gives us words for people that reveal the heart of God for them and how the Father sees who they really are. Sharing these encouraging words and calling out the gold we see in others can lead to powerful moments of encounter with Jesus.
This week pray for the people in your life who don’t yet have relationship with Jesus, and ask the Father to give you something encouraging to share with them. An...2021-02-2005 minVineyard CovingtonMissional Practice: Healing PrayerCan I pray for you right now?
There is no sickness in heaven. We want to see his Kingdom come in our city, just like it is heaven. Jesus gives his followers the authority to heal as we go sharing the good news that the Kingdom of Heaven is breaking in. We get to show, not only tell, people what this looks like in a naturally supernatural way, not making it any weirder than it has to be.
This week take a risk of faith to step out and pray. When you see someone in...2021-02-2005 minVineyard CovingtonMissional Practice: Serve SomeoneGod blesses his family to be a blessing to the whole world. Jesus came to serve others and calls us to take that same posture as we go to love the world around us.
This week find a way to intentionally serve someone who doesn’t know Jesus as a way of expressing his love. Bake some brownies, deliver a meal, do some lawn work. When you see a need, meet a need. Great creative and let them know it's just a simple way of saying Jesus loves you.
2021-02-2006 minVineyard CovingtonMissional Practice: Talk About What You LoveWhat are you overflowing with?
People talk about what they love, and when we get below the surface with each other, our deeper experiences and passions naturally come out. Talking about Jesus shouldn’t be weird or scary when it’s your story. It doesn’t mean debating theological doctrines or defending Christian history; it’s simply telling your story with Jesus.
This week, as you spend time with people who don’t know Jesus take a risk and share some of your story with Jesus. Let your experience with him come out and talk about what...2021-02-2004 minVineyard CovingtonMissional Practice: Be InterruptibleHow do you respond to interruptions in life?
In the Bible so many of Jesus’ encounters with people happen on the way somewhere or in the middle of something else. When we're partnering with the Holy Spirit to live a life of mission, what seems like an interruption can become a moment of life change when the Kingdom breaks in. Divine appointments seem to happen more often when we ask for them and make space to listen and be available.
This week, pray for God to interrupt your busy life with opportunities to share His lo...2021-02-2005 min