Family Mess 9 | Genesis 23 & 25:1-11 | Jay Pathak | Mile High Vineyard

This week we started the series that will take us through most of the Summer, Exodus. In the first week Pastor Jay Pathak sets up the series by first looking at Genesis and the story that brings us to what is happening in Exodus. The scripture for this week is Exodus 1:1-14

* The video that will be heard during the podcast comes from the Bible app: Read Scripture and is free to download if you want to be able to see that.  

This week, on Mother's Day, pastor Anabeth Morgan takes us through Romans 16:1-16 and speaks about what it means to be a Romans 16 woman but also about women in leadership today. 

This week is our baptism week at Mile High Vineyard. Pastor Jay Pathak speaks about what it looks like to leave it all behind and give it to Jesus. 

This week Pastor Corey Garris talks about what we do when there is crisis in our lives. How do you respond and are you wasting it? 

This week pastor Jay Pathak speaks about how what Jesus did for us the day that he died on the cross isn't just to be remembered and celebrated one day a year but everyday of the week. 

This week, on Easter Sunday, Pastor Jay Pathak takes on the question of, Did it really happen? Did Jesus really die and then raise from the dead to save us from our sins? The scripture for this week is Luke 24:13-35. 

This year for our Good Friday service Pastor Danielle Pathak takes time to reflect on the agony that was the cross. 

This week, on Palm Sunday, pastor Jay Pathak continues our series 40 Days Of Drawing Near To Jesus. This week in the series Jay speaks about how God limits his power so that we have to become his hands and feet, serving those in need. 

This week in our series, 40 Days Of Drawing Near To Jesus, pastor Corey Garris speaks about the life of Jesus and being surprised by what he offers us.  

This week in our series, 40 Days Of Drawing Near To Jesus, pastor Jay Pathak speaks about how we are to be filled with the power and presence of the Holy Spirit. Not only for ourselves but also to give away for the sake of others. 

This week in our sermon series, 40 Days Of Drawing Near To Jesus, pastor Jay Pathak speaks about moving against our culture to have a full and meaningful life. 

This week in our series, 40 Days of Drawing Near to Jesus, pastor Jay Pathak talks about the practice of getting away and praying to connect to Jesus.

In the first week of our sermon series, 40 Days, Pastor Jay Pathak speaks about temptation. When we find ourselves in the desert how do we deal with the temptations that can arise?

This week in our series, Character That Changes The World, pastor Corey Garris speaks about how the scriptures point to perseverance being the number one character attribute to living a full life. 

This week in our series, Character That Changes The World, pastor Jay Pathak speaks on what it looks like to be wrong and how to grow in those moments.  

In the first week of our series, character that changes the world, pastor Jay Pathak speaks about courage and how when we move towards things with courage it changes our world and the people around us. Note: Jay uses a video in his sermon. You will want to watch it at the following link before you listen to the podcast:https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000004882589/ten-meter-tower.html?smid=fb-share 

This week in our series, Kingdom, Pastor Jay Pathak talks about stepping outside your comfort zone and leaning into serving the kingdom. 

This week in our series, Kingdom, pastor Jay Pathak speaks about how you can bring the kingdom of God to where you work and to the people around you. 

This week in the first week of our series, Kingdom: where you live, pastor Jay Pathak talks about the kingdom of God and how it effect everywhere you live. 

This week pastor Corey Garris talks about the seasons in our life. We had seasons last year that we can look back on and we will have new ones this year.  

This week in our series, The Politics of Christmas, pastor Jay Pathak looks at the Christmas story and how it is the greatest example of why we should be serving and caring to those who find themselves in need. 

This week in our series, The Politics of Christmas, pastor Jay Pathak takes us through Mary's song and how this song is a protest to the present and a promise towards the future. 

In the first week of our series, The Politics of Christmas, pastor Jay Pathak speaks about the different politics happening at the time of Jesus' birth and how the same groups and things are happening today. 

In the last week of our series, Discovering Ephesians, Pastor Jay Pathak speaks about warfare. How the dark forces of the world are at work against you and the church of Jesus Christ. 

