Podcasts about churchcentral

Everyone worships something, something that we put at the centre of our lives and orient ourselves around. In this series, we are exploring together as a community what it truly means to worship God - to put Him at the centre and allow Him to shape and transform everything about us. This week, Guest Speaker Jemma Mellor from Churchcentral and Sputnik shares about how we can worship using creativity, and the vital importance of the arts in bringing colour and flavour to the world around/

Jonathan Bell - team leader for the wider Churchcentral family of churches - joined us for the morning to open God's word. We explore a strange story in the Old Testament to see what we should do when we're running on empty.

David Devenish - a long-time friend and father in the Churchcentral story - joined us for two sessions exploring what it looks like for communities of disciples to demonstrate the gospel in an ungodly environment. The two sessions hang together, so to get the best out of it, listen to both.

Do you feel like an outcast? Do you feel too far gone? Do you feel no good for anything? You're exactly the sort of person Jesus loves to meet, as we see in Mark 5!

At our Churchcentral-wide Weekend Away, we had two sessions from Jonathan exploring the theme of 'Time To Dream Again...'. In part 1, we saw the staggering story of Joseph and his dreams. We learned that things tend to turn out 'very different' to how we imagine.

To the CC South family, Jonny shared important and difficult news from our wider Churchcentral family. From Isaiah 6, he then called us to look to God in a time of endings and beginnings...

In light of the realities of heaven, we are urged to take off the old and put on the new. In this talk at CC West, we explore what this means, and how we can live this life in the light of our true identities.

What does it mean to be patient? How does God help us with this character trait? Nana Opong preached for us at Churchcentral North on these themes.

What does it look like to build a healthy relational culture in your corner of Churchcentral? We look at some practical wisdom from Paul into two major types of relationship within a local church.

We were thrilled to welcome Tope Koleoso, lead Pastor of Jubilee Church London, to speak to us as the whole Churchcentral family. Tope spoke to us about how to thrive in the face of 'Jerichos' in our lives.

The year at CC West started with Rich taking us through Psalm 23, and looking at three invitations God has for us within the fog of 2021.

Krish Kandiah (activist, author and Founding Director of Home For Good) joined us for our online Adoption Sunday service. Krish speaks to us from Romans chapter 8 and it's followed by a time of Q&A.

We were thrilled to have Andy, a former elder at Churchcentral, back to preach to us from the Middle East. He brings a message of hope. From June 28

I want to share with you what I believe to be a secret during this time to help us deal with the anxiety and worry that we all feel in varying degrees. It’s called mindfulness. Now, I recognize that mindfulness is kind of a questionable practice among Christians and it’s a fair question to ask. DR. CHARLES STONE (M.Div., Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, D.Min., Trinity Evangelical Divinity Seminary) has served for 37 years in ministry, 24 of those years as a senior pastor. He currently pastors West Park Church in London, Ontario, Canada, a multicultural congregation with over 1,000 attendees. He founded StoneWell Ministries to serve pastors and churches through coaching and consulting. Many of his articles have been featured in magazines such as Outreach, Leadership Journal, REV, New Man, and In Touch and his blog posts have appeared on sites such as Pastors.com, SermonCentral.com, ChurchCentral.com, and Churchleaders.com. Charles and his wife Sherryl have been married for 36 years and have three adult children. Website: https://charlesstone.com/ This content originally appeared at www.moodypublishers.com/help for the Moody Publishers Rethink Rhythms. Find Joy. campaign. Used by permission.

At our last Sunday gathering for some time back on March 15th, Owen considered how we can anchor ourselves in the word of God to find wisdom for the current Coronavirus challenge.

We were thrilled to welcome guest speaker Adrian Hurst to bring us God's word at Churchcentral Together. By unpacking some plant imagery in the teaching of Jesus, he encouraged us to have faith for being pruned by God and faith for planting the love of Jesus in our city.

Now that Churchcentral West is a church in it's own right, what does it look like for us to grow as a community? Jonathan unpacks some of the helps and hindrances to deep community and invites us to keep growing in this area.

Misha Martin opens up the theme of race in the church during one of our Big Questions mornings at Churchcentral South.

As Jonathan outlines some of the vision for Churchcentral South in the coming year, he invites us to a deeper discipleship to Jesus.

Anxiety has become the air we breathe as 21st century humans. But is there a way of living free of it? The Bible's answer is Yes! Owen explains how.

Owen reflects on where we are at as Church Central West and what God is saying to us at this time. He also launches the Freedom in Christ course, with the help of others.

As we celebrated the appointing of seven new elders across the three churches of Churchcentral, Jonathan unpacked Peter's instructions firstly to elders, and then to the rest of the church community. The recording is from the South eldership appointment.

