Here is our Sunday Gathering sermon archive, perfect for if you have missed a Sunday, want to hear something again or want to share with a friend.
Join us for our Advent journey as we look at The God Interruption. Our waiting for Christ continues, with the joyful song of Mary bursting into the scene.
“Accepted in Christ, we now run the race ‘for the joy that is set before us’ rather than ‘for fear that comes behind us’.”
Join us for our Advent journey as we look at The God Interruption. Our cultural story says that Christmas is for the good boys and girls, but that isn’t actually how the story of Christmas begins – it starts with some desperate people living in the absence of their God.
“TAKE COURAGE MY HEART
STAY STEADFAST MY SOUL,
HE’S IN THE WAITING.
AND HOLD ON TO YOUR HOPE
AS YOUR TRIUMPH UNFOLDS,
HE’S NEVER FAILING.”
Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. In part twenty-six, Dan shares on the most revealing question Jesus asks his disciples at the middle point of the gospel of Mark.
“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.”
Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. In part twenty-five, Strahan Coleman shares on three connected stories in Mark’s gospel that make a clear point: it’s possible to be blind to the real Jesus due to small things in us that have big consequences to how we see.
Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. In part twenty-four, Alisha Wiseman shares on how vital it is to keep our attention on the condition of our hearts and how our hearts can change.
“You can’t change merely by changing your thinking, or through great acts of will, but rather by changing what you love the most. God needs to be the object of our hearts greatest love.”
Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. In part twenty-three, Strahan shares a talk on the religious lawyers Jerusalem pulling up Jesus for not keeping the traditions that made him clean, and asks which cultural traditions Jesus would challenge today.
Due to Labour Weekend, we did things a little differently and Dan shared this special talk introducing us to the influence of Eugene Peterson, a faithful leader in the modern church and what he shows us about following the Jesus Way together.
Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. In part twenty-one, Dan shares a talk on Jesus feeding the thousands and a movement from being those in the crowd to those who compassionately give.
“A disciple is a transformative learner ... and this is what the disciple learns: how to be the place in the world where the act of God can come alive.”
Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. In part twenty, guest speaker Donald Goodhall shares deeply on a conversation between Jesus and a Greek woman, helping us think about what to do with scriptures that we don’t like.
“We must be careful to not bend the text to say what we want it to say – or what it isn’t trying to say.””
Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. In part nineteen, Dan shares a talk on a glimpse into Herod Antipas’ birthday banquet, the vulgar and violent things that happened there and a lesson on power.
“Lord, make us an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let us sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.”
Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. In part seventeen, Dan shares a talk on Jesus passing exousia to the disciples – a moment that changes how God's mission will be done on Earth forever.
“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.”
Join us for this special gathering where we took the occasion of Fathers Day to gather a panel and honestly talk about families in all kinds of ways.
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.”
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.”
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.”
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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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.”
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.”
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 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.
