Amarillo Central: Recent Episodes
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OUR PODCAST HAS MOVED! Please use the links below to locate our 2 new channels: Amarillo Central Podcasts (conversations about spiritual disciplines, events, and more) and Amarillo Central Sermons (weekly Sunday sermon audio). Central Church of Christ is in the heart of Amarillo, Texas, and we are a church committed to becoming like Christ for the sake of others.
01.02.22 - What is your anticipation for the year of 2022? We jump into Acts 2:1-12 today. Let's consider together what God has planned for each of us in this new year as well as all the ways we can turn back to Him. Speaker: Carson Reed
12.19.21 - We enter the text of Luke 2:1-12 for compelling lesson. Whether you are familiar with the birth story of our Lord Jesus Christ, we all can find a personal connection to his Incarnation. Speaker: Wes Crawford
12.15.21 - We are blessed to partner with 5 amazing organizations here in town. You’ll hear what they are, how we began working with them, and hear the “why” behind our partnerships. What is God doing through a sack of food or an apartment renovation? How is God at work in people’s lives? As you listen, you’ll hear how these partnerships are not ours—they’re yours! So many of you (we didn’t have time to mention all of you) are instrumental in doing this work at Bivins Elementary, Martha’s Home, Downtown Women’s Center Gratitude House, HopeChoice, and The PARC (Panhandle Adult Rebuilding Center). Speakers: Greg Dowell, Mary McNeill, Mark Love
12.12.21 - We're focusing on joy this morning. But today's passage doesn't seem to be brimming with good news. Read through Luke 3:7-18 and join us as we discover what good news John the Baptist is referencing. Speaker: Wes Crawford
12.09.21 - In today’s episode, Mary McNeill, Greg Dowell, and Hannah McNeill lay out 7 outstanding gift options just in time for the holidays. Use the links below to access specific gifts or learn more about them. Speakers: Greg Dowell, Mary McNeill, & Hannah McNeill
Links to our 7 Outstanding Gift Ideas for this season:
• Art Print—Give the gift of the prayer book “Every Moment Holy” or an art print from the book, complete with an illustration and a worded prayer. https://store.rabbitroom.com/products/liturgy-prints-every-moment-holy?variant=599658266638 $15
• Audio Series—Download Emily P Freeman’s “Quiet Collection,” a 10-day audio devotional series (deadline to sign up is December 15). https://www.theschoolforcreativedirection.com/gifts $10
• Movie Night—Buy tickets to see “Christmas With The Chosen,” a Christmas movie by the creators of the series “The Chosen.” (The movie is in theaters through 12/16. After that, be sure to check availability.) https://watch.angelstudios.com/thechosen
• Game—Dive into Table Topics to start great conversations with families or friends. An example question: “What music reminds you of childhood?” https://www.tabletopics.com/family-edition-cube $25
• Book—Use “Praying in Color” to discover a different, tangible way to pray. https://www.amazon.com/Praying-Color-Drawing-Expanded-Enhanced/dp/1640601643/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2H1NVG10Z2SE7&keywords=praying+in+color+sybil+macbeth&qid=1638895297&sprefix=praying+in+color%2Caps%2C181&sr=8-2 $20
• Personality Assessment—Use the Strengths Finder assessment tool to discover your personal strengths. https://www.gallup.com/cliftonstrengths/en/253868/popular-cliftonstrengths-assessment-products.aspx $20
• Experience—Gather a group of your people and head to Christmas at Maxwell’s. Enjoy the lights, general store, fire pits, and more. https://www.maxwellspumpkinfarm.com/christmas $15.95 per person
12.05.21 - In this second week of Advent, we are focusing on peace. By dwelling in Luke 1:68-79, we will look at the idea of choosing a quiet place in your life that will encourage the growth of your relationship with our Lord Jesus Christ. Speaker: Wes Crawford
11.30.21 – The word “Advent” means coming or arrival, and we seek to observe the Advent season and retrain our thoughts on the Incarnation of Jesus by mindfully practicing this season together as a church family. So, what is Advent? How can you participate? Listen in on the conversation between Greg Dowell and Hannah McNeill as they discuss what Advent means for them personally and for us as a church. Speakers: Greg Dowell & Hannah McNeill
11.28.21 - Today we're honored to hear the testimony of Matt Jones. Join us in sharing Matt's journey and dwelling in John 3:14-18. Speaker: Matt Jones
11.21.21 - Looking at Ephesians 2:11-22, we see that Jesus was all about building relationships and tearing down walls. How can we join Jesus in this work--today in our communities and churches and neighborhoods? Speaker: Carson Reed
11.14.21 - We find in the Gospel the most compelling of narratives, and we have our own parts to play within God's story. Consider the words from Ephesians 2:1-10 and the ways in which we can live through our remembered past. Speaker: Carson Reed
11.11.21 – Today Greg Dowell is joined by Hannah McNeill to recap the “Together” Girls Conference hosted at Central last weekend. Building off of past girls’ conference experiences for our youth group, a dedicated volunteer team here at Central hosted this event for 75 middle school and high school girls. Together they explored spiritual practices as well as service, mission, and personal faith. Listen to the full episode to hear more about this exciting event. Speakers: Greg Dowell & Hannah McNeill
11.07.21 - This morning we have Dr. Carson Reed from the Siburt Institute bringing us our sermon. Join us in Ephesians 1:3-14 as we consider together what is holding us back from flourishing as God intends. Speaker: Carson Reed
10.31.21 - As we wrap up our Missions Month for 2021, we go to the passages in Isaiah 43:14-21 and Matthew 4:14-16. And we ask ourselves the question: what is the mission that God has set before each of us? Speaker: Wes Crawford
10.24.21 - We center on John 3:16 this morning. Seth Bouchelle joins Wes Crawford to talk through Seth's work in New York City as well as how God's reach extends throughout the world. Speaker: Wes Crawford
10.17.21 - The church has a mission—to love the world as God has loved us. We need to concentrate on those outside the walls of the church building who have not yet experienced the richness of God’s love. Join us in 1 Peter 2:9-12 this morning. Speaker: Wes Crawford
10.10.21 - We go to Genesis 12:1-3 today to look at the first chapter of God’s redemptive story. When the human community sinned, God initiated a plan to rescue the world. In spite of our many repeated failings, God’s love endures. Speaker: Wes Crawford
10.03.21 - It's Missions Month, and we are focusing on The Story of God. His is a love that reaches you and me and the entire world. Join us as we look at God's great love for us and how forms the very foundation of The Story of God. Speaker: Wes Crawford
09.29.21 - Today Mike Robertson joins Greg Dowell to talk about Focus Groups, important dates, and moving forward. Many of you took place in the 1st phase of feedback which was the Church Health Assessment (CHA). The 2nd phase of listening to your feedback about Central as a church begin this Sunday with Focus Groups. These groups are for discussion, and one of the questions we’d like you to answer: What’s one of the biggest challenges we face right now as a church? Then on November 7, you’ll have a chance during a combined Bible class at 9am to hear the results of this feedback from the entire church. We mention some other important things in this episode you won’t want to miss! Speakers: Greg Dowell & Mike Robertson
09.26.21 - Today we jump into 2 Corinthians 5:16-21. What does it really mean to be reconciled to God through Jesus Christ our Lord? Speaker: Carson Reed
09.19.21 - God came to earth and took on our flesh, and in him eternal life appeared. Let's dig into the text of 1 John as we consider how Jesus' incarnational act redeemed humanity. Speaker: John Mark Hicks
09.05.21 - What does it mean to represent Christ? Join us in this message as we consider our lives as followers of Christ. Speaker: Wes Crawford
08.29.21 - Like the Israelites against the Red Sea, God can do his best work in us when we are backed up against an impossible situation. We must learn to stop where we are, drop to our knees and pray, and roll on with the strength that God provides. Speaker: Larry Borger
08.22.21 - We look to Psalm 73 this week as we wrestle with the question, "What's the Use?" Let's consider how we live in this world and the effect it has on the world. Speaker: Jim Martin
08.15.21 - Dr. Jerry Taylor of Abilene Christian University joins us this morning with Scripture from Luke 19:1-17. Let's consider together our call to generosity. Speaker: Jerry Taylor
08.10.21 – In today’s conversation, Carson Reed with Siburt Institute joins Mike Robertson and Greg Dowell to discuss church transition. We have a great opportunity for Central as an entire congregation to evaluate where we are and where we are going. How is God at work during times of transition? How do we pursue our mission during this new season? Join us for this important conversation about the next several months at Central. Speakers: Greg Dowell, Carson Reed, & Mike Robertson
08.08.21 - We know that God uses us even in our frailty and weakness. Join us in 2 Corinthians 4 as we consider our lives as "Cracked Pots in the Kitchen of Life." Speaker: Carson Reed
08.05.21 - At the end of August, we’re trying something new at Central to build relationships across all ages, classes, and life stages. It’s all about people and food—and the element of surprise. Jennifer Dowell and Hannah McNeill join Greg on the episode today to tell you about this upcoming opportunity. Have a listen and sign up to participate at www.amarillocentral.org/right-now. Speakers: Greg Dowell, Jennifer Dowell, & Hannah McNeill
08.04.21 - We are joined today by Kevin Schaffer, Central’s Worship Minister, who recently returned from sabbatical. What is a sabbatical? Why is it important? Kevin gives us a look into his time away and tells us how our faithful God ministered to him through this time of rest. Speakers: Greg Dowell & Kevin Schaffer
