Redeemer Central

Our guest and friend, Jarrod McKenna joins us this week to continue our series on the beatitudes, with Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. - Matt. 5:7. Pastor, activist and co-founder of First Home Project, Jarrod is well-placed to teach us about what mercy looks like and how God's people can show the mercy of God to others.

Dave Armstrong continues our series on The Beatitudes with Part 4, which looks at the verse, Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled - Matt. 5:6

David Armstrong speaks on the second beatitude and this strange proclamation of Jesus that those who mourn are blessed. He explores grieving and it's role to enlarge our souls, to make way for human connection and participation and make room for the comfort and healing of others and God.The Series "The Upside Down" seeks to dig into the Beatitudes, understanding what Jesus is saying and seeing the upside-down world which He speaks about.

David Armstrong opens our new series on the Beatitudes, introducing us to the overall theme and diving into the first of the Beatitudes, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."The Series "The Upside Down" seeks to dig into the Beatitudes, understanding what Jesus is saying and seeing the upside-down world which He speaks about.

This week Ryan Hawthorne completes our series on the power of words, looking at creative and prophetic words. Giving us an overview of the prophets in the Old Testament and showing the unglamorous side of a prophet's life - the expectation of 'prophetic humiliation' - Ryan encourages us nonetheless to become people who speak the creative, hopeful words of God. By doing this, we begin to speak the Kingdom of God into being; we build a new world of justice, without pain or suffering, and in the presence of Jesus.

This week David Armstrong continues our series speaking about 'Healing Words' and the transforming power of Jesus to transform our pain to love and make us what Henri Noun calls 'wounded healers'. He then calls us as a community to be a 'house of healing' for the broken, a space where grace helps put us back together piece by piece.

This week David Armstrong continues our series on the power of words with 'Words of Encouragement' - Focussing on Jesus' words to Peter in John 21, Dave exhorts us to become a community which is deeply encouraging.

David Armstrong kicks off our new series entitled "Words Build Worlds" with an introduction to the power of words. Using passages from Proverbs and the Psalms, and adding his own experiences, David lays the foundation for the rest of the series.

Stephanie invites us to reflect, in this advent season, on our own story and the continued injustice in the world and, in all of this, to wait in hope.

David Armstrong returns with the second part of our Advent series, looking at Advent as a divine interruption.

David Armstrong kicks off our season of Advent, looking at the divine invitation to pause and consider where we are, orientating ourselves to God using the Christian calendar.

This week Ryan Hawthorne concludes our series in Philippians with his talk 'The Secret'. Dispelling popular myths, Ryan unpacks Paul's confidence in Christ and his Secret to contentment.

Peace Be Still. The call on our lives is to live in peace in our relationships with God and ourselves.

This week Daniel Saunders continues our series on Philippians looking at what it means for followers of Jesus to move towards maturity

This week David Armstrong continues our series on Philippians, focussing on verses 1-11.

This week Dave Wylie opens up the second half of Philippians 2, verses 12-18

This week Matt Graham continues our series in Philippians, reading from Philippians 2 and asking what true humility looks like.

This week Stephanie continues our series in Philippians, diving into what the Apostle Paul meant by “To live is Christ, to die is gain.” and asking how we can ‘live Christ’

This week Ryan Hawthorne kicks off our series in Philippians, Colony of Christ. Starting by putting the young church in context with an overview of the whole letter, Ryan moves on to show how some of the key lessons for the church are still vital for us today and applying Paul's Christ-centred teaching to our own community.

This week Ryan Hawthorne unpacks our 'Tables & Gardens' vision for this new season of Redeemer Central. Exploring the themes of tables and gardens which run through the Bible, Ryan lays out the vision for the community and explains what it'll mean in practice.