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Teaching
This section of the website is a collection of teaching notes, audio recordings and presentations from talks that have been given at various Vineyard events.
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 | Making Space for Life 4: Worship | | Looking at Romans 12 we see that, to fully worship God, we need to take our everyday, ordinary life - our sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life - and place it before God as an offering.
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| | Nik Gee |
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 | | Making Space For Life 3: Risk | | Kate explores the topic of risk and, in particular, how Jesus took risks. As it says in John 4, Jesus only did what he saw the Father doing.
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| | Kate Newman |
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 | | The Scandal of Grace | | Erik explores forgiveness on a personal and a national scale by looking back at his journey through the dramatic transition of South Africa from a violent and oppressive Apartheid regime to a democratic multi-racial society.
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| | Erik Peeters |
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 | | The Big Story of God part 3: Who do you think you are? | | Looking at the family tree of Jesus, we find a collection of ordinary people, whose lives contain brokenness, failure, courage and faith. We too are part of that same family of Jesus - not one of us is outside of God's love or mercy. All are welcome.
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| | Maggie Gee |
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 | | The Big Story of God Part 2: Where are you | | In the second talk on the big story of God, Ben looks at the Bible's description of how things began to go wrong. Yet, in the middle of human rebellion against their creator, there remains hope. God will not give up looking for his people.
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| | Ben Newman |
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 | | Where do we start? | | Where do we start our life of faith? We start every day kneeling humbly before our God, who can do immeasurably more than we can dream or imagine.
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| | Ben Newman |
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 | | Who is Jesus? | | On Easter Sunday we ask who is this Jesus who rose from the dead, and who are we to him? Ephesians 1:17-23 tells us how to get to know him.
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| | David Flowers |
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 | | Prayer: why do we pray, and how? | | Prayer is key to establishing and deepening our relationship with God. James explains why we pray, and offers helpful hints on how to go about it.
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| | James Garvican |
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 | | It all belongs to God – why we give | | There are several mistaken reasons to give and several things that make it difficult. But the starting point, the main reason to give is because everything we have belongs to God. David provides a helpful perspective to handling money and giving.
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| | David Flowers |
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| | The Good News Brings Joy | | We read how the disciples came back from their ministry trip rejoicing. David explores the way this worked then and works now - how we too can rejoice and see the Kingdom of God come.
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| | David Flowers |
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 | | Building Bridges in 2010 | | Having "walked across the room" and "Reached Out" it has come to time to build some things of permanence that makes a difference in our communities. David explores the way the early church went through the process of building bridges.
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| | David Flowers |
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| | Dealing with Foolish Decisions | | It is all very well learning how to make wise decisions. What about the foolish ones we have already made. Or what about decisions we thought were wise but where the outcomes haven't been good?
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| | David Flowers |
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 | | Making Wise Decisions | | In the first talk of our series on decisions, David Wallace looks at different influneces on the way we make decisions, and how we can make wise, godly decisions.
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| | David Wallace |
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 | | The 1st 10 years of Wharfedale Vineyard | | David and Alison reflect on the way the Lord has grown this community of faith over the last 10 years. This talk was given at the 10th Anniversary Vine on 27 September 2009.
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| | David and Alison Flowers |
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| | Following Jesus | | Nik talks about how, as we grow up in our faith, so our understanding of who He is, what He’s about and how we respond to that needs to grow and mature.
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| | Nik Gee |
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| | When Jesus met Lazarus, Mary and Martha | | Erik talks about Jesus' encounter with Lazarus, whom he raises from the dead, and his sisters, Mary and Martha. He discovers a story of doubt and faith, and of Jesus' power to resurrect even the most hopeless circumstances.
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| | Erik Peeters |
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| | The power of money 3: Difficult Times | | David challenges us in difficult times to build our financial house on the rock of the truth of what the bible says about money, and not on the sand of affluenza and debt.
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| | David Flowers |
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| | NLC talks | | Talks from the Vineyard National Leaders' conference 26-30 January 2009
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| | Anne Button |
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 | | Resources relating to money | | As part of the teaching series on money in Feb-Mar 2009 we have compiled a set of resources that you may find helpful and useful.
