Articles

A time to fear?

  • by: VBC Elder Team 11/02/2008

In these times of global unrest and uncertainty, our inclination may be to fear - but Christ says, "Fear not!" more...

Wise Stewardship in the Face of Recession

  • by: Keith Duff 11/02/2008

Here are some suggestions as to what we can do in the face of recession. Let’s grow this list – add your own suggestions! more...

Election 2008

  • by: Keith Duff 11/01/2008

God chooses who our leaders will be. The outcome of upcoming elections, will be the result of God's invisible plan, and whatever happens, we must trust that it is for our good. more...

Screwtape Letters - On Stage

  • by: Keith Duff 09/26/2008

Join us on Thursday evening, October 16, as we attend a performance of C.S. Lewis' brilliant novel, Screwtape Letters. In this story, Lewis explores the theme of spiritual warfare from a demon's point of view. Beloved by both audiences and critics alike, The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis offers a funny, frightening and provocative theatrical experience that will change the way you think about the influence of demons in your every day life. Set in a strikingly eerie, elegant and austere office in Hell, the play follows an urbane senior devil, Screwtape, who confidently dictates crackling good prose to his secretary, Toadpipe. The mission: To instruct a novice demon, Wormwood, on the fine art of tempting a young Christian away from "the Enemy" (Screwtape's name for God) and bring him safely down to the ravenous "our father below." more...

Media Warning: The Shack

  • by: Keith Duff 09/25/2008

Decline the invitation to meet with God in The Shack. It is not worth reading for the story and certainly not worth reading for the theology. more...

August Elder Update

  • by: VBC Elder Team 08/02/2008

What exactly does it mean to be a family of growing believers? In 1 Corinthians 12, we read, “The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body”. As God weaves together the fabric of Village Bible Church, He brings together unique gifts. We are all different and yet are all very important to the full functioning of the body of Christ –the church. Individually we are disconnected parts but united we are a family that God can use to bring glory to Himself in a powerful way. more...

What Does The Bible Say About ME & VBC?

  • by: Keith Duff 08/01/2008

God has placed us into the body of Christ for our own protection and blessing. Just as in every earthly family, it's not always fun. We don't always have warm and fuzzy feelings in the body. There are difficult and unlovely moments as we grow together as a family, but there are also blessings that we will never experience unless we become relational and connected in the body of Christ. more...

Media Warning: A New Earth, An Old Deception

  • by: Keith Duff 06/18/2008

On March 3, 2008, Oprah Winfrey hosted a unique online class in cyberspace that reached 500,000 people in more than 139 countries. The interactive webcast, which featured spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle and his mega-bestseller A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, ended up making headlines as "one of the largest single online events in the history of the Internet." But... this Web class unintentionally creates an occasion of genuine clarity. We face a choice of ultimate importance. We can stand with "the truth" of Tolle-Oprah and a long tradition of mystics who suggest that man is God and that "God" is merely a human creation. Or we can stand with Jesus Christ, who proved that he was "the way, the truth, and the life," and affirm that God is God, and man is God's creation. more...

Chronicles of Narnia - Prince Caspian

  • by: Keith Duff 05/14/2008

It is also a place that's filled with more life lessons than you may remember, though. Between battles, brief as those interludes are, there emerge some pretty compelling allegories, both spiritual and cultural. At the fore is the assertion that even in a world devoted to reducing stories of God's faithfulness and miraculous interventions to mere myth, we can make a choice to believe. And that choice will, quite literally, be our salvation. - pluggedinonline.com more...

Media Warning: Grand Theft Auto

  • by: Keith Duff 05/07/2008

The Associated Press reports that "Grand Theft Auto IV" sold more than 6 million units in its first week. With sales like that, it’s certainly the big ticket. If you have kids and if you allow them to play video games, chances are good that this is one they may try to persuade you to let them spend the $60 that’s burning a hole in their pocket on. Should you acquiesce? No way. more...

Darfur Update

  • by: Keith Duff 05/05/2008

A few weeks ago, the United Nations World Food Program announced that it will cut half its food supplies to the people of Darfur because of a lack of funds and relentless attacks on its convoys. Here's how you can help. more...

Elder Update: Our Purpose

  • by: VBC Elder Team 05/01/2008

Think fast – what is our purpose as a church? Why has God placed Village Bible Church on Route 47 in Sugar Grove? What is our primary calling through which everything else funnels and through which our “success” is to be measured? The old adage that goes something like this, “If you don’t set a goal, or a mark, you’ll miss it every time,” is true. more...