Every single Christian is called to be an intercessor. God has given us the privilege to participate in seeing His plans for this world and for individuals come to pass through intercession prayer. In this message, Koen gives you a model to approach intercession based on the functioning of the priests in the Old Testament.

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Flourish 4/7: Intercession

God is inviting us into an intimate, honest and uncensored conversation with Him. Jesus challenges us to approach God with the faith of a child. When we drop our pretence, we open up space for God to also do a deep work within us.

Flourish 3/7: Uncensored Prayer

The words of the Bible hold an incredible transformative power. But most of us don't have a daily practice of reading the Bible in such a way that it actually changes us. In this message I'm going to say a bit more about how we can adopt a habit of meditating on Scripture.

Flourish 2/7: Meditating on God’s Word

A big questions that I've been considering from the beginning of this crisis is: "What is God doing in the midst of this?" I don't believe that a virus like this comes from God, but a crisis like this will surely be used by God to do something significant in our society and in our personal lives. Could it be that God is using this time to draw us closer to Himself? In the coming weeks, we'll be exploring some spiritual practices that can help you to flourish in your relationship with God.

Flourish 1/7: Longing for God

One fact about the Resurrection of Jesus, that is often overlooked, is that it takes place in a garden. And this has tremendous significance. Through Jesus Resurrection, a new season has set in, God is redeeming the world and has reversed the curse of Eden.

Spring is in the Air

Just before Jesus would go into the most difficult 24 hours of His life, He turned to the Father to pray for His disciples. The things Jesus prays for there, directly apply to the turbulent times we live in today. We need to keep the right focus and not get distracted. Jesus prays that we would focus on 1) our relationship with God, 2) our unity with each other and 3) our presence in the world.

Road to Easter - Keeping The Right Focus

Frank shares with us from John 13:1-7 as part of the Road to Easter sermon series. In a time like this we do need to remind ourselves about the story of Easter and how God identifies with the situation we are in right now with the covid-19 disease.

Road to Easter - Love on Its Knees

We continue our sermon series ‘Road to Easter’ at Vineyard Groningen online due to restrictions caused by the Covid-19 (Corona) virus outbreak in The Netherlands. We’ll be looking at some of the events in the life of Jesus in the week before His crucifixion and resurrection. Alex ten Cate takes us through to story of John 12:20-33 where Jesus’ makes his speech in the week leading up to his crucifixion.

Road to Easter - Passing through the Bottleneck

We are in a series Road to Easter where we are following the last weeks of Jesus' life. This week we read from the passage about His triumphal entry into Jerusalem. We look at what it means that Jesus is the Messiah and how this was not the Messiah they were looking for.

Road to Easter - Jesus' Entry into Jerusalem

Today we are starting off a new sermon series which is going to lead us right to Easter. In fact, it is called: Road to Easter. We’ll be looking at some of the events in the life of Jesus in the week before His crucifixion and resurrection We kick-off with the story of Mary anointing Jesus' feet with a very expensive perfume and based on that we will look at five characteristics and effects of true worship.

Road to Easter - Worshiping Jesus in Uncertain Times

Simple answers to complex questions are not a sign of a mature faith. The most brilliant mind in Christian history said that as his faith matured, he understood that his understanding was partial and incomplete. In dealing with all the tensions and complex questions in the Kingdom, we are left with three tools: faith, hope and love.

Kingdom Tension - Faith, Hope & Love

This week we look at our relationship with the world. How Christians are supposed to be in the world but not of the world.This is something many of us struggle with daily because it has so many dimensions. Based on the prayer of Jesus for his disciples from John 17 we look at the tension between what it means to be in the world but not of the world.

Kingdom Tension - In the world but not of the world

What is your go to strategy to deal with a challenge or an issue in your life? Do you spur into action? Or do you devote to prayer? Here’s the thing. This is not an either-or thing. Our prayers and our actions are supposed to be intertwined. We fully rely on God, yet we understand that He is calling us to usher in His Kingdom.

Kingdom Tension - Prayer & Action

Ever heard of the Dutch word “eenheidsworst”? Literally translated, this would be sausage-unity. It’s a type of unity where you have to lose your uniqueness in. This is not the type of unity the Bible calls us to. In 1 Corinthians 12, Paul compares the church to a body, where all the unique parts contribute in a uniquely valuable way to form a well-functioning unity. In this message, I want to talk about a tension we may experience sometimes in a church. It is a tension of uniqueness and unity. God has created all of us uniquely – with our own personality, strengths, weaknesses and some of us with a special manual. God has also created us to live intimately connected to others.

Kingdom Tension - Unique & United

In the Kingdom of God, we experience a certain tension that is constantly stretching us, challenging us and puzzling us. We experience this tension because of two opposing realities that we experience simultaneously – the already and the not yet. This is a tension that is constantly stretching us. How can we deal with this? And what does the Bible have to say about it?

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