The Vine Community Church - Cumming, GA
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The Vine Community Church is a local congregation of the Presbyterian Church in America and we are committed to seeing lives transformed by the gospel in Forsyth County, Georgia, and beyond.
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Be Rich! | How? By loosening your grip on things and tightening your grip on the Lord. Pastor Jon concludes the Igniting a Life of Generosity series with the acknowledgement that everything you have is a gift from God, and only He can give you the gifts you really want. Scripture references: 1 Timothy 6:17-19; James 1:17. The disciplines do not dispense grace. Dallas Willard The Christian thinks any good he does comes from the Christ-life inside him. He does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a greenhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the sun shines on it. C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity | 2/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Lordship of Christ over our Finances | Though we’re hard pressed to completely understand the greatness and vastness of God, each step in that direction naturally leads us into lives of greater generosity. Pastor Jon Adams explores what our generosity might look like in light of God’s greatness and generosity. Scripture references: 1 Timothy 6:15-19; Psalm 121:2; John 3:16; 1 Samuel 24:24. Communion meditation for 02/05/2012: The more you know him the more you will want to know him. The better you know him the more you will want to serve him. The deepest thought a person can ever have is his conception of God’s character. Dan DeHann There are pseudo-atheists who think that they believe in God, but who in reality deny His existence by each one of their deeds. Jacques Maritain I believe that the real difference in the American church is not between conservatives and liberals, fundamentalists and charismatics, nor between Republicans and Democrats. The real difference is between the aware and the unaware. When somebody is aware of that love—the same love that the Father has for Jesus—that person is just spontaneously grateful. Cries of thankfulness become the dominant characteristic of the interior life, and the byproduct of gratitude is joy. We’re not joyful and then become grateful—we’re grateful, and that makes us joyful. Brennan Manning. In our generation, the arts, in music, in philosophy, in drama, everywhere you turn, man is coming to see that man is less than he knows he should be. Our generation sees this, but the problem is not new in our time. Ever since the fall rebellious man has been this way. Francis Schaeffer, True Spirituality, p. 166 | 2/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Dance of Desire | The love of money can be destructive, causing one to wander far from the love, relationship and purpose God has for them. Pastor Jon Adams describes a path back our first love, expressed in the three-four time of a waltz: Flee, Follow and Fight. Scripture references: 1 Timothy 6:10-12a; 1 Corinthians 10:14; 2 Corinthians 5:21. | 1/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Money Trap | Contrary to popular opinion, money is not the root of all evil: it’s neutral. The problem lies in the heart. Our response to money is what leads either to bondage or freedom to truly live. Pastor Jon Adams delves into how a distorted desire for money destroys relationships, and a powerful way to displace the love of money with a greater love for God and the freedom He gives. Scripture references: 1 Timothy 6:9-10; Matthew 6:21,6:33,22:37; Mark 10:17-22. Money will either be like a trap to bind you or tool to free you to truly live. Communion meditation for 01/22/2012: When we surrender every area of our lives– including our finances–to God, then we are free to trust Him to meet our needs. But if we would rather hold tightly to those things that we possess, then we find ourselves in bondage to those very things. Larry Burkett, Money Matters There can be no doubt that this possessive clinging to things is one of the most harmful habits in the [christian] life. Because it is so natural, it is rarely recognized for the evil that it is. But its outworkings are tragic. A. W. Tozer, The Works Of A. W. Tozer There are three conversions necessary: the conversion of the heart, mind, and the purse. Martin Luther, Biography and Information Economy is half the battle of life; it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well. Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Spurgeon Archive | 1/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ignited in Contentment | You won’t be content, satisfied on the inside until you’ve received the wealth only Jesus can give you. Pastor Jon Adams teaches on the true life and true wealth comes with a growing knowledge of God. Scripture references: 1 Timothy 6:6-8,17; Philippians 4:12b-13; Luke 16:13; 1 Chronicles 29:11-12a; James 1:17; Romans 8:31-32. Communion meditation for 01/15/2012: All joy emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings. C.S. Lewis Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. C.S. Lewis True contentment is a real, even an active, virtue – not only affirmative but creative. It is the power of getting out of any situation all there is in it. G.K. Chesterton Being “contented” ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position. G.K. Chesterton To be content with even the best people, we must be contented with little and bear a great deal. Those who are most perfect have many imperfections, and we have great faults; between the two, mutual toleration becomes very difficult. Francois Fenelon | 1/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Freed to Truly Live | Pastor Jon Adams begins a series of messages on what it means to ignite a life of generosity. Scripture references: 1 Timothy 6:17-19, Romans 8:32. Resolved: To endeavor to obtain for myself as much happiness in the other world as I possibly can, with all the power, might, vigor, and vehemence, yea violence, I am capable of, or can bring myself to exert, in any way that can be thought of. Jonathan Edwards Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can. John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church, 1703-1791. | 1/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pursuit of God | Grasping and believing that God is pursuing you, that His love for you is extravagant, will change every part of your life. Vine Creative Director Brian Miller looks at what happens when we define ourselves as radically loved by God, and how that fuels our pursuit of Him in a never ending cycle. Scripture reference: Psalm 63. We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground. Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out | 1/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Celebrating the Amazing | Join Reverend Tim Barton on a refreshing look at the birth of Christ after watching this video of kids retelling the Christmas Story. Tim’s message: | 12/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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4th Sunday of Advent – The Candle of Peace | Peace can be very elusive, especially around the Christmas holidays. Things we struggle with, stress over and worry about can rob us of peace. Pastor Jon Adams offers a God empowered definition of peace as a growing internal calmness in the midst of a restless world. We need a shift in our way of thinking that comes about when we embrace the fact that our shoulders aren’t big enough for the load we carry, but our Heavenly Father’s are. Scripture reference: Isaiah 26:3. Nothing in the past, the present, or the future can cause Jehovah to be unkind to me. Charles Spurgeon, Morning and Evening Communion Meditation for 12/18/2011: For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6 God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. C.S. Lewis But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. Isaiah 53:5 Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer. Francois Fenelon All the glory and beauty of Christ are manifested within, and there He delights to dwell; His visits there are frequent, His condescension amazing, His conversation sweet, His comforts refreshing; and the peace that He brings passeth all understanding. Thomas a Kempis | 12/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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3rd Sunday of Advent – The Candle of Joy | Pastor Jon Adams shares a message about the one true source of joy, the Father who never forgets his children, even when we forget who we are in Him. Scripture references: Isaiah 49:13-16, Psalm 137:1-6, John 20:19-20. Communion Meditation for 12/11/2011: Eighteenth century American pastor and theologian Jonathan Edwards writes in Charity and Its Fruits: It is not contrary to Christianity that a man should love himself or, which is the same thing, should love his own happiness. That a man should love his own happiness is as necessary to his nature as the faculty of the will is. You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore. Psalm 16:11 One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to inquire in his temple. For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will lift me high upon a rock. And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me, and I will offer in his tent sacrifices with shouts of joy I will sing and make melody to the LORD. Psalm 27:4-6 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right[a] spirit within me.Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me.Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit. Psalm 51:10-12 | 12/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 10 Episodes |
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