Of The Vine

You Are My Beloved Child With Who I Am Well Pleased | Behold Season 1 | Season Finale

Father Ed closes us out on season one of Behold by summarizing what we have dived deeper into this summer: our relationship, identity, and mission (RIM) as Christians. We share in that Sonship that Jesus experienced with His Father. And we also can say, I am the beloved son or I am the beloved daughter of God, and he is well pleased with me. From this identity we can be on mission to be disciples and make disciples of Christ. We invite you to take part in season 1 of Behold. A content series exploring our true identity as beloved sons and daughters of God, using the model of relationship identity, and mission. We begin with our relationship with God, which tells us what our true identity is and how our mission flows from that understanding. This model is what was revealed to us by Jesus, and prepares us and sends us out on a mission. See our website for more great content: https://www.stjamesah.org/adults/  Looking for a parish and a prayerful community? Join us on Sundays! Mass times: https://www.stjamesah.org/come-to-mas...   When you register as a parishioner you get access to Formed.org! A Catholic Netflix designed to nurture you on your faith journey.    Link to become a parishioner: https://www.stjamesah.org/new-parishi...   Link to Formed Sign Up: https://www.stjamesah.org/adults/#formed  #jesus #catholic #behold

As The Father Sent Me So I Send You | Behold Season 1 | Ep. 12

Jesus said to them again in John's Gospel. Peace be with you as the Father has sent me. So I send you. Everything we do should be a response to the truth of who we are. And everything we do should be rooted in and flow out of our identity as a son or daughter. In other words, we experience fulfillment and true joy. When everything we do, every part of our lives is centered around our identity as beloved sons and daughters of the father who is crazy in love with each one of us. So relationship with God first. Then comes mission. But how do we know what that mission is, where that mission is, who that mission is supposed to be with? We invite you to take part in season 1 of Behold. A content series exploring our true identity as beloved sons and daughters of God, using the model of relationship identity, and mission. We begin with our relationship with God, which tells us what our true identity is and how our mission flows from that understanding. This model is what was revealed to us by Jesus, and prepares us and sends us out on a mission.   See our website for more great content: https://www.stjamesah.org/adults/  Looking for a parish and a prayerful community? Join us on Sundays! Mass times: https://www.stjamesah.org/come-to-mas...   When you register as a parishioner you get access to Formed.org! A Catholic Netflix designed to nurture you on your faith journey.    Link to become a parishioner: https://www.stjamesah.org/new-parishi...   Link to Formed Sign Up: https://www.stjamesah.org/adults/#formed  #jesus #catholic #behold

Authentic Friendship Guides Us To Become Saints | Behold Season 1 | Ep. 11

Jesus invited people to be his friend and their friendship is based on a mutual love for his father. Jesus introduces them to his father by telling them about him, teaching them how to pray, how to live according to his word. Through this training, Jesus is living with them. He's eating with them, laughing with them.   We invite you to take part in season 1 of, Behold. A content series exploring our true identity as beloved sons and daughters of God, using the model of relationship identity, and mission. We begin with our relationship with God, which tells us what our true identity is and how our mission flows from that understanding. This model is what was revealed to us by Jesus, and prepares us and sends us out on a mission.   See our website for more great content: https://www.stjamesah.org/adults/  Looking for a parish and a prayerful community? Join us on Sundays! Mass times: https://www.stjamesah.org/come-to-mas...   When you register as a parishioner you get access to Formed.org! A Catholic Netflix designed to nurture you on your faith journey.    Link to become a parishioner: https://www.stjamesah.org/new-parishi...   Link to Formed Sign Up: https://www.stjamesah.org/adults/#formed  #friendship #catholic #behold

He Commissioned Us To Be Disciples | Behold Season 1 | Ep. 10

He says in Matthew 28, 19, Go there for and make disciples of all nations, baptize them in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, teaching them all you have observed and all I have commanded you and behold, I am with you until the end of the age. Jesus asks us not only to observe His teachings, to live out the teachings, but also to teach others what he has commanded. He calls us to be disciples.    We invite you to take part in season 1 of, Behold. A content series exploring our true identity as beloved sons and daughters of God, using the model of relationship identity, and mission. We begin with our relationship with God, which tells us what our true identity is and how our mission flows from that understanding. This model is what was revealed to us by Jesus, and prepares us and sends us out on a mission.   See our website for more great content: https://www.stjamesah.org/adults/  Looking for a parish and a prayerful community? Join us on Sundays! Mass times: https://www.stjamesah.org/come-to-mas...   When you register as a parishioner you get access to Formed.org! A Catholic Netflix designed to nurture you on your faith journey.    Link to become a parishioner: https://www.stjamesah.org/new-parishi...   Link to Formed Sign Up: https://www.stjamesah.org/adults/#formed

He Laid Down His Life For Us | Behold Season 1 | Ep. 9

The sacrament of the Holy Eucharist is the realization of Jesus is blood oath to us who are the beloved sons and daughters of God. Jesus fulfilled that blood oath by His death on the cross, by his laying down his life out of love for us. And when we come to Mass, as we do every Sunday, we to make a blood oath to Jesus. We invite you to take part in season 1 of, Behold. A content series exploring our true identity as beloved sons and daughters of God, using the model of relationship identity, and mission. We begin with our relationship with God, which tells us what our true identity is and how our mission flows from that understanding. This model is what was revealed to us by Jesus, and prepares us and sends us out on a mission. See our website for more great content: https://www.stjamesah.org/adults/  Looking for a parish and a prayerful community? Join us on Sundays! Mass times: https://www.stjamesah.org/come-to-mas...   When you register as a parishioner you get access to Formed.org! A Catholic Netflix designed to nurture you on your faith journey.    Link to become a parishioner: https://www.stjamesah.org/new-parishi...   Link to Formed Sign Up: https://www.stjamesah.org/adults/#formed  #stjamesparishah #behold #eucharist