Sermon Recap: A Love Song for Stinky Grapes

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Sermon Recap: A Love Song for Stinky Grapes

February 26, 2024 • Brian Bowman, Bailey Bartolucci

Bailey Bartolucci and Brian Bowman discuss the sermon from Isaiah 5:1-7

If you missed the sermon, you can listen to it here: https://valleylifechurch-az.subspla.sh/ptcgrvc

Isaiah 5:1-7

The Vineyard of the Lord Destroyed

Let me sing for my beloved

my love song concerning his vineyard:

My beloved had a vineyard

on a very fertile hill.

He dug it and cleared it of stones,

and planted it with choice vines;

he built a watchtower in the midst of it,

and hewed out a wine vat in it;

and he looked for it to yield grapes,

but it yielded wild grapes.

And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem

and men of Judah,

judge between me and my vineyard.

What more was there to do for my vineyard,

that I have not done in it?

When I looked for it to yield grapes,

why did it yield wild grapes?

And now I will tell you

what I will do to my vineyard.

I will remove its hedge,

and it shall be devoured;

I will break down its wall,

and it shall be trampled down.

I will make it a waste;

it shall not be pruned or hoed,

and briers and thorns shall grow up;

I will also command the clouds

that they rain no rain upon it.

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts

is the house of Israel,

and the men of Judah

are his pleasant planting;

and he looked for justice,

but behold, bloodshed;

for righteousness,

but behold, an outcry!

Sermon Recap: It's All Rigged

April 23, 2024 • Sterling Edwards, Brian Bowman

Sterling Edwards, and Brian Bowman discuss the sermon from Isaiah 16:3-7. If you missed the sermon, you can listen to it http://subspla.sh/cz74by8 Isaiah 16:3-7 3 “Give counsel; grant justice; make your shade like night at the height of noon; shelter the outcasts; do not reveal the fugitive; 4 let the outcasts of Moab sojourn among you; be a shelter to them from the destroyer. When the oppressor is no more, and destruction has ceased, and he who tramples underfoot has vanished from the land, 5 then a throne will be established in steadfast love, and on it will sit in faithfulness in the tent of David one who judges and seeks justice and is swift to do righteousness.” 6 We have heard of the pride of Moab— how proud he is!— of his arrogance, his pride, and his insolence; in his idle boasting he is not right. 7 Therefore let Moab wail for Moab, let everyone wail. Mourn, utterly stricken, for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth.

This Sunday: April 28th

April 23, 2024 • Coby Bartolucci, Brian Bowman

Sermon Recap: God Over The Philistines

April 15, 2024 • Brian Bowman, Coby Bartolucci, Daniel Harvill

Coby Bartolucci, Daniel Harvill, and Brian Bowman discuss the sermon from Isaiah 14:28-32. If you missed the sermon, you can listen to it http://subspla.sh/vzx7bws Isaiah 14:28-32 28 In the year that King Ahaz died came this oracle: 29 Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of you, that the rod that struck you is broken, for from the serpent's root will come forth an adder, and its fruit will be a flying fiery serpent. 30 And the firstborn of the poor will graze, and the needy lie down in safety; but I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant it will slay. 31 Wail, O gate; cry out, O city; melt in fear, O Philistia, all of you! For smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks. 32 What will one answer the messengers of the nation? “The Lord has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge.”