All Episodes
Central Church Port Kembla — 248 episodes
Spiritual Resilience
Don’t Cling To Me
The Restoration of Peter
Colossians 4: Lives of Liberation
The Practice of Community (feat. Dorothy Day)
Colossians 2: The Answer is Community
Colossians 1: The Christ Story
Newness
Advent: Peace and Preparation
Hope, Peace, Joy, Love in 2025
The Trauma of Paul
Holy Resilience: God when life shatters to pieces
Liminal Space
Contemplative Service - Selah
Ordinary Time in Extraordinary Times
The Connection Between Faithfulness and Creation
Contemplative Service - Trust in the Slow Work of God
Perfection and Wholeness
Contemplative Service- Desert, A Spiritual Geography
From Law to Intoxicating Joy, from Water to Wine
From Scarcity to Abundance, from Water to Wine
Just Build a Bigger Barn
Capitalism & Care
Contemplative Service- The Sacrament of the Present Moment
Women of the Exodus, Part Two
Women of the Exodus, Part One
Empire, the Son of Man and Benedictine Nuns
Dying and Rising
The Death of Death
The Cross as Revealing a Pattern of Death and Resurrection
The Cross as the End of Scapegoating
Sacred Pathways
Grief, Hope, and Dancing Bears - Why We Are Weird
Welcoming the Stranger
Changes in 2025!
Spirituality in Community
Egó mésa ekklisía - Ekklisía mésa mou
God in Unexpected Places
The Anatomy of Yes
Holy Disturbances in Luke 1
Sticky Forgiveness - the place of forgiveness within systems of injustice
A Theological Look at Forgiveness
Caring for Ourselves While we Forgive (Why is Forgiveness so Dang Hard?)
A Contemplative Gathering Around Forgiveness
Contemplative Service - Confession
Wholesome confession, self awareness, and trauma informed apologies
Creation as Healer
Creation as Participant in God’s World
Creation as Teacher
The Parable of the Wheat and the Weeds
The Dragnet… strange metaphors of the Divine
Mustard Seed, Yeast, Hidden Treasure, Merchant...strange metaphors of the Divine
Keep the Fire Burning
God and Suffering: Panel Discussion
A Process of Lament, Psalm 10
How to be human - Psalm 25
Finding ourselves in the Psalms
The Motherheart of God
The Myth of Redemptive Violence
Grief on the Emmaus Road
Post Traumatic Resurrection
The Sacrament of the Present Moment
Christ’s death alive in us.
I’m not what other people say about me.
Knowing your belovedness and letting go of control.
I’m not what I have, I’m not what I do.
A Contemplative Posture - Contemplative Service
The Transfiguration
A History of Biblical Interpretation
Bodies Matter
Water, Spirit, Birds
Advent Week Two
Advent - Contemplative Service
Advent Week One
Meister Eckhart - Contemplative Service
The 10 Men with Leprosy - a miracle that happens ‘on the way’
The 10 Men with Leprosy and the Saviour of the World
Acts 10 Peter Goes For Spiritual Direction
A Psychological Look At Peter's Vision
St Francis Of Assisi - Contemplative Service
Acts 10 Peter and Cornelius: A Communal Exploration
Teach Us To Pray - Prayer of Lament
Teach us to Pray - Prayer of Conversation, Prayer of Silence
Teach us to Pray - Liturgical Prayer
Feeding the 5000 - an Ignatian Perspective
In Indigenous Perspective on the Woman at the Well
St. Teresa of Avila - Contemplative Service
The Feeding of the 5000 - a political perspective
Simone Weil - Contemplative Service
Central: Our Story (the bits about money and resources)
Our Community’s Finances
Scripture through the lens of generosity
Contemplative Service St Therese Of Lisieux
God Walk- reflections from our book club
Slow June: Life’s Speed Bumps
Mark 14:1-11 A Christological Lens
Mark 14:1-11 a feminist perspective
The Anointing at Bethany: A Perspective in Powerlessness
John 20:1-18 Jesus meets Mary at the Tomb
Palm Sunday A different kind of king a different way of living
The Cross: Moral Influence Atonement Theory
The Cross and the Lynching Tree
The Cross: a picture of humanity’s tendency to stuff things up
A Place of Hospitality and Community
A Posture of Openness, Curiosity, and Listening
A Deep And Growing Spirituality
Baptism Matthew 3:13-17
How Jesus messes up Mary’s life
How Jesus Messes Up Joseph’s Life
Luke 18 1 - 8 Through The Lens Of The Lectionary
Luke 18:1-8 An Indigenous Perspective of the parable of the persistent widow.
Wisdom, wounds and our hearts
Reimagining the Kingdom of God
Mark 2:1-11 The Complexity of Healing
Mark 2:1 - 11 Through The Lens Of Disability
John 8:1-11 A Discussion on Shame
Bonus Episode 'go And Sin No More'
John 8:1-11 The Lens of Mercy
Jesus, The Angry Mob And The Scapegoat
An Eastern view of the Prodigal Son
An Indigenous Perspective of the Prodigal Son
The Prodigal Son - Internal Family Systems Perspective
The Sign of Jonah
A Missional Perspective on Jonah
The Parable of Jonah
The Woman at the Well: A Microcosm of Revelation
The Woman at the Well: Was Jesus a Feminist?
