When: Mondays @ 7p
What: A small group in the downtown area existing to building relationships with each other and God. Beginning in August, they'll be using the NOOMA series by Rob Bell (a series of short videos on subjects we all care about and want to talk about) to initiate discussion and experience God on a deeper level.
Have questions? Need further details like the group's location? Email the group's leaders.
Here is the audio from our Sunday service, delivered by Ryan Snow. This is the third message from our series on the Ten Commandments - Bending Life Toward God. The teaching is based on the third commandment and forces us to deal with the loopholes we try to create in order to dodge what God has spoken. The message is titled - The Remedy for Broken Lives.
Here is the audio:
Download 072008message.mp3
By Jon Bloom, Executive Director of Desiring God Ministries, www.desiringgod.org
There’s a lot of gloom and doom in the news these days. If we listen too much, unbiblical fear may begin to govern our actions because we’re only putting our trust in what we see.
Imagine for a moment that you are the Apostle Philip. You and your fellow disciples are sitting around Jesus on a mountainside and you’re all watching a large crowd make their way up toward you. You’re tired from rigorous days of ministry. And you’re hungry. This crowd’s arrival probably means a meal is not in your near future. You’re trying not to resent them.
Then from behind you Jesus says, “Philip, where can we buy bread so that these people may eat?”
You think, He can’t be serious. Buy—for the whole crowd? There are thousands of them! Hasn’t Judas given Jesus a financial update lately on this little non-profit? We’re not sure how we’re going to feed ourselves for more than a few days. Not to mention the fact that there’s no bread market for miles.
You reply, “Rabbi, two hundred denarii would not buy enough bread for each of them to get a little.”
Andrew thought he’d be a smart aleck: “Here’s a boy who has five barley loaves and two fish, but I don’t think that’s going to be enough!” You laugh with a few others.
Continue reading "If we really believe this, our worries are over" »
The Vineyard Leadership Institute (VLI) is a two-year, part-time academic program that is offered to anyone wanting practical training in church leadership, spirituality and theology. It was created to integrate hands-on training, ministry experience, spiritual formation, and academic understanding with an uncompromising commitment to excellence in biblical, theological, ministerial and spiritual-formational training. The instructors are experienced pastors: recognized theologians who are committed to ministry and who are experts in the fields that they teach.
If you choose to sign up for VLI through the Ten Mile Vineyard, you would be participating in VLI classes "at a distance". The main campus of VLI is in Columbus, Ohio, so we would weekly be receiving the course materials on DVD and a small group of folks that are part of VLI here in Toledo would set aside a night to take these classes together over a two-year period. The different courses are divided into quarters and a full course listing and further details about the program are available at this website.
If you are interested in more information or you want to sign up, please email Erin Martell by August 1.
Here is the audio from our Sunday service, delivered by Ryan Snow. There seems to be as many gods today as there are people. The first two commands of the Ten Commandments focus on God as being the Supreme, Sovereign (all power and control), Redeeming God that truly exists. A tall order in a land of multiple gods! In this message the argument is not that we lack information, but that we lack a willingness to submit to the information we already have. Our "idols" in a way seem to give us what we want, and in the end they seem to ruin our lives. This message is based on Exodus 20:1-6 and is titled, The One and The Only.
Here is the audio:
Yes, the rumors are true, Ten Mile Vineyard now has its very own podcast. It is updated weekly and contains the full audio from that weeks sermon. You can subscribe through iTunes by searching the iTunes Store for "ten mile vineyard". Alternately, you can subscribe directly by choosing “Subscribe to Podcast” from the Advanced menu and copying and pasting the following url...
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Enjoy!
Here is the audio from our Sunday service, delivered by Ryan Snow. This message is an introductory message to the Ten Commandments. Rather than being a series on all the rules and conditions we have to keep in order to be acceptable to God, what we find in the Commandments is the heartbeat and values of a loving, holy, and saving God. This message traces God's activity through the Exodus. It is titled, Bending Life Toward God.
Here is the audio:
Download 070608message.mp3
This Sunday, July 6
Free Lunch @ Arbor Hills
There will be lunch served after church, so plan on staying and enjoying some time together.
Worship & Prayer Night : 6-7p : Washington Church (click here for directions)
A time that we set aside to pray for our city and to worship God through song. Please enter through the back doors of the church.
July 18-20
Breathe 2008
For all the details on this conference for young adults and the young at heart, please see our website's recent post. Also, if you are interested in coming to Breathe this year, please contact Lindsay Freeman and let her know ASAP. Everything you need to know about Breathe 2008 is available at your fingertips (including fun videos): Click here.
