Greenleaf Vineyard Church

Rodger Otero | A final message on Pentecost Sunday, 2020.

Rodger Otero | A heroic giver goes above and beyond what is asked.

Angela Otero | Heroic givers are often those who have developed a habit of giving to others.

Rodger Otero | Becoming a heroic giver often begins with simply responding to an unexpected need.

Rodger Otero | Holding our expectations of life and God loosely enables us to live freely and lightly.

Rodger Otero | The Sabbath is God's gift to enable us to live freely and lightly.

Rodger Otero | The opposite of fear isn't courage--it's love.

Angela Otero | Because we must habitually unplug (from society and technology) in order to recalibrate our hearts toward the Creator.

Rodger Otero | In fasting we allow ourselves to feel unsatisfied by food, so that we might feel more satisfied by God.

Kyle Beardsley | Sometimes Jesus asks us to volunteer and sometimes we're "voluntold."

Angela Otero | Jesus' call is not always gentle; it is individual, requires sacrifices, and comes with a promise.

Rodger Otero | Jesus invited women to be his disciples...and still does!

Rodger Otero | Jesus isn't skeptical about calling skeptics to follow him.

Angela Otero | Jesus calls the sick. The perfectly well need not apply!

Rodger Otero | Jesus wants to get into your boat with you. 

Angela Otero | Forgiveness Makes Room for Reconciliation

Katie Horvath | God extends to us the gift of forgiveness, but to receive it we must first extend forgiveness to ourselves and one another.

Rodger Otero | When God takes away our sin, he restores the hope that sin stole from us.

Angela Otero |  

Rodger Otero | Forgiveness of sins restores peace with God, which grants access into his presence.

Rodger Otero | People will know that we are followers of Jesus because of our love for each other.

Angela Otero | Buckets and buckets! We take time to open our hearts to receive more of God's love so that it can overflow into the lives of others.

Shevaun Neupert | Marginalization push out; God's love invites in.

Rodger Otero | The audio from the Invitation to Contemplation and Lectio Divina from our October Contemplative Service.

Angela Otero: We can not give a love that we do not have; where might you need freedom to receive the love that God has for you?

Angela Otero: Listen in on our MultiGen service as we explore more of God's love through imaginative prayer.

Rodger Otero: Death and resurrection are vehicles of God's grace.

Angela Otero | This is not your typical sermon--it's a rough recording of nearly our entire Contemplative Service. This podcast shouldn't be merely listened to! Instead we invite you to pray it with us as we practice contemplative prayer and celebrate the sacrament of baptism.

Angela Otero: We can't even begin to walk in the freedom of our faith until we understand that God is Love; when you begin to contemplate his love, you can begin to locate yourself within Love. Contemplate his love today!

We can't even begin to walk in the freedom of our faith until we understand that God is Love; when you begin to contemplate his love, you can begin to locate yourself within Love. Contemplate His love today!

Rodger Otero: God Doesn't give us a settled city; he gives us a city to settle.

Angela Otero: Often we assume that we know what is "right" because we can guess, but if we will ask Jesus, often he will show us another way, Our gut choice may have been a good choice, but what if Jesus wants to surprise us with something even better?

God wants to bring wholistic health to us body and soul, but our own resistance is the very thing that stands between us and healing.

Rodger Otero | The generous love of God flows from the Father, to the Son, to the Spirit, to you.

Katie Horvath | God gave us our longings to reveal to us our true selves, who we were created to be.

Rodger Otero | A peek into the why's behind our Summer Rhythms experiment.

Jesus doesn't want to hold you back, he wants to set you free to be who you were always meant to be!

Angela Otero | God formed us in goodness, and as his image bearers we're given the privilege of being creators and stewards of goodness.

Rodger Otero | Everyone who awakens to the Father's love can expect the power of resurrection to be at work in and through them.

Angela Otero | Jesus makes miracles happen from our inabilities and our poverty, not from our abilities or wealth.

Angela & Garrett Otero | Jesus' invitation to you today is to find him and follow him into new life.

Rodger Otero | The life of the kingdom is lived within the holy trinity of love: God, others, and ourselves.

Angela Otero | Breath a sign of relief, this is not an evangelism strategy; however, if your neighboring is done with the right posture, then people who don't know God will certainly come to know more of him naturally through you.

Tyler Garvey | Trying to love everybody can be hard, so we often end up not loving anybody. What if we began with loving our actual neighbors in simple ways?

Rodger Otero | Our busy lives and the fear of the unknown all too often keep us from being good neighbors. Becoming the neighbors we're called to be means taking the time to slow down and love.

Angela Otero | Jesus calls us to be caring and compassionate neighbors in our community. Where do we start?

Kyle Beardsley | We choose to accept that we live in the already and the not yet.

Tina Jenkins | We can find our identity in Christ, not our belief system.

Shevaun Neupert | The Spirit can create unity where it once seemed impossible.

Andre Jenkins | Being loving is as important as being right.

Dottie Meyers | God has all truth, but we don't have a perfect understanding of it.