Ready yourselves for another Jon Hodges special…
Come&Live! has a mission: establishing the Kingdom of God within a community of musicians. That’s awesome. What is great too, from a selfish point of view , is that they have have absolutely tonnes of free music for you to download.
So why not get on that?
Recommendations include The Ember Days, Ascend The Hill, and Students @ Vinelife favourite, Daniel Bashta
Back on the blog machine!
The past few weeks have been, well, intense…. and brilliantly so!
God has been moving powerfully – healing people’s bodies, souls, and spirits. There seems to be a growing hunger for him; a desire to know him more and an increasing passion to pray with everything we’ve got. And as God reveals himself more and more to us, his presence and his joy, and then we won’t be able to help ourselves in chasing after Him and everything he has for our church and our city! These are exciting times.
Hopefully lots of you guys managed to get along to the IHOP conference last week. It was so much fun. We’ve linked here loads in the past, but in case you haven’t seen it before you can get loads of free music downloads from various IHOP artists over on the Forerunner Music website. Go check them out.
Here’s a little vid for your enjoyment too…
I would encourage you, too, if God’s been doing stuff in your life recently to make sure you take some time to chat it through with your Lifegroup leader (or someone similar). There is a thief who loves to steal and destroy, and despises any breakthrough and growth you have, so it’s always good to be getting lots of support and encouragement. And remember that a victory is a victory. What God has done, nothing and no one can reverse or separate you from… so stand your ground!
One for all you fans of free music out there…
A Christian guy from the States called Mark Mathis recently put his entire back catalogue up for free on bandcamp – why not check it out and see if it’s any good. (The album ‘Warship’ is the most worshippy of the lot, if that’s what you’re looking for.)
Whilst we’re on a music tip – Sufjan has a new EP out: All Delighted People
What better way to kick off a new season for the student blog than with some slightly outdated news.
It’s good news, though. So in case you haven’t heard already, you can (and probably should) download a juicy new track from Jesus Culture completely free (in exchange for your email address).
It’s called ‘My Passion’ and you can get it right here. Enjoy!
While we’re on a Jesus Culture trip, you should probably go check out jesusculture.com.
Jesus Culture is a movement from Bethel that tours the world doing conferences and releasing materials designed to fulfill their mandate of equipping “a new breed of emerging revivalists”.Their website has loads of stuff to poke around in, particularly the media section.
If you’ve ever been to our church you’ll be already familiar with them as we sing a number of songs from their various live albums: We Cry Out, Your Love Never Fails, and Consumed.
Last plug. I heard Banning Liebscher, the guy who leads Jesus Culture, speak at Bethel a couple of weeks back. He was really inspiring and I’ve bought his book – unsurprisingly entitled ‘Jesus Culture’ – which I’m sure is going to be great. I’ll let you know when I’ve read it, but you can always beat me to it.
Ephesians 4:11-13:
“It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God’s people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.“
It’s an interesting passage this one – I know lots of people have thought about what each of the ‘offices’ mean. What I haven’t really thought about until yesterday was just how much the truths of this passage affects the whole church, and how we relate to our leadership.
So, I would implore you to invest 50 minutes of your days in listening to the talk by Kris Vallotton that got me thinking. You can get it for free right here:
Well the easter holidays are nearly upon us and you’ll have to wait a full 24 days for some more reach goodness. So why not fill that time with some free music courtesy of the IHOPs?…
And if you like this kind of stuff you might want to check out the Forerunner Music Podcast.
*The eagle-eyed among you will be aware that this link has been posted a couple of times, but the free tracks get updated every month – a gift that keeps on giving!
If you’ve a spare penny or two, you could do a lot worse than sending them in the direction of…
I got this album a few weeks ago and just haven’t stopped listening to it. I think it might be my favourite “worship” album ever. It’s funny because part of me thinks it really shouldn’t be. A good 3 or 4 of the tracks have a strong RnB/Hip-Hop influence, which usually spells disaster for many Christian-crossover hopefuls, but for whatever reason it just works. Cory’s voice is astounding and every track is enjoyable to listen to. They’re really good songs! But ultimately I think it’s just such anointed worship that you can’t help but love it – it draws you into deeper intimacy with Jesus. Get involved, you won’t regret it!
The ‘hits’: Jesus, Let Me See Your Eyes and My Beloved (see vids below)
My favourite track: Always Faithful (Prophetic Song)
Free Sample!: You can download Psalm 18 for free right here
Where can I buy it? You can get it from the IHOP bookstore, but the easiest thing to do is just download it. I got it for a fiver off Amazon and it will be on iTunes as well.
Apologies for the lack of action recently, hopefully you’ve had more chance to browse round the other bits of the site instead.
So, WotW is back, and with a bang! This week’s incumbent is…
In case you’re unfamilair with IHOP it is a ministry committed to night and day continuous prayer and worship. They have their main house of prayer in Kansas City, but have a presence all over the world. Their passion to know God’s heart is really encouraging.
It’s definitely worth checking the website out – it might reinvigorate how you think about the importance of prayer and fasting and how they relate to the day-to-day Christian life. The great things is that they don’t box things off into prayer or worship or teaching or whatever – everything is prayer and everything is worship, they flow out of each other. They’ve got loads of cool resources on there too – especially in the Forerunner music section – so make sure to have a look through them to see if there’s anything that interests you. Go get involved!
If you’ve found a website that you think should feature on here drop us a line and we’ll make it happen!
Hi all,
Sorry it’s been so long since the last post, forgot to mention I was going on holiday. I hope you’ve all had an interesting few weeks – i’d love to hear about them. Especially you guys who went to Momentum – any good testimonies?!
Have you got his EP, My Worship In Motion, yet? If not, why not? It’s a high quality worship album and is available for free over at danielbashta.com. There’s other bits and bobs on the website too, such as chord charts for the songs, so it’s worth having a poke around. I genuinely think his stuff is very anointed and it really encourages me to worship – it sounds good too! So what are you waiting for?!
Don’t forget about the Vinelife podcasts that are available in the sidebar -> You’ll be able to keep up with all the Sunday morning teaching from VCM. It’s been a great summer that has seen the conclusion of our Ezra series as well as a series on Romans 8 called Expanding your mind. Enjoy!
Morning all!
Today sees the introduction of what is intended to be a regular feature of Students @ Vinelife – that of website of the week (catchy title, huh?).
As you might have deduced from the name, each week we’ll pick a website to profile that is of particular interest/use and then point you in its direction. We’ll have a mixture a media content, blogs and other online resources so hopefully there should be a least a few things that grab your attention. Please feedback on these links – good or bad – and don’t be shy about sending in any good ones of your own that we can whack up here.
And the award for week one goes to…
iBethel.tv is the media site of Bethel Church (Redding, California). Bethel has gained a level of (positive) notoriety over the last few years for a number of reasons including the rise of prominence of the Jesus Culture conference and indiviuals such as the Senior Pastor, Bill Johnson. But the main reason loads of people love this church is simple – they love Jesus and they’re really good at pursuing his call on their lives!
The iBethel.tv features of variety of media including preaches, live worship, testimonies, and seminars from their various ministry schools. The page I’ve linked to is the free section of the site which is jam-packed with clips and videos so there’s loads of stuff there for you to access right away. Have fun!
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