Peripheral - pt 17 (Rejected as just a carpenter / Mark 6:1-6)

Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. In part seventeen, Dan shares a talk on the moment Jesus is rejected by his home-town, the danger of our "just" statements about God and an epic tale from church history that starts with a riot in Alexandria.

“I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ,
the Only Begotten Son of God,
born of the Father before all ages.
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father;
through him all things were made.”

— The Nicene Creed

Peripheral - pt 16 (Signs and the Healer / Mark 5:21-43)

Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. In part sixteen, Hayley Morrison shares on the third significant sign recorded in Mark; that Jesus is God by his healing power.

“She reached for his hem and got his face.”

Peripheral - pt 15 (Signs and the Lord over Death and Darkness / Mark 5:1-20)

Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. In part fifteen, Strahan shares on the second significant sign recorded in Mark, that Jesus is God by his confrontation of death and darkness.

“The role of the church in this peripheral moment is to say ... let’s all go back to our friends and families, and reconcile and heal and share all the things God is doing with us.”

Peripheral - pt 14 (Signs and the Lord of all creation / Mark 4:35-41)

Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. In part fourteen, Dan teaches on reading the signs in the gospel accounts and how this sign in particular shows us Jesus was the Lord of all creation.

“Christianity is Christ, and that means that at its very centre it necessarily includes belief in and affirmation of Christ’s full diety. He does not merely have the value of God for us; He is God for us, as Karl Barth never tired of saying.
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— Roger Olson

Peripheral - pt 13 (Understanding parables / Mark 4:26-32)

Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. In part thirteen, Dan teaches on understanding why Jesus used this communication device so much, what the parables are answering and then we look at the final parables of Mark 4 together.

“Parables are stories that answer big questions [about God and us] by engaging the mind and the heart, intersecting reality and the sacred.”

Peripheral - pt 12 (The way of illumination / Mark 4:21-25)

Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. In part twelve, Dan unpacks the second parable of Mark on a lamp being hidden, dark things being illuminated and making sure we are really listening.

“Integrity is when who I am on-stage is the same as who I am back-stage. It is when there is no separation between what is going on inside of me and what I am expressing outside of me. There is no separation of my inner and outer life.”

— Pete Scazzero

Guest speaker: Brad Jersak (What's the big deal about the cross anyway?)

Guest speaker Brad Jersak shares on the importance of the cross in that it most clearly shows us what God is like, especially His nature of self-giving love.

Halftime - pt 5 (Living the cruciform-tension)

Halftime is our agenda for June at Central Vineyard. Together, we are pausing to look at the founding core values that we have embodied in our story so far, and also what we hope the future will look like as we embody the new things God is doing with us together. In this final part Dan highlights how we live in a tension of both trusting in God with all we can and yet, rolling our sleeves up to do our part that God needs us to do to love our city.

Halftime - pt 4 (From lantern, to lampstand / The art of living outward)

Halftime is our agenda for June at Central Vineyard. Together, we are pausing to look at the founding core values that we have embodied in our story so far, and also what we hope the future will look like as we embody the new things God is doing with us together. In part four Dan explores our fourth value of outward-living and taking our missiology seriously.

Halftime - pt 3 (From free-fall, to formation / Living an intentional spiritual journey)

Halftime is our agenda for June at Central Vineyard. Together, we are pausing to look at the founding core values that we have embodied in our story so far, and also what we hope the future will look like as we embody the new things God is doing with us together. In part three Dan explores our third value of intentionality and taking our spiritual journey seriously.

Halftime - pt 2 (From external, to embodied / Living as a faithful presence)

Halftime is our agenda for June at Central Vineyard. Together, we are pausing to look at the founding core values that we have embodied in our story so far, and also what we hope the future will look like as we embody the new things God is doing with us together. In part two Dan explores our second core value of embodiment.

Halftime - pt 1 (From pixels, to picture / Living in the big story of God)

Halftime is our agenda for June at Central Vineyard. Together, we are pausing to look at the founding core values that we have embodied in our story so far, and also what we hope the future will look like as we embody the new things God is doing with us together. Dan explores our first core value of living in the big story of God.

Guest speaker: Spanky Moore (Contemplative Prayer)

Guest speaker Spanky Moore shares on contemplative prayer and how it could be a subversive practice that is more important than we think for our wellbeing.

Peripheral - pt 11 (The way of imagination / Mark 4:1-20)

Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. In part eleven, Strahan gives an introduction to parables, and helps us to understand how they would have been interpreted in the original context.

“Parables subversively slip past our defenses. Once they’re inside the citadel of self, we might expect a change of method, a sudden brandishing of bayonets resulting in a palace coup. But it doesn’t happen…God does not impose his reality from without; he grows flowers and fruit from within.”

— Eugene Peterson

Peripheral - pt 10 (The way of family / Mark 3:31-35)

Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. In part ten, Dan explores who Jesus means when he talks about family, as we try to answer the questions: What is community? And who is our family in God's kingdom?

“When the church was a family, the church was on fire.”

— Joseph H. Hellerman

Peripheral - pt 9 (The way of holy time / Mark 2:18-27)

Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. Part nine sees Cameron exploring Jesus' comments on fasting and sabbath, raising a question: are these rules to keep or gifts to treasure?

“Busyness is the great enemy of spiritual life in our day.”

— Dallas Willard

Peripheral - pt 8 (The way of inclusion / Mark 2:13-17)

Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. Part eight sees Dan exploring the story of Jesus calling Levi and taking him to a table of radical inclusion and a vibrant picture of the mercy of God. Also we here some stories from Gratis leader, Katie Myers.

“The strategy of Jesus is not centred in taking the right stand on issues, but rather in standing in the right place - with the outcast and those relegated to the margins.”

— Fr. Gregory Boyle

Peripheral - pt 7 (The way of forgiveness / Mark 2:1-12)

Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. Part seven sees Dan exploring the story of Jesus healing a paralytic man who was lowered through his roof showing the new movement of God's forgiveness.

“Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.”

— Henri Nouwen

Peripheral - pt 6 (The way of wholeness / Mark 1:21-45)

Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. Part six sees us looking at Jesus' display of what He has been announcing, showing that the Kingdom of God is making broken things right again.

“Here in Mark, we are seeing some of many snapshots forming a picture of the freedom God wants to offer humanity right now. ”

Peripheral - pt 5 (The abandoned way of life / Mark 1:16-20)

Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. Part five sees us looking at Jesus' invitation to each of us to leave our nets and follow Him.

“Who are you going to become?”

— Dallas Willard