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This Advent season, we’ll reflect on the lives of the characters from the first Christmas and examine how their encounters with God’s presence can inspire and challenge our approach to Him today.
This Sunday, Dan took us into the story of the Magi—the unexpected guests who arrive in the story in more ways than just their unexpected arrival with some gifts for Jesus. What can looking at these outside-the-box characters show us? -
This Advent season, we’ll be reflecting on the lives of the characters from the first Christmas, looking at how their encounters with God’s presence can inspire and challenge how we approach Him today.
This Sunday, Alisha took us into the story of Herod—a man whose encounter with God felt more like a threat than an invitation. It’s a question we all have to face: when God disrupts our lives, will we resist, or will we recognize the invitation hidden in the interruption? -
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This Advent season, we’ll be reflecting on the lives of the characters from the first Christmas, looking at how their encounters with God’s presence can inspire and challenge how we approach Him today.
This Sunday, Alisha spoke on one of the lesser-known characters of the first Christmas: Anna. She’ll asked the question—are we recognising God’s presence right in front of us, just like Anna did? -
Fear and anxiety touch all of us in some way. This Sunday, guest speaker Sam Bloore opened up Psalm 27, helping us discover its wisdom and strength for our everyday lives.
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A series exploring the book of James and his exhortation to a lived-out faith. This week, Alisha wrapped up the series by reminding us that God longs for us to invite Him into every part of our everyday life—more than just our big decisions or moments of crisis. He wants to be present in the ordinary, in the mundane. He wants to be with us! How might we respond?
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A series exploring the book of James and his exhortation to a lived-out faith. This week, Matt Lilly from Coast Vineyard joined us to share what James has to say about prayer. Complementing James' practical nature, Matt taught us the Vineyard Prayer Model, demonstrated how to use it and encouraged us to go and try it ourselves.
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A series exploring the book of James and his exhortation to a lived-out faith. This week, Alisha looked at favouritism and how this goes against the grain of Jesus.
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A series exploring the book of James and his exhortation to a lived-out faith. This Sunday Rob looked at the wisdom of James, talking on the importance of the words we speak and the power of our tongue.
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A series exploring the book of James and his exhortation to a lived-out faith. This Sunday we welcomed Don Barry from Gateway Church as our guest speaker. Don highlighted a main theme from the book of James, the poor, and James’ plea to us to be generous like our Father is generous.
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A series exploring the book of James and his exhortation to a lived-out faith. This Sunday we explored James’ question “What causes quarrels and fights among you?”, with Alisha unpacking an answer that revealed the heart of our conflicts often springs from inner chaos and distance from God.
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A series exploring the book of James and his exhortation to a lived-out faith. This Sunday Donald looked at James 3:13-18 asking what is the true nature of wisdom. How can we attend to the invitation to grow in wisdom and what are the markers to living it out?
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A series exploring the book of James and his exhortation to a lived-out faith. This Sunday Alisha looked at James 1:2-5 where James encourages us to look at trials through a different perspective—one which can reveal and produce something in us, turning them into opportunities for joy.
Note: Our primary audio recording failed, so we apologise for the audio quality this week. -
A series exploring the book of James and his exhortation to a lived-out faith. Today Alisha framed up the series with the reminder we see clearly in James, that we’re called not just to be believers or admirers, but doers of the Word.
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Join us for "Contend” a series exploring how to practice life in the not-yet. Today we finished the series by looking at the story of the Samaritan woman at the well, where Jesus’ interactions collide with her presuppositions
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Join us for "Contend” a series exploring how to practice life in the not-yet. We continue the series with Dan taking us to Matthew 13:33 where Jesus teaches a parable about the Kingdom being like yeast: active. subversive, slow and transformative.
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Join us for "Contend” a series exploring how to practice life in the not-yet. We continue the series with Dan taking us to Matthew 7:7-8 where Jesus calls us to a prayer life that is always asking, always seeking and always knocking. So how do we do that?
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Join us for a different Sunday where we hear from Scott Pollok about his trip to Ukraine, Dan and Gabrielle Sheed share about their Sabbatical and we pass on some important and exciting updates for all the Central Vineyard whānau.
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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.
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