Vineyard Canada Prayer & Communal Fast January 20- 30, 2021

Day Nine & Ten: Empowering and Filling – A Call to Obedience

We are now entering the final stage of our 10 day Fast.  As a recap, over these past days we have been leaning into the Spirit for grounding, deeper relationship, revelation and transparency. We've felt it's been significant that each communique up until this point has had a component... more

Vineyard Canada Prayer & Communal Fast January 20- 30, 2021

Day Seven and Eight: Our Response – A Call to Worship

Anchored to the One who walks with us and leaning into the on-going prompting of the Spirit's work in our hearts, for the next couple days, we will move into a time of response to God.

Here are a few anchoring thoughts from Kris MacQueen who is our National Catalyst for Vineyard Creative:more

Vineyard Canada Prayer & Fasting January 20- 30, 2021

Day Five and Six: An Apocalyptic Moment - A Call to Revelation & Surrender

As we journey through the fast, we are continuing to ask the Holy Spirit to ground us. As He increases our trust, we are able to grow in our understanding of what it means to be truly His. From this place of intimacy and nearness, we can become vulnerable and reveal our true... more

Vineyard Canada National Prayer & Communal Fast

January 20-30, 2021

Day Three & Four: Leaning into relationship – A call to come & "reason together" Isaiah 1:18

Throughout the first two days of our fast we have been intentionally "reorientating" our lives back to our foundation, who is Jesus.  In light of Ps 1 and Colossians 2:7 we have been reflecting on the Hope of our Salvation and allowing the... more

Vineyard Canada Communal Fast January 20 - 30,  2021

Day One & Two: Setting the Compass – A Call to Orientation & Consecration

Over the last several years a recurring text that the Spirit has led us to is Psalm 1. The Psalmist awakens in us the call and desire to be a people set apart and deeply rooted in the Lord and His ways. A major focus for us as a Canadian Vineyard Family this year, will be giving... more

Love has come. Love is coming.

Here we are, embarking on the final movement of the Advent season, the fourth candle. This final beacon, lit in the last watch of the night, waits for the break of dawn. It completes the circle of light and awaits the lighting of the central candle, the Christ candle.  And so, the stage is set. The voices of the ancient prophets rest and wait.

Of course, the practices and... more

Much like the angelic proclamation to the shepherds, advent speaks of the truth that in Jesus a great joy has been given to us. But in a year where fear, tension, anxiety, and conflicts rule our news feed, sometimes we need some assistance in our ability to receive and rest in this joy.

Set aside a moment of time to do one of the following reflection exercises with your family, or on your own. As you... more

"The real voyage of discovery consists

not in seeking new landscapes,

but in having new eyes."

-Marcel Proust

Though we may pray and hope and plead and beg, none of us can escape the hard things in life. Death, sickness, injuries, pain, loss - these things have a way of finding us all.

And hasn't 2020 confirmed this; life can be awfully hard.

But thankfully, there is always more than one dynamic at... more

I find myself noticing things this Christmas season that I haven't before.

Take Joseph. Ya, that guy, the non-biological father of Jesus. How often I have overlooked him at Christmas. Like what happened in a story I heard this week of a mother who called the church office to let the staff know that her son who was playing the role of Joseph in the kids Christmas Musical had fallen ill and would be... more

Somewhere cramped and stale, in the thick of deep darkness, or perhaps under the suffocating heat of midday. Maybe in the first flickers of new-day light, or lost and silenced by the fervent scurry of a whirling and chaotic world on the move, a baby has been born.

This baby is for us, for all of us.

A woman's cry, shifting livestock feet and swatting tails, an unsure father, the heaving waves of ... more

"The shipwrecked at the stable kneel in the presence of mystery. God entered into our world not with the crushing impact of unbearable glory, but in the way of weakness, vulnerability and need. On a wintry night in an obscure cave, the infant Jesus was a humble, naked, helpless God who allowed us to get close to him."  Brennan Manning

As we all turn our calendars to December, we are collectively and... more

A Jewish boy – a divine Son. He comes.

Immanuel, God with us.

Waiting in Mary's womb.

Immanuel.

He would breathe earths air. He would walk this soil. He would live – here.

Immanuel.

He would speak as a prophet. He would instruct and learn out of His experience as human. Obedience through suffering. Engraving a new covenant. A new way. His way. The way of love.

Immanuel.

Priestly empathy. Listening... more