08.01.21 - Acts 1 leads us into our conversation this Sunday as Dr. Eddie Sharp preaches on "Moving Into God's Preferred Future." Speaker: Eddie Sharp
07.25.21 - Dr. Chris Smith, our guest speaker from Nashville, Tennessee reminds us today of the command repeated many times throughout scripture: "Don't Be Afraid." Speaker: Chris Smith
For today’s episode, Greg Dowell interviews the three people we added to our youth staff for the summer. They arrived in May, and Amelia Stanford, Mesa Allison, and Wesley Handwork jumped right in to working with our youth group. In this episode, we get a recap of the summer in the student ministry and how this time has been impactful for both our students and our summer interns. They did an amazing job with our teens, and we’re so thankful they spent their summer with us! Speakers: Greg Dowell, Amelia Stanford, Wesley Handwork, & Mesa Allison
07.18.21 - Today we're delving into the words from Acts 3. We see and proclaim the great power in the name of Jesus. How does the power in His great name affect how we live today? Speaker: Art McNeese
07.12.21 – Last week Central sent a group of 7 high school students and 2 adults to Camp Blessing for the week. Camp Blessing exists to give youth and young adults with disabilities a full camp experience. Our team had an amazing week and learned many things about faith—how God loves and hears ALL people, how deep serving is hard but so fulfilling. Listen in on their conversation with Greg Dowell. Speakers: Greg Dowell & Central’s Camp Blessing Team
07.11.21 - From the passage in Jeremiah 29:11-14, Dr. Jerry Taylor challenges each of us to consider God's purpose for our lives. Rather than searching for meaning from human sources, we look to our God and seek to know him. Speaker: Jerry Taylor
07.08.21 - This Saturday is our congregational event: Central @ the Koben Puckett Invitational PBR. In preparation for the weekend, Greg Dowell interviews our own Koben Puckett. Hear a little about his story, the basics of bull riding, the journey that brought him to where he is today, and his message of hope. Use these links to find out about the Press On Foundation as well as the Koben Puckett Invitational PBR. https://www.pressonfoundation.org/ https://kobenpuckettpbr.com/ Speakers: Greg Dowell & Koben Puckett
07.04.21 - Please read Matthew 8:23-27 and Psalm 107:23-30 before listening to this lesson from our very own former Youth Minister, now pulpit minister at Crestview Church of Christ in Waco, Texas, Jordan Hubbard. Speaker: Jordan Hubbard
07.01.21 - Why is it important that we celebrate? As a church coming out of the pandemic, we have now had two congregational celebrations, and we’re looking forward to a third in September. Why do these matter? Mary McNeill, Children’s Minister, joins Greg Dowell, Executive Minister, for a conversation about the practice of “Celebration.” Speakers: Greg Dowell & Mary McNeill
06.27.21 - Preaching this Sunday, June 27, is Dr. Chris Smith. We're excited to hear what he has to share. Please join us here at Central for worship, prayer, communion, and time in God's Word. Speaker: Chris Smith
06.24.21 - Mike Robertson, an elder at Central and chair of the transition team, joins Greg Dowell, our Executive Minister, in a conversation about the changes Central is experiencing. How long will we be in a period of transition? How do we manage the uncertainty and the unknown? Take a look with us back at the major shifts at Central both 20 years ago and again 10 years ago. Let’s consider together where God will lead us next as a church. If you have questions, Central’s leadership wants to hear from you. Speak to them in person or send an email to contacttheelders@amarillocentral.org. Speakers: Greg Dowell & Mike Robertson
06.20.21 - Preaching this morning is Steve Rogers — Steve has been an elder at Central Church of Christ for many years. Listen as he shares his thoughts on this Father's Day about "Joseph - Jesus' Stepfather." Speaker: Steve Rogers
06.13.21 - Please read 2 Corinthians 4:1-18 this week. Then join us at 10:15 this Sunday morning June 13 as Allan delivers his farewell address to Central after serving for ten years as our Senior Minister. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
06.06.21 - David at once inspires us and disgusts us. David is both a man after God’s own heart and a king after another man’s wife. We have some idea of his greatness and we are also very aware of his flaws. Let’s consider David’s mafia-style protection racket and God’s gracious work through an unlikely source to redeem a difficult situation. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
05.30.21 - David’s life is tangled up with women and wars, with family drama and national politics. It’s complicated. How can this man who is so driven by his mixed motives and so controlled by his own desires be considered a man after God’s own heart? Speaker: Allan Stanglin
05.23.21 - How can a guy who so ruthlessly massacred his enemies and so easily lied to his friends be called a “man after God’s own heart?” How can someone betray his country, commit murder to cover up a sexual affair, run a mafia-style protection racket, and still be “beloved” by so many? Let’s consider together the complex life of David that leads us to careful personal reflection and points us to the enduring love and power of God. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
05.16.21 - No one gets out of this life without enduring some kind of crisis. It's not a matter of "if," it's only "when." When the money runs out, when the spouse runs out, when your health runs out, or, sometimes, when the wine runs out. When the crisis comes, how will you respond? Will you react by instinct, will you fly by the seat of your pants, or will you lean into your relationship with God in Christ? Speaker: Scott McDowell
05.09.21 - Today we look at Mary the mother of Jesus. In many ways, yes, she is the model mom. But in several other ways, she’s less than perfect. Mary made her share of poor decisions she wished she could do over. Not all her interactions with her holy Son were perfect. But God’s grace is sufficient for her and for her children. Just as it is for you and yours. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
04.18.21 - We shouldn’t really begin a Re|Start as a church family until we’ve first reflected on where we’ve been and where we are. Even as individual disciples of Jesus, we can’t really turn the page on something new, something post-pandemic, until we have taken a hard look at what God has done during the pandemic. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
04.18.21 - The resurrection and ascension of Jesus did not end the Gospel practice of eating and drinking with our Lord. Everything Jesus did around the table in Luke – revelation, redemption, relationship – he is still doing today. By the power and mystery of the Holy Spirit, disciples of Christ are still sharing meals with God and with one another. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
04.04.21 - The stories of the resurrection meals in Luke 24 perfectly mirror our experience as Christians. We go through seasons of dismay, frustration, and doubt. Then we take our places at the table and we realize that Christ Jesus himself is with us. He warms our hearts with his truth, he comforts us with his presence, and he assures us with his peace. Jesus’ presence with us at the table is the proof that God’s promises are true. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
03.28.21 - Jesus served a Passover meal to his disciples on the night he was betrayed. And if we’ll look more closely at that Passover context, our weekly communion meals will take on a whole new depth of richness and meaning for our Christian transformation and ministry. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
03.24.21 - Howard Griffin, the Senior Pastor at First Presbyterian Church, joins Allan for a conversation about the upcoming 4Amarillo Maundy Thursday worship service. What does Maundy mean? Why are we serving communion on a Thursday? Why do we leave the service in silence? Allan and Howard break it down in bite-sized chunks on the latest episode of the Central Podcast. Speakers: Allan Stanglin & Howard Griffin
03.21.21 - God alone through Christ has paid the price for the great feast. He alone has made the arrangements, prepared the table, and provided the meal. “Come to the feast!” he says. His invitation is for you. It’s for everyone. And the time to accept it is right now. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
03.14.21 - When Jesus is invited to a Pharisee’s house for dinner, our Lord uses the occasion to insult everybody around the table. He lays into the religious leaders, calling them hypocrites and attention-seekers, accusing them of doing more harm than good to God’s people. It’s not that Jesus is merely calling out the Pharisees and Teachers of the Law for their hypocrisy. It’s that Jesus clearly sees where this kind of behavior leads, and he wants it to stop before it destroys everybody. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
03.07.21 - Jesus is teaching and healing the crowds in the middle of the wilderness. All these people are hungry with nothing to eat, and Jesus tells his apostles, “You give them something to eat.” Let’s consider together the revelation, redemption, and relationship experienced in this important meal with our Lord. And our response to God’s gracious provision. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
03.03.21 - The latest episode of the Central Podcast has just dropped. Valerie Gooch, the Executive Director of Panhandle Adult Rebuilding Center, joins Allan to discuss how The PARC is impacting the lives of those experiencing homelessness in Amarillo. Valerie shares some of the more recent success stories and recounts how she has seen our God at work during the pandemic. Speakers: Allan Stanglin & Valerie Gooch