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| | David Flowers |
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 | | The power of money 1: why we spend | | Michele offers a challenge to us by looking at ways our hearts can be held captive by money. She also suggests ways that we can become free from that captivity.
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| | Michele Goulding |
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| | Would you Adam and Eve it? | | Erik offers a kind of conclusion of the series on science and faith by looking at what the story of Adam and Eve and their rebellion against God says about human beings today.
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| | Erik Peeters |
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 | | The evidence of design | | David Wallace looks at the evidence of design in the universe around us, as well as some of the ways in which the theory is being challenged. He points out how astonishing it is that life should exist at all, and how its intricacy points at, but does not
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| | David Wallace |
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 | | Useful science and faith resources | | If you have enjoyed the recent talks about science and faith, you might like to browse a collection of the best of the science and faith resources (books websites and more) I have found recently.
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| | David Wallace |
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 | | It's life, Jim: Evolution and faith | | David Wallace looks at the evidence for evolution, and shows how faith in a creator does not have to conflict with a scientific account of how life came about.
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| | David Wallace |
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 | | In the Beginning | | David Wallace looks at the various layers of meaning in the Genesis account of the beginning of the universe in parallel to scientific accounts, and invites us to marvel at the intricacy of the world that surrounds us, as revealed by science.
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| | David Wallace |
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| | God loves an enquiring mind | | Erik offers a kind of introduction to the series on science and faith by pointing out that God loves an enquiring mind, and that science and faith compliment each other.
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| | Erik Peeters |
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 | | Six on Sex 3: Spiders' Webs and Skeletons | | David talks about what sexual immorality is, how it affects us and our relationships, and how we can heal the damage caused by it. The article also offers links to useful resources quoted by David in the talk.
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| | David Flowers |
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| | Six on sex 2: Biblical Sex Education | | David argues that much of our sex education, whether Christian or not, is inaccurate. Good sex requires relationships built on romance, security, companionship, unconditional love and sexual love.
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| | David FLowers |
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 | | Don't Worry | | In a time of economic insecurity and worry, David reminds us of Jesus' invitation not to worry, but to seek God's kingdom first, and so to experience how he provides for us.
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| | David Flowers |
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 | | Let's start as we mean to go on | | David challenges us to start as we mean to go on, to change our thinking from wondering about what we can do for God, to asking what he can do for others through us.
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| | David Flowers |
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 | | Here comes the summer | | With the August break on our doorstep, Erik talks about holidays and God's command to us to take time out regularly to rest, spend time together and to enjoy life.
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| | Erik Peeters |
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| | We Too Can Be Wise | | God wants us to become wise, he is eager to give us wisdom when we ask. Wisdom begins with the realisation that the world and everything in it belongs to God.
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| | Erik Peeters |
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 | Evening of worship and prayer | | At The Gathering in May we spent some time in worship, watched a couple of really inspiring video clips and then prayed for next week's Prophecy and Healing On The Street equipping day.
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 | | 6. Stepping Out - Decision Time | | There comes a time when you make a decision. For some it is like a journey along which there are many smaller decisions about the direction. For most of us, there comes a fork in the road when we have to make a life-changing decision.
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| | David Flowers and Erik Peeters |
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 | | Hosea - a love story | | God loves, he watches as we turn away, he disciplines and loves us enough to restore us home again. A study in Hosea 11
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| | David Flowers |
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 | | 5. Stepping Out - Let Us Pray | | Having moved out of our circle of comfort, made friends, told our story we look for the opportunity to pray for people. How can we do this?
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| | David Flowers and Erik Peeters |
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 | | Being an Inviting Christian | | At The Gathering in April, we realised that each time we think about being welcoming, we need to need to remember the step that goes before it – being inviting
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 | | Naaman - an authentic faith | | At The Gathering in March, Mark Saxby shared how he balances being both a Christian and a journalist, then Nik looked at how we can live authentically as we follow Jesus.
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 | | A story about calling the elders if sick | | I preached one Sunday on James 5v14-15. Although I don’t understand how it works, I believe that “if we do what it says on the box” with the promises in the bible, God keeps them.
