Vintage Faith Community Sermons
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Ecclesiastes 8
Leaving the big, weighty questions of meaning and purpose in the universe, Solomon buckles down to give us some solid wisdom for navigating a world of beauty and brokenness. The subtitle for this week's sermon is "How To Be An Idiot, Part 1."
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Ecclesiastes 7
Turning from his despairing search for ultimate meaning in life, Solomon begins to give some practical advice for navigating our broken world. In this message, we discuss what wisdom is, why we need it, and where we can get it.
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Ecclesiastes 4
Solomon turns from death and despair to consider human relationships, and leads off with this penetrating insight: at a core level, we are all anti-neighbor. We feel like we are in competition with one another, and constantly trying to prove our worth by outperforming one another. This effects all of our relationships, making real, vulnerable, intimate relationship something beyond our grasp. How can we become the kind of community that overcomes this twisted motivation?
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Ecclesiastes 3
This week Solomon looks at the transient nature of life. Everything comes and goes, everything has its season and time, and nothing ever stays the same. Change is constant. And as we try to live in a constantly changing world, we find ourselves grasping for control, hoping that something can be made permanent. Solomon says the attempt is futile... How can the gospel bring hope to our futility and set us free from our need for control?
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Ecclesiastes 2
After Solomon's introduction, he proceeds to take us on a journey into everything "under the sun" - all that we pursue in this short life, desperately trying to make life meaningful. His conclusion is that the whole pursuit is a burden, and he begins to despair. In particular, Solomon looks death in the face and realizes that if death ultimately wins, then everything is ultimately vain.
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Ecclesiastes 1
Solomon, the wisest, richest, and most influential man to ever live, spent years pursuing the meaning of life. He looked into everything done under the sun, and he has this to report: life under the sun is meaningless toil. His frank look at life under the sun sobers us up, removing our vain illusions about life, and prepares us to hope in what will not disappoint.
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Vintage Mission 2009
What has God called us to as Christians, and what does that mean for a church who wants to faithfully follow Christ? The answer from Jesus is both harsh and hopeful.
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Rhythms of Grace: Eat
This week we look at our third Rhythm, Eat, “We share meals with people outside our immediate family, offering welcome, friendship, and community.” Come listen as Steve shares how God intended for eating to be an act of dependence and worship and means to receive his grace and show his grace.
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Rhythms of Grace: Listen
This week we discuss our second rhythm, “We listen to God, rediscovering the gospel in Scripture and being led by God’s Spirit. And we listen well to people around us to hear gospel and needs.” We spend more time in Genesis this week as we look to the story of Adam and Eve and see how listening plays a key role in the relationship between humans and God.
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Rhythms of Grace: Bless
We’ve spent the last several weeks discussing and learning more about our identity (Family, Missionary, Servant and Learner) in relation to what Christ has done for us. Over the rest of the summer, we’ll be exploring what it looks like to live out this new Identity as a regular, repeated pattern of behavior. Because Christianity is the good news and calls un into a new way of being human together we’ll be exploring 5 practices - what we call “Rhythms” - that help to translate our new Identity into a way of doing everyday life with gospel intentionality. The rhythms are not something that happens on Sunday, but rather something that can only happen in the mundane of everyday life. Come listen as Steve leads us in discussion of our first Gospel Rhythm, “Bless.” The simple conviction that everything God has given us - physically and spiritually - is given as a gift for us to humbly steward. By faith in Jesus Christ, we are blessed to be a blessing! The Rhythm of Bless is our way of living in this grace and extending it to others. As we are more amazed and humbled by what God has done for us, we are increasingly freed to use all that he has given us in order to bless, honor, and serve others. We use our words, our time, our resources and gifts to build others up. We no longer need to hoard these resources, but joyfully live as a people who are truly blessed to be a blessing!
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