02.28.21 - There are four words every man, woman, and child need to hear. They are the four most important words ever spoken in any language. They have the power to comfort and to heal, to inspire new possibilities and to create new life, regardless of your station in life, your blurry past, your uncertain present, your perceived future, or your own views of yourself and your world no matter how accurate or distorted they may be. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
02.21.21 - Meals are important as a place to experience and express community, acceptance, unity, and fellowship; for sharing, for getting to know other people, and for passing on and receiving wisdom. Together we are exploring seven meals that Jesus shared with others in the Gospel of Luke. This week we consider the meal at Levi’s house, during which our Lord refers to himself as a doctor who has come to heal the sick. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
02.10.21 - All Central members are receiving a package from the church in the mail this week to connect us through the Lent season that begins next Wednesday and runs through Easter Sunday. Central Communications Director Hannah McNeill joins Allan in a conversation about those packages and our Ash Wednesday Drive-Thru event on February 17. What is Ash Wednesday? When did Lent start and why? And what good does it do to engage these ancient practices? Speakers: Allan Stanglin & Hannah McNeill
02.07.21 - Guest speaker Dr. Jerry Taylor joins us from Abilene Christian University this morning. From the words of scripture found in Colossians 3:15-17, he leads us to consider together living into the peace that Christ brings. Speaker: Dr. Jerry Taylor
02.04.21 - This episode features Craig Gladman, representing Central’s COVID team, as he joins guest host Greg Dowell. Together they address the fact that people are actively receiving the vaccine as we continue in this pandemic. What does that mean for us as a church? When is it safe to come back to in-person worship? Listen in as they dive deeper into the coronavirus, the vaccine, and our church community. Speakers: Greg Dowell & Craig Gladman
01.31.21 - At the end of the story of Naomi and Ruth, God has moved this pair of widows from famine to feast, from emptiness to fullness, from bitterness to joy, from devastating death to everlasting life. As our redeemer, Jesus takes everything in our lives that has gone wrong and makes it right. He fixes in our lives what is broken. Whatever havoc the pandemic has wreaked in your life, whatever lingering effect you still feel, our God is committed to taking all of it into himself and creating something beautiful and eternal and new. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
01.27.21 - Central Podcast tackles Re|Start: Greg Dowell joins Allan for a conversation about the Central Re|Start Team and their plans for our post-pandemic church. Find out what the team heard from our church family in the recent Re|Start survey and focus groups, what was affirmed and what was suggested, and how we faithfully move forward into what God is doing in and through our congregation. Speakers: Allan Stanglin & Greg Dowell
01.24.21 - In a recent survey of 1,000 American adults, 58% said the COVID-19 pandemic has changed their lives forever. There is no doubt the global pandemic has shifted society and changed our culture in irrevocable ways. But we also know that God is at work. A new normal is not to be feared, it is to be embraced as God’s time and place for something beautiful and eternal and new. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
01.17.21 - This is the turning point in the story of Naomi and the turning point of our “Everything New!” series at Central. This is when you realize that God is at work in the bitterness and pain. Even in the middle of tremendous loss, God is moving the pieces into place and working out the timing and the details of his magnificent plans for your life. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
01.10.21 - When you look at yourself, do you focus on your struggles and your sins or on your holiness and righteousness in Christ? God is moving you into a brand-new place. And once you see it, your life will never be the same. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
12.27.20 - We all have questions as we head into the new year. When will the virus crisis end? How will the vaccines work? Will 2021 be better than 2020? The answer is that we belong to a God who does his very best work in the dark and his deliverance is always right around the corner. Join us in Romans 13:11-14. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
01.06.21 - For more information about tonight's parking lot event and how we are all participating together in "Everything New!" check out today's Central Podcast. Central Communications Director Hannah McNeill joins Allan for a conversation about our January theme and making ourselves available to God's faithful work in our lives. Speakers: Allan Stanglin & Hannah McNeill
01.03.21 - We kick off a five-part sermon series that reflects on the past difficulties of 2020 and explores the hopeful potential of the new year. “Everything New!” looks at our current circumstances through the story of Ruth, a young woman who was forced by a global crisis to move to a new place with God. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
12.20.20 - Celebrate the coming of Jesus during our annual Christmas service with traditional Christmas hymns and an emphasis on light and joy from Isaiah 9:2-7. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
12.13.20 - Waiting on Christ to appear is not a passive thing; it’s a roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty thing. Our Christian hope doesn’t ignore fear, anxiety, or trouble; it confronts it. The assurance we have doesn’t shy away from sickness, pain, or difficulty; it confronts all of that in the name and manner of Jesus, the one who came and is coming. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
12.09.20 - Central's Communications Director, Hannah McNeill, joins Allan on today's podcast in a conversation about the Advent season. Why are the candles purple and pink? Why is the first day of Advent called the Christians' New Year's Day? What does it mean to order your life, not according to the secular calendar, but to the Story of God? Speakers: Allan Stanglin & Hannah McNeill
12.06.20 - Christian hope is not a wishful thinking, it’s a confident leaning, or even leaping, into the promise of our God that he will one day make all things right. Something has happened that changed our lives and redirected our destinies. The Son of God came to this earth in our flesh and blood. And he is coming again. Speaker: Steve Cloer
12.02.20 - The coronavirus crisis has blessed us with another new opportunity to minister to our downtown area neighbors. Our Local Missions Minister, Mark Love, and Chelsea Smith join Allan on this week's Central Podcast to discuss the Christmas project at Bivins Elementary School. Twelve Central families are wrapping and delivering gifts this week to 40 children in fourteen families connected to Bivins. Mark explains how the project came about and Chelsea describes the logistics and how she sees God at work in our evolving missions partnership with Bivins. Speakers: Allan Stanglin, Mark Love, & Chelsea Smith
11.29.20 - Christ is coming to rescue us from the dark prisons of our own existence, from anxiety, from guilt, from sin, and from loneliness. To be ready for this rescue, we first have to recognize how fully we are enslaved. And, then, how thankful we are for his coming. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
11.22.20 - We know what our God is doing through Jesus for the sake of the world. We know he is redeeming all of creation, he is forgiving all sin, and he is reconciling all people back to him and to one another through his holy Son. Our God is fixing everything that is broken; he is making right everything that has gone wrong. In your life, in your community, and all around the globe, God’s righteous Kingdom is coming with power and everything is changing! So pray for it. And watch for it. And be thankful. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
11.15.20 - Being raised with Christ means relating to those with whom we live in ways that model our Savior’s humility and sacrificial service. Living in Christ means viewing our employment and our labors as important work for the Lord. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
11.08.20 - This passage in Colossians 3 speaks about our promised future as if it has already occurred. It says we are already raised with Christ and seated with him at the right hand of the Father in heaven. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
11.01.20 - Let's consider to live in Christ together. The author of the passage in Colossians 2 encourages those who have received Christ to hang onto him, to live in him. Those who don’t, the author writes, have lost their connection with the Head. And, obviously, that’s no way to live. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
10.25.20 - Wherever the great salvation mission of God takes place, we are right there in the middle of it together. We are connected by the common taking of the Gospel, the shared living out of the Good News, wherever it happens in our city or on the other side of the globe. The mission connects us. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
10.18.20 - What are the ways God’s Holy Spirit is changing all our lives? The proof of God’s Spirit in us isn’t merely a mental, emotional, or spiritual thing. The Bible points us to physical, visible manifestations of the work God is doing in our lives. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
10.11.20 - None of us is saved by the religion we were born into or the amount of money we make or the number of good deeds we do. We are all saved by the blood of Jesus. That’s one of the major, eternal, right-now-and-forever things we all share in common. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