This week in our series, Discovering Ephesians, Pastor Corey Garris takes us through Ephesians 6:5-9 speaking about how we look at our work and our identity. 

This week in our series, Discovering Ephesians, pastor Jay Pathak takes us through Ephesians 6:1-4. Speaking about how we have all been adopted and saved by Jesus. 

This week in our series, Discovering Ephesians, pastor Jay Pathak takes us through Ephesians 5:21-33 speaking about the real meaning behind the verse and how preference isn't a good glue. 

This week in our series, Discovering Ephesians, pastor Jay Pathak takes us through Ephesians 5:1-20 speaking on what we really need to be closer to Jesus. 

This week in our series, Discovering Ephesians, pastor Jay Pathak takes us through Ephesians 4:17-32 speaking about how we connect with others with our bodies & our minds. 

This week in our series, Discovering Ephesians, pastor Jay Pathak takes us through Ephesians 4:7-16 speaking about our calling and the purpose of our life. 

This week in our series, Discovering Ephesians, pastor Cory Garris takes us through Ephesians 4:1-6 speaking about how we can connect with others. 

This week in our series, Discovering Ephesians, Pastor Jay Pathak takes us through Ephesians 3:14-21 speaking about how we connect to God. 

This week in our series, Discovering Ephesians, pastor Jay Pathak takes us through Ephesians 3:1-13 talking about the church and being with others. 

This week in our series, Discovering Ephesians, guest speaker Charles Montgomery will take us through Ephesians 2:11-22 and speak about breaking down walls between communities. 

In the fourth week of our series, Discovering Ephesians, pastor Jay Pathak walks us through Ephesians 2:1-10 and speaks about Grace. 

In this week of our series, Discovering Ephesians, pastor Jay Pathak walks us through Ephesians 1:15-23 and speaks about why, what, and how Paul prays for the people he cares about and how we can apply that to our prayer life.

In the second week of our Series, Discovering Ephesians, pastor Jay Pathak speaks about our view of God and how our lens of God changes how we interact with him. 

In the first week of our series, Discovering Ephesians, pastor Jay Pathak opens the series by talking about the Bible. Why we would read it in it's context instead of just reading verses that make us feel good. 

In the last week of our series, Stories, guest speaker Jerry Lanier speaks about what you become in life based on what you ascribe worship to. 

In the third week of our series, Stories, Pastor Anabeth Morgan speaks about the story that God invites us into.

In the second week of our series, Stories, guest speaker Cyndia Garris shares about how God came into her life to break pattern of sin and restore her to her original design. How Jesus will meet us and that there is nothing too big for God to redeem. 

In the first week of our series, Stories, guest speaker Lisa Phillips shares her story of Jesus and how he came into her life and rescued her over the years. 

This week Pastor Corey Garris speaks about where we find ourselves in the race we call following Jesus. Will we cut corners or run the whole race and will we finish well? 

In the fourth week of our series, Reel Faith, Pastor Corey Garris speaks about the life of Gandhi and how he used none violent acts to change the world & how Jesus was the first do set this example. 

In the third week of our series, Reel Faith, Pastor Jay Pathak speaks about what it is to look at the world view of others based on what their experience has been. He uses clips from the movie, Malcolm X to help give us context. 

In the second week of our series, Reel Faith, Pastor Becca Knudsen speaks about bringing your life with Jesus to your work. 

In the first week of our summer series, Reel Faith, pastor Corey Garris shares clips from the movie, The Pursuit of Happyness. Being Father's Day Corey speaks about men, how they are made, how they are broken and how the kingdom comes in to resort them to be who Jesus made them to be.

In the last week of our series, Loving Where you Live, Lead pastor Jay Pathak speaks about using your home to invite the people who are the furthest away from the Lord into life with you and Jesus. 

In the second week of our series, Loving Where You Live, pastor Corey Garris speaks about what it looks like to invite people we live with and around into life with Jesus.

In the first week of our new series, Loving Where You Live, lead pastor Jay Pathak speaks about what the Bible has to say about supporting the local government and why we want to love where we live in this way. 

