Central Vineyard Church Sermon Podcast

1 Peter 2:5 offers two powerful images: we are called to be living stones and holy priests. In this message, Dan unpacks the confronting challenge in this passage—the difference between simply attending worship and actively tending to it, like a priest caring for the presence of God. In a culture steeped in consumerism, we’re invited out of passive Christianity and into a participatory life of wor...

Worship is both structured and spontaneous—like a classical quartet following a set score and a jazz trio freely improvising together. In this episode, we explore what it means to worship with Kingdom expectation, embracing both the known and the unknown, the planned and the Spirit-led. Through scripture, including Colossians 3:16 and the Lord’s Prayer, we uncover the deep connection between worsh...

Worship holds a hidden power: what we behold, we become. This week, we explore the transformative nature of worship—not as a call to conformity, but to true transformation. Worship reveals the direction of our hearts and offers a space for reorientation. Join us as Donald Goodhall unpacks this theme through Psalm 115 and the lives of three men—St. Ambrose, St. Augustine, and Amos—exploring what it...

Worship is more than just thoughts in our heads—it’s love expressed through our whole selves. This week, we explore embodied worship and how our physical actions—singing, kneeling, clapping, lifting hands—are vital expressions of our love for God. Just like we naturally respond with our bodies at a concert or when holding a newborn, true worship invites us to respond fully to God’s love. Join us a...

Worship isn’t something we manufacture—it’s our response to God’s love. Love, Returned explores how true worship flows like 1 John 4:19: “We love because He first loved us.” We don’t initiate worship; we step into what God has already begun. It’s about intimacy, not performance—opening our hearts, not striving. Join us as we rediscover worship as a love story, not a task.

We conclude our "Pursuing Jesus" series, focusing on discipleship as apprenticeship. Like Peter, we are invited to come, follow, and then be shown by Jesus how to live in His Kingdom. Apprenticeship is about living towards a future-orientation of who we are becoming, requires scaffolding and curiosity. It is ultimately for joining Jesus in His work of restoring all things, becoming fruitful for ot...

Jesus’ invitation—“Follow me”—sounds simple, but like Peter, we often don’t realise what we’re signing up for. In this episode, we explore what it truly means to abide in Jesus, trust Him as Saviour, and walk in friendship with Him. What are you attached to? What’s shaping you? And is it producing the life you long for? Join us as we dive into John 15 and the call to a life well connected to Chris...

Jesus invites us into His Kingdom like a host inviting guests to a great feast—abundant, joyful, and open to all. But the choice to accept is ours; excuses can keep us from the table. God won’t force us in, but His invitation remains: Come, I want you here. How will you respond?

Twelve years ago, Jesus invited us into something new, leading to the birth of Central Vineyard. For ten years, we’ve pursued Him together, learning to apprentice our lives to Him. Today, we reaffirm that calling with a fresh vision—still saying yes to His invitation. Will you come, follow Him, and let Him show you how?

Join us for "Contend” a series exploring how to practice life in the not-yet. We begin the series with Dan taking us to the teaching of Jesus about prayer and how we are to pray for God’s future.

Join us for a special occasion where on Matariki Weekend the AKL Vineyard combined together at Central Vineyard to hear from guest speaker Ted Kim.

Join us for "Living Outward” a series exploring mission. We conclude the series with David Christoffersen sharing a talk on how Michah 6:8 has been a core lens to his career, and how we can all partner with God to extend the Kingdom of God right where we are on Monday.

Join us for "Living Outward” a series exploring mission. We continue the series with Rob Wiseman sharing about his everyday life as a teacher and how this is his space - like so many of us - to be Jesus to the world in his everyday life.

Join us for "Living Outward” a series exploring mission. We continue the series with guest Alanna Chapman telling us the story of 27seconds Wine, sharing her journey of what it has looked like to turn a deeply compassionate encounter into entrepreneurship and create a wine brand that supports the work of ending sex trafficking.

Join us for "Living Outward” a series exploring mission. We continue the series with Dan interviewing Scott Pollok about his upcoming trip to Ukraine; we hear the whole story from the early formation of compassion, to the beginning of partnership.

Join us for "Living Outward” a series exploring mission. Alisha continues the series by telling her own roller-coaster story of proximity and sharing on the example of Jesus.

Join us for "Living Outward” a series exploring mission. Dan continues the series by looking at how secular activism is trying to solve the world in secular ways, but how Pentecost reminds us we have a crucial distinction: we are people empowered by the Spirit and have been anointed in the power of love to serve the world in love.

Join us for "Living Outward” a series exploring mission. Dan continues the series by looking at the mission of ministry, what ministry is, and how we are all called to be compassionate ministers.

Join us for "Living Outward” a series exploring mission. Dan begins by framing up the series looking at the priority of this for Central Vineyard and looking at Jesus’ commandment to be a light that shines in the darkness.

Join us for "Live No Lies", an Eastertide series based on the book of the same title by John Mark Comer exploring how we “fight the good fight of faith” wisely. Dan concludes the series by looking at the third enemy; the world and a normalised sinful society.

Join us for "Live No Lies", an Eastertide series based on the book of the same title by John Mark Comer exploring how we “fight the good fight of faith” wisely. Alisha continues the series by looking at the second enemy; the flesh and disordered desires.

Join us for "Live No Lies", an Eastertide series based on the book of the same title by John Mark Comer exploring how we “fight the good fight of faith” wisely. Dan continues the series by looking at the first battlefront; the devil and the weapon of distorted ideas.

Join us for "Live No Lies", an Eastertide series based on the book of the same title by John Mark Comer exploring how we “fight the good fight of faith” wisely. Dan begins the series by framing up by looking at the war Christ won at Easter and yet the battles that are still to be fought within against the devil, the flesh and the world until all is made new fully.

Join us for "Drift No More", a Lenten series exploring a tethered faith. Dan concludes the series by looking at how we are to be tethered to the Gospel — or we could say the story of promise — and how it is the story that reframes everything.

Join us for "Drift No More", a Lenten series exploring a tethered faith. Dan continues the series by looking further at combating isolation, this time focussing on how we have been given the tethering point of Tradition as the great soil to form our habits which ultimately reorders our loves and forms us well to love God, others, and our own souls.