Why Celebrate Christmas And Advent?
WHY CELEBRATE ADVENT & CHRISTMAS? By Dan Wilt for the Vineyard Digital Membership “It’s the most wonderful time of the year…” ring the words of an old Christmas song. But why? Why does celebrating Christmas, and the season of Advent that leads up to it, matter? Yearly Rhythms Help Us Remember In the early centuries of the […]
Vineyard Stories: The Path To True Peace
The Path To True Peace As I look at my journey with the Lord, it is apparent that God has led my wife Penny and I into different seasons in which He teaches us new lessons about who He is and helps us to see who we are. Clearly one of those seasons began for […]
Everyone Gets To Play – Lessons From Nehemiah
[This article is excerpted from a sermon by Kathy Maskell to the Blue Route Vineyard. Kathy also leads our Vineyard Justice Network.] The Story Of Nehemiah In the Old Testament, there’s a story of a Jewish leader named Nehemiah who really models a way for us to understand the relationship between how our God-inspired ideas […]
A Christmas Greeting From Phil And Jan Strout
[ytp_video source=”mAMWsHmzG_w”] A Christmas Greeting From Phil & Jan Strout Phil and Jan Strout share a word on Christmas for all of us and our congregations. Take a few minutes to listen, and have a wonderful Christmas from all of us here at Vineyard USA!
Training Leaders To Care For Their Own Spiritual Formation
As I think about the formation of a leader, I am aware that there are three ideas around which I constantly revolve in everything I do (and our church does) as we train and build leaders. Helping Leaders Own Their Spiritual Development To help our leaders own their own spiritual growth process, we need to […]
Leadership Worth Multiplying
There are no two ways about it. To have a growing church community means that leaders will need to be reproduced. And whether a leader is teaching 5th graders in a Sunday School classroom, or leading worship with a team in front of hundreds (or thousands) of people, there are certain characteristics worth multiplying in […]
HLI: Raising Young Leaders
The Heroic Leadership Institute is raising a generation of risk-taking leaders whose identity is rooted in the Father’s love. They exist to serve the Vineyard movement and to create a path for the young leaders. Each site gives students a feel for the many ways that revival can impact a community. HLI works alongside churches […]
Training Leaders: Internships Done Well
Internships Done Well We all want interns. We think that having them around will make things easier. We think we can lean on them to do work we find uninspiring but necessary. We think it will be easy. And we’re wrong. Having interns isn’t a welcomed relief from work. It’s actually more work! It’s more […]
