Holy Saturday: By David Ruis

“God did not abolish darkness at creation. God added light. But for many, darkness symbolizes all that is negative, harmful, evil and fearful. God gave equal importance and prominence to darkness and light, and all life, including human life, begins and develops...
The Quest Continues

The Quest Continues

We are known as a people of the “radical middle.” Here’s an AI overview response to the Googled question, “why is the Vineyard called the radical middle?” “The term “radical middle” is used to describe the Vineyard...
From Reductionist to the Radical Middle: Just Jesus

From Reductionist to the Radical Middle: Just Jesus

As I was pulling together thoughts and musings for my blog this month, I came across something I had written as an intro to our National Celebration “Just Jesus” that we hosted in July of ’22. I just couldn’t shake the nudge that the Spirit was...
Sound and Sober

Sound and Sober

On one of our morning VC OnLine ZoomDevo’s hosted during our annual 10 days of prayer and fasting last month, we created a word cloud based on responses to this polling query, “capture in a word or two what you think keeps us from taking more seriously the...
Help our Unbelief!

Help our Unbelief!

There are those times when we come up against something that is outside of the realm of previous experience. It can leave us reeling and uncertain. A challenge. A decision. An impasse in ministry. Demonic resistance. An unexpected turn of events. Mark 9:14-26 captures...