10.04.20 - When our nation feels so fractured. When our families and neighbors seem so separated. When our church is more scattered than gathered. When the whole world is more focused on the distance and differences between us... Missions Month is the time to remember all the things we have in common. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
10.01.20 - Central's foreign missions committee chairman, Steve Cearley, joins Allan Stanglin for a preview of our annual Missions Month that begins this Sunday. Allan and Steve discuss the dynamics of staying connected to our missionaries during a global pandemic, the value of Missions Month to our church family, and what our kids can expect during these four weeks in October. Speakers: Allan Stanglin & Steve Cearley
09.27.20 - The Book of Acts shows us a picture of God’s Church in the middle of circumstances they did not choose. The Good News was being proclaimed boldly and the Kingdom of God was advancing “unhindered.” But these Christians were not in charge, they were being led. They were not making decisions as much as they were imitating their Lord in three key areas: hospitality, generosity, and prayer. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
09.23.20 - After a 28-week break for the virus crisis, Central's Sunday morning Bible classes are starting up again October 4. Greg Dowell joins Allan Stanglin on today's podcast to discuss all the logistics, challenges, and details. What should you expect when you show up for Bible class for the first time in over six months Speakers: Allan Stanglin & Greg Dowell
09.20.20 - In the beginning, God initiated a blessing process between himself and his creation. The first words the Lord spoke to Adam and Eve were words of blessing and those blessings have continued to this day for his children and followers of his Son. As we travel the road of faith, our God showers us with his mercies and grace in all kinds of weather and in every kind of circumstance. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
09.13.20 - Let's consider the passage of Scripture in Joshua 2 and how we can be strong and courageous in this time of great difficulty in our world today. Speaker: Jeff McMillon
09.06.20 - Our world today is in crisis. There is an "it" that is creating doubt and division in our country and in the world. The "It" is coronavirus, Covid-19. The "It" is racial division. Where is the salvation from the "it" in our lives today? How do we overcome this "It"? Where do we look? To whom do we turn? Speaker: Jerry Taylor
08.30.20 - Committing to live, worship, and serve together in a faith community is an important step on the path of discipleship to Jesus. The Bible says the tight relationships and the unity we express together are a delight. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
08.23.20 - Psalm 130 gives dignity to human suffering and then gives that human suffering to God. It reminds us that suffering is a normal part of what it means to be alive on this earth. It reminds us who we are in our suffering and where God is. Psalm 130 gives us hope. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
8.19.20 - The "Uniting as One" worship service at the Hodgetown ballpark is less than two weeks away. Free tickets to this city-wide, all-church racial renewal event were made available today and the anticipation is building. St. John Baptist Church pastor Anthony Harris joins Allan Stanglin on today's podcast for a conversation about the tickets, the seating at the Sod Poodles stadium, what we can expect on August 30, and what we pray by God's grace will be accomplished. Speakers: Allan Stanglin, Anthony Harris
08.16.20 - The Christian life is not a reduction in your blessings, it’s not a subtraction of the good things you’re used to. The life of discipleship to Jesus, walking together toward the holiness of God, is filled with blessings. As you journey to God, Psalm 128 promises that he will expand your capacities and fill you up with life so that you overflow with great joy. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
08.09.20 - Living as a disciple of Jesus is not at all like walking a tightrope without a safety net. It’s like sitting safely and securely inside a fortress. Together, let's consider the security we have in our Lord. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
8.6.20 - Two of our own Central church students, Elise Schaffer and Corbin Gray, join Allan Stanglin for a conversation about their experiences as summer interns with our local missions partners. Elise and Corbin share stories from HopeChoice and The PARC, discuss the many ways they've been personally blessed, and point out where God is at work in and through Central for the sake of our city. Speakers: Allan Stanglin, Elise Schaffer and Corbin Gray
08.04.20 - On today's episode of the Central podcast, Allan Stanglin and Mary McNeill welcome the new Bivins Elementary School principal to the Central church family. R. J. Soleyjacks joins us for an introduction to Central and an inspiring conversation about his dreams for the children and families of our local missions partner school. You can listen to the podcast by clicking here. The previous 24 episodes are all available at amarillocentral.org under the "Media" tab. Speakers: Allan Stanglin, Mary McNeill and R.J. Soleyjacks.
08.02.20 - Do we emphasize God’s constant presence in our lives or do we dwell on the struggles? We proclaim that God helps us in times of need. His deliverance is always a surprise, but it’s always certain. His rescue is a miracle, but we know it’s coming. And we stand on it and declare it so confidently that it transforms the way we think about and react to everything. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
07.26.20 - We are on a journey with COVID coupled with significant social and political conflict. It is exhausting. Anxiety seems to be winning. Yet, it doesn't have to rule our hearts. Enter hope through the prophets. When prophets show up in Scripture, they speak for God and offer hope for a transformed, more inclusive just society. There is hope for the journey. Will we move forward or be stuck in anxious, life draining thinking and behavior? Speaker: Dr. Grady King
07.19.20 - It’s a lot more interesting discovering the reasons people do go to church than listening to why others don’t. Let's consider together the child of God’s most natural act as the psalmist invites, “Let us go to the house of the Lord!” Speaker: Allan Stanglin
07.15.20 - Valerie Gooch, the Executive Director of the Panhandle Adult Rebuilding Center, joins Allan Stanglin on today's episode of the Central Podcast for an update on what God is doing in and through this valuable local missions partner. Allan and Valerie discuss the coronavirus shutdown and the effects Covid-19 has had on their ministry. They also talk about The PARC's new property purchase and plans for expansion, Central's summer interns, and the "Three for One" fundraiser that begins with a scavenger hunt August 6. Speakers: Allan Stanglin & Valerie Gooch
07.12.20 - The second Psalm of Ascent reminds us that the path of discipleship is filled with hazards. There are physical ailments, emotional pitfalls, and spiritual battles. But that does not mean the Lord has left you. It doesn’t mean our God has shifted his attention to someone more interesting, someone a little less needy, and left you to fend for yourself. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
07.08.20 - Greg Dowell joins Allan Stanglin on today's episode for a conversation about the next phases in our transition from scattered to gathered at Central. The "Covid Committee" is identified and the planned next steps for children's programming and Bible classes are unveiled --- as long as it is "safe and sensible" to do so! Speakers: Allan Stanglin & Greg Dowell
07.05.20 - Everyone's in a hurry. We seem to have an insatiable desire for the immediate and the casual. We want church and transformation on our terms; the faster and more convenient, the better. But, that is not the way of our God. Our Lord demands a slow, long, deliberate dedication to his ways; he expects a determined commitment and endurance that lasts a lifetime. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
07.01.20 - Today's episode of the Central podcast has dropped on the Central app and the Central church website. Greg Dowell joins Allan Stanglin for a conversation about community in smaller groups. This podcast is for every member of Central who's looking for some kind of church expression, some community option, between another Zoom meeting and worshiping with 200 people in the auditorium. Speakers: Allan Stanglin & Greg Dowell
06.28.20 - Let's consider the harmony we share in Christ, the actions we take that bring him glory, and the mission we’re on to change the world. We need a vision for what’s possible. We need a clear target to aim for. We need a prayer. We need hope. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
6.18.20 - On today's episode of the Central podcast, Allan talks to Anthony Harris, the Pastor at St John Baptist Church in Amarillo, about the "Uniting as One" worship service on June 28. The conversation centers around Anthony's hopes for increased racial harmony in our city and beyond, and why he believes any significant change must begin with God's people. Speakers: Allan Stanglin & Anthony Harris
06.16.20 - On today's episode of the Central podcast, Allan talks about the upcoming "Uniting as One" worship service with two of the event's organizers. Isaac Butler, associate pastor at St John Baptist, and Chris Brown, a minister at Temple of Praise, discuss the origins of the city-wide, all-church, interdenominational, interracial, worship service scheduled for the evening of June 28. The conversation moves from our combined hopes for this worship event and where this might lead our churches and our community to the particulars of what the service will look like and what we need in terms of volunteers. Speakers: Allan Stanglin, Isaac Butler, & Chris Brown
