Vineyard Community Church

As we continue our series on the Beatitudes, this week we are looking at the topic of mercy. God blesses those who are merciful. God pours His mercy out on those who show mercy to others. We will unpack how it is expected of a follower of Jesus to show mercy to others after receiving it from Jesus.

Thomas Dickson will be sharing a message titled “Don’t Be Afraid – I’ve Got You.” He’ll show that throughout Scripture, from Abraham to Peter, God’s constant reassurance has been: “Don't be afraid.” Even when circumstances seem overwhelming, God calls us to trust His presence and promises more than our fears. By fixing our eyes on Him, we find courage, provision, and the assurance that He will hold us up no matter the trial.

For our Missions Sunday message we look at the importance of helping those in need, how God expects His church, His people, to fill the role in meeting the needs of those who are hurting, and how God identifies with those hurts and needs.

Join Chip, Steve Fitterer, and Kim Richardson as we report on the domestic and international missions Vineyard Community Church supports.

To hunger and thirst for righteousness is an outward expression of our desire to seek first the Kingdom of God. Jesus is teaching that when we strive to live righteously, we experience the goodness of God in a way that causes us to treat others the same way God treats us... Just, honest, and equally.

In our third Beatitude Jesus changes the focus in that this one deals with how we relate to other people. God blesses those who are humble, as they will inherit the whole earth. When we are gentle, humble, and meek in how we interact with others, we mirror the image of Jesus in a way that is met with peace. And in this we have the future hope of our eternal inheritance when Jesus returns.

As we move into the second of eight beatitudes Jesus taught on we look at what Jesus meant by the comfort of God those who mourn will receive. Mourning sin comes from a place of repentance in which we then experience the Kingdom of Heaven here on earth by way of God's comfort.

As we start a new series on the Beatitudes, we look at what it means to be poor in spirit. To be poor in spirit is the foundation we build each beatitude on, and it is a way Christians learn to live so that we can experience the fullness of the Kingdom of Heaven.

As we end our "Courage is a Journey" series, Chip talks about the importance of living beyond our past. Not allowing our past to define our present, so we can press into who it is Jesus is calling us to be.

When it comes to the courage needed to stay the course, to navigate through the hard stuff of life, pain and suffering, hurt and loss, we look and a man in the Bible by the name of Job and how he dealt with an enormous loss in his life.