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The Village is a Neo-Monastic Mega House Church in Tucson Az.
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The Fruit of the Spirit: Patience
5d ago
46 mins
The Fruit of the Spirit: Patience
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5d ago
46 mins
Fruit of the Spirit: Peace (Matins)
Fruit of the SpiritPeaceColleen and Corey GilchristMay 8, 2022Colleen: Prayed a blessing over all the mothers: Thank you, God for all mothers.I have nothing to offer of peace of my own; Jesus, we want your living peace that roots us that we are enough and loved.I am honored and frightened to be speaking to you about peace: we are having the imposter syndrome because we both don’t have this. We are honored and excited to engage in peace. Here is my daughter’s painting from last week. The blue painting is the backgroundThe Fruit of the Spirit comes in one bunch from the Holy Spirit; our job is to abide in him. Peace is “Eyrene.” We have an Irene in our family who embodies peace: Calm and steady. It also means Shalom: a deep sense that all in the world Continue ReadingSupport the show
May 10 2022
48 mins
Fruit of the Spirit: Peace (Vespers)
Fruit of the Spirit:PeaceEric CepinMay 8, 2022Indulge me for a second and think about how you might have the Fruit of the Spirit in your life.Rom 10:9-10 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.A Roman would say with his mouth that Caesar is Lord…Paul knew, however, that they really didn’t believe this. There is another TRUE kingdom and if you want to be saved, you can make a declaration and fully step into it and believe it with your whole heart and be saved. The NT says that when you believe, you are given the holy Spirit with God’s characteristics. But you cannot have these without making a proclamation. Continue ReadingSupport the show
May 10 2022
46 mins
Fruit of the Spirit:Joy
Galatians 522 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.Support the show
May 4 2022
39 mins
Fruits of the Spirit: Love (Vespers)
Galatians 522 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.Support the show
Apr 26 2022
49 mins
Fruits of the Spirit: Love (Matins)
Galatians 522 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.Support the show
Apr 26 2022
45 mins
Easter 2022
He has risenSupport the show (http://cash.app/$thevillagechurch)
Apr 20 2022
29 mins
Grief and Gratitude: Marriage and Parenting
Notes coming soon.The Grief and Gratitude series is based on a podcast series on the Allender Center's podcastSupport the show (http://cash.app/$thevillagechurch)
Apr 13 2022
41 mins
Grief and Gratitude: Family of Origin
Notes coming soon.The Grief and Gratitude series is based on a podcast series on the Allender podcast.Support the show (http://cash.app/$thevillagechurch)
Apr 5 2022
47 mins
Grief and Gratitude: Holding the Tension (Vespers)
Mark Crawford3-27-22 The Grief and Gratitude series is based on a podcast series on the Allender podcast.Holding the Tension: You should also watch Corey and Colleen’s sermon from this morning! Today we will talk about holding the tension between grief and gratitude: last week we talked about these two disciplines. How do we hold the tension? What does that look like? We’re going to look at a few of my stories and expand on how we understand grief and then we will read Psalm 77 together and talk about why it’s my favorite psalm. Continue ReadingSupport the show (http://cash.app/$thevillagechurch)
Mar 30 2022
56 mins
Grief and Gratitude: Holding the Tension (Matins)
Grief and Gratitude: Our Story Colleen & Corey Gilchrist 3-27-22 Prayer: Use us as instruments of your peace and that our words would be heard with kindness and mercy. Prevent the enemy from deceiving and distracting us. Our background: We’ve been Villagers for a long time, me since 2007, Colleen longer than I. We’ve both been on the leadership team and our experiences with grief and gratitude. We will not be talking about new content but reviewing what has been discussed and our testimony of grief and gratitude in our marriage. I work as a hospice chaplain professional. So, when I have helped people feel their grief and express this…this is normal to feel heaviness during loss. Loss of life or anything: even a miscommunication with a friend or feeling unheard or unseen by your partner; Grief all comes out no matter what. When people say “I’m fine” this is not the case: it must find its way out. I’ve been studying grief for a long time in school, etc. I found it’s not that helpful to analyze it. It is helpful to use this info to affirm my experience and to feel this in a community, helping ID what you’re feeling. Continue ReadingSupport the show (http://cash.app/$thevillagechurch)