06.14.20 - The start to 2020 has been anything but boring. What do you do when the storms of life grow turbulent? Worry is a common default…but that gets us no closer to the other side. Join us Sunday for a dose of hope from the last two chapters of God’s Word, Revelation 21-22. Speaker: Mark Tidwell
06.07.20 - The Kingdom of God, our eternal salvation, the defeat of sin and death, our Lord’s ultimate reign, and the restoration of all of creation --- it’s here. And it’s all still to come. Already and not yet. So, we wait. We hope for what we do not have and we wait for it patiently. And while we wait, we groan. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
06.04.20 - Today's podcast features Bivins Principal Benny Barraza and Central Children's Minister Mary McNeill. For the second time in three years, Central has won the Amarillo School District's Partner of the Year award for our work with Snack Pak for Kids, the money we send, and the volunteer hours we spend at Bivins Elementary. Speakers: Allan Stanglin, Benny Barraza, & Mary McNeill
06.02.20 - On today's episode of the Central podcast, Allan introduces us to our new summer youth interns, Emily Cochran and Eli McCoy. Emily and Eli discuss the influences that led them to pursue vocations in congregational ministry, the relationships that led them to Central, and the complications of doing youth ministry during the social distancing of a global pandemic. And Eli gives us stunning insights into what it's like to live with Larry Borger! Speakers: Allan Stanglin, Emily Cochran, & Eli McCoy
05.31.20 - What will you see and what will you hear when we worship our Father together in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day? What is God going to show you? Let us draw near to God and to one another and find out. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
05.24.20 - All of us are experiencing loss related to the Covid-19 virus. Some level of grief. The list is long of things we’ve lost, things we miss, things that were canceled. There is injustice and insecurity, tension and strife. And always the uncertainty. We’re all suffering in a variety of ways. The biblical way to express this grief is by lament. And we’re going to do that together as a church family this Sunday morning. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
05.19.20 - Today's episode of the Central podcast features two of our elders, John Todd Cornett and Craig Gladman, discussing the re-opening of Central for in-person worship on Sunday May 31. The conversation revolves around the current coronavirus conditions in Amarillo, our plans for a gradual restart to our Sunday morning assemblies, and the need for love and extra grace as we carefully transition from scattered to gathered. Speakers: Allan Stanglin, John Todd Cornett, & Craig Gladman
05.17.20 - The Hebrew and Greek words for “church” in the Bible are literally translated “assembly.” We are a gathered people first. It’s the very definition of who we are together in Christ. It embodies our incarnational God who joins us in bodily form and calls us to come together in community in one another’s physical, bodily, face-to-face presence. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
05.14.20 - Today's episode continues and expands the earlier discussion about lament. Allan Stanglin lays the biblical foundation for this spiritual exercise and gets you ready to participate in Central's lament service on Sunday May 24. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
05.12.20 - In today's episode, Hannah McNeill and Allan Stanglin walk through the spiritual practice of lament. In the midst of pain and suffering, uncertainty and loss, Christians faithfully take their complaints and petitions directly to God. Hannah and Allan explore the biblical basis for lament and the spiritual benefits of this mostly neglected form of prayer. As you listen, use the provided worksheet (link below) to organize your own thoughts and prayers related to whatever hardship or injustice you may be suffering during this virus crisis. Speakers: Allan Stanglin & Hannah McNeill
Worksheet: https://707da324-e6ba-42d6-9aa2-d2dbd3988e0d.filesusr.com/ugd/07f904_114d7ed83f4c461ab7e48ffa0081006f.pdf
05.10.20 - We are made from dust and we are returning to it. But the Bible proclaims that our God raises us from the dust to seat us with princes. God’s commitment to us and his faithful actions for us mean that our Lord is raising us from this dusty existence to live with him forever in glory. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
05.05.20 - In today's episode the chairman of our elders, Larry Borger, joins Allan Stanglin for a conversation about May 31 as the targeted date to reopen Central for public worship assemblies. Larry and Allan discuss the thoughts behind the date, the restrictions and guidelines that will be in place that day and the Sundays to follow, and the encouraging news we keep getting from you, the Central family. Speakers: Allan Stanglin & Larry Borger
05.03.20 - When looking at any painting, your eyes are almost always directed to what’s in the foreground. But it’s the background of the picture that puts the main focus of the painting in proper perspective. God alone gives us the whole picture. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
04.30.20 - Allan Stanglin and Greg Dowell take apart the Little Debbie Sweet Sixteen in today's episode of the Central Podcast. If you've ever wondered about the merits of Zebra Cakes and Oatmeal Cream Pies versus the qualities of Nutty Buddys and Swiss Cake Rolls, this podcast is for you! Speakers: Allan Stanglin & Greg Dowell
04.28.20 - Central's Family Discipleship Minister, Adam Gray, joins Allan Stanglin on today's podcast with three suggestions for learning the right lessons during the Covid-19 crisis. How do we maintain the healthy habits and keep up the good rhythms we've discovered during our time sheltering-at-home? Speakers: Allan Stanglin & Adam Gray
04.26.20 - God tells his people to cross the Jordan River. Jesus tells his disciples to go to the other side of the lake. We’re being called to get through this pandemic. What is our God doing during this virus crisis? What’s waiting for us on the other side? Speaker: Allan Stanglin
04.23.20 - The latest episode of the Central Podcast is loaded and ready for listening. One of Central's shepherds, Ira Purdy, joins our Senior Minister Allan Stanglin today with a passage and a prayer for our church family. Speakers: Allan Stanglin & Ira Purdy
04.21.20 - Our Student Minister, Josh Jones, joins Senior Minister Allan Stanglin in today's episode for a conversation about daily and weekly rhythms. One of the reasons we can feel uneasy during this time is because our routines have been disrupted. Josh shares some practical suggestions for developing new rhythms as we pay attention to our Lord and to each other. Speakers: Allan Stanglin & Josh Jones
04.19.20 - You make a million little choices every single day, and you must make the choice to follow or not to follow Jesus. You have to decide if you’re going to accept him and obey him as your Savior and Lord. Or not. To not make a choice is to make a choice. And of all the choices you make every single day, this is the one that matters. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
04.16.20 - One of our elders, Larry Borger, joins Senior Minister Allan Stanglin on today's episode of the Central podcast with a passage and a prayer. Larry shares a section of Scripture that is especially meaningful to him this week and prays over our congregation. Speakers: Allan Stanglin & Larry Borger
04.14.20 - In today's episode, Central Children's Minister Mary McNeill joins Allan Stanglin for a conversation about Sabbath as it relates to the current virus crisis. We've been given a lot of extra time and space; we've been more or less forced into a Sabbath rest. We can either receive the down time as a gift or as another thing that stresses us out. Mary gives practical suggestions for using the additional time and space to rest in God's presence and in his blessings. Speakers: Allan Stanglin & Mary McNeill
04.12.20 - It might not feel like it, but this Sunday is the day when God’s people come together to remember the hope and the joy, the peace and the promise, that come from our living and reigning Lord Jesus Christ. He is in charge. He is with you. He is at work. And that gives you an eternal certainty and an everlasting assurance that you can’t find with anybody or anything else. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
04.09.20 - We just completed another podcast with one of our shepherds, Tim McMenamy. In this latest episode, Tim shares a passage from Scripture that is especially meaningful to him this week and prays over our congregation. Speakers: Allan Stanglin & Tim McMenamy
04.07.20 - Over the next few weeks, we're asking some of our elders to share with our church family a passage and a prayer. In today's episode, Steve reads a couple of passages that are especially meaningful to him during this virus crisis and offers a prayer for the Central church family. Speakers: Allan Stanglin & Steve Cearley
04.05.20 - The Good News is that Jesus obeys perfectly for you. He has become your righteousness, holiness, and redemption. You’re invited to celebrate that with us this Sunday and to finally and fully address that guilt in your gut. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
04.02.20 - Allan Stanglin and Missy Gray discuss sheltering-at-home with your family. How do the increased hours together impact a marriage? How can you model appropriate distance from your children even when you're cooped up together 24-hours a day? What are some healthy ways to cope with the changing dynamics in your home and some unhealthy behaviors to avoid? Speakers: Allan Stanglin & Missy Gray
04.01.20 - Allan Stanglin and Missy Gray discuss social distancing and isolation from the perspective of our singles. What are those who live alone experiencing and feeling during this virus crisis? What are some dangers to avoid and some helpful suggestions for coping? And what can the others of us do to express love and to show care for the single people in our lives? Speakers: Allan Stanglin & Missy Gray
