Vineyard Church | Weekly Update October 2nd, 2024 10 commandments 6+1 adam greenwell billings vineyard church created rest sabbath day

The 6+1 rhythm… If you were with us on Sunday, you know that we began unpacking the fourth commandment, Exodus 20:8-11:

8 “Remember to observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 You have six days each week for your ordinary work, 1...

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Vineyard Church | Weekly Update September 25th, 2024 adam greenwell cowabunga god's ingluence influance pizza small groups tmnt

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: HEROES IN A HALF SHELL. TURTLE POWER.

If you had an amazing childhood like me, that opening line is set to music and will be stuck in your head ...

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Vineyard Church | Weekly Update September 18th, 2024 adam greenwell being vessels community gods direction prayer night

Imagine if a series that journeyed through the Ten Commandments caused a whole church family to look more at what God has done and promises to do than what we do… This was the driver of the decision to spend our Fall together in Exodus...

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Vineyard Church | Weekly Update September 11th, 2024

I spend a lot of time having a point. If I were a respectable preacher though, I would have three points, all beginning with the same letter: The three Q’s to sanctification, or the triple Z’s of The Olivet Discourse… Alas, since I am ...

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Vineyard Church | Weekly Update September 4th, 2024 adam greenwell billings churches billings vineyard church father fatherhood freedom legalism love of jesus rules ten commandments

Don’t turn your back on bears, men you have wronged, or the dominant turkey during mating season… Some of the rules that apply on Shrute Farms that came with the song, “Learn your rules. You better learn your rules. If you don’t, you’l...

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Vineyard Church | Weekly Update August 28th, 2024 adam greenwell billings churches billings vineyard church freedom love of jesus rightnow media

I am searching for a pithy way to begin this blog, so while I have my creativity running in the background, how about we just get down to business. By now, you have likely seen the big news we teased through the last month of summer. W...

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Vineyard Church | Weekly Update August 21st, 2024

Back to the clink. I really shouldn’t call it that, but the parts of me that have not yet found their way to adulthood demand this rebellious nod to the audacity of school ending the glories of summer. Locking away the children of this...

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Vineyard Church | Weekly Update August 11th, 2024 adam greenwell anger billings vineyard church distractions generosity grace judgment murder

Murder and distractions… Good night of living I have no idea where this is going to end up. Maybe grab a drink and say a prayer right quick.

Well, I am traveling again, back in the Vancouver/Portland area for a meeting and workshop at...

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Vineyard Church | Weekly Update July 31st, 2024 adam greenwell battles billings vineyard church philemon

I am trying to decide if it is too smoky outside to open my windows. The tsunami of revelation that comes from this can be seen on the horizon, and I can feel the ground begin to shake as it nears. Early morning air has reached a near ...

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Vineyard Church | Weekly Update July 24th, 2024 adam greenwell billings vineyard church philemon

Nostalgia, pre-empty nest syndrome, waking up and wondering “what the hell am I doing in Aberdeen, South Dakota,” and the Letter to Philemon… There is a lot going on in my head this morning. Let me try to force these puzzle pieces to c...

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Vineyard Church | Weekly Update July 10th, 2024 adam greenwell billings churches billings vineyard church galatians paul sacrifice tribalism

Canned food with no labels could become an interesting game of conviction. How hungry would you need to be to make a pact that whatever can you choose, you would eat to the bottom? No matter what you found, lima beans or kidney beans, ...

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Vineyard Church | Weekly Update July 3rd, 2024 adam greenwell billings churches billings vineyard church church consumerism galatians tribalism weekly update

Well, I’m back…

This week is the weird post-break time that makes me wish both that I was still on a break, but also wish that I never took a break in the first place. As important as rest and restoration is, I don’t like being away a...

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