‘Palm Sunday’ by Brittany Fan, used with permission. For the liturgical church, Palm Sunday often begins on the lawn outside the church building. The parishioners stand huddled and quiet until the celebrant, standing amongst them, boldly proclaims,...
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...
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...
Anyone in relationship with young adolescent males may have witnessed their modus operandi: spraying is easier than bathing. They prefer a spritz of cologne, or God preserve us all, a dosing with Axe. Deodorant? It’s considered optional. We may ask, “Why...
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...
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...
