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 som…

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 al…

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 pre…

Fear and anxiety touch all of us in some way. This Sunday Sam Bloore opened up Psalm 27, helping us discover its wisdom and strength for our everyday lives. LISTEN:Av Central Vineyard Church

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 mig…

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. You can access the p…

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. LISTEN: VIEW SLIDES:Av Central Vineyard Church

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. LISTEN: VIEW SLIDES:Av Central Vineyard Church

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. LISTEN: VIEW SLIDES:…

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. LISTEN: VIEW SLIDES:…

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? LISTEN: VIEW SLIDES:Av Central Vineyard Church

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 …

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. LISTEN: VIEW SLIDES:Av Central Vineyard Church

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 LISTEN: VIEW SLIDES:Av Central Vineyard Church

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. LISTEN: VIEW SLIDES:Av Central Vineyard Church

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? LISTEN: VIEW SLIDES:Av Central Vineyard Church

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. LISTEN: VIEW SLIDES:Av Central Vineyard Church

Join us for "Contend” a series exploring how to practice life in the not-yet. We continue the series with Dan taking us to Romans 8:18-30 which speaks of the groaning we will all endure, and how it is tied to prayer, tears and contending for the new. LISTEN: VIEW SLIDES:Av Central Vineyard Church

Join us for "Contend” a series exploring how to practice life in the not-yet. We continue the series with Dan taking us to the Scriptures which tell of our future glorious destiny, we explore why hope is important and what to do with the gap between the now and not-yet. LISTEN: VIEW SLIDES:Av Central Vineyard Church

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. LISTEN: VIEW SLIDES:Av Central Vineyard Church

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. LISTEN:Av Central Vineyard Church

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. LISTEN: VIEW SLIDES:Av Central Vineyard Church

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. LISTEN: VIEW SLIDES:Av Central Vineyard Church

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. LISTEN: VIEW SLIDES:…

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. LISTEN: VIEW SLIDES:Av Central Vineyard Church

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. LISTEN: VIEW SLIDES:Av Central Vineyard Church

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. LISTEN: VIEW SLID…

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. LISTEN: VIEW SLIDES:Av Central Vineyard Church

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. LISTEN: VIEW SLIDES:Av Central Vineyard Church

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. LISTEN: VIEW SLIDES:Av Central Vineyard Church

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. LISTEN: VIEW SLIDES:Av Central Vineyard Church

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. LISTEN: VIEW SLIDES:Av Central Vineyard Church

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…

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. LISTEN: VIEW SLIDES:Av Central Vineyard Church

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. …

Join us for "Drift No More", a Lenten series exploring a tethered faith. Dan continues the series by looking at how one of the major first symptoms of drift is we become isolated, and how the truth is that in faith, we are not alone; we are surrounded by a crowd of witnesses. How do we engage with this surrounding of saints? LISTEN: VIEW SLIDES:…

Join us for "Drift No More", a Lenten series exploring a tethered faith. Dan continues the series by looking at how the writer of Hebrews conveys that Christ has been anchored in the presence of God and how we are to be tethered to Him. LISTEN: VIEW SLIDES:Av Central Vineyard Church

Join us for "Drift No More", a Lenten series exploring a tethered faith. Dan starts the series by looking at what drift is and what we can do about it. LISTEN: VIEW SLIDES:Av Central Vineyard Church

Join us for "Famlification", a series that explores the vision for church as a new family. This week, Dan continues the series, looking at how Jesus invites us to belong and join the family business; being fully known and getting on with the task of making all things new. LISTEN: VIEW SLIDES:Av Central Vineyard Church

Join us for "Famlification", a series that explores the vision for church as a new family. This week, Dan kicks off the series by examining how Jesus disrupts conventional family ideas and replaces them with an enhanced vision that can transform our entire understanding of what the church is supposed to be. LISTEN: VIEW SLIDES:…

Join us for this special one-off Sunday exploring how we walk faithfully into the future by both rhyming with what has been before us and looking for the surprise of the Spirit for the future, and Dan takes this moment to invite us all to some prayer points. LISTEN: VIEW SLIDES:Av Central Vineyard Church

We're exploring our place today in a bigger story of the global and local historical Church. Join us as guest speaker Amy Tait shares some stories of the work of the gospel in Aotearoa's history. LISTEN: VIEW SLIDES:Av Central Vineyard Church

We're exploring our place today in a bigger story of the global and local historical Church. Join us as Josh Kimpton interviews our Co-leaders to share the CV story. LISTEN: VIEW SLIDES:Av Central Vineyard Church

We're exploring our place today in a bigger story of the global and local historical Church. Dan interviews Lloyd Rankin (Founder of Vineyard Churches Aotearoa NZ) to hear some of the VIneyard story and names some of the precious distinctions God has put into this family. LISTEN:Av Central Vineyard Church

We're exploring our place today in a bigger story of the global and local historical Church. Dan shares part two of the series by taking us back to The Apostles' Creed and the beliefs it informs us towards today. LISTEN: VIEW SLIDES:Av Central Vineyard Church

NOTE: Due to a technical problem, the final 10 minutes of this talk is unfortunately missing We're exploring our place today in a bigger story of the global and local historical Church. Dan shares this opening talk on how we can think well about the last two thousand years of church history as whakapapa. LISTEN: VIEW SLIDES:…

As a community we are called to be in fellowship – but what does that actually mean? Rob Wiseman draws on Paul’s letter to the Philippians and some lessons from te ao Maori to give us a bigger view of this important way of being together. LISTEN: VIEW SLIDES:Av Central Vineyard Church

“Stewardship” is a series exploring how we practice resource handling, looking especially at our money. We finish the series with Natalie looking at some good money praxis exploring how to plan to hold money with generosity and responsibility. LISTEN: VIEW SLIDES:Av Central Vineyard Church

“Stewardship” is a series exploring how we practice resource handling, looking especially at our money. We continue the series with Dan looking at Jesus’ vision of generosity, and how to live towards having open hands and big hearts. LISTEN: VIEW SLIDES:Av Central Vineyard Church

“Stewardship” is a series exploring how we practice resource handling, looking especially at our money. We begin the series with Dan sharing on what stewardship is and looking at some of Jesus’ teaching on handling money. LISTEN: VIEW SLIDES:Av Central Vineyard Church