CityLight Vineyard Church
The weekly podcast of our Sunday teachings at CityLight Vineyard Church in Newark, DE.
Episodes
As Christians, we long to hear God's voice. We look to him for direction, comfort, encouragement and more. At the same time, we often struggle with doubt about whether it is truly His Spirit speaking to us or not. Listen as Christian teaches about the importance of why the Spirit speaks to us. How we need to create space for His voice in our lives. In doing so, it strengthens our relationship with Him and transform our lives!
In the Gospels, Jesus spent a lot of time healing the sick. He taught His disciples to do the same. After His ascension, the early church continued to emulate what Jesus had taught them. They continued praying for the sick and seeing them healed! If God really still heals the sick, how does that impact how we practice our faith?
In the Garden of Eden the serpent's first words were, "Did God Really Say?" To this day, doubt about whether we can trust God's Word continues to be an issue. In this teaching, we take a deep dive and look at the evidence that supports the reliability of the Scriptures. We discuss how the earliest believers of Jesus treated, what we now call the Bible, as the inspired and authoritative Word of God. If that was t...
If you want to follow Jesus you may be wondering, "What exactly is a Christian?" In this teaching we show from Scripture, four areas of growth and formation that all Christians are invited to apply to their personal growth, in their relationship with Jesus. As followers of Jesus, we should always be in process and maturing in our walk with Him. These four areas are places of growth that each of us can continually be purs...
This is a core belief of Christianity - Jesus died for our sins. But why? Why did He have to die? What did His death accomplish for us? In this teaching, we tackle those hard questions. We read in the Bible how it explains and reveals the purpose for His death on the cross. The common thread that we can plainly see if His amazing love for each one of us.
When we read the Bible it can be easy to get lost or misunderstand the text if we don't read it as part of a unified story that leads us to Jesus. In this teaching, we learn of how God's amazing inspiration led many authors over hundreds of years to write this unified story. The Scriptures are powerful and life changing! When read the Bible in this context, the power of His words can bring us into a life changing faith i...
Jesus has been crucified and His body is no longer in the tomb. As two of the disciples leave Jerusalem, on the road to Emmaus, they are discouraged and heartbroken. They do not see how the death of Jesus has brought life. They can't make sense out of the events that have occurred. They feel lost, discouraged and confused. How often do we feel this same way in our own lives? How often are we headed in the wrong direction?
When we read the account of Palm Sunday, we see a clear picture of the crowds being overjoyed at the arrival of, Jesus. However, their excitement is based in their expectation of what Jesus will do. When the crowd discovers that His plans are different than theirs, many walk away. Are we the same? Do we try to fit God in our plans? Do we attempt to squeeze Him into our lives? Or are we surrendering our lives into His plan?
One of the great challenges of prayer is learning how to respond when God says "no" to something we have prayed for. Do we respond by running away? Getting angry? Praying less? Or do we lean into God and his strength and comfort in those times. As we do that, we will find that even when God says "no," he still makes a way.
It can be tempting to think of prayer as just an exercise in obedience that helps us grow, but really does nothing to impact how God moves and works in the world. The Scripture seems to teach something very different though. What would happen if we started praying like we actually believed God wanted to respond to our prayers?
As we look forward to Easter, CityLight is committing to 40 days of prayer together as a church family. Scripture encourages us to be "devoted" to prayer. What does being "devoted" to prayer mean? God gives each one of us an invitation to discover what consistent and persistent prayer can look like in our lives. Join us as we lean into prayer and together we will see how God moves in our lives!
When we live in the awareness of our needs as well as our limitations, we are then free to connect with and receive from God. Psalm 23 guides us to seek God in our limitations. We can then grab onto the fullness of His rest and love for each of us. We cannot fully embrace the sufficiency of God’s grace Paul talks about in 2 Corinthians 12, if we do not surrender our limitations. When we acknowledge and embrace the reality of our hu...
Sometimes it's easier to cognitively understand the truths about God's love for us. How He views us versus what we truly know and apply in our hearts and minds. You may "know" how much God loves you. But does your heart feel and know that love? Or is it all cerebral? Do we know that He is for us? Or do we think He is trying to make our lives as hard as possible? Do we truly know that he values us, believes in us...
The Bible is filled with verses concerning the power our words hold. They have the power to bring pain. Words we have the potential to remember for a lifetime. However, they also have the power to bring life. Words that can be stored up in our hearts. What if we became more intentional with our words? What if we looked for opportunities to build others up with words of encouragement? Words that we can choose to speak that could sti...
If you missed our guest speaker, Mark Tindall now is your chance to hear his teaching! Mark challenges each of us to invite Jesus into our daily lives to speak to us. Whether we are driving to school, work or the grocery store are we asking Jesus to be with us? Have we taken a pause to remember He is waiting for us to invite Him into all we do each day? It sounds like such a simple question but do we ask Him to enter into every as...
As we continue our series on how to be God's miracles in someone's life, we look at the Old Testament friendship of Jonathan and David. Through the lens of this friendship, what we find is a beautiful picture of Jesus' friendship extended to each of us. We see Jesus committing to us, sacrificing for us, and loving us. And as Jesus befriends us, we are then called to be that kind of friend to others in our lives!
Jesus teaches that He is the true light of the world—the light that all of us need in the darkness we are facing. Surprisingly, He also teaches that we are the light of the world! He commissions us to take His light to a broken and hurting world! One of the easiest ways for us to do this, is by serving others. The power of serving others is that not only does it point them to Jesus, it also serves Jesus himself! Who has God put in ...
Today, Christine talks about how Christ was sent to earth to give us His love and what that means for our lives.
Today, Hannah talks about experiencing joy in the journey of the spirit.
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