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Vista Community Church

Vista Community Church

We are a church that seeks to love God and love people through living and sharing the Gospel. Sunday services at 7051 Stonehollow in Temple, TX. Find out more at http://thevista.tv/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Stolen Blessing | Dave Jeffreys

Vista Community Church ·

2025/10/29

Isaac had planned to bless his favorite son Esau, but Isaac's wife Rebecca wanted the blessing to go to her favorite son Jacob. So, she hatches a plan for Jacob to trick Isaac into blessing him rather than his brother. When you read this story, you can't help but notice just how dysfunctional this family is. The marriage is messed up, the parenting is messed up... the whole story is pretty sad. However, if we're willing to learn from their dysfunction, we can have families that are full of much more

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28:45

The Akedah

Vista Community Church ·

2025/10/05

Abraham's near sacrifice of Isaac is one of Scripture's most challenging stories, and has been interpreted a number of ways. Exploring the story from 3 distinct angles, we let it speak to us about holding our earthly loves with open hands, about refusing to hurt others in God's name, and about the good news that God in Christ steps into our impossible situations to do for us what we could never do for ourselves. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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34:03

Living by Faith

Vista Community Church ·

2025/09/30

We are told over and over again in scripture to be people who live by faith.But what does that mean?What does it look like in our day to day lives to "live by faith?"Ironically, Abraham is known for being a man of faith, but in Gen. 16 we seehim and his wife Sarah make some very poor decisions.In this particular chapter, they stand out as examples of how not to live by faith... not their finest moment.However, we can learn a lot about what it means to live by faith even from their failure. Hosted on

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28:58

Responding to God's Goodness

Vista Community Church ·

2025/09/23

God chooses a man named Abram and makes a covenant with him.We learn through this covenant about the character of God.We also see how we (the church) fit into this covenant as both recipients and participants. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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32:36

The Great Flood

Vista Community Church ·

2025/09/14

In Genesis 6-9, we find one of the most famous and infamous stories in the Bible: the story of Noah and the Great Flood. In this story, God goes on a journey toward acceptance of an imperfect relationship with his imperfect creatures, because God refuses to give up on his creatures and his creation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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29:16

Cain and Abel

Vista Community Church ·

2025/09/07

Cain experiences rejection, which causes dejection, and when dejection wins in our lives, our brother pays the price. But while Cain is the first killer, God does not abandon him because if when we fail to keep our brother, God still keeps us. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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29:58

Bad News and Good News

Vista Community Church ·

2025/09/07

After a few chapters of God's creation being "very good," in chapter 3 of Genesis things take a turn for the worse.Adam and Eve sin against God and as a result, everything is broken.This is the tragic event known as "the Fall of man."However, chapter 3 of Genesis is not all bad news.After mankind sins against God, we do see some good news from a good God who doesn't leave us and has a plan for our redemption. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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29:17

Eden

Vista Community Church ·

2025/08/24

God fills creation with beauty and pleasure. So while we should avoid the misguided pursuit of beauty and pleasure that we call worldliness, we must remember it is not misguided to pursue beauty and pleasure, for God is the author of it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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30:02

Imago Dei

Vista Community Church ·

2025/08/17

Genesis tells us that God created mankind in his image and likeness.Humanity is unique and special in that way.Our personhood comes from God himself and the God who created us knows how we are to live our lives in order that we might flourish Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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28:56

Analogia Delectationis

Vista Community Church ·

2025/08/10

God creates the world in freedom and out of and for delight; this is the deepest truth of the creation story. Believing this truth creates people who understand life is a party and not a catastrophe, people who find truth, beauty, and goodness more interesting than tragedy, trauma, and melodrama. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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27:35

Don’t Believe Everything You Feel

Vista Community Church ·

2025/08/03

When emotions flood, it’s easy to mistake feelings for truth. In this message, we walk with Elijah from fire to fear to the gentle whisper of God, learning how to anchor our faith beyond what we feel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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28:28