In the eighth and final week of our series, Training Camp, lead pastor Jay Pathak talks about the importance of having a regular time of prayer in your life. 

In the seventh week of our series, Training Camp, lead pastor Jay Pathak speaks about the discipline of gratitude. How often when we are stuck in life becoming grateful for what we have is a beginning step towards freedom. 

In the sixth week of our series, Training Camp, lead pastor Jay Pathak speaks about how the world is upside down. Jesus offers us a way to correct that in his kingdom... you go down to go up. Through serving and giving your life away you gain power and freedom in the kingdom of Jesus. 

In the fifth week of our series, Training Camp, Pastor Corey Garris speaks about building spaces of rest and solitude into our life. 

In the fourth week of our series, Training Camp, Lead pastor Jay Pathak talks about baptism. How coming to the waters as you are leads to freedom. 

In the third week of our series, Training Camp, lead pastor Jay Pathak speaks about what it looks like to have knowledge actually create transformation in our lives. 

In the second week of our series, Training Camp, pastor Jay Pathak talks about the story we tell about the Bible and the tools we have to speak to people about the story of Jesus. 

In the first week of our new series, Training Camp, pastor Christian Summers speaks about  the importance of training to become like Jesus.

On Easter Sunday, lead pastor Jay Pathak, speaks about the celebration of Easter and what we have to look forward to in our life with Jesus.

In the third week of our series, Rescue Me, Lead pastor Jay Pathak speaks about how the why is the everything to the what in our lives. 

In the second week of our series, Rescue Me, Lead pastor Jay Pathak speaks about how Jesus came not to build a religion but to rescue us from it. 

In the first week of our new series, Rescue Me, lead pastor Jay Pathak speaks about how even if you have been walking with the Lord a long time you still may need rescued and not know it. What it looks like to totally yield to God. 

In the final week of our series, GO, lead pastor Jay Pathak speaks about calling and how to respond and participate in what the Lord is doing in the rest of the world. 

In the fourth week of our series, Go, lead pastor Jay Pathak talks about how we participate in seeing the kingdom spread to the ends of the earth through mission, giving and planting churches.  

In the third week of our series, GO, lead pastor Jay Pathak talks about what it looks like to reach out to and connect with people that look like your enemy. 

In the second week of our series, GO, pastor Corey Garris speaks about what it looks like to live missionally in your neighborhood and city. We also unveil the new names for our neighborhood church locations. 

In the first week of our new series, GO, lead pastor Jay Pathak speaks about living in an authentic way. That by living your life and speaking to those around you they would come to know Jesus.

In our fourth and final week of the series, FIT, lead pastor Jay Pathak speaks about what the scriptures say about us being financially fit. 

In the third week of our series, FIT, Lead pastor Jay Pathak talks about how to grow your emotional fitness by engaging those who are different from you. 

In week two of our series, FIT, lead pastor Jay Pathak speaks of learning to train spiritually to become more like Jesus. 

Lead Pastor Jay Pathak began our new series "FIT" this last Sunday. During his talk, he shared the physical, emotional and spiritual reasons for taking care of our bodies. 

At our special Christmas Eve Service, Lead Pastor Jay Pathak finished up our Behold series, highlighting how Jesus really is the Good News and how, in Him, we find our way to connect to the love of God.

In week 4 of our Advent Series, Behold, Lead Pastor Jay Pathak unpacks what true joy is and provides ways for us to find it.

In week 3 of our Behold series, Lead Pastor Jay Pathak showed us what true, Scriptural peace ("shalom") looks like and how we can be a force for peace and wholeness in the midst of the fear and anxiety that is so pervasive in our world today.

Lead Pastor Jay Pathak continues our Behold series, this week highlighting both how to wait with hope and how hope and doubt are not mutually exclusive.

Lead Pastor Jay Pathak began our new series "Behold" this past Sunday. During his talk, he shared the keys to beholding (focusing our attention on) Jesus well this Advent season - by magnifying Him with thanksgiving.

Lead Pastor Jay Pathak continues our Relate series this week, highlighting the power and pain of being a part of a family. He shows us how vital it is to know the stories of our families so we can more fully know who we are and how we've been shaped as well as so we can decide who we want to become.

