Vineyard Church | Weekly Update January 8th, 2025 adam greenwell alpha billings churches billings vineyard church childlike faith community hard questions look different new years non-believers salvation shared walk small groups the vineyard vineyard church vineyard usa winter small group

We are off and running in a new year, a new teaching series, and prepping for a new small group season… so much newness, and yet so much feels the same as last January, the January before, and the January before the January...

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Vineyard Church | Weekly Update December 18th, 2024 6+1 billings churches billings vineyard church billy graham christmas franklin graham holidays rediscovering christmas rest rightnow media the vineyard video vineyard usa

To stay true to the 6+1 rhythm that Adam has been talking about, he will be taking a break from the weekly blogs through the holidays, and we will replace them with a video from RightNow Media. You can watch the video with the link...

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Vineyard Church | Weekly Update December 11th, 2024 6+1 6+1 rhythm adam greenwell advent balance billings churches billings vineyard church his plans loved ones our plans peace psalm 127 psalm 127:1-2 rest and work restoration solomon vineyard vineyard church vineyard usa vineyard values work

Maybe the Lord is speaking to me… Three conversations over the past four days have included the person I am talking to referring to the same verse in one of the Psalms. Because, as a former facilities guy to remain nameless...

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Vineyard Church | Weekly Update November 20th, 2024 6+1 adam greenwell be calm be quiet be still billings churches billings vineyard church failure missing patient peace resting restoration restoring sabbath spiritual rest vineyard vineyard usa work and rest

I have witnessed some spectacular failures in my time. Some surprised me, others that there was some inkling that the plan wouldn’t work, but the final result exceeded my expectations of catastrophic demise. Some of these...

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Vineyard Church | Weekly Update November 13th, 2024 adam greenwell billings churches billings vineyard church legalistic mark mark 2 pete scazzero replenish rest sabbath sabbath day vineyard

This past Sunday towards the end of the message, I gave a quote from a pastor-turned-author, Pete Scazzero. In his book The Emotionally Healthy Church, Scazzero says this:
"The Gospel says that you are more sinful and flawed than you...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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