Gloucester Vineyard Church

We're Kicking off a brand new term long series this week exproloring the theme of Justice in the book of Luke! We're reading the book 2 chapters at a time as a church and this podcast is to help with that. Daniel has read the first 2 chapters for you here, so listen in and subscribe to the podcast to find each new reading in your podcast app first thing on Monday mornings!

This week we tell an ancient story that's been told and retold for thousands of years! It's a story about human nature, our hopes dream and what might hold us back from taking hold of everything God has in store for us!

In the second half of our mini series, on relationship status, we're having a chat with Claire about her experience of being single in the world and in the church. Strap yourself in, this one gets real! (Go Claire!)

This week we're launching a little 2 part series looking at our relationship status'! What do Kingdom relationships look like? How should we be thinking about our marriages and our singleness?

Gloucester's CAP debt centre turns 1 this year, so we catch up with Becca to see how the last year has been and what to expect in the future https://capuk.org

Continuing the series on "Doing the Stuff" Daniel, Emily and Jemima talk about praying for healing; How do we do it? Does it work? Is it to be used instead of modern medicne?

Continuing the series on "Doing the Stuff" Daniel and Ryan talk about hearing from God and what it can feel, look and be like to catch something from God.

This term we are looking at not just talking about the STUFF Jesus did but how we can all do it.Kicking off this term is Emily, with her looking back at how Vineyard started and how the mindset of John Wimber is still what Vineyard and a faith in Jesus is all about.

After the lifting of pandemic restrictions in the UK, to kick off the new term Daniel and Emily start a new Mini-Series Unpacking: Discipleship, Multiplication and Blessing...Asking what is it and what does it look like.This week its Blessing.

After the lifting of pandemic restrictions in the UK, to kick off the new term Daniel and Emily start a new Mini-Series Unpacking: Discipleship, Multiplication and Blessing...Asking what is it and what does it look like.This week it's Multiplication.

After the lifting of pandemic restrictions in the UK, to kick off the new term Daniel and Emily start a new Mini-Series Unpacking: Discipleship, Multiplication and Blessing...Asking what is it and what does it look like.This week it's Discipleship.

Guest speaker Seb joins us this week to talk about discipleship, how we can look more like Jesus and encourages us to take more risks.

This week Emily talks about Neighbours...No not the Australian based soap.But about how to show love to the people who live around us. Challenging us to take the first steps to just cross the road, corridor or car park to simply start by introducing ourselves.Facebook: https://en-gb.facebook.com/glosvineyard/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/glosvineyard/Website: https://www.gloucestervineyard.org

This week we are joined by Ian from Roots Coffee shop and Kingsholm Home Church both based in Gloucester. Ian talks about his story with the coffee shop he helped establish and explains how to be a missionary where you're at; with no need to book the next flight outta here but simply to just cross the street (but do make sure to look both ways: Safety first)Roots Coffee Shop:https://glos.coffee/roots-coffee/Brian Doerksen-Change Me on the Inside:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GOL5P7k_yIJosh Wilson-Dream Small:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOBaLrItEyc

It's a pretty simple question, but what's the simple answer? Ice cream? Relationship? Nothing? What do you get a guy who created everything?This week we jump into the first chapter of the bible in our quest to answer that very question and finish with asking, what do we want in response?

This week the children at Gloucester Vineyard Church discuss the stories of Daniel and Moses from the Bible. BUT WAIT! Just because it's Kids' Church doesn't mean it's not relevant to everyone else...So pull up a tiny chair, poor yourself an imaginary cup of tea and get your crayons out to make some notes.

This week Jemima asks some hard questions about what a healthy community looks like. Looking at how the foundations of a healthy community, that can bring Hope and Joy, needs to start from a place of personal commitment.So the questions is: You can Talk the Talk, But can you Walk the Walk?!

In this bonus episode we are joined by Clare from "Home for Good" who work to help children in care find their "Forever Home" For further information then please follow the link below: homeforgood.org.uk/get-in-touch

This week Daniel unpacks how we as a church are called to showcase our ability to disagree well; inspired by the example of Jesus. He gives 4 values for us to keep in mind every time we find ourselves at odds with our fellow human beings.

As churches start to regather in person Daniel asks the question, why do we do that? What is our reason for gathering? We discuss the dangers of going onto autopilot as Christians when it comes to Sunday mornings and how we can all press into why we gather on Sunday mornings.

This week Nic looks back over the last year and addresses how in light of tough circumstances and difficult time how to place trust into the hands of God.A God of Hope!

This week the kids joined us for a joyful fun filled Easter celebration! Happy easter!

Daniel reads the final chapter of Matthew from the New living translation

This week Emily talks us through the significance of Jesus final meal. What it meant for his followers and what it means for us today as we think more deeply about the kingdom of God

This week Emily reads Chapters 26 and 27 of Matthew from the New Living Translation

This week we read about Jesus coming up against system and regimes which are radically opposed to his Kingdom arriving. He gets angry and confrontational, how should we feel about that, and what about God being angry full stop? Daniel wades in this week and explains how Jesus anger is both permission and example to us.

