The Lakewood Vineyard Sermon Podcast features weekly messages from Lakewood Vineyard Church in Lakewood, Colorado. Each episode offers biblical teaching, spiritual encouragement, and practical insights designed to help listeners grow in faith and live out the love of Jesus in their daily lives. Whether catching up on Sunday’s message or exploring what our church is like, join us each week as we seek to follow Jesus together.
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Everyone is being shaped by something, whether they notice it or not. The shows you watch, the feeds you scroll, the people you keep close - all of it is quietly forming who you're becoming. Christian asks a simple but uncomfortable question: if you kept living exactly as you are right now, who would you be in five years? Drawing from the story of Jesus calling his first disciples on the shore of…
Every relationship can become something it was never meant to be. In this message, Josh and Johanna open up about the season when their marriage almost didn't survive, when admiration quietly turned into idolatry and connection turned into distance. They trace how looking to each other for what only God can provide left them drifting apart, and what it took to find their way back. Along the way,…
What if the thing you're waiting for God to call you to is already happening right in front of you? In this message, Ollie shares an unfiltered look at wrestling with purpose, from a chaotic teenage house party gone wrong to a surprising prophetic word about doing the dishes. Drawing from Matthew 28, he unpacks what Jesus actually meant when he told his followers to go and make disciples, and why…
Ever wonder why almost everyone is told to start reading the Bible at the same spot? There's a reason, and it says more about how the Bible was written than most people realize. Aaron walks through four questions worth asking about any part of the Bible: who wrote it, who it was written for, where the reader is coming from, and why they're reading it at all, and uses them to unpack what kind of…
He came to Jesus after dark, and he wasn't broken, desperate, or falling apart. Nicodemus was educated, respected, and religiously successful, the kind of man everyone assumed had it figured out. Yet Jesus looked at him and said he needed to start over completely. This message walks through one of the most famous conversations in the Bible, the late night meeting behind John 3:16, and asks why…
In 1914, millions of young men marched into the trenches expecting glory and found a slaughterhouse instead. Out of that same darkness, two men drew opposite conclusions. The painter Otto Dix saw proof that beauty was a lie, and J.R.R. Tolkien saw hints of something truer breaking through the ruin. Kyle walks us through Lord of the Rings to sit with a question worth asking: is the hunger for…
The walls we build to protect ourselves have a way of becoming the walls that hold us captive. This message uses the story of The Shawshank Redemption to look at what happens when hope starts to feel dangerous, when waiting on a breakthrough wears you down, and when self-protection quietly turns into a prison of its own. Through the contrast between a man who clings to hope and a man who has given…
Everyone pictures the rescuer as the one who has it all together, but the truth is harder and better than that. This message draws on years spent on a backcountry search and rescue team to reframe what Jesus meant when he said he came to seek and save the lost. It follows a real midnight search for a four-year-old boy who wandered off at a lake, then turns that night into a plain question about…
Most of us carry a quiet list of reasons we think we're too far gone. A failure we can't undo. A season we're ashamed of. Something done to us that we never asked for. Moses had all of that. He grew up in a palace, killed a man, and spent forty years hiding in the desert, convinced his story was finished. Then a bush caught fire, and God called him anyway. Pastor Christian walks through Moses'…
Control feels like safety. More often, it's a cage. What happens when life stops following your script: a job change you didn't choose, a diagnosis you didn't expect, a kid who grew up faster than you were ready for. Using the panic of a father watching his daughter get married in Father of the Bride, Janna asks a simple question. What are you really holding onto when you grip your plans so…
You've tried to pray it away, think it away, distract it away, and somehow it only gets louder. If that's been your experience with anxiety, this message is for you. Drawing on the movie Inside Out 2, the moment Jesus sweat blood in the garden, and real research on how the anxious brain actually works, this message challenges a belief many of us quietly carry: that feeling anxious means we're…