Shore Vineyard Church Sermon Podcast

Pilgrimage is pretty attractive when the trail is well marked, the weather is fine and there's a comfortable bed and good food waiting for you at the end of the day. But what about when the wheels fall off? When God seems distant or absent? When what used to make sense doesn't anymore? Join us this week as our pastor Vic Francis kicks off our term 3 series Why, God? as we look at negotiating the tough times that are inevitable for all of us.

What does it mean to be connected? In this episode Senior Pastor Vic Francis explores The Glory of Connection - that elusive but magnificent convergence that happens sometimes as people do life and faith together. 

It's easy to get caught up and consumed in the immediacy of our day-to-day life and forget the bigger picture of what’s going on in the world around us. For that reason we appreciate the opportunity we have together on Sundays to be reminded about a much bigger perspective of our lives, a much larger picture of our world and a more expansive reality of what God is up to. This Sunday Tim Wood is sharing around this idea as he explores the difficult, liberating, counter-cultural and counter-intuitive nature of the “Unfortunate News" that Jesus offers us.

There are certain truths we need to be reminded of regularly. This week Paulina Kidd shares on one of them in her message on the "Peace of God." we are confident this will be be timely and relevant for all in the complexity and business of life. 

We hope you enjoy this podcast where pastor Vic Francis gives his annual Halftime message, looking at where we've been so far in 2021 and where God's journey into the wild may lead us in the next six months.

Kia ora! We hope you enjoy listening as Calvin shared stories from on the road. 

Kia ora! We hope you enjoy listening as Calvin shares a story from on the road, looking at “Starting Over again: A pilgrim’s (re)consideration of virtue and belief.”

Kia ora! We hope you enjoy listening as Makerita shares a story from on the road, exploring Ruth’s journey to Bethlehem and the crossroads we face in life. 

We'd love you to join us this week, as our On the Road series takes a different turn towards embracing change with Tim in our evening service.  We hope you enjoy listening and find something to take from this!  God bless.

We'd love you to join us this week, as our On the Road series takes a different turn, towards gratitude with Vic in our morning service.  We hope you enjoy listening and find something to take from this!  God bless.

Join us this week for our much-loved "nines" where three of our congregation in each service share from the heart some of their stories with God on the road. We hope you enjoy!

Join us this week for our much-loved "nines" where three of our congregation in each service share from the heart some of their stories with God on the road. We hope you enjoy!

Kia ora! This week at Shore Vineyard Church we have a message from our very own JACQUI LLOYD sharing about one of Paul's weirder road trips around the Ancient Mediterranean. We hope you enjoy!

This week we continue our series “On the Road” with a special guest, Dale Campbell. Dale is an Education Specialist for Tearfund NZ, and he produces The Justice Conference in Aotearoa. His message will explore Jesus’ telling of the story of the Good Samaritan from Luke 10:25-37, observing not only how the Samaritan applied all he had, but also how he enlarged the sphere of care beyond himself. We hope you enjoy!

Please join us this week as we remember the arrival of the Holy Spirit and the birth of the church from Acts 2. This event set about the messy, mysterious work of God in a new way - and this week we get a chance to figure out what God is still doing among us in a May 23, 2021, kind of way.

Our Senior Pastor Vic Francis describes the Ascension as the critical element of the Jesus story that he’s missed for pretty much 40 years. Please join us this Sunday as Vic tries to make up for lost time by sharing insights on the Ascension and why it matters. 

This week Tim explores the issue of dwindling religious attendance and affiliation throughout the western world while looking at  Paul’s own journey through the streets of Athens in Acts 17 as he seeks to share the Good News of Jesus in his context. If you have questions about the nature of belief, the relevance of faith or the future of the religion, then you may find this week's message pertinent.

This week Shore Vineyard launches our second-term series On the Road - listening, learning and growing with Jesus, the disciples and the early church as they discover God on the road. With particular emphasis this week on the bored, the stuck, the uncertain and the curious. 

As we celebrate Anzac Day this Sunday, Shore Vineyard will be looking at the lessons of Gallipoli and Calvary, and learning what it means to live free indeed. We’d love you to join us!

This week Tim Wood explores what we do "When the wine runs out", as we explore how the best of our faith journeys are yet to come.