The Woman at the Well, and Early Church Fathers readings…
The Cross as the throne of God
The Cross as Divine Magnet
Temptation Of Jesus In The Wilderness (TW Sexual Violence)
The Divine Conversation Part 2
Temptation Of Christ: Old Testament Fulfilment
The Divine Conversation Part 1
Church Plan for 2022
God comes to us disguised as our life
Moving beyond the immediate
Thinking About Purpose
Contemplation On Julian Of Norwich's Revelations Of Divine Love
Living in Lament and Praise
Planting gardens in exile
Imaginative Prayer: Teresa of Avila's Interior Garden
An examen
Genesis 1: a poet's perspective.
Genesis 1 - An Indigenous Perspective
Zacchaeus A Spirituality Of Descent
Zacchaeus - a 12 step recovery reading
Zacchaeus - a Middle Eastern Reading
Jesus calms the storm - an apophatic reading
Jesus calms the storm - a mental health reading
Jesus calms the storm - a political reading
2021 Preaching Plan
Doubting Thomas
The Cross and scapegoat theory
The Cross as Cosmic Reconciliation
Jesus Christ: Messiah, Saviour, and killer of trees
The Plan for Central in 2021
Being the people of God
Fear And Vulnerability
Final wrap up - Sermon on the Mount
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness
COVID19 Season - The Prayer of St. Brendan
COVID19 Season - Psalm COVID-19 of Central Church
COVID19 Season - A COVID Examen
COVID19 Season - This time as liminal space
COVID19 Season - A Guided Meditation for encountering God’s love
The Jesus Prayer (guided prayer time)
COVID19 Season - A Guided Meditation for encountering God’s love
COVID19 Season - A Guided Prayer Reflection
COVID19 Season - Rabbit Hole (In Love We Hide) A conversation about Chris’ new song.
COVID19 Season - A Prayer of St. Aidan
COVID19 Season - Introduction
The Beatitudes Part 1
True and False Disciples
A weekend with Brad Jersak – Sunday Afternoon
A weekend with Brad Jersak – Sunday Morning
A weekend with Brad Jersak – Saturday Session 3 of 3
A weekend with Brad Jersak – Saturday Session 2 of 3
A weekend with Brad Jersak – Saturday Session 1 of 3
A weekend with Brad Jersak – Friday Long Lunch
The Good and the Bad Fruit
Come Lord Jesus, Come!
Building on the rock and the sand
The narrow and wide gates
Blessed in the ordinary
Unpacking ask, seek, knock
Ask Seek Knock
Do not judge
Born of God
Anxiety Panel
The eye is the lamp of the body
Hearing and doing
Forgiveness
Hinderances to becoming intimate with God
When you give…
Luke 4 and our “sent-ness"
Fast Chat
Matthew 6:1 Rewards for giving, praying and fasting
Pentecost Sunday
Reconcilliation Week – Guest Speaker
Oaths and Vows
Loving Enemy, ‘them’ and Kale
The Motherheart of God
Eye for an eye?
Treasures in heaven and Mammon
Easter Sunday
Palm Sunday 2019
Jesus on Lust
Jesus on Anger
Jesus and the Fulfillment of the Law
Introduction to the Sermon on the Mount
What's up with 2019!?
Incarnation - the enfleshment of God
The Incarnation - Kenosis
The temptation of Jesus in the wilderness Part 2 of 2
Guest Speaker Joel Marsh on God and anxiety
Luke 18:1-8 How to pray and never give up?
The parable of the rich fool
Jesus in the wilderness. Part 1 of 2
Jesus The Good Shepherd
Compassionate Jesus
Navigating seasons in the spiritual wilderness
12 years is a short time to live and a long time to bleed. Mark 5:21-43
Youth Service Night
Father’s Day Panel Discussion
Living Out The Calling Of God To Be Courageous
Part 2 of Caro’s sermon on Mark 5: 1-20! The day Jesus said no!
The parable of the weeds
2 Kings 4:1-7 The Widow’s Olive Oil
Zacchaeus Luke 19:1-10
Confronting Empires Part 1
Panel discussion – Beholding Jesus
Mark 4 – Jesus and our confusion
The Pool Of Bethesda
Love, Judgement and Jesus
The Jesus who asks us questions
Trinity Sunday
The Femininity Of God Panel Discussion
Beholding Jesus In The Post - Resurrection Stories
Doubting Thomas
The Fatherheart of God
Luke 24:13-35
The Pattern Of Death And Resurrection
The Paradox Of Palm Sunday
Jesus Anointed At Bethany
Jesus Predicts Peter’s Betrayal Matthew 26:31 - 35
John 1
Beholding Jesus – The Transfiguration Mark 9:2-10