14th & 21st December 2008

Two sermons from our Advent series "Ready for Jesus"

14th December
Jane spoke from Matthew 25 vs 1-13.

21st December
Jane spoke from Matthew 25 vs 13-30.

The sermon from 7th December should be available soon but is delayed due to a series of technical hitches.

As usual there are notes which can be found in the Downloads section of the VPCB website.

Happy Christmas!

23rd November 2008

Jane continues in the series Love and the People of God speaking on " Doing good to all " Galatians 6 verses 1-10.

As usual there are notes for the talk on the Downloads page of the VPBC.

Sunday 16th November 2008

16th November 2008
Jane speaks on Love and the Common Good, based on 1 Corinthians 10 vs 14-24 and 12 vs 1-11.

As usual there will be notes on theVPBC website.

9th November 2008

Welcome to the new era of digital recording and efficiency!
We have finally managed to hook up a laptop to our mixer to record direct to disk which makes life a lot easier for those invovled.

9th November:
In our first recording using the new system Jane speaks on Love & Leadership based on John 14 vs 15-21.

As usual there will be talk notes in the Downloads section of the VPBC website.

28th September & 5th October 2008

28th September:
Jane speaks about Love and Forgiveness based on Luke 7: 36-50.

5th October:
Jane speaks about saying Thanks to God as part of our Harvest celebration, based on Luke 24: 30 and 1 Timothy 4: 3-5.

For the sermon notes please check out the downloads section of the VPBC website.

Catching up with the summer!

As we enjoy a couple of days of nice hot sunshine I have managed to upload a few sermons from August & September.

10th August:
Jane continues the series about Love and Obedience, speaking from John 15 vs 1-17.

31st August:
Becca speaks from Acts 17 vs 11 where Paul talks about the Bereans and their attitude towards the gospel.

September 14th:

Geoff speaks from the book of Philemon about the "Social Dynamite" of love, the people of God, and forgiveness.

As usual there are notes in the Downloads section of the VPBC website.

27th July 2008

July 27th:
Jane spoke about Love & Obedience based on 1 John 5 verese 1-5 especially verse 3.

Apologies for the missed weeks.

June 22nd & 29th 2008

Continuing the theme of "Love for Neighbour"

22nd June:
Jane spoke about "Strangers & Hate", looking at the presence of hate in the town and country and the command to love.

29th June:
Jane spoke about "Going the extra mile".

Notes can be found in the Download section of the VPBC website.

May & June

The problems are still not ironed out of this process but we are now able to put up a few more sermons on this year's theme of "Love & the People of God".

25th May
Jane spoke about "Christian liberty and Christian love" based on Romans 14.

1st June
Jane spoke on "Loving the stranger" based on Luke 17 vs 11-19.

15th June
Jane spoke on "Practical love and table fellowship" based on Matthew 5 vs 13-26.

As usual there are notes available from the downloads section of the VPBC site. Hopefully more to come... :)

20th April 2008

Due to technical hitches and lack of personnel we have missed a few recordings but finally we have managed to get one on tape and then online...

20th April: Jane spoke about "the Lord's Day" based on Acts 20 v 7-12.

The notes will be posted on the Downloads section of the VPBC website later this week.

Happy Easter!

Palm Sunday - 16th March 2008: Jane, our pastor, spoke about the stones crying out to declare Jesus is Lord if we keep silent. We seem to have lost a bit of the beginning of this but I'm not sure how much.

Easter Sunday - 23rd March 2008: Jane's talk was entitled "After I am raised up, I your Shepherd will go ahead of you, leading the way… (v32)" and was based on Matthew 26: 31 – 35.

As usual there will be sermon notes available on download page of the VPBC website. There are also notes on the Maundy Thursday and Good Friday talks that Jane gave in the lead up to Easter Sunday.

2nd & 9th March 2008

March 2nd: Jane, our pastor, spoke about Hospitality as part of the theme of Love & the People of God.

March 9th: Phil Warburton is pastor of an Urban Expressions church in Stepney (see urbanexpression.org.uk). He spoke about how to be a "healthy church".

Notes for 2nd March are available from VPBC.

Sermons for 10th & 17th February 2008

10th February: Reflections on Valentine's Day - Jane, our pastor, spoke on Matthew 19 vs 1-12.

17th February: Love and the struggle to obey" - Jane spoke on Hebrews 5 vs 1-10.

As usual there are written notes in the Downloads section of the VPBC website, including notes from Geoff's Feb 10th evening sermon which was based on John 14 vs 15-31 "Love & Obedience" which we don't have an audio version for.

Sermon for 3rd February 2008

3rd February: Georgina Stride, our student pastor read from 1 Corinthians 13, and Rev Pat Took, regional pastor for the London Baptist Association, reflected on this passage as part of our 2008 theme "Love and the people of God".

No notes will be available for this.

2 Sermons and a Baptism

20th January: the sermon was entitled "We love because God first loved us" and Jane, our pastor, spoke on 1 John 4 v 19.

January 27th: This was a baptismal service. Jane spoke about baptism and then Nguasen gave her testimony and answered some questions before being baptised.

Notes for January 20th are available in the downloads section of the VPBC website.

Happy New Year!

3 sermons to kick off with in 2008.

December 30th: Jane's talk entitled "Peace on Earth to men and women who please God", based on Luke 2 vs 8-20, and finishing off the 2007 theme: Space and Place.

January 6th: Jane introduced the 2008 theme of "Love and the people of God", based on 1 John 4 v 7 onwards.

January 13th: Jane continued with the theme "Love and the people of God", speaking from Ephesians 1 vs 1-14.

As usual notes will be findable in the Download section of the VPBC website.