The Gospels

The Gospels

Currently we are in the middle of a series of messages geared around the vision of our church. So obviously that has got me thinking a lot about how our vision impacts what we do (and just as importantly what we don’t do as a church).

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Sunday’s Video

Sunday’s Video

After yesterday’s post, people were asking where they could see the video we showed this past Sunday…well, here it is! Enjoy.

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Sunday Recap

Sunday Recap

I don’t know about you, but I’m still pretty jazzed about this past Sunday @ the Vineyard! Between the video, the baptism and the celebration, it was a great morning.

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Service with a Snarl

Service with a Snarl

As we were getting ready to shift from being a portable church that had to set up chairs every week to a church that had our own facility, a lot of people would comment, “Things are going to be a lot easier once you have your own place.”

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This Sunday @ the Vineyard

This Sunday @ the Vineyard

Well, it is only Tuesday, but I’m already excited about this Sunday @ the Vineyard. In fact, I’ve been looking forward to this week for a few months now.

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On the Move Again!

On the Move Again!

We are about to make another move. And although we are not leaving the area, we are moving out of Ithaca in order to move out of the school district.

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Brenna the Bear

Brenna has been playing on the TGHA (Tompkins Girls Hockey Association) this year.  One of the things that TGHA does is work closely with the Cornell Women’s Hockey Team.
So last week during the second intermission of the girls game, Brenna got to be the Cornell Little Bear.  Which meant she got to skate on the [...]

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Update

As you may have noticed if you follow me on this blog or Twitter, I’ve been a bit out of the loop as of late. We’ve been working on a couple of things lately that have taken a good deal of our time & energy.
In the next week or two we’ll be sharing some of [...]

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A Great Way to Kill Your Church

A Great Way to Kill Your Church

When Liz and I were still in the pre-planting stages of the Ithaca Vineyard, we would go to any church planting conference we could find.  And while a lot of the stuff didn’t really make sense until we were actually starting the church, there was one thing that I kept hearing over and over…In fact [...]

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The Next Step

The Next Step

One of the things we do regularly here at the Vineyard is talk at end of our Sunday messages about next steps people could take based on what they have heard.

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Porn

If pornography is a struggle for you, first, please don’t think you’re alone. Second, talk to someone and begin dealing with this. Keeping it to yourself is the best way to ensure you keep struggling. You are not going to be able to do it alone.

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My Computer History

My Computer History

I grew up in a house with no computer. Well actually I got a Tandy when I was a teenager, but had no idea what to do with it, since I had not “computer geek friends,” and oh yeah, my school didn’t even have any computers.

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Birthday Week @ the Vineyard

Our family is celebrating 2 birthdays this week. And not only do both birthdays fall in the same week, the births actually occured the same year.

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