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| | Chris Thompson |
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 | | Repentance - part one | | Power to transform is released at the cross;
Therefore we need to get to the cross;
The pathway to the cross is repentance;
Repentance needs to be the posture of our heart
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| | David Flowers |
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 | | Hope | | At December's Gathering, we followed on from last month by focusing on the hope we have in Jesus.
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 | | Telling your own story | | At the Gathering in November, Sarah Byde told her story, as an example of how to share why we chose to follow Jesus, what happened when we made the decision, and the change in our lives since.
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 | | Creating Sanctuary Part 3 - obedience and humility | | After laying a floor of silence and prayer we think about who we choose to obey and who we are. We build the walls of the sanctuary by choosing to listen to the Father's voice and understanding what it is to be humble.
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| | David Flowers |
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| | Looking after it | | We start a new series of teaching topics around the theme of "Looking After It". To support this check out a short course being run at St George's.
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| | David Flowers |
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 | | Worship - our Vineyard heritage | | Ele shares some of her (and John's) story about how God called them to the Vineyard and why worship takes such central part in the ministry of the Vineyard.
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| | Wharfedale Vineyard Office |
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 | | Welcome, Jesus | | When Jesus comes to us he doesn't have the same expectations as us about what it means to be a King.
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| | David Flowers |
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 | | Human origins | | A set of presentations from various contributors at Thinking Aloud, relating their understanding of the science of human origins to their understanding of the Bible
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| | David Wallace and others |
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 | | Healing and the Kingdom | | Understanding the impact of the Kingdom of God in our lives helps us pray for the sick. A talk given at the Gathering on 17th December 2006
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| | David Flowers |
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 | | Psalm 8: Pale Blue Dot | | A talk about the amazing scale of God's creation and his love for us. You can listen to the podcast, read the text and view several attached multimedia resources.
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| | David Flowers |
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 | | Psalm 102: God hears the cry of the destitute | | Kings build forts, God build his church and the psalmist exhorts us to identify with the destitute so that God may hear our cry and come and build his church. You can listen to the podcast or read the text.
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| | David Flowers |
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 | | A Civil Partnership | | David examines the new legal relationship of Civil Partnership and discusses its impact on marriage. He explains how the Vineyard value "Come as you are" works for people with different sexual experiences and backgrounds.
The podcast of this talk is avai
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| | David Flowers |
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 | | The age of the universe | | An exploration of the scientific understanding of the origins of the universe and the layers of meaning in Genesis 1.
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| | David Wallace and Tom Cameron |
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 | | Psalms we wrote | | At Weekly Worship on 8th October, Maggie explained some of the literary structures that are used in Psalms.
We then created our own Psalms using some of these ideas. Thanks to everyone who was willing for us to publish their creations.
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| | Maggie Gee |
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 | | Meditation | | Minicab 1 looked at three ways of doing Bible meditation that all ages can join in with:
* Lectio divina
* Walking meditation
* Art meditation
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| | David Wallace |
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 | | Alternative healing therapies | | There are a huge number of alternative therapies which are prevalent at the moment. Why are they popular? What are their origins? Are there any dangers in them? I’ve researched the ones most often seen.
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| | Amanda Ogden |
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 | | The intellectual pathway | | People on the intellectual pathway draw closer to God as they learn more about him. The road to the heart runs through the head!
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| | David Wallace |
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 | | Creative licence | | A lifecraft theme where we explored creativity as a reflection of the Creator, and the "creative licence" that He gives us.
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| | David Wallace |
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 | | Covenant eyes | | Identifies the sources of temptation through pornography and what the bible says. Share some of personal struggles – and some practical ways of protecting ourselves. Our need for transparency, confession and the Spirit of God.
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| | David Flowers |
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 | | Destiny | | We all get somewhere, some get there on purpose. The big decision to follow Jesus then leads into many small decisions as we pursue our goal.
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| | The Wharfedale Vineyard |
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|  | Hebrews 12 Jeremy Cook, Senior Pastor of Hull Vineyard Church and Area Overseer of the Vineyard Churches in the North of England focuses on having an eternal focus in our lives. Jeremy Cook, 13/06/2010 |
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