Mind and Spirit

Vista Community Church ·

2025/07/27

The early church was a charismatic community in which miraculous eruptions of the Spirit were somewhat normal, and were often channeled through people gifted to channel such gifts. But these charismatic gifts seemed to wane fairly early in the Church's history. Why? And how can we be people who are open to charismatic gifts while also resistant to desperation for them or the sensationalizing of them? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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34:05

Speaking Gifts

Vista Community Church ·

2025/07/20

Another category of spiritual gifts are the "speaking gifts."These include gifts of teaching, exhorting (encouragement), leadership, wisdom, knowledge, apostles, evangelists, and pastors.Like the serving gifts, each of the speaking gifts are evident in the life, ministry, and teaching of Jesus.It's also important to walk in humility and wisdom with the speaking gifts otherwise there is a great temptation for pride and arrogance with these gifts since they are often more public. Hosted on Acast. See

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32:44

Serving Gifts

Vista Community Church ·

2025/07/13

Many of the spiritual gifts listed in the New Testament could fall in a category called "serving gifts." These includes gifts of service/helps, giving/generosity, mercy, faith, discernment, administration, and hospitality. Each of these gifts are also connected to the life, ministry, and teaching of Jesus. It's important to learn to walk in wisdom in regards to our gifts because when we don't, there is a negative side to each gift that can result in a lot of struggle in those perceived areas of

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35:57

Intro to Spiritual Gifts

Vista Community Church ·

2025/07/06

Spiritual gifts are special abilities given by God (the Holy Spirit) to Christians so that they can do God's work in the world. Whenever the subject of spiritual gifting is discussed it usually raises a lot of questions. What are the gifts of the spirit? How do we get them? How do we know what gifts we have? How do we use them? In this intro to our "Gifted" series, we'll take a look at some overarching big ideas regarding spiritual gifts and learn how we can begin discerning what ways the Holy

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32:05

From Brokenness to Blessing

Vista Community Church ·

2025/06/29

Boaz has a goal to become Ruth's kinsman redeemer. So, he puts together a plan to make it happen. We see the Elders of the city and the people of the community pray for them and encourage them as they marry and have a child named Obed. The story of Ruth and Naomi is really a story of tragedy to triumph... brokenness to blessing. In many ways this mirrors the story of the Bible and the story of the gospel. In it we learn that even when we're wondering where God is and waiting, He is still working

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34:55

Bad Advice

Vista Community Church ·

2025/06/23

Ruth has not heard from Boaz for weeks now and the harvest time is almost over.So, Naomi gives Ruth some advice on what to do next.Some of her advice is good, some questionable, and some is just plain bad.Ruth follows through and it works out, but there are a lot of lessons to be learned along the way. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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29:24

A Virtuous Cycle

Vista Community Church ·

2025/06/15

Few things are more determinative of who you are and are becoming than who and what you reward with your attention. Boaz gifts Ruth with his attention because Boaz has an eye for goodness, and Ruth reciprocates, creating a virtuous cycle wherein both affirm and encourage the good in one another. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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31:42

God Shows Up In Unexpected Ways

Vista Community Church ·

2025/06/08

At the beginning of the 2nd chapter of Ruth, we are introduced to the 3rd main character in the story... a godly man named Boaz.Although there are not any overt miracles recorded in the book of Ruth, you see God's hand of providence on display as He brings Boaz and Ruth together and Boaz takes notice of her.This is a great reminder for us that even when we cannot see it, God is at work in our lives in unexpected ways to bring about his purposes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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27:51

Leave Moab

Vista Community Church ·

2025/06/01

The book of Ruth is a short story that has many lessons to teach us.Some say it's a love story.Others say it's a story about repentance and redemption. Still others say it's about "Hesed"...that is loving faithfulness and loyalty that goes beyond what is socially expected or legally required.The truth is that it is a book about all of those things and more.Ultimately it's a story about God's providence, goodness, and faithfulness when life doesn't go the way we thought it would. Hosted on Acast. See

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