Central Vineyard Church Sermon Podcast

“Come, Holy Spirit” is a Pentecost series exploring desire, the Holy Spirit and an empowered Church. Join us as we continue the journey with Dan sharing a talk on who the Holy Spirit is and exploring the third Person of the Trinity.

“Come, Holy Spirit” is a Pentecost series exploring desire, the Holy Spirit and an empowered Church. Join us as we start the journey with Dan sharing a talk on the importance of these three words as a prayer of desire in the origin story of the Church, our Vineyard family and personally, and what is behind the sentiment.

The Walk is our new special seasonal Sunday where we hear three people share their stories of walking the way of Jesus. This time around, we hear from Scott Pollok on being “moved with compassion”, Jovita Manickam on “life in medias res” and Chris Kerr on “the call of heaven”.

As we wrap up our Easter season, Dan takes a Sunday to speak a one-off afterword looking at what Christ’s resurrection could look like for us today as Central Vineyard.

“Worthy” is our Easter series, looking at Revelation 5:11-14, where Jesus – because of his lion-like lamb victory on the cross and in resurrection – is declared to be worthy of all of creation responding to him in worship We finish the series with Dan Sheed sharing on Easter Sunday, looking at the Easter event as the great qualifier for Jesus being the One worth our worship.

“Worthy” is our Easter series, looking at Revelation 5:11-14, where Jesus – because of his lion-like lamb victory on the cross and in resurrection – is declared to be worthy of all of creation responding to him in worship We continue the series with Donald Goodhall sharing on Palm Sunday and how our songs are a worthy response of worship to God.

“Worthy” is our Easter series, looking at Revelation 5:11-14, where Jesus – because of his lion-like lamb victory on the cross and in resurrection – is declared to be worthy of all of creation responding to him in worship We continue the series with Dan sharing on Romans 12:1 and how the greatest response of worship to God is our lives given to him as a living sacrifice.

“Worthy” is our Easter series, looking at Revelation 5:11-14, where Jesus – because of his lion-like lamb victory on the cross and in resurrection – is declared to be worthy of all of creation responding to him in worship We start the series with Dan sharing on why worship is such a crucial arena of our lives and how when done best, it is not conjured up, but a legitimate response to what has been...

“To experience the kingdom of God a group of people should get together and simply try to do the things that Jesus instructed his disciples to do.” - Dallas Willard As we begin 2023, Dan shares a final summer talk to start the year by looking at the importance of communal practice to share our lives following Jesus.

“Without God we cannot, without us God will not.” - St Augustine As we begin 2023, Dan shares another talk to start the year looking at the importance of becoming missional as a result of life with Jesus.

“Revival is what happens when personal renewal goes viral.” - Mark Sayers As we begin 2023, Dan shares another talk to start the year looking at the importance of transformation and personal renewal as we follow Jesus into the life He invites us. NOTE: Due to equipment issues on Sunday, the podcast recording is a voice memo, we apologise for the low quality.

“The first act of love is always the giving of attention” - Dallas Willard As we begin 2023, Dan shares a talk to start the year looking at the importance of our attention as we follow Jesus into the life He invites us.

In this third talk, Natalie Wendzich explores how we live the incarnation - that is, how do we live with God in our everyday life?

Wholly Following Christ is a series exploring a beautiful and balanced vision of the Christian life. Join us as we continue our month-long exploration of the final facet, “the Incarnational Life”. In this second talk, Dan Sheed explores how Christ was touchable, seeable and heard; a new tactile temple of God.

Wholly Following Christ is a series exploring a beautiful and balanced vision of the Christian life. Join us as we continue our month-long exploration of the final facet, “the Incarnational Life”. In this first talk, Dan Sheed explores how Christ said he had revealed the Father and would send the Spirit that we may be people who embody the Spirit and could truly say that “God is with us”.

Wholly Following Christ is a series exploring a beautiful and balanced vision of the Christian life. Join us as we continue our month-long exploration of the fifth facet, “the Prayer-filled life”. In this final talk on the facet, Dan interviews Bron and Phil Tait about their story and praying for others, finishing with the Tait's giving a rather practical real-time example of praying for Dan.

Wholly Following Christ is a series exploring a beautiful and balanced vision of the Christian life. Join us as we continue our month-long exploration of the fifth facet, “the Prayer-filled life”. In this third talk, guest speaker Strahan Coleman explores living a life of prayer that is both mystical and practical; a life of beholding God.

Wholly Following Christ is a series exploring a beautiful and balanced vision of the Christian life. Join us as we continue our month-long exploration of the fifth facet, “the Prayer-filled life”. In this second talk, Dan Sheed explores Jesus’ vision of prayer by looking at the Lord’s Prayer, not as a script to memorise, but as six crucial frameworks that hold up the house we are to build.

Wholly Following Christ is a series exploring a beautiful and balanced vision of the Christian life. Join us as we start our month-long exploration of the fifth facet, “the Prayer-filled Life”. In this first talk, Dan Sheed explores prayer as the key to life with God and the disciples’ request to Jesus to teach them to pray.

Wholly Following Christ is a series exploring a beautiful and balanced vision of the Christian life. Join us as we continue our month-long exploration of the fourth facet, “the Compassionate life”. In this final talk, Dan Sheed explores how the compassionate life is one of good works, a Biblical motto for life lived in the radical call to acts of goodness that witness to life with Jesus in his Kin...

Wholly Following Christ is a series exploring a beautiful and balanced vision of the Christian life. Join us as we continue our month-long exploration of the fourth facet, “the Compassionate life”. In this third talk, Dan Sheed explores how the compassionate life is one lived in Christ’s example of servanthood, a life practising submission and service.

Wholly Following Christ is a series exploring a beautiful and balanced vision of the Christian life. Join us as we continue our month-long exploration of the fourth facet, “the Compassionate life”. In this second talk, Dan Sheed explores how the compassionate life is tied to social justice, and what Jesus’ vision for social justice was, informed by three Hebrew words together; hesed, mishpat and s...

Wholly Following Christ is a series exploring a beautiful and balanced vision of the Christian life. Join us as we start our month-long exploration of the fourth facet, “the Compassionate life”. In this first talk, Dan Sheed explores the pattern of compassion; that we are moved by it to do something right, that we are "moved by compassion" to then embody it as a response.

Wholly Following Christ is a series exploring a beautiful and balanced vision of the Christian life. Join us as we finish our month-long exploration of the third facet, “the Consecrated life”. In this third talk, Dan Sheed explores an abstinence way to continue in the consecrated life, a way where we learn to fast in a world of feasting.

Wholly Following Christ is a series exploring a beautiful and balanced vision of the Christian life. Join us as we continue our month-long exploration of the third facet, “the Consecrated life”. In this second talk, Dan Sheed explores Jesus’ vision for the consecrated life, and to do so, requires a backup to run through the greater story of “the holiness gap” that Jesus was coming to reorient...