Vineyard City Church of Redding - Sermons

Pastor Todd begins his new series looking for wisdom in the Book of James for the month of July . He describes the book as wonderfully bite sized because of it 5 chapters.

Pastor Sean continues our segment on Spiritual Formation. He details the way we look at this in the Vineyard is by looking at three different things in a relational triangle. The Up, growing in Christ. The In, in intentional community and then the Out, with God’s love. All these parts are needed to reflect the love of God.

Today guest speaker Tony Stolzfus speaks about getting hurt by the church . He goes over ways it happens and ways to cope with that hurt. Tony also focuses in on one aspect of church hurt, which is what we believe about getting hurt by the church.

Pastor Sean opens up a new topic on Spiritual Formation. He asks , how can we be formed into the image of Christ and what practices can we participate in, in order to nurture our relationship with the Father ,the Son and the Holy Spirit.

On the 5th Sunday of the month we do Testimonies. This Sunday we got to hear from Juliano , a new member of our Vineyard Church. Pastor Sean also brought his friend and Executive Director of the Living Hope, Mike Mojarro, to share his testimony.

Pastor Todd wraps up our exploration on The Book of Acts.Todd summarizes what was spoken over the past few weeks and brings forth one more additional truth in Paul’s story, which has a lot of significance in the ending of The Book of Acts.

Pastor Todd continues our segment on the Book of Acts. Today focusing on compromises and how there may be places in our lives we are tempted to compromise on and it is within those places God does his greatest work.

Pastor Sean speaks on Chapter 2 of Acts, which he thinks is the coolest chapter in scripture. He explains how there is so much interesting stuff happening in this chapter, that he could spend a month on it.

For today’s sermon Pastor Sean opens up the floor to questions from the church. Church leaders Ericka Tuggle and Pastor Todd Moegerle were brought forth to answer any theological questions, the congregation might have.

Pastor Todd wraps up the last segment in the Evangelism series. He brings back an answer to a question he asked at the beginning about how we hold the idea of our part in the Ministry that Jesus loves so much. The congregation also shared from their own personal experiences of sharing the love and reality of God with others.

Pastor Sean asks us how has God uniquely created us to be evangelistic? God created us all to have different gifts with which we can both share and exhibit the love of God to the people around us.

Pastor Todd continues with the 3rd week of Songs of Solomon , focusing on reading the chapter in an allegorical sensed and what we can draw out of it besides the wisdom it offers for married couples.

Pastor Sean continues on the theology of sex and pleasure and the ” foxes” which refer to the things that can get in the way of healthy sex life within a marriage.

Pastor Sean opens up the book Songs of Solomon and elaborates on the subject of love and intimacy. He discusses the theology of sex and pleasure ,in marriage and what we can learn from it.

Pastor Sean concluded his segment on Peace by focusing on Peace in our homes and marriages by having a few families from our Church come up and answer questions about peace in their own homes.

Pastor Todd picks up the third segment on Paths of Peace focusing on the important relationships in our lives in the realms of forgiveness and reconciliation.

Pastor Sean speaks about being or becoming a peacemaker and what is Jesus’s perspective on peace.

Professor Thomas Middlebrook teaches about the Biblical review of Shalom and Isaiah 32

Pastor Sean speaks about peace and the difference between worldly peace and the peace found in Christ’s plan for us regardless of what we are going through.

Pastor Sean starts a new sermon on the joy of advent in the season of anticipation of Jesu’s birth and the desire for him to return again. Christmas is the solution to sin and death

This Sunday was Testimony Sunday and we had Phillip from World Relief and Tim from our congregation share their testimonies.

Pastor Todd speaks about community and standing before the throne God to advocate and pray on the behalf of our brothers and sisters.

 TodaY we look at the Praise and Worship aspect of Prayer.

For the month of November Pastor Sean will be talking about the different types of Prayer we have while focusing on the prayer of Lament today.

James furthers on the context of Spiritual Formation by going over the UP, IN and OUT in regards to the DNA of a disciple.

Pastor Sean continues the series on Spiritual Formation and how community plays a big part in how we become formed into the image of Christ.

Pastor Todd speaks on how establishing a foundation is crucial to the journey of spiritual formation.

Pastor Todd starts a new series on Spiritual formation. About its place and purpose in our journey together as believers and as brothers and sisters in Christ.

Pastor Sean , Pastor Todd and Youth Leader Ericka Tuggle take both hard and softball questions from church members regarding the lessons from 1 Corthinans and how these messages reflect into our world today.

Pastor Sean finishes up 1 Corinthians chapter 16. He looks into the end of the chapter to see it goes over missions and our church family and how important we all are to one another.

Pastor Sean continues in the 15th chapter of Corinthians, where we not only talk about the resurrection of Jesus but also our own resurrection and what that could look like for us.

Pastor Todd reads the longest chapter in this series while narrowing down to its most central ideas and themes.

Today Jonathan and Julia gave their testimonies showing us what God has done in each of their lives.

Pastor Sean gives his last sermon on finances and how the way we spend our money reflects our devotion to Jesus.

Pastor Sean continues on the subject of money and how the way we spend money ties to our devotion to Jesus .

Pastor Todd speaks about money and Finances in the life of the believer and how we can trust in him to provide.

This week we study Paul going over the gifts of the spirit and where they fit in the lessons Paul wishes to give the Church of Corinth.

Thomas MiddleBrook goes over 1 Corinthians Chapter 13 where he discusses the importance of Love and where Jesus comes in to reflect , teach and be love in our lives.

Let’s have an unwavering look into Paul’s letter to the Church of Corinth which might appear spicy through the lens of today’s cultural norms.

06/29/2025 – Thomas Middlebrook shares his testimony with the congregation, then Pastor Todd facilitates a conversation on what it means to share your testimony.