03.29.20 - Our steadfast hope is anchored in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. We are holy carriers of that blessed hope. And that hope compels us to act boldly and for the sake of others, in the face of whatever comes our way. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
03.26.20 - Another episode of the Central podcast has been produced today featuring Allan Stanglin and Greg Dowell on the topic of "Self-Care." They provide helpful tips for paying close attention to your physical, emotional, and spiritual health during this unstable and hectic time. Speaker: Allan Stanglin & Greg Dowell
03.24.20 - Today's episode features Central member Danna Lagan, a homeschool mom of three who provides timely advice and encouragement to all of us who are now faced with helping our kids with online learning. If you're feeling overwhelmed with the new reality and don't know where to start, Danna provides lots of practical tips. Speakers: Allan Stanglin & Danna Lagan
03.22.20 - Our Lord Jesus walks into a place of death and brings life. He approaches a woman who is grieving and provides joy. He comes upon a lonely situation and creates community. Jesus is consistently calm in the face of anxiety. He is light in the middle of darkness and life in the shadow of death. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
03.18.20 - Welcome to our inaugural Wednesday podcast! Tonight’s podcast features our Senior Minister, Allan Stanglin, and our Associate Minister, Greg Dowell in a conversation about Central’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and suggestions for loving our neighbors well through the crisis. “In me, you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world!” —John 16:33 Speakers: Allan Stanglin & Greg Dowell
03.15.20 - If you’re in trouble, you don’t need a lawyer whose only resort is to play on the sympathies of the jury or to hope the judge is in a good mood. You need a legal representative who actually has a real case for your acquittal. That is exactly what our Lord Jesus promises when he vows to send the “second advocate,” the Holy Spirit. Let's consider together the many ways Jesus advocates for you. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
03.11.20 - JOURNEYS: FEATURING MARK TIDWELL Both of Mark’s parents were killed on the same evening when he was nine—that’s where his life changed in many ways. He was raised by two grandmothers who loved the Lord, and he saw God in the midst of tragedy and how He used it to shape his life.
03.08.20 - The Holy Son of God does not come primarily as an example for you to follow. He came as your Savior. Jesus doesn’t show you how to live to answer life’s difficulties or teach you what to believe to overcome life’s trials. Jesus comes to do for you what you could never do for yourself. He saves you. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
03.04.20 - JOURNEYS: FEATURING JOSH & CARESSE WOOD On May 4, Isaiah was rushed to the hospital with unstoppable seizures. We found ourselves in the hospital for the next three months praying he would survive and trying to juggle life with our other seven kids. In the hardest time of our lives, God showed himself in amazing and miraculous ways that defied all logic and left us forever changed.
03.01.20 - Please read the dramatic Emmaus meal story in Luke 24:13-49. Join us as we consider together the hope we all share in the glorious resurrection of our Lord Jesus. Speaker: Chris Seidman
03.01.20 - Please read the dramatic Emmaus meal story in Luke 24:13-49. Join us as we consider together the hope we all share in the glorious resurrection of our Lord Jesus. Speaker: Chris Seidman
02.26.20 - JOURNEYS: FEATURING BOON VONGSURITH To escape the persecution of Christians under Communist rule in Laos, Boon took only the clothes on his back, his faith, a $100 bill, and a New Testament Bible wrapped in plastic and stepped into the Mekong River to swim to freedom.
02.23.20 - The fastest way to get out of a spiritual rut is to dive head-first into a mission. New experiences challenge our beliefs and assumptions. Ministry when you’re in over your head forces you to face your fears and it surprises you with resources and strength from God you didn’t know you had. Being on mission pushes us out of comfort into the places where God is really changing the world. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
02.16.20 - The truth is that God is continually present with us even in the loud, busy moments of our everyday lives. And he’s faithfully at work in us and through us, even in those hectic times, forming us more into the image of Christ. Quiet time alone with the Lord is one good way to increase your awareness of his loving presence, but it’s certainly not the only way. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
02.09.20 - When we’re baptized into Christ, he places us immediately into a community of faith. We live together, worship together, serve together, respond faithfully to God together, and we’re shaped by God together into the image of his Son. And we want to pay close attention to what God is doing in us as a church. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
02.02.20 - Knowledge about God is never just for the sake of information. It is intended to change us, to transform who we are. According to the Bible, knowledge is to understand and grasp what God is doing in the world through Christ, and then to act on it, to join it, to live into it. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
01.26.20 - We aren't strangers to pain and suffering. But our suffering on this earth isn't without purpose. Our Creator is the God who redeems our pain and then uses it to touch the hearts of others. Speaker: Jason Alton
01.19.20 - There are only two times in all of the Bible when Jesus remarks that a person has “great faith.” One of those two times is when he is approached by a Canaanite woman who begs Jesus to heal her daughter. Let's consider what it looks like to recognize the grace of Jesus and to receive it for yourself. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
01.12.20 - Dr. Mallory Wyckoff presented the first lesson in our new curriculum series. This was an introduction for "Spiritual Practices for Christian Living" on the topic of awareness. Speaker: Dr. Mallory Wyckoff
01.12.20 - Do you think God has ever been astonished by your faith? Two times in the Bible, Jesus comes across someone who demonstrates remarkable faith. Are we great of faith? Speaker: Allan Stanglin
12.15.19 - Christmas is not just the coming of Jesus, it’s the coming of a new understanding of what God is doing, a new reality of his eternal presence, a new meaning for our existence, a new purpose for our lives. How should we live while we’re waiting? Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
01.05.20 - What do you want for your life in 2020? The assumption is that you want to be a person of great courage and daring. But going deep with God requires deep faith, it calls for deep humility, and it demands deep commitment. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
12.29.19 - God has come to this world in the flesh and blood of Jesus. So what? What does it really matter that our Lord lived and died on this earth? What did you really get when God gave you his Son? Speaker: Allan Stanglin
12.22.19 - CENTRAL UNIVERSITY: This series examines the theme of economic justice in the law, prophets, writings, Gospels, and letters of the New Testament. Speaker: Dr. Michael Martin, Lubbock Christian University
12.22.19 - Christmas is not just the coming of Jesus, it’s the coming of a new understanding of what God is doing, a new reality of his eternal presence, a new meaning for our existence, a new purpose for our lives. How do we receive the light and bring it to others? Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
12.15.19 - CENTRAL UNIVERSITY: This series examines the theme of economic justice in the law, prophets, writings, Gospels, and letters of the New Testament. Speaker: Dr. Michael Martin, Lubbock Christian University
12.08.19 - CENTRAL UNIVERSITY: This series examines the theme of economic justice in the law, prophets, writings, Gospels, and letters of the New Testament. Speaker: Dr. Michael Martin, Lubbock Christian University
12.08.19 - CENTRAL UNIVERSITY: We often share popular cliches as a bit of friendly advice or godly instruction, but they won't set you free if the Bible doesn't say that. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
12.08.19 - Christmas is not just the coming of Jesus, it’s the coming of a new understanding of what God is doing, a new reality of his eternal presence, a new meaning for our existence, a new purpose for our lives. How can we identify and celebrate the good news all around us? Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
12.01.19 - When the apostle Paul considers the power of our God and the love of Christ, he drops to his knees. How amazing that God’s love and power belong to us in such lavish abundance that even the inspired writers have a hard time describing it! Speaker: Allan Stanglin
12.01.19 - CENTRAL UNIVERSITY: We often share popular cliches as a bit of friendly advice or godly instruction, but they won't set you free if the Bible doesn't say that. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
12.01.19 - CENTRAL UNIVERSITY: This series examines the theme of economic justice in the law, prophets, writings, Gospels, and letters of the New Testament. Speaker: Dr. Michael Martin, Lubbock Christian University
11.24.19 - How often do you genuinely feel thankful? How regular for you is the experience of authentic gratitude? In our fast-paced culture that is complex, in our world that seems anxious even though there is abundance, God calls us to a posture of gratitude. Speaker: Adam Gray
11.20.19 - The most celebrated King of Israel is no simple shepherd or songster; David is the Bible’s most complicated character. Here we explore the complex life of David that leads us to careful reflection and points us to the enduring love and power of our God. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
