Weekly talks from Redeemer Central. We are a diverse, vibrant church in the heart of Belfast, practicing the way of Jesus through simple, intentional, and inclusive community and seeking the peace and common good of our city.
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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.
Matt Graham discusses two of the lies we believe about life: that there is a separation between the secular and the sacred, and that busyness is best. Believing these keeps us from living in the freedom of God's purposes and his rest.
Stephanie discusses the lies we believe about ourselves, namely, that I must be in control, my life is my own and that it’s just the way I am. Believing these keeps us from living free and whole as the children of God.
This week Ryan Hawthorne challenges some of our false but commonly held beliefs about God, pointing us to a Lord and Father who is pure Love, no ifs, no buts.
This week Dave Wylie talks to us about Ecclesiastes, drawing out some key lessons from this challenging book.
Gillian takes us through Ephesians 3:14-21 discussing the empowering work of the spirit.
Dave looks at God's presence which is the central fact of Christianity and the story of a God who wants to be present with His people
Matt Graham teaches from Matthew 22: 34-40 on the greatest commandment to love God and love others as you love yourself.
Ryan Hawthorne completes the series ‘Resident Aliens’ looking at the church as a community of future and our collective purpose to be an image of the glorious future in the kingdom of God. This series ‘Resident Aliens’ explores the idea of the church living in a strange age. Over the six talks we looked at the communal identity of the church, why it matters and what it's for.
David Armstrong asks the question "What time is it, Redeemer?" and shares insight into the season we are being led int as a community - one of seeking the face of God in prayer. To help with this we remember the ancient way of the Celtic Christians who, instead of forcing their agenda, paid attention to what was already happening and stewarded that... much like a farmer stewards the land in season. (This is the second part of a two part talk). This series ‘Resident Aliens’ explores the idea of t...
David Armstrong continues the series ‘Resident Aliens’ looking at the church as a community of the ancient and how the counter-intuitive way of Jesus hides our future inside our history. The call for the church then is to rediscover those ancient paths and walk in them, learning particularly from our own Celtic spiritual history in Ireland. (This is the first part of a two part talk). This series ‘Resident Aliens’ explores the idea of the church living in a strange age. Over the six talks we loo...
The Resident Aliens series explores six aspects of the church living in a strange world. In this episode, Daniel Saunders continues with Part 3: A Community of Embrace
Ryan Hawthorne continues the series ‘Resident Aliens’ looking at the church as a community of death and the call to follow Jesus example of a sacrificial, cruciform way of life. This new series ‘Resident Aliens’ explores the idea of the church living in a strange age. Over six talks we'll look at the communal identity of the church, why it matters and what it's for.
This new series ‘Resident Aliens’ explores the idea of the church living in a strange age. Over six talks we'll look at the communal identity of the church, why it matters and what it's for. David Armstrong begins looking at the church as a community in exile in a digital Babylon age.
The guest speaker this week is our friend Jason Miller from South Bend City Church, Indiana, USA. Jason speaks on seeing the Imago Dei (Image of God) in every person in a talk entitled 'Everyone an icon'. In it he dives into how we and our culture perceive each other, and how God turns that perception on its head. *Apologies, the first few minutes of this talk was missed in the recording.
Holy Habits' is a series that looks at some of the key practices that help us experience change and transformation, forming us on the road of becoming more like Jesus. Stephanie Wilson shares on the practice of prayer as listening and the intentional pursuit of hearing from God
