Central Vineyard Church Sermon Podcast

This week concludes our series The Gift and the gifts with Dan lightly exploring the idea of witnesses. Jesus said this is what those who receive the Gift would be, and it mimics a wider pattern found around Jesus, where those who have an encounter of the Kingdom then can’t help but tell about it. After a light teaching on this idea, Dan then led space for reflections and stories in Central Vineya...

This week at Central Vineyard, Dan continues our series The Gift and the gifts by exploring mercy, the gift that moves us toward pain. Mercy is not just for the naturally empathetic. As it is a gracelet of the Spirit, it is given and grown in us so that the Church may be a body who cares, and that we individually might become more like Jesus: noticing the hurting, moving toward the overlooked, and...

This week at Central Vineyard, Alisha Wiseman continues our series The Gift and the gifts by exploring encouragement — the gift that puts courage into another. Biblical encouragement is more than positivity or saying something nice. It is the Spirit-empowered gift of coming alongside someone, seeing where God is at work, naming what is true, and inviting them further into the life of Jesus. We apo...

Before the eigth part of our The Gift and the gifts series, Ella shares a story of recent healing for their little girl, and then Strahan Coleman contributed to our series by speaking on how the gift of prophecy is first and foremost the testimony of Christ, and a word that is to encourage, strengthen and care for the Church.

This week Dan continues our series The Gift and the gifts by exploring one of the most beautiful, hopeful, and complex gifts of the Holy Spirit: healing. Healing is one of the places where hope and disappointment often meet. Many of us carry stories of God’s surprising power breaking in, and many of us also carry stories of waiting, groaning, and unanswered prayer. So why do we still pray for heal...

This week at Central Vineyard, Dan continues our series The Gift and the gifts as we turn from the Gift of the Holy Spirit to the gifts the Spirit gives. Exploring the New Testament’s teaching on spiritual gifts, Dan frames the gifts of the Spirit as “gracelets” — little manifestations of God’s grace, given for the common good. These gifts are not labels to possess, platforms to build, or performa...

In this fifth part of our series, and on Pentecost Sunday, guest speakers Mel and Kirk Beyer share on the Pentecost effect then and now, with Mel framing it up with some theoloical thoughts, and then, Kirk sharing a recent story of how it looks in reality.

NOTE: We apologise for the audio quality of this recording, we had a technical difficulty. In this fourth part of our series, and on Ascension Sunday, Alisha Wiseman explores the strange and beautiful tension of life with the Holy Spirit: Jesus is reigning, the Spirit has been given, the Kingdom has come — and yet so much of our lives can still feel unfinished. From Acts 1, we are invited to see t...

In this week’s message from The Gift and the gifts, Dan traces the big biblical story from Eden to Pentecost to New Creation, asking: how will God dwell and commune with His people again? At Pentecost, the long ache of Scripture begins to be answered. The Holy Spirit is no longer mediated through a certain space, or just a few prophets, priests, kings, or leaders, but poured out on all God’s peopl...

In the second part of our Pentecost series, The Gift and the gifts, Dan explores the Holy Spirit as the Gift who often surprises us and widens the frameworks we thought were fixed. Tracing the story of Peter, the Wimbers (early leaders of the Vineyard movement), and some recent stories from at Easter Camp, this message invites us to see that life with the Spirit is not something we generate throug...

In this opening message of our new Pentecost season series, The Gift and the gifts, Dan opens the series with Jesus' instruction to the dicsiples to "wait for the gift." Preparing us for the season ahead of Pentecost in the Church calendar, we consider the gift: the Father who promises, the Spirit who is given, and the grace-gifts poured out for the good of others. Pentecost reminds us that the Ch...

Join us for a special week celebrating baptisms and the stories of those who were baptised.

In the fifth and final part of our Deadly Sins for Lent series, Dan explores simplicity as a counter-practice to greed. Looking at Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 6, this sermon unpacks how greed is more than wanting money or possessions — it is the restless ache for more — and how simplicity becomes a Spirit-formed pathway into contentment, trust, and learning to live with enough in the Kingdom of God...

