Mar 3, 2019
2019-03-03 Worship Through Holiness
Series: Worship: It Goes Beyond Church
(Romans 12:1-3)
Personal holiness has become an unpopular subject in Western Christianity for a number of reasons. We've forgotten that the pursuit of personal holiness is the same as the pursuit of personal Christ-likeness! Holiness isn't an achievement. Holiness is a form of active, living, personal worship that occurs as we allow the Holy Spirit to make us more like Jesus in every area and relationship in our lives.
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- Mar 3, 20192019-03-03 Worship Through Holiness
Mar 3, 20192019-03-03 Worship Through HolinessSeries: Worship: It Goes Beyond Church(Romans 12:1-3)Personal holiness has become an unpopular subject in Western Christianity for a number of reasons. We've forgotten that the pursuit of personal holiness is the same as the pursuit of personal Christ-likeness! Holiness isn't an achievement. Holiness is a form of active, living, personal worship that occurs as we allow the Holy Spirit to make us more like Jesus in every area and relationship in our lives.
- Feb 24, 20192019-02-24 Worship Through Work
Feb 24, 20192019-02-24 Worship Through WorkSeries: Worship: It Goes Beyond Church(Ecclesiastes 9:10)We spend more of our waking time at our work than on any other activity in our lives! Our work should be transformed into the greatest act of worship that we have at our disposal. God wants us to learn how to integrate our work-life into our faith-life so that our work changes from being labor or a profession to being worship.
- Feb 17, 20192019-02-17 Worship Through Praise
Feb 17, 20192019-02-17 Worship Through PraiseSeries: Worship: It Goes Beyond Church(Psalm 150)We limit ourselves whenever we confine our praise of God to a few minutes in church. Since praise is part of worship and worship of God reaches into every area of our lives, praise of God is meant to fill and flood every part, every activity, and every occasion of our lives!
- Feb 10, 20192019-02-10 Worship Through Giving
Feb 10, 20192019-02-10 Worship Through GivingSeries: Worship: It Goes Beyond Church(2Samuel 24:18-25)Since our worship of God goes beyond the church and touches every area of our lives our worship of God is also reflected in our giving! God wants us to become worshippers by becoming Givers - being a Giver isn't about the act of giving, but the attitude behind our giving.
- Jan 27, 20192019-01-27 Worship Through Obedience
Jan 27, 20192019-01-27 Worship Through ObedienceSeries: Worship: It Goes Beyond Church(1Samuel 15)Obedience is one of the most difficult topics to preach on because disobedience has been instilled in our hearts as the first sin of humanity and enshrined in our culture as a near-virtue. This makes our obedience of God the purest form of worship we can possibly give to God - AND - this makes our disobedience of God the worst form of anti-worship we can give God.
- Jan 20, 20192019-01-20 Ready!
Jan 20, 20192019-01-20 Ready!Series: 2019 - Special MessagesREADY!(Exodus 12 & 13)Why is it that so many Christians always seem to be getting ready, but seldom actually doing what they're getting ready for?In this special message, Pastor Matt takes a look at Exodus chapters 12 & 13 for FOUR areas where God has already gotten His people ready to do anything that the life of faith in following Jesus requires!
- Jan 13, 20192019-01-13 Worship, It Goes Beyond Church
Jan 13, 20192019-01-13 Worship, It Goes Beyond ChurchSeries: Worship: It Goes Beyond Church(John 4:19-24)At the beginning of this series, Pastor Matt takes a look at Jesus' teaching on what true worship is and where true worship occurs. Worship of God must move beyond the four walls of the church and spill over into every area of our lives.
- Jan 6, 20192019-01-06 Faith for A Million Problems
Jan 6, 20192019-01-06 Faith for A Million ProblemsSeries: A Festival of Faith(2Chronicles 14:8-15)It isn't always the BIG problem that overwhelms us and challenges our Faith in God - its the constant, nagging presence of a million little problems that do! Together, these problems add up to a problem that is beyond our natural resources and abilities - it is at these times that we need to discover Faith for A Million Problems!Vineyard Assembly of God is a growing church - so much so that we've outgrown our current facilities. We have an architect's plan for a modest expansion, but with costs here on the island of Martha's Vineyard, the total plan is budgeted at one-million dollars. Vineyard Assembly of God is believing God for a Million-Dollar Miracle!
