Podcasting to the world.

Coventry Vineyard is now podcasting on iTunes. 5 minutes ago we were number 25 in the top 25 Christian podcasts, how weird is that. Today we looked at most heart-breaking part in David's life. It's painful to read about someone self-destructing in such a graphic way. The story of David and Bathsheba shows us David's descent into darkness and shocks us by describing how a man, chosen by God, set apart to reflect God's character can get it so wrong. Have a listen to our most recent talks here or here.

Thank you to the lovely person who sent me a bag of yarn! It is such a lovely thing to do. There was no note, or i would have sent a note personally. Thanks again! love Vicki

What do you worship?

Worship mean to literally to acknowledge the worth of someone or something. It means that you recognise and say that someone or something is worthy of your praise. It means praising someone or something that is superior to yourself that the only thing you can do is to celebrate their worth.

In our culture we give worth to many meaningless things. Our recepits give us an accurate record of what we truly worship.

In the book of 2 Samuel, Chapter 6 we read a story of three people: Uzzah has God in a box and seeks to control or manage God, attemtping to keep God safe from the world, David chooses to go all out and extravagant in his worship, Michal chooses to sit back and criticise. Worship is central to what it means to follow Jesus. As Tom Wright explains:

“When you begin to glimpse the reality of God, the natural reaction is to worship him. Not to have that reaction is a fairly sure sign that you haven’t really understood who he I or what he’s done. And the best way to discover what worship is about is to join in and see for yourself.”

At Coventry Vineyard we encourage people to worship God in their everyday lives. We recognise that we become like the one we worship and in worshipping God we become more human. For more on this listen to the talk from this morning here.

This Sunday, Dan & Rach's group (and friends!) stuck "drop in the ocean" labels on 360 bottles of water and headed on down to the Memorial Park. It was quite a grey day and we were discussing on the way how we'd be able to save the bottles for next month if there weren't many people around. How wrong were we??!!

When we got to the park, it turned out that Sikhs all over Coventry were there to celebrate their annual festival, Vaisakhi Mela. Someone described this to us as a kind of Sikh Sports Day. (Apologies to anyone if this is wrong - its just what we were told)

The atmosphere was fantastic - friendly and fun, and nobody seemed to mind us setting ourselves up out of the back of Nik's car in the car park, handing out water to festival goers and stewards alike. We gave out all 360 bottles in less than an hour!

Today, our housegroup went over to Canley and helped out at The Sovereign pub. We spent the morning digging up weeds, cleaning a room inside and painting the pillars outside. See Danny's hands! We were able to demonstrate the unconditional love and grace of God to the regulars who struggles to get round the idea that we would help out for nothing. A big thanks to everyone who came and helped out.