11.17.19 - Whatever you’re suffering today, you are not alone. The cross of Christ embodies our God’s compassion and suffering for his people. God in Christ becomes us, enters our suffering with us, for the sake of us. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
11.13.19 - The most celebrated King of Israel is no simple shepherd or songster; David is the Bible’s most complicated character. Here we explore the complex life of David that leads us to careful reflection and points us to the enduring love and power of our God. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
11.10.19 - The Bible is convinced that anything is possible with our God and we should all have that same conviction and imagination. Just because the world says something’s impossible doesn’t mean it is. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
11.06.19 - The most celebrated King of Israel is no simple shepherd or songster; David is the Bible’s most complicated character. Here we explore the complex life of David that leads us to careful reflection and points us to the enduring love and power of our God. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
11.03.19 - This has always been the heart of God’s covenant with his people: treat everybody the way I’ve treated you. That’s what the Lord requires. These are God’s priorities. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
10.23.19 - The most celebrated King of Israel is no simple shepherd or songster; David is the Bible’s most complicated character. Here we explore the complex life of David that leads us to careful reflection and points us to the enduring love and power of our God. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
10.27.19 - Here at Central we are an outward-focused, mission-minded congregation of God’s people. Lives are being changed, communities are being transformed, and people are being saved by our God through our missions partnerships. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
10.20.19 - The Book of Revelation is about the victory of the Lamb. Join us as we consider together the surprising way our God chooses to wage war and the surpassing victory that belongs to all those who are in Christ. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
10.16.19 - The most celebrated King of Israel is no simple shepherd or songster; David is the Bible’s most complicated character. Here we explore the complex life of David that leads us to careful reflection and points us to the enduring love and power of our God. [Session 1] Speaker: Allan Stanglin
10.13.19 - The mission of Christ’s people is to proclaim the Good News and to share this redemption and new creation here in Amarillo and with as much of the world as possible. We are all saved by the blood of the Lamb. Speaker: Kelley Grant
10.06.19 - The Lamb of God has conquered all sin and death by the sacrifice of his blood and he reigns in majesty and awe at the right hand of God. That vision informs and empowers our mission. We are compelled by Christ’s love to teach and to heal, to show the love of God and to share the triumph of the Lamb with others. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
09.29.19 - The promise throughout the Bible is that God is going to make his dwelling with us. All things that separate us from God are going to be destroyed. And God, through Christ, reveals what it’s going to look like. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
09.25.19 - It is possible that the most difficult season for a person of faith is not in the turbulent middle of a storm, but in the calm eye of a hurricane. During the silence. In the middle of the pause. What are we to do when God seems absent? How are we to respond when all we hear is silence? Speaker: Jake Perkins
09.22.19 - The Bible tells us that our love must be sincere. Our love for others is a badge that identifies us as children of God and it must be genuine, without hypocrisy. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
09.18.19 - If God is both all-good and all-powerful, why do innocent people suffer? Why does he allow me to suffer? Peter orients us to the Christian view of this age-old, fundamental dilemma. Speaker: Howie Batson
09.15.19 - This is about our confidence in standing with God, about the certainty of our forgiveness and righteousness in Christ. God has rendered his verdict and it cannot be overturned. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
09.11.19 - The most ridiculous part of the Gospel also happens to be the most central: You. Are. Forgiven. Our need for forgiveness is so desperately felt in our innermost beings that even most Christians dare not believe it all the way. How far does forgiveness go? How do I know I’m really forgiven? Speaker: Brian Mashburn
09.08.19 - One of the best things about Church is that we exist for the sake of others. We’re not about ourselves, we’re for ministering and blessing the people around us in the name and manner of Christ. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
09.04.19 - You know what happens when we assume. We’re all guilty of judging others unfairly and we’ve all been victims of rumor or bad information. Jesus gives us a new perspective for dealing with it and the grace to see others through his eyes of faith. Speaker: Karl Ihfe
09.01.19 - We do it every Sunday morning. Several hundred of us sit in rows in a large room and spend 75 + minutes worshiping God. What good is it? What good does it do in the world? Speaker: Allan Stanglin
08.28.19 - Your truth. His truth. Their truth. My truth. There’s no difference if we’re all heading to the same place, right? The Gospel truth is an eternal, foundational declaration that rings from the beginning of creation to that final day of glory. And you want to be in on it. Speaker: Tommy Politz
08.25.19 - What is proclaimed by God’s people on Sundays is unique, it’s not something you hear anywhere else. It gives a person a way to view himself that’s totally different from the way the world views him. Preaching points to the Christ Event and the fact that we are all loved and valued by God. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
8.21.19 - Is the Gospel only about going to heaven when I die? Or is there good news for me right now today? Jesus shows us that eternal life is not a quantity that begins when we die, but a quality that begins when we’re born again in him. Speaker: Jimmy Witcher
08.18.19 - We are called to “let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts,” which means we give up what divides us for Christ Jesus who unites us. He alone is our peace. And his peace governs our lives. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
08.14.19 - Eighty-seven percent of the homes in the United States own a Bible but only eleven percent of Americans have read all of it. I go to church, I hear the sermons, why should I read the Bible? And is it OK to ignore Leviticus? Speaker: Howard Griffin
08.11.19 - We see ourselves in the pages of Scripture. The story is real. The Bible doesn’t sugarcoat or hide anything. It’s doesn’t pretend there aren’t dark days and doubts and despair. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
08.07.19 - For all our technological advances in communication and digital methods of staying in touch, we are an increasingly disconnected people. We have more acquaintances than we can count, but fewer and fewer friends. Does Jesus have anything to say about this? Speaker: Mark Welshimer
08.04.19 - The only way for the world to know that it is being redeemed is for the Church to point to the Redeemer by living as his redeemed people. The only way for the world to know that it is broken and fallen, that it needs redeeming, is for the Church to give it something really different to run up against. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
07.28.19 - What bothers us is not the idea of Church or the abstract concept. It’s the people and the buildings, the money and the meetings, the hard hearts and hypocrisy. The real-life, tangible elements of Church are not always what we expect or want. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
07.21.19 - With his very own words, our God tells us his full name. These words that describe our God’s eternal nature, these holy words that describe our God’s holy characteristics, communicate that he knows us and that he wants us to know him. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
07.14.19 - The truth is we have a loving Father who adores His children and wants to honestly work in our lives to bring even more healing and freedom than ever before, and that is an amazing expression of His love and faithfulness to us. How can we as disciples face the truth about God and about ourselves in open and non-anxious ways? Speaker: Adam Gray
07.07.19 - God’s Word promises that he is with us from cradle to grave, from honeymoon to hospice, every step of our lives. And as brothers and sisters in Christ, as the family of God established at Calvary, we also bear one another’s burdens in the name and manner of Jesus. Together. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
06.30.19 - Divorce is a sin, and God hates divorce. That’s what the Bible says. The Bible also says God hates our worship services when we’re not treating our neighbors with love. Christ Jesus died to forgive us of those sins and bring us into a righteous relationship with God. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
06.23.19 - We know that our God is the inventor of sex. Today we continue our “Family Matters” series with a look at the priority and place of sex in our husband-wife relationships and in our church family. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
06.16.19 - We all believe we have, in ways big and small, ruined our kids. Receive with us a word of grace we can all use as we consider parent-child relationships and responsibilities through the lens of the love of God and the cross of Christ. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