In a world of trouble and difficulty, what can we learn from Jesus' encounter with two disciples on the road to Emmaus? Andy helps us in his final message as part of Churchcentral before he and Heather head to their new adventure.

"If God sets the lonely in families, individualism sets the lonely in tribes". With isolation and loneliness at record levels as our culture creaks, Jonathan uses various passages to call us to something gloriously different, to true community.

On Saturday morning, Jonathan shared some of the ways God has been using us as a church before looking to the future, and announcing two key bits of news for the next stage of our journey together...

Have you ever heard of Christian Mindfulness? Whether you have or haven’t, today’s podcast is packed with insights that will impact your personal life, how you lead, and your coaching practice. The cutting-edge field of brain science, applied to life & leadership coaching, will boost your effectiveness in all areas of your life! Tune in to grasp a greater understanding of how neuroscience can help you and your clients: Exercise greater control over your emotions so you can navigate life and work with a greater sense of calm Increase personal productivity so distractions and multi-tasking don’t rob you of your ability to coach and listen well Build higher-performing teams to impact ROI, retention, and advancement More effectively manage change by keeping your brain healthy Understand the importance of tending to spiritual disciplines and being in the Word on a daily basis so Scripture can guide all your interactions within your circle of influence   About Charles Stone Charles has served 36 years in ministry, 24 of those as a senior pastor. Over half of those years, he served in churches with over 1,000 attendees. He currently pastors West Park Church in London, Ontario, Canada. He founded StoneWell Ministries to serve pastors and churches at large through coaching and consulting. He has spoken to over 1,200 ministry leaders nationally and globally at pastors’ conferences. Charles and his wife Sherryl have been married for 36 years and have three children: Heather (34), Joshua (32) and Tiffany (29). Charles’ education includes the following: Bachelor of Industrial Engineering and a Certificate in Business and Technical Writing from Georgia Institute of Technology (high honors). Master of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Ft. Worth, Texas. Doctor of Ministry from Trinity Evangelical Divinity Seminary in Deerfield, Illinois. Executive Masters in the neuroscience of leadership from the Neuroleadership Institute. Previous Writing Over 30 of his articles and book reviews have been printed including several in leading church and ministry magazines such as Leadership Journal, Called Magazine (for women in ministry), YouthWorker Journal, REV, OnMission, New Man, Seek, The War Cry, Living with Teenagers, and In Touch (Charles Stanley’s magazine). His blogs have regularly appeared on these sites: Pastors.com, SermonCentral.com, ChurchCentral.com, and Churchleaders.com. Ed Stetzer, Ron Edmondson, and other leadership bloggers have also featured Charles’s writing. He contributed one chapter to the book Encounters with God (Family Christian Stores, 2004) and The Spirit of Christmas (St. Martin’s Press, 2011) compiled by Cecil Murphy. He has written 4 books: Co-authored with his daughter Heather, Daughters Gone Wild-Dads Gone Crazy (2005, ‘W’ Publishing/Thomas Nelson) 5 Ministry Killers and How to Defeat Them (Bethany House 2010) People-Pleasing Pastors: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Approval-Motivated Leadership Published in January 2014 by InterVarsity Press.  Outreach, Inc. named it a 12th Annual Outreach Resource of the Year Recommendation in the leadership category Brain-Savvy Leaders: The Science of Significant Ministry recently released in May 2015 by Abingdon Press Charles blogs twice each week on leadership and his blog garnered approximately 60,000 unique visitors and over 210,000 page views during the last 12 months. His Twitter followers exceed 18,000 and his blog email list + RSS feed includes over 2,500 subscribers. He also has over 4,400 Facebook followers and over 1,000 LinkedIn followers.   Click “Subscribe” to see any embedded links   Show Notes: http://professionalchristiancoachingtoday.com/183 http://professionalchristiancoachingtoday.com/           

Church is not primarily an organisation, it’s a family, and like in any family, we need people of all different ages and stages to play their part. At ONE, Jonathan explored what that can look like in Churchcentral.

Jesus calls his followers to let their light shine. Owen explains Churchcentral’s vision and how this is being outworked at West Site over the coming term.

In our Big Questions morning exploring "How can anyone claim there's just one true religion?", Sanju, a former Hindu now part of Churchcentral, shares his experiences around this theme...

As we finish Paul's letter to the Colossians church, we see far more than just the end credits! The tone of Paul's final greetings and instructions is a tone that has been present throughout the whole letter: it is a tone of both family and mission. However, these two values are not in tension as many may imagine, but feed each other necessarily. Jonny encourages us to set the same tone at Churchcentral.

Matt Partridge from Emmanuel Church Oxford joins Churchcentral for our ONE church together event to talk about the practicalities of what it means to be on mission together as a church.