Vinings Lake Church

Your life is speaking. The real question is—are you listening? Wisdom doesn’t shout; it whispers. It speaks softly through your longings, your limits, and even your fatigue. Today, we learn to listen…

What if the fatigue, exhaustion, depletion and burn-out has come to tell you something about your life? What would it look like to find a place of solitude and silence and begin interviewing these fe…

What do you do when you are tired, exhausted, depleted, and burned out? Our culture tells us to push through, power through, grind it out, and keep going at all costs. But how is that working for us?…

Neglecting yourself for the sake of another can appear as a noble sacrifice. But after a while, it can lead to your own personal burnout. What you begin to realize is that neglecting yourself actuall…

Tired, Exhausted, Depleted, Burned out? This one goes out to the weary and ones carrying heaven burdens. Christ invites you to come to him. Why? He can give you rest.

This week the senate passed H.R.1 also called the one big beautiful bill. Afterward, speaker Johnson said, “I give glory to God.” Did God push the vote through? Does God support H.R.1? Let’s talk abo…

Are you tired, exhausted, depleted, on the brink of burn out? If that’s you, today we talk about loving your neighbor as yourself. But before we get to, “as yourself” we need to talk about loving our…

This is our final teaching in the book of Revelation. In this final section, John extends an invitation into the new city to all those who are thirsty. Who does John see inside this city? Who is left…

In the final chapter of Revelation, John takes us back to Genesis 3 with an image of the tree of life. People in the new city are recovering their original goodness. The leaves on this tree are for t…

When John describes a new city of Jerusalem, it is important to remember that the old city of Jerusalem has been largely leveled and burned some years before. This vision he gives us is deeply person…

John moves from pulling back the curtain on the “Eternal City” of Rome and gives us an image of what could be with the “Holy City” of the New Jerusalem. This week we look at the images and words John…

At exactly the moment these first century Jesus followers were feeling utterly powerless to change their fate, John shows them a realm where wholeness, harmony, health, bliss, peace, joy, justice, he…

The image of a throne is explicitly political in Revelation. It reflects the Roman Imperial Court. The first century Jesus followers knew something about standing before this throne for not participa…

All Empires will come to an end. Rome is no exception. We come to the place where the Roman empire collapses. This collapse of the old way of arranging the world gives room for the rise of a new way …

This week we get all the way into the depths of the weird, gory, and violent wrath of God as John portrays it through the seven bowls of judgement. Is Armageddon coming? Is Jesus coming back on a whi…

How about another week on the second beast? This week, we will explore a brief history of the church as it relates to the merging of empire + religion. We look at Constantine and his use of Christian…

This week we look at the second beast, or the beast of the land. John describes this beast as one that has the appearance of a lamb but the actions of the dragon. From the first century world to our …

Is The Anti-Christ coming? Is he already here? Is the mark of the beast coming? Is it already here? These questions have been speculated for thousands of years. Today, we look at Revelation 13, the p…

Hail, fire, blood, scorched earth, scorpions, locusts with lions teeth, two-hundred million troops, plagues, serpents, falling stars, bottomless pit, mountains thrown into sea, Wormwood, eagles, fire…