Mar 29 2022
52 mins
Grief and Gratitude: Engaging
Grief and Gratitude: The Grief and Gratitude series is based on a podcast series on the Allender podcast.Engaging Eric Cepin 3-20-22We are in this series, and this is the third week. There is a movie star named Keanu Reeves who is supposed to be a nice guy. When asked where people go when they die, he responded, “What I do know is that the people they leave behind will miss them.” Heb. 10:24,25: A sense of sadness and grief: Dr. Larry Crabb passed away last year, and I spent time with him before he died. This is his passage. And this is the Village’s passage, too. I remember moments that I had with him and I’m sad that I will not do that in this life. But I’m grateful about how he helped me understand this passage. Continue ReadingSupport the show (http://cash.app/$thevillagechurch)
Mar 23 2022
51 mins
Grief and Gratitude: Adaptive and Transformative Grief
The Grief and Gratitude series is based on a podcast series on the Allender podcast.Eric: Grief and Gratitude are always about loss…you are actually always losing because you are moving forward. Ie: Babies don’t stay babies: this can be a loss and maybe even grief. And more intense losses of spouses, countries, friends, etc. In the world of psychology there are many processes of grief. We've studied it to death! Aren’t grief and gratitude hard to put together? Gratitude will emerge as we move closer to the resurrection (Easter). Support the show (http://cash.app/$thevillagechurch)
Mar 15 2022
45 mins
Grief and Gratitude: Introduction
The Cross Series (Lent, 2022)The Grief and Gratitude series is based on a podcast series on the Allender podcast.Grief and Gratitude3-5-22Rod HugenIn high school bible class, I was invited to pick out a life verse. I had difficulty memorizing things, so I told the teacher I was picking John 11:35, the shortest verse in the Bible, “Jesus wept.” I could memorize that! My teacher laughed and was a good sport but then he assigned me a long verse and gave me after-school detention. I do not remember the long verse but I do remember “Jesus wept, “a powerful and transformative verse.Consider this: Jesus, God-made flesh, wept. The God of the universe cried and shed tears and sobbed! The interesting meaning of the word “wept,” however, kind of messed me up. It means Jesus snorted (like a horse). That is a strange word to describe weeping. I wanted to believe Jesus was crying out because Lazarus died and along with the crowds felt helpless. But this was not why he wept. Jesus was loved and known by Mary and Martha and their brother Lazarus. They believed He could have healed Lazarus if he had come on time…but because he had delayed coming, now Lazarus was dead. People were mourning and trying to minister to Mary and Martha, not knowing what to say. “Just get over it?” “Move on?” (When someone experiences loss and grieves, just go sit with them and say nothing. You give them the greatest gift of Jesus’s presence.) Read MoreSupport the show (http://cash.app/$thevillagechurch)
Mar 8 2022
51 mins
Encounters with Jesus: Crucifixion
This is the last in the series Encounters with Jesus. In my PG, we meditated on the feeding of the 4000 and I wondered what kind of fish they were. Ron Layman said they were Tilapia because at Christmas he wanted to have Jesus’s favorite food so he looked this up. To know this got me into the story. My invitation is during Lent, continue to come back and read through these encounters with Jesus. We are going to talk about Christ on the cross today. We know he’s no longer on the cross and we are going to talk about him on the cross to meld grief and gratitude until Easter when we will talk about the resurrection. Last week, Michael talked about the rich young ruler and meditated on this passage. Today we will do the same. If you feel comfortable, close your eyes. Imagine a seed in your hand and you put it in the dirt and cover up. You have some water. The seed sprouts over time and makes a plant and there is a branch coming toward you and there is a fruit. You take a bit and taste the fruit. What kind of fruit did you eat? Apple, apricot, orange, peach….The Cross ContinuedSupport the show (http://cash.app/$thevillagechurch)
Mar 2 2022
47 mins
Encounters with Jesus: The Rich Young Ruler
