When you hear the word, Father, what comes to mind? We all have different pictures in our minds, different thoughts in our heads, each one influenced by what our fathers were or are like. For some of us, it would be a happy thought or picture, a special time of you and your dad together, or even of your dad together with you and your siblings. Happy times, happy thoughts. But not everybody was fortunate to grow up like that, to many, when they hear the word, Father, words lik

Christmas might be over, but the Christmas story is not, it never is. Mark looks at the rest of the Christmas story where the Magi come looking for Jesus and when they find him they give him gifts. This is one of the reasons we give gifts at Christmas. God has given us the gift of the Holy Spirit, who, when we invite him into our lives gives us gifts that we are to give away. What gifts do you have, that God has given to you? This is what Mark looks at in this sermon. #MarkVi

The National Directors of the Vineyard Churches UK & Ireland invited the senior pastors to join them in 21 days of prayer and fasting in the month of January, fasting Mondays to Fridays. We have extended the invitation to the whole church. Mark teaches on fasting, looking at 1. Are we still called to fast? 2. Who is called to fast? 3. When do we fast? 4. How do we fast? 5. Why do we fast? He then looks at 3 types of prayer, Petition, Devotion and Intercession. #MarkVisser #Fa

Our Carols service should have been in person in the building, but due to the current situation, it was decided to do it on Zoom. Mark Visser looks at the 4th week of Advent looking at Joy. The shepherds were chosen to find the Christ child, why? #MarkVisser #Advent #Joy #Jesus #Shepherds #Bethlehem #Birth #Manger

Mark concludes the series on Transformation by proposing that love is a choice, it is not a feeling. Falling in love means we can also fall out of love. Choosing to love is what God did for man and what He expects of us. Mark shares how he did not fall in love with his wife but that he chose to love his wife, and chooses every day to love her. #MarkVisser #Transformation #Love #Choice #ActofYourWill #FallinginLove

#MarkVisser #Transformation #Significance #InstantTranformation #Metamorphosis Mark Visser continues the Transformation series. Too many people expect instant transformation when they meet Jesus Christ and invite Him to become their Lord and Saviour. Transformation takes time, we live in an instant society where we expect everything to do instantly available or ready, but spiritual transformation takes time especially as God is transforming us for significance.

#MarkVisser #Transformation #GodsChurch #NewWine #MouldableClay #HardClay #FreshWineSkins God is at work in our lives all the time. He wants to transform us into the person He intended us to be. He wants His church to be the church He intended it to be and He has been busy transforming it since the early years of the church.

Mark continues the Transformation series by looking at what transformation takes place in our lives when we surrender our lives to God and invite Jesus Christ to be our Lord and Saviour. #MarkVisser #Transformation #JesusChrist #BornAgain #NewCreations

Mark begins the first in the series on Transformation. What happens when we are saved? When we are saved our lives are transformed by the grace and power of God. When we are saved there is an instant transformation that happens in our lives, our spirit and soul is reborn, is reconnected to God, who is spirit. We become new creations in Christ Jesus. #MarkVisser #Transformation #NewHeart #NewMind #NewSpirit #NewCreation

Mark Visser concludes the series of Sermon on the Mount looking at the last six verses of Matthew chapter seven, where Jesus tells the parable of the wise and foolish builders and which one he expects his disciples - you and me - to be like. #MarkVisser #SermonOnTheMount #Wisebuilder #FirmFoundations #JesusTheRock #FoolishBuilder

Mark Visser continues to dig deeper into the body of the sermon, looking at three more areas of the Law that Jesus gives his perspective on how we, the disciples of Christ, are to live out these aspects of the Law #MarkVisser #JesusChrist #SermonontheMount #Oaths #Revenge #Love

Mark Visser takes us further into the meat of the message, looking at how Jesus came to fulfil the Law, not do away with it and what it means for his disciples to live according to His view of the Old Testament Law. Jesus addresses Murder and Lust #MarkVisser #SermonontheMount #JesusChrist #Law #Murder #Lust

It is Pentecost Sunday, the day the Holy Spirit was poured out upon the early church, despite this, we continue with our series on The Sermon on the Mount. This week Mark Visser looks at the penultimate Beatitude where Jesus declares, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God." What are peacemakers, why and when do we need them? #MarkVisser #SermononthMount #Beatitudes #Peacemakers #ChildrenofGod

In week five of the series on the Sermon on the Mount, Mark Visser looks at the fifth beatitude on mercy and being merciful. As sinners we deserve punishment, but God in his mercy does not give us the punishment we deserve, instead He extends his mercy and grace to us by offering us new life in Jesus Christ without having to experience the punishment for our sins that we deserve. #MarkVisser #Beatitudes #SermonontheMount #Mercy #Merciful

Resurrection Sunday is the most significant day in the Christian calendar, for without what happened today nearly 2000 years ago, we would have nothing to celebrate, and we would not be able to call ourselves Christians, disciples or apprentices of the Lord Jesus Christ. What is so special about today? Listen and find out. #MarkVisser #Resurrection #RisenChrist #EmptyTomb #JesusChrist

Mark concludes the mini-series looking at the signposts along the way while walking with Jesus as he makes his way to Jerusalem for the Passover and his crucifixion. Today we look at the last four signposts. #MarkVisser #RoadmapToSalvation3 #SpiritualBlindness #Opposition #Perserverance #Identity

Mark takes us on a journey looking at the signpost along the way as Jesus begins his journey to Jerusalem. We hear about child-like trust, belief, faith, and total surrender. #MarkVisser #Salvation #Roadsigns #Trust #Belief #Faith #TotalSurrender

Mark Visser looks at Paul's trials in Caesarea and how his response is different in each of the trials. Why is this? What does this teach us today? #MarkVisser #Acts24-26 #TrialsandTestimony #ApostlePaul

Mark takes us back to the series on the Book of Acts looking at chapters 22 and 23 where Paul finds himself in Jerusalem, once again being attacked by a mob of Jews. He is rescued by the Roman Tribune and is about to be whipped when Paul discloses his citizenship, which changes things. God also gives Paul a new mission - Rome! #MarkVisser #Acts22&23 #Mission #Citizenship #BornAgain

Mark Visser picks up again on the series on the Book of Acts, looking at chapter 19, where we find Paul the apostle on this third missionary trip in Ephesus. #MarkVisser #Acts19 #BaptismoftheHolySpirit #Miracles #DealingwithDemons