This week, it was Baptism Sunday for our Arvada Hub (who was also celebrating its first services in our new Arvada Hub building). In addition, it was also Orphan Sunday. Lead Pastor Jay Pathak continued the Relate Series highlighting the scriptural call, challenge, benefit and promise presented by showing sacrificial love to others.

It was one of our favorite Sundays of the year: Baptism Sunday! Lead Pastor Jay Pathak continued our Relate series discussing how baptism signifies the power of repentance and how repentance is the beginning of reconciliation.

Lead Pastor Jay Pathak continued our Relate series this week by focusing on perhaps the most difficult and yet most necessary topic: forgiveness. For our OWN sake, we must forgive others.

Lead Pastor Jay Pathak continued our Relate series this week - challenging us that trusting others is not an optional way to way to live in community. But, what does it take to choose trust over suspicion?

Lead Pastor Jay Pathak continues our Relate series this week by offering very practical and vital tools to resolve stress or offense with another person - without involving anyone else through triangulating or gossip.

Pastor Corey Garris continues our "Relate" series by reminding us that each of us alone is responsible for our own emotions and by giving us very practical tools to manage them.

This week, we took a break from our Relate Series to focus on all the exciting changes and transitions happening in the life of the Mile High Vineyard. In this podcast, Lead Pastor Jay Pathak addressed our Arvada Hub as it celebrated its last Sunday in its current building.

Pastor Corey Garris continues our Relate series, this time discussing the power and freedom of having healthy relational boundaries.

This week, Lead Pastor Jay Pathak began a new series on relationships called "Relate" where he explained how to be healthy church, we must have healthy relationships. We were created to have an intimate, close life with God AND with people.

In the last week of our "Ready. Set." series, we celebrate the lauch of our fourth hub in Lakewood as Lead Pastor Jay Pathak calls us to take the time to remember and memorialize how God has been faithful to us in the past and to celebrate His goodness and kindness.

This week, Lead Pastor Jay Pathak continued our series, "Ready.Set." by giving us practical tools on what to do in the "space between" God's initiation of a dream and its fullfillment.

In the second week of our "Ready. Set." series, Lead Pastor Jay Pathak explains why we must deal ruthlessly with any fear in our own lives.

This week, pastor Corey Garris began our new series, Ready. Set. by answering the question, "How do we 'ready & set' ourselves to be the types of people who are courageous when we need to be?"

In the final week of our Leading Like Jesus series, Lead Pastor Jay Pathak remined us how Jesus' intentional and intimate investment in 12 lives impacted the course of history. What would happen if we did the same?

Lead Pastor Jay Pathak continued our Leading Like Jesus series by unpacking the beauty and purpose of the Church (universal, local and scattered). As we follow Jesus, it should be natural and easy for us to say we love the church. What keeps us from doing so?

In the third week of our Leading Like Jesus series, Lead Pastor Jay Pathak challenges us that to be a Kingdom Leader, we must be servants first.

This week, Lead Pastor Jay Pathak continues the Leading Like Jesus series by reminding us that just as Jesus acknowledged and relied at all times on God's presence to work in and through Him, so should we. You can find a pdf for the "Game of Minutes" Jay talked about here.

This week, Lead Pastor Jay Pathak kicked off a new series, Leading Like Jesus, based off of Floyd McClung's new book of the same name. In his talk, Jay challenged us to allow Jesus to expand our understanding of who He is and how He works rather than trying to limit Him to our experience or agenda.

Two series (Grace and Reel Faith) collide once again. This time Lead Pastor Jay Pathak uses the movie Les Miserables to show the power of grace and forgiveness.

Two series align as Lead Pastor Jay Pathak continues our series on Grace by using the 1986 movie, The Mission, to talk about why we must share the gospel of grace with others.

Pastor Danielle Pathak continues our series on grace by unpacking three common things that keep us from really understanding, experiencing and embracing grace.

On this Father's Day, Lead Pastor Jay Pathak continued his series on grace - showing how when we see Jesus, we really do see the Father - a perfect, loving, gracious Father who cares for us.