Balham Vineyard Church Podcasts

Viv carries on the I am series by looking at when Jesus says I am the good shepherd from John 10 v 11-21. This is a text primarily about leadership and poses the question ‘who are we being led by?’

Holly shares about this IAM statement of Jesus and expose a world full of different ways and different truths to live your life by, and how can we trust and stand...by following him.

Steve Clifford who is the General Director of the evangelical alliance, talks about how to have a resilient faith in uncertain times.

Tabitha uses fun and abstract ideas to learn of how Jesus was the Light of the World, what that super power looked like, and how we too can harness and use that power of illumination.

At times, we find ourselves in dark situations and we can’t see clearly. Perhaps due to life’s circumstances or our own pride. This messages asks: what darkness in your life is attempting to hide God’s light? How can we as Jesus-followers expect to receive God’s hope and guidance in our lives?

Elias talks about the first of the seven "IAM" statements that Jesus said in the gospel of John: "I am the bread of life". The importance to understand that Jesus is the centre of our life, our saviour and that is actually the only thing that we need to worry about on our daily day.

It's easy to think that Jesus' statement about being the Bread of Life was a simple comforting metaphor, however Phil tries to explain how in that moment it was extremely controversial and challenging, and why it is just as challenging for us to hear today.

Steve starts this new series on the I AM sayings of Jesus by looking at what Jesus says about himself. By looking back at Exodus 3 and how God introduces himself and then forwarding 1400 years to when Jesus incredulously introduces himself the same way!

Viv talked about the resurrection of Jesus being the single most important event in world history and the fact that it is such good news because: The power of sin in our lives can be broken. There is life after death We can have life before death!

In another preach from the series when Jesus met, Elias shares about the conversation that Jesus had with the two criminals at the cross. Here we can reflect about compassion and if we are part of the mission of God to share about Jesus and salvation with non believers. (There is an scene of the movie Deadman Walking that is on the preach, please go this this link to see it https://vimeo.com/331966231

We're completing our series of "When Jesus met" and Phil takes us through one of the most confusing and misunderstood stories of Jesus aggressively clearing the temple at Passover. Is this simply a fit of anger from Jesus or something more significant, intentional, and profound?

We continuous on our series "When Jesus met" and this week Georgia shares about trusting the goodness of God in the challenge of giving up everything for him.

Followers of Jesus don't always know where they're going, but they always know who they're with!! When Jesus called His disciples to follow, they were leaving their comfort for uncertainty, everything that was familiar and natural for them. Steve unpacks how we are to live with this same radical example in order to be disciple-makers ourselves.

We continues on our series of "When Jesus met..." and this week Viv looks at Jesus’ character in relation to children and then our response to Him in complete trust and utter.

We're continuing our series of "When Jesus met" and on this occasion Karen shares about when Jesus met Mary and Martha in the midst of their mourning and grief. Karen preaches about how to find confidence in God whatever our circumstances.

We're continuing our series of "When Jesus met" and Holly talks about when Jesus met the woman at the well, and goes beyond gender, religion and sexuality to meet us exactly where we are today.

We're continuing our series of "when Jesus met" and this Sunday Zeke talks about Jesus encounter with Zacchaeus. Jesus will seek you, He will save you and He will send you. The sermon is about Intimacy that’s what we learn about his character, that he longs for intimacy

We're continuing our series of "when Jesus met" and this Sunday Steve talks about the woman who touched Jesus garment in Mark 5:21-34. Sometimes you allow pain to drive you AWAY from God. “Why won’t you take this away? Why won’t you heal me?” Steve suggests you to allow that pain to drive you TO God, not away from him.

We're continuing our series of "when Jesus met" and this Sunday Elias talks about when Jesus met Martha and Mary, and the importance of the only thing that we should be worried about, our relationship with God.

We're continuing our series of when Jesus met.... and this Sunday Georgia talks about when Jesus met the woman caught in adultery. John 8:1-11 talks about overcoming judgement and sin by understanding grace.