Mark Visser continues the series on The Parables of Jesus, looking at two parables that are 3 verses long. Jesus uses everyday imagery that the people listening to him would be familiar with, things that they either did themselves or saw people doing them. #MarkVisser #Parables #MustardSeed #Yeast #SmallBeginnings #AgentsOfChange

Mark Visser continues the series on The Parables of Jesus, looking at The Parable of the Weeds where Jesus compares the Kingdom of Heaven like a field where a farmer sows his good seeds and then an adversary comes at night and sows weed seeds in the field too. What does this all mean? Mark gives his take on this parable #MarkVisser #Weeds #GoodSeed #BadSeed #HarvestTime #FalseWheat #Wheat

Mark Visser begins the new series of The Parables of Jesus by looking at the first parable that is found in all three of the synoptic gospels, The Parable of the Sower. Jesus explains the parable to his disciples but not to the crowd. This parable raises some questions for us as believers. Are we as generous with the Word of God as the farmer is with his seed? #MarkVisser #TheSower #SowingSeeds #SowingtheWord #Pathways #Rocks #Thorns #GoodSoil

The team that went to the Vineyard Leaders Gathering at Trent Vineyard in Nottingham feed back to the church some of what they received from being at the VLG. #ChristineStoneham #RachBrooks #KarenCross #RayCross #MarkStoneham #GillVisser #MarkVisser #VineyardLeadersGathering

Mark Visser looks at the significance of the five encounters that Jesus has with His disciples after his resurrection as found in the Gospel of John. Jesus encounters Mary outside the tomb, the disciples without Thomas in the locked room, and then the Thomas and disciples in the locked room. He then appears to the seven disciples who go fishing and the last account is of Jesus and Peter. #MarkVisser #PostResurrectionEncounters #JesusRisen #Mary #Disciples #DoubtingThomas #Gon

Mark Visser continues the series on The Character of God. We live in an everchanging world, and the only thing that is unchanging, is actually not a thing but a person, a spirit, and that is God. God is the only Constant, Consistent and Unchangeable one that exists. #MarkVisser #God #Unchangeable #Constant #Consistent

Mark continues the series on the Character of God looking at God is Love. Many people who do not know God struggle with this concept that God is love, because of events they have experienced or world events that they have witnessed or read about, clouding their understanding of a loving God. Love is who God is, it is His identity. It always has been and always will be. Even when nothing existed that we could recognise, God was, and God was love. #MarkVisser #God #Love #Charac

Following on from Mark Stoneham's message last week about God 'The Speaking One', Mark and Gill tag-team teach on Hearing From God, teaching 4 different ways that God speaks to us, and then the congregation get to workshop and practice what they have just been taught. The video/audio has been edited to remove the times when the congregation was workshopping what they had just been taught. Some of the church give feedback at the end of the teaching time. #MarkVisser #GillVisse

Mark continues the series on The Character of God, looking at another two aspects of God. God is Spirit, he has no bodily form in the way that we have a bodily form in which our spirits are contained, while we are alive on the earth. God is not constrained by a bodily form, this is why He can be everywhere at the same time, and it is why the Israelites were told not to make idols.Darkness cannot overcome light; it is impossible for darkness to overcome light. Darkness is not

Mark continues the series on The Character of God by looking at two topics of God being Incomparable, and God being Unknowable yet Knowable. How do you normally describe something to someone, by comparing it to something that they would be familiar with or something that is similar to what you are describing, but you can't do that with God. Likewise, we cannot know God in his fullness because He is beyond our understanding, yet there is so much that we can know about God. #Ma

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