Vienna Assembly Of God Sermons

Where does God want to build His church? What is our role in spreading the Good News? Hear the answers to these questions from a campus missionary as he digs into the words of Jesus from Matthew 16.

Did you know that God has a missionary heart and that most of the New Testament of the Bible is missionary correspondence? Join us as we seek to engage with the Great Commission as we celebrate a church milestone: 80 years of being a community together.

God's people are called to live differently, but why? So that those who do not yet know God can see the light through his people.

When we experience Jesus in a significant way, we are going to live differently in light of that.

God is a good, giving God. He gave manna in the desert. He gave Jesus as the bread from heaven. He gave gifts to his church to help equip the church and nourish us. And he gives us limits.

We hear from Jeremiah this week as Pastor Blane continues the series.

Pastor Blane continues in this series examining the messages from the prophets. Today we hear from Amos.

Revelation isn't enough to get us through life. Glorious experiences of the presence of God are not sufficient to keep you grounded. Whatever amazing thing happened is great, yes. But it has to be integrated into the life we live. What matters is "What can people see in my life or hear in my message?" The message matters. The life matters.

It's about loving Jesus. If your love for Jesus is hot, if your spiritual formation practices are authentic, if you are attuned to the presence of God in your life, if you are receptive to the correction of scripture, we can figure the rest of the stuff out. If we find ourselves in disagreement about some life choice that I'm making or that you're making, I can find peace and reconciliation in my trust in the God that can still the winds and the waves.

In cultivating freedom, it is okay to start small, offering our next best yes.

How do we embrace a theme of "Live Free" while navigating struggles and seeming lack of freedom? It's not just about me.

Practicing sabbath is a gift from God to his freed people.

Friends, we live in a "free country" and yet we each experience a long list of things that we would like to be free from. Truly free in Jesus is the freedom we long for deep inside.

You are golden!!! Your faith is more precious than gold!!! YOU are a precious stone in God's spiritual temple, and your obedient life to God is building something that will never fade away.

We need to understand that Jesus is ending this sermon with a serious call to action. It is not enough to have heard these teachings, but we have to "do" something.

To be a disciple of Jesus requires obeying all the commands of Jesus. Paying attention to all his teachings. As we look today at the teachings of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, we have to start with asking ourselves how we relate to these teachings. Are they optional? Are they goals to set for sometime in the future? Are they fiction? Can they be disregarded?

The Beatitudes are a pronouncement, based on observation, that a certain way of being in the world produces human flourishing and felicity. These were common in ancient literature, including in Jewish texts. What is uncommon is who Jesus described as the ones who are flourishing.

The Sermon on the Mount provides a lot of guidance for everyday living. But it does so with the end firmly in mind. This is an important understanding for biblical theology - we are never just living for the here-and-now, even while we are encouraged not to worry about tomorrow. We have in view God's grand purpose to redeem and restore all of creation and to bring his people into full and right relationship with himself and each other.

The women came to the tomb that day carrying spices. Those spices represent several things: grief, tension between faith and doubt, tradition and duty, and questions. What have you brought to the tomb?

We are considering Gethsemane, and Jesus' prayer there, and looking at it through the lens of Philippians 2.