Sermons for October 21st and November 11th

Happy November Everyone!

As you can see we have 2 sermons this time. Some time apart and nothing in between - this is because October 28th was the Church Holiday and November 4th did not get recorded due to techinical hitches.

October 21st: Jane spoke about what Jesus modelled in Prayer Ministry. The Disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray. He did this by showing them and then sending them. He demonstrated practical tips and also showed an attitude of heart. He had a theology of praying for others and we need one too.

November 11th: Georgina spoke about "Worship means Change" based on 2 Corinthians 3 v 18. The recording didn't quite catch the very beginning but I think we got the vast majority of it.

The notes for Oct 21st are already in the Downloads section of the VPBC website but we are atill awaiting the Nov 11th ones - please keep checking the site.

Next post hopefully in 2 weeks time. Until then...

Morning sermon for 14th October 2007

Yes, another sermon has made it onto the blog!

Only one because unfortunately Jane's sermon from 7th October was recorded over....
However on the upside we are going to put together a sheet of recording instructions for the guys who run the sound desk so hopefully this will be a bit of wrinkle ironing...

October 14th: Georgina, our student pastor, talked about worship and evangelism.

The notes for this one aren't yet available from the VPBC website - hopefully they'll come later in the week so please do keep checking. We do have notes from Jane's evening sermon though.

We are off to the church weekend away next weekend so I reckon the next post will be in 2 or 3 weeks time. Not sure if we're recording the weekend away teaching - if we do I might manage to put that up in the meantime.

Have a great week!

Morning sermon for 23rd September 2007

Well I said 2 weeks or so and here we are again... could this be a sign of some momentum?

Sadly I had hoped to post 2 sermons - 23rd & 30th September but only one was recorded - sorry.

September 23rd: Jane Thorington-Hassell spoke from Mark 14; 1- 26. Jesus' alternative "people of God" are at risk of disintegration. Jesus pulls them together in a meal held in secret safe house?

There is a chance I will be able to post 2 next week but don't hold your breath, maybe pray for the wrinkles to be ironed out instead.

Morning sermons for 9th and 16th September

Well we have finally managed to get going again, although this may yet be just another stutter in the battle....

Technical hitches remain - recording problems and softwares glitches - and the time and effort problem also remains, however we continue to try to find solutions..

The questionnaire results showed that so far 4 people get the podcasts.  This was about 10% of those who responded.

So here are 2 September sermons.  I will try to post some from July and August once I have waded through several unmarked tapes...

September 9th: Geoff speaks on Racial Justice Sunday with reference to Acts chapter 6.  He argues that racial justice is an integral part of Christian life and witness and asks why it's so hard to really talk about these things.

September 16th:Jane speaks on Mark 12: 41 - 13: 3.  Jesus exits the Temple for the last time with sadness and also the promise of judgement.  Understanding this story in a slightly different way from how you may have been taught.

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

Next post hopefully will be in 2 weeks time or so...

Old Sermons

Well the blog / podcast idea is struggling to be sustainable - several things need streamlining at church which may take a while as this is not a huge priority for our limited resources.

We also need to decide whether it is worth the effort in terms of the number of people who use the blog / podcast as a resource. To this end we have been asking church people to fill a questionnaire about their use of the church website/resources. This of course will not inform us who else might be using our stuff so do add your comments to the blog if you want to register interest.

I am hoping that we will be able to have another push at doing this after the summer but until then I have 3 sermons from May/June that never got published:

May 27th: a Pentecost message from Jane - "The Holy Spirit clashes with the spirit of this age".

June 3rd: message from Jane - based on Mark 1 : 29-45 "Jesus in the public and private arena: learning from him".

June 10th: message by Geoff - based on Mark 2 : 1-12 "The authority of Christ"

Until the next time...

Morning sermons for 15th April & 20th May 2007

Well some of the technical hitches seem to be getting ironed out so we can bring 2 sermons:

The sermon for April 15th looks at Abraham - his walk with God and life of faith.
Click here for this.

The sermon for May 20th looks at Kingdom Values in our Space & Places.
Click here for this.

As usual the Notes can be found in the Downloads section of the VPBC website.

We hope to be adding more 'blog' to the these posts in the near future....

What's happening to the VPBC Sermons blog?

Hi all
As you will have noticed the frequency of posting has decreased over the last month or so. Many apologies for this but unfortunately there have been a few technical hitches both in the recording of the sermons and in the uploading of the mp3 files.

I do have April 15th's sermon ready to go but am having alot of trouble getting it onto the web. After this sermon there is a gap of 2 weeks as the sermons were not recorded. Yesterday's sermon was recorded so we should be back on track next week...

In the meantime I have had a few thoughts (!) Jane spoke on Faith on 29th April and mentioned a debate about religion and a magazine so I thought people may like to have the links:

Click here for the write up of the debate by the Times newspaper and various comments.

Click here for a description of Third Way Magazine which also has a link to their site at the bottom.

I also came across a blog which I liked alot so thought it might be nice to pass on. I will try to have a permanent link but for now it is just in this posting:

Click here for the Carpenter's Hand blog.

We welcome any comments about these or the blog in general.