- Dec 30, 20182018-12-30 How to Pray for Faith
Dec 30, 20182018-12-30 How to Pray for FaithSeries: A Festival of Faith(Luke 17:1-6)We all want to know "How To" do or obtain something. Most Christians want to know "How To" pray for faith - but it is important to realize that when the Apostles prayed and said to Jesus, "Increase our faith!" they were doing so after hearing Jesus' teaching on the high morality and heart-change he expects of all His followers. In this message, we learn what to expect and how to pray for the faith we need to live life the way Jesus expects us to.
- Dec 16, 20182018-12-16 Real Faith
Dec 16, 20182018-12-16 Real FaithSeries: A Festival of Faith(1Peter 1:3-9)Sometimes its easy to detect the counterfeit, the fake - other times, it isn't so easy to detect the difference between the Real and the Fake, the Genuine and the Counterfeit. As Christians, our faith in God is often diluted by faith in faith, faith in self, faith in other people or other things other than in Jesus Christ. This is why God uses the difficulties of our life to refine our faith in Him.
- Dec 9, 20182018-12-09 When Faith Grows Up
Dec 9, 20182018-12-09 When Faith Grows UpSeries: A Festival of Faith(Hebrews 11:24-27)We begin our life with God through faith in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. This is our "mustard-seed" of faith that is meant to grow-up. As Moses grew in faith in God, he successfully passed through three major stages of spiritual growth - each stage leading him ever closer to God! We are called as faith-followers of Jesus to allow our faith in God to grow-up in the same way.
- Dec 2, 20182018-12-02 The Birthplace of Faith
Dec 2, 20182018-12-02 The Birthplace of FaithSeries: A Festival of Faith(Romans 10:9-17)Often, Christians are needlessly stressed by the thought that they lack the faith they need for a miracle, a healing, a breakthrough, a deliverance, etc. Since faith is not a force, but a strong persuasion about who Jesus Christ is, then every believer in Jesus Christ already has a "mustard-seed" of faith birthed in their hearts. Faith doesn't need to be obtained - faith needs to be grown!
- Nov 25, 20182018-11-25 The Answer of Faith
Nov 25, 20182018-11-25 The Answer of FaithSeries: A Festival of Faith(Hebrews 11:1)God did not leave us in ignorance about what faith is - He gave us the answer in Hebrews 11:1. Since faith is absolutely essential to living the Christian life, in this message, Pastor Matt begins this series on Faith by exploring how the Bible defines faith - not as a Force or Power to be tapped into, but as a Persuasion to be believed and lived.
- Nov 11, 20182018-11-11 A Challenging Word About Prayer
Nov 11, 20182018-11-11 A Challenging Word About PrayerSeries: A Harvest of Prayer(Ephesians 6:18-20)In this passage there are a total of FOUR encouragements to prayer. THREE of them are about praying for others (intercessory prayer) instead of praying for ourselves all the time. Prayer is the greatest tool Christians have for effecting change because God involves Himself in our prayers. Through intercessory prayer, we're able to challenge and defeat the hindrances, oppositions, and weaknesses that work against the Good News of Jesus Christ.
- Nov 4, 20182018-11-04 A Comforting Word About Prayer
Nov 4, 20182018-11-04 A Comforting Word About PrayerSeries: A Harvest of Prayer(Psalm 34)This Psalm celebrating God's faithfulness in answering prayer was written about a very embarrassing situation in King David's life. The good news is that God doesn't look at the glory of our performance - God looks at the sincerity of our hearts when we pray! All of us have made mistakes and poor choices that we're ashamed of - but we can't let those mistakes and poor choices negatively impact our prayer-relationship with God.