Daniel reads Matthew 21-25 from the NLT ahead of unpacking them this coming Sunday. You can join us at www.gloucestervineyard.org

This week in our journey through Matthew’s biography of Jesus' life, David unpacks chapters 17-20. Diving into the concept of an upside-down, back-to-front, wrong-side-up kingdom and what a community looks like that is focused on Jesus’ teachings of throwing off comparison and pride and trading it for a life of humility.The audio was recorded outdoors, so please enjoy the additional bird song throughout this message.(Additional Audio sampled from comedian, Jon Richardson's stand up routine)

David reads Matthew 17-20 from the New Living Translation

This week the wonderful Kath Brayford from Herald Vineyard in Liverpool is walking us through the next chunk of Matthew Chapters 14-16. She talks about the moment of decision Jesus brings people to and encourages us to answer Jesus question as if he was stood in front of us asking us, "who do you say that I am?"

This week Kath Brayford from Herald vineyard in Liverpool is reading us Matthew chapters 14-16 from the new living translation

This week Daniel takes walks us through some difficult things Jesus has to say about people who don't chose to come into his kingdom in chapters 11-13 of Matthew. We look at what Jesus was saying in some of his more difficult parables in their context and find plenty of hope in what Jesus has to say.Watch the Tim Mackie talk hereBook recommendation here

This week in our journey through Matthew’s biography of Jesus' life we’re joined by a friend of ours; Lyn Burnhope, who helps us to take a closer look at chapters 8, 9 and 10. Emily interviewed her live at our Sunday gathering on zoom and asked her all sorts of questions about what it looks like when the Kingdom of God shows up in a city and encouraged us to dream about how we could play our part in bringing the Kingdom of God here in Gloucester.

Daniel reads Matthew 11-13 from the new living translation.

Lyn Burnhope reads Matthew Chapters 8-10 this week. She's reading in a translation called the New testament for everyone, you can find a copy to read along here

On our Journey following Jesus from Crib to Cross this week we're stopping in chapters 6 and 7 of Matthew. Nic teaches us about Jesus core understand of God as our father and the extraordinary implications for those who chose to identify as children of God.

Nic reads Matthew chapter 6 and 7 ahead of unpacking it this coming Sunday. You can find all the details to join in at www.gloucestervineyard.org

This week Emily walks us though Matthew chapter 5 and what Jesus has to say about what the Kingdom of God looks like and how that should effect our lives

This week Emily is reading Matthew 5 ahead of unpacking it on Sunday.Find all the details of how to join us at www.gloucestervineyard.org

To kick off our journey through Matthew following Jesus from crib to cross Daniel is unpacking chapters 1-4. We're looking at how Matthew uses stories from the old testament to make claims about who Jesus is and why we should care in 2021

Read along with Matthew chapters 1-4 in the NLT (New living translation) and join us this on Sunday mornings as we follow Jesus from birth to the cross this term.Find all the details at www.gloucestervineyard.org

This week David is talking about expectations by addressing the "elephant in the room" that has been the unmet expectations of 2020, caused by the global pandemic and how we can look forward to 2021 being a year that can exceed our expectations.David unpacks how Jesus was someone who never did anything by halves and how Jesus can not only meet our expectations but can surpass them.(Partial audio clip taken from the motion picture: Shaun of the Dead [2004])

In the last instalment of Daniel's ‘What do you mean…’ series we’re asking some questions about what the bible means when it talks about hell. We learn that actually the concept of hell gets much less air time than we might think and in fact when Jesus was talking about hell he had a different story altogether in mind.If this podcast piques your interest you can watch an unpacking of the theology here: https://youtu.be/ykH8E9wTCcQAnd if you want to do some further reading, we highly recommend this book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Skeletons-Gods-Closet-Surprise-Judgment/dp/0529100819

We’re staying in the Psalms this week, as Emily walks us through the two types of Psalms; lament and praise and how each of them serve to alter our perspective. All of us have had cause to lament this year and ask: “How long, oh Lord?” and the Psalms teach us to focus on the faithfulness and the promises of God, despite our current problems.You can watch the two videos Emily shared herehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9phNEaPrv8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpny22k_7uk

A few weeks we held a launch party to celebrate the opening of a CAP debt centre in Gloucester as a partnership between 6 local churches. This bonus podcast contains a recording of that meeting in case you missed itIf you'd like to get in touch with any questions you can send them to [email protected] you'd like to support the centre in any way you can let us know that by filling out this form

Something slightly different on the pod this week! We're taking some time in one of the best known passages of the bible, psalm 23. We kick off with a message from our mate Nicola Neal as she shares her experiences this year of, 'journeying through the shadow' followed by a time of relfection on the psalm created by our resident music nerd David. We've included both in this podcast so grab a brew, get somewhere comfy and see what God might like to say to you today through psalm 23!

This week Nic helps us to grow in our cultural competence as we wake up the issue of racism in the UK. We ask why this is a question for the church as well as how we as individuals can look to respond.

This week we take a closer look at what the Bible means when it used the word sin (a word it uses all the time!) in the second instalment in Daniel's 'What do you mean...' series. We unpack 4 different perspectives on what sin is and what it means for Jesus to forgive us and invite us into his kingdom that he is building

This week we unpack the way Jesus thought about money, and how many of us can find ourselves in a trusting relationship with money. Jesus challenge for us is that if we want to have a relationship with him we need to break up with money first.

This week we celebrated gathering together in person for the first time in 7 months! Amid all the celebrations and excitement Emily asks the very poignant question why have we done this? With all the risk about why do we gather at all?