In this fourth talk of our Lent series, Deadly Sins for Lent, Alisha speaks on generosity as the counter-practice to greed, and how generosity is far better than we can imagine, but it will cost us.

In this third talk of our Lent series, Deadly Sins for Lent, guest speaker Lyndon Reiff shares with us his real life experiences of practicing generosity as a counter-formation to greed, and encourages us to do the same with some helpful wisdom.

In this second talk of our Lent series, Deadly Sins for Lent, Alisha explores greed — not simply as having a lot, but as the subtle, restless pull for more that can quietly shape our hearts. Through Jesus’ words and the story of the rich young ruler, this talk names greed for what it is: a trap, a false promise, and a rival to the life Jesus offers. But this is not a talk about shame. It’s an invi...

Join us for Family News: A Sunday of vision, updates and inviations to join Jesus in the restoration of all things. Co-leaders Dan Sheed and Alisha Wiseman share on our mission to join Jesus in the restoration of all things, and significant pieces of how we sense to do this: generation-to-generation life, a micro-enterprise endeavour of creating a consignment store to support our outward initiativ...

Lent 2026 begins with a new long-term journey for Central Vineyard: over the next seven years, we’ll move through the Deadly Sins FOR LENT, one each Lent, as we let Jesus reform what deforms us. In this opening message from Luke 4, we explore Lent as preparation, not punishment — a wilderness season where truth, repentance, fasting and generosity can make us ready for resurrection life. We also be...

In Week 2 of Shared Life, we turn to Philippians 2 and discover that real community isn’t held together by effort or chemistry, but by a way — the way of Jesus. Paul begins with grace received, not commands, inviting us into a shared posture shaped by encouragement in Christ, love, and life in the Spirit. At the centre is Jesus, who does not grasp for status but empties himself in humility. This s...

We live more connected than ever, yet many of us feel unseen, unknown, and alone. In this opening talk of our Shared Life series, we explore why loneliness has become so normal — and how the gospel offers something deeper than thin connection. Drawing from Paul’s letter to the Philippians, this sermon invites us to rediscover koinōnia: a shared life that starts with a shared allegiance to Jesus, b...

As you consider your 2026, we invite you to consider how you will walk out living in God. Dan looks at church history, and how Perpetua and Felicitas embodied this in a radical way when they stepped into a Roman arena with joy, unity, and unwavering faith, leaving a lasting impact on those who witnessed their sacrifice. Today, we face our own arenas, and the question remains: how will we walk the...

In this final message of the Introduction series, Dan reflects on Mary’s story in Luke 1:26–38 and the extraordinary forming of love within her ordinary life. Exploring the Spirit “overshadowing” Mary, this message traces God’s dwelling presence from Creation, to the Ark of the Covenant, to Mary — and now to the Church — reminding us that love is not manufactured but formed by God in willing, avai...

Join us for this third Introduction reflection, where we look at Elizabeth’s story as a picture of how God develops deeper joy in us. Luke shows that her five months of hiddenness weren’t wasted — they were the darkroom where God transformed years of disappointment into a joy ready to be shared when Mary arrived. This story invites us to embrace the slow, unseen work of God in our own lives, trust...

Join us as we continue our Advent reflection series Introduction. In this second reflection, Dan looks at Simeon and the “peace of recognition”—the kind of peace that comes not from circumstances resolving, but from seeing Christ in the middle of our lostness. A full description of the episode with detailed information. Episode Note A formatted description of this episode, supported by Apple Podca...

NOTE: Our apologies, but the opening minute of this talk was not recorded. Join us as we begin our Advent reflection series Introduction. Dan explored how Zechariah’s story in Luke 1 shows that God often restores hope not through noise or quick answers, but by creating space — the surprising gift of silence that softened his cynicism and slowly retuned his hope. Advent invites us into the same pos...