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Wholly Following Christ - The Compassionate Life pt 1 (Moved by compassion to embody compassion)

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 Compassioante 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.

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Wholly Following Christ - The Consecrated Life pt 2 (Jesus' Vision for the Consecrated 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 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...

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Wholly Following Christ - The Consecrated Life pt 1 (Set apart in an age of moral anarchy)

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 third facet, “the Consecrated life”.

In this first talk, Dan Sheed explores how our world is in an age of moral anarchy and how holiness is a call to be set apart amongst it as people of a consecrated difference.

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Wholly Following Christ - The Word-anchored life pt 3 (Practising a Word-anchored metabolism)

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 second facet, “the Word-anchored life”.

In this third talk, Dan Sheed explores how we “eat this book”, why reading is harder than ever and some practices to help Scripture dwell richly within us.

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Wholly Following Christ - The Word-anchored life pt 2 (Jesus' vision of the Word-anchored 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 second facet, “the Word-anchored life”.

In this second talk, Donald Goodhall explores Jesus’ vision of the Word-anchored life, the script he lived in, and asks a key question, “What is the Script of your living?”

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Wholly Following Christ - The Spirit-empowered life pt 4 (Establishing Rhythms of Renewal)

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 first facet, “the Spirit-empowered life”.

In this final talk, Natalie Wendzich shares on how we sustain the Spirit-empowered life so that it is aimed at fruitfulness, and to do so we must live in the rhythm of both the sacred radical, and the sacred ordinary.

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Wholly Following Christ - The Spirit-empowered life pt 3 (Practicing the Spirit-empowered 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 first facet, “the Spirit-empowered life”.

In this third talk, Dan Sheed shares on how we practice the Spirit-empowered life so that it is aimed at fruitfulness and frames up how we embrace both the organic and messy, but also, the ordered and habitual.

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Wholly Following Christ - The Spirit-empowered life pt 2 (Jesus' Vision for the Spirit-empowered 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 first facet, “the Spirit-empowered life”.

In this second talk, Dan Sheed shares Jesus’ vision of the Spirit-empowered life and frames up how we are to become the new temple-people who commune with God’s Holy Spirit.

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Wholly Following Christ - The Spirit-empowered life pt 1 (Aaron Hardy: Te Hau Ora and a Spirit-empowered life)

Wholly Following Christ is a series exploring a beautiful and balanced vision of the Christian life. Join us as we begin our month-long exploration of the first facet, “the Spirit-empowered life”.

Guest speaker Aaron Hardy kicks off this facet of the series, firstly prophesying a few words, and then sharing on life with Te Hau Ora / the Holy Spirit.

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Wholly Following Christ - pt 2 ("Come, follow me")

Wholly Following Christ is a series exploring a beautiful and balanced vision of the Christian life. Join us for this second part of introducing the series, where Alisha Wiseman explores who it is we are following and the importance of Jesus as our answer.

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Wholly Following Christ - pt 1 (From segmented to whole)

Wholly Following Christ is a series exploring a beautiful and balanced vision of the Christian life. Join us for this first part where Dan Sheed introduces the holistic life of Jesus and his invitation to us all to leave our segmented existence and move towards wholeness.

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Heart Talks - Aiming for the Future

Heart Talks is a short season of talks sharing what is most precious to us for the journey ahead. In this talk, Dan explores time, the Bible and the pastoral call of the New Testament to aim for the future work of God that has been started in Christ.

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Heart Talks - Returning to the Way of Jesus

Heart Talks is a short season of talks sharing what is most precious to us for the journey ahead. In this talk, Dan shares the need for us to not just centre on Jesus, but to return to his way amongst so many other ways.

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Heart Talks - Redeeming Our Stories

Heart Talks is a short season of talks sharing what is most precious to us for the journey ahead. In this talk, Alisha reflects on the story of Hagar, and how God wants to ask us the same questions of where we have been and where we are going.

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Heart Talks - Centred on Jesus

Heart Talks is a short season of talks sharing what is most precious to us for the journey ahead. In this talk, Dan shares how our name “Central Vineyard” speaks of our desire to be Jesus-centred people and what that means.

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Easter series - God, in the chaos: pt 4 (Resurrection in the chaos)

This Easter, we are looking at the answers that Christ’s passion has for us in our own current chaos – the things in us and around us that aren’t as they should be – and how the events of Easter deliver redemption and renewal to us all. Dan finishes the series by looking at how the RIsen Christ invites us to participate in renewal.

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