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Lifecraft - equipped for life
Equipping people to live out their lives as followers of Jesus
One of our main priorities at The Vine is to equip people (children, youth and adults) in life craft. We aim to provide a very practical perspective on life craft issues that is sourced in the person of Jesus and His Holy Spirit and in the Bible.
Generally you have to manage life craft issues all the way through life. They are mandatory issues: work, handling money, sex, relationships (with colleagues, friends, family), making choices, growing up, raising children, living alone, dealing with bereavement, living in harmony with our environment, balancing our lives, managing our time, learning to manoeuvre in the virtual www, removing the barriers to being who you are….
The Monday morning test. On Monday morning, 11.00am, how will The Vine have helped you handle a life craft issue arising at work, at home, travelling, with friends? Or in an argument or disagreement, when the car breaks down or you open your post?
This is not an academic exercise that merely seeks to change your mind. The aim is to equip and encourage you to develop excellent life craft skills – but using source material based on the person, life and work of Jesus. |
David Wallace, 10/08/2006 |
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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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 | | 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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 | | 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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 | | 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 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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 | | 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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 | | 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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 | | 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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| | 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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 | | 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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 | | 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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|  | The Hope that is in you Andy encourages us to go out to meet people, confident that we have something worth their while to hear. Because we live with a hope alive in us that our world can be and is being transformed by God for the better. Andy Larkin, 18/07/2010 | | Making Space For Life 4: Worship Taking the lead from Romans 12, Nik encourages us to 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. Nik Gee, 11/07/2010 | | 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. Kate Newman, 04/07/2010 |  | Making Space For Life 2: Making Space in a Busy World Sally looks at how to make space for life in a busy world. Many of our lives are stressful or busy. How do we manage to fit space for God amidst all that is going on? Sally Wallace, 20/06/2010 | | Making space for life 1: Making space for God Using early monastic communities as an inspiration, Erik looks at how we make space for God in the middle of everyday life, and what can happen as a result. Erik Peeters, 06/06/2010 | | 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. Ben Newman, 11/04/2010 |  | Why should I vote for you? On Sunday the 28th of March, we hosted representatives from the three major political parties, to speak about their ideas and to answer questions. David Flowers and guests, 28/03/2010 | | Making wise decisions David Wallace sets off our series on decision making by encouraging us to consider our ways, to become aware of how and why we make decisions, so that we can ensure that our decisions are wise. David Wallace, 22/11/2009 | | 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. Erik Peeters, 01/06/2008 |  | Choices We are told that economic success leads to choice and choice leads to happiness. What about the choice to deny ourselves and follow Jesus? Ashley Hardingham, 18/03/2007 |
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