Mark 10:17-31 Michael Cousineau2-20-22The Rich Young RulerIf you want to talk about this passage in the usual way, listen to the podcast from 2019 evening. I think it was a good sermon! I listened to and I said, “this guy is really on point!”However, today we will do things differently. Let’s go back to kindergarten…put on your imagination hat. Pick our someone you know well, the way the move and talk. Imagine them walking through the door right over there and wave happily and walk over to you and they sit down next to you and say hello. Could you accomplish this? Good. Encounters with Jesus. Rather than talk about an encounter with Jesus, I want to provoke one that happens to you this morning. There are two ways to read the Bible (at least two). Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster: a book about 12 disciplines (information and application). He kicks off the book with meditation. Another one is study. This not bad and it’s what I usually do. I’m not trying to bad-mouth this: you SHOUILD study scripture often! But another way of looking at the Bible is meditation. “...Whereas the study of scripture is exegesis by contrast the meditation centers on…Bonhoeffer says to spend a week on one text…taste the salt in the air…. touch the hem…rather than dissecting it, we are gathered into his peace…the self is forgotten…. we are attending to the impartation of peace within our heartsRead MoreSupport the show (http://cash.app/$thevillagechurch)
Feb 22 2022
53 mins
Encounters with Jesus: The Feeding of the 4000
What does it mean to be with Jesus? What are the implications of Jesus’s compassion? Eric’s Story: 9th grade at Rincon HS Physical Science class. There were mostly other students who were not headed to college in this class. Sam had stolen the workbook answer key. He offered it to me, but I declined. A couple of days later, the teacher found out someone had stolen the answer key and asked who had done it. Eric (full of wisdom) raised his hand and told the whole class that Sam had taken it. Sam was smaller and couldn't beat me up. Keep in mind that Rincon HS was a violent school in the mid-80s…my senior year, I was in the locker room and my friend was buying drugs from Sam. Sam said he didn’t trust me; my friend told me “he’s with me; he’s ok.” Notice what my friend said: HE IS WITH ME: his reputation is my reputation. This is what it means to be with Jesus. https://www.villagersonline.com/6533-2/Support the show (http://cash.app/$thevillagechurch)
Feb 9 2022
52 mins
Encounters with Jesus: Clean and Unclean
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Feb 2 2022
51 mins
Encounters with Jesus: Calming the Storm
Encounters with Jesus Series #41-23-21Eric CepinEric: This is another part of a series on encounters with Jesus to anchor our thinking about putting ourselves into the place and action of Jesus. This helps us become a disciple of Jesus. In Mark 6:12-13 Jesus sends out his disciples. Mark 6:12 So the disciples went out, telling everyone they met to repent of their sins and turn to God. 13 And they cast out many demons and healed many sick people, anointing them with olive oil.They are asking people to move in a different direction and they have confidence about speaking about evil. They have the confidence to be his disciple and imitate Jesus because of their encounters with him. The imitation and disruptions of Life are the ground where we become disciples. We see in each of the encounters we’ve looked at so far that these involve interruptions. Sermon TextSupport the show (http://cash.app/$thevillagechurch)
Jan 24 2022
45 mins
Encounters with Jesus: Sabbath and Crooked
Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath23 One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain. 24 The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?”25 He answered, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need? 26 In the days of Abiathar the high priest, he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread, which is lawful only for priests to eat. And he also gave some to his companions.”27 Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. 28 So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”Jesus Heals on the Sabbath3 Another time Jesus went into the synagogue, and a man with a shriveled hand was there. 2 Some of them were looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, so they watched him closely to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath. 3 Jesus said to the man with the shriveled hand, “Stand up in front of everyone.”4 Then Jesus asked them, “Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?” But they remained silent.5 He looked around at them in anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts, said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was completely restored. 6 Then the Pharisees went out and began to plot with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus.New International Version (NIV)Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.Support the show (http://cash.app/$thevillagechurch)
Jan 18 2022
41 mins