06.09.19 - Marriage in our culture is on the decline. The problem with marriage is that we are not viewing it through the lens of the cross of Christ. To experience the truth of the profound mystery as designed by God, we need to crucify our marriages. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
06.02.19 - Family is important, but it’s not ultimate. Family is created by God to reflect the truth of the Gospel — relationships, sacrifice and service, forgiveness, intimacy, etc., — but it’s not the hoped-for end. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
05.26.19 - Barnabas went to the church in Antioch and saw tangible proof that God’s grace was working in that congregation. What were the physical signs that confirmed the presence and activity of the grace of God? Can we still see those things today? Speaker: Allan Stanglin
05.19.19 - All of us are commissioned by God to pass the Christian faith onto the next generations. We model the faith, we witness to the truth, we lovingly pour into the lives of those coming behind us. The responsibility is real and the implications are great. Speaker: David Fraze
05.12.19 - When we submit to the “way” of Jesus, when we give ourselves wholly to his call, we realize that the cross is not a terrible end to a godly life, but the beginning of our eternal communion with Christ. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
04.28.19 - If God raised Jesus from the dead to validate and vindicate his selfless, sacrificial, servant way of life, then we trust God to do the same for us. And that impacts how we live. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
04.21.19 - We celebrate together the resurrection and reign of our Lord Jesus. It’s not just a one-time, long-time-ago forgiveness of our sins on a cross that will benefit us after we die. It’s a right-now, in-the-present filling of our spirits and souls with new resurrection life for being everything God created us to be today! Speaker: Allan Stanglin
04.15.19 - Loving one another is how we know God. Loving others is how God lives in us, how we live in God, and how we prove our faith. It’s the most important command. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
04.07.19 - Let’s take an unconventional look at some very familiar stories. Our Lord's faithful interaction with a leper, a paralytic, and a man with a withered hand call all of us back to the mission: following Jesus into the lives of broken people who need Him. Speaker: Grady King
03.31.19 - The Incarnation of Jesus grounds us in the physical places where our Creator has put us. And when he breathes on us --- into us --- his Holy Spirit, he empowers us to create and build in those places with his own eternal light and life. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
03.24.19 - Jesus is more than just the force that keeps everything spinning and you and me upright on the ground. He is the very meaning of creation. We and all of creation are entirely dependent on Christ. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
03.17.19 - Let's take a look at the essence of our Lord Jesus who single-mindedly demonstrates self-sacrificing love as the center of who he is. That’s how we are saved. And, as his redeemed, that’s the only true way to live.
03.10.19 - With sin comes consequences. Let's consider together God’s intent for his people at Creation, the many ways sin has distorted that divine order, and what God’s people today can do to “reverse the curse.”
03.03.19 - God poured out his Spirit equally on both sons and daughters, men and women. It had been promised that some day all people, both men and women, would enjoy and exercise these speaking gifts equally. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
02.24.19 - Church is not something we organize or maintain. What we enjoy together at Central --- our fellowship and unity, our common beliefs and practices, our mutual love and encouragement --- is a gracious gift from our God. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
02.23.19 - "Praying the Lord's Prayer" curriculum training. Part 3 of 3. Speaker: Dr. Michael Martin.
02.23.19 - "Praying the Lord's Prayer" curriculum training. Part 1 of 3. Speaker: Dr. Michael Martin.
02.23.19 - "Praying the Lord's Prayer" curriculum training. Part 2 of 3. Speaker: Dr. Michael Martin.
02.17.19 - For centuries, God’s people have recited the Shema at least twice a day as part of their morning and evening prayers. These words found in Deuteronomy 6 are familiar words to us, but they were critical, life-preserving words for the children of Israel. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
02.10.19 - Paul urges the church in Corinth to complete the offering they had promised to make for the Christians in Jerusalem. They had begun to collect the money, they had all made their pledges. Now Paul was encouraging them to finish what they had started. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
02.03.19 - We can all see ourselves in the story of the apostle Peter. He’s a loyal disciple and a lying traitor. Be encouraged that, like with Peter, Jesus knows everything about you, and he still loves you. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
01.27.19 - Jesus preaches the Kingdom. And then what does he do? He frees the prisoner, heals the blind, rescues the oppressed. Those are the signs of the Kingdom. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
01.20.19 - As God calls us to be faithful, He too is faithful to us. Let's consider together how to live lives of faithfulness. Speaker: Steve Rogers
01.13.19 - Christ Jesus teaches us that whoever wants to be great in the Kingdom of God must be a servant to all. That night, Jesus made himself the least important person in the room. And he calls us by his grace to do the same thing. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
01.06.19 - As a people, we are rooted in the Word of God. We gain strength and nourishment through the Scriptures. The Bible is the revelation of our God and the conduit for transformation into his image. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
12.30.18 - John the Baptist is bearing witness to the reality that is coming with the Christ. It’s a future-oriented vision he proclaims. What do we need to pay better attention to in 2019 because the promised Lord has come and is coming? Speaker: Allan Stanglin
12.23.18 - Our Lord’s coming on that star-lit night really was for all the people. And it still is. Let's consider together how the birth of Jesus continues to draw all people to our King. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
12.16.18 - Pilate and Jesus are on opposite sides. Two different kings, two different kingdoms. And one cannot serve both. Let’s stop trying to serve two masters and resolve to bow our knee to the Christ. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
12.09.18 - Why are we so reluctant to let the Lord Jesus show us what’s possible? Why can’t we give ourselves to Jesus and let him heal us so we can reach our God-ordained potential? Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
12.02.18 - How do we know Jesus is truly the solution to what’s wrong with the world? How do we know he really is who he said he was and that he’s really fixing things? Speaker: Allan Stanglin
11.25.18 - What’s wrong with the world is that we’re all sinners, we’re all in the same boat. And we’re all equally in need of the gift of eternal life, the living water from Jesus. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
11.18.18 - Jesus changed the life of every person he met through powerful experiences and conversations that led them to unexpected and transforming answers to their big questions. The Gospel of John details many of these individual conversations, these one-on-one encounters with the Lord. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
11.11.18 - Our God calls his people to join him in changing the entire world. New Creation. Redemption. Know that God is at work in and through our everyday decisions and interactions to accomplish his eternal mission. Speaker: Seth Bouchelle
11.04.18 - Hebrews 11 takes our breath away. These persons of faith acted despite being unable to perceive the fulfillment of God’s promises. Faith in God isn’t really faith if you’re just sitting there. A life of faith is a life lived in the verbs. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
10.28.18 - Like the faithful congregation in Antioch in Acts 13-14, the Central church in Amarillo is saved by God and called by God to send people into our community and throughout the world with the Gospel. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
10.21.18 - On the Day of Pentecost, our God poured his promised Holy Spirit on the followers of Jesus and it changed them. The disciples went from frightened to bold, from reluctant to courageous. And the Spirit does the same for us today. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
10.14.18 - The miracles Jesus performed back then and continues to perform today are not demonstrations against the natural order, they are a divine restoration of the natural order. Whatever is broken in us and the people and world around us -- Jesus is able and willing to fix it. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
10.07.18 - Our God delivers his people from bondage in Egypt so they may bless the world. He does this by his great power -- holy power, power to produce miracles and marvelous works. And this power fuels the dynamite mission of God. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
09.30.18 - We talk a lot about how the Spirit is active in a person’s life or how a woman or man uses particular Spirit gifts. But according to Jesus, our emphasis should be placed on the Spirit’s corporate work, the indwelling and empowering of the Spirit in and through the Christian community. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
09.23.18 - We are instructed to do in the world what our Lord did in Galilee. We are his hands and feet. If anybody’s going to meet Jesus in this world, they’re going to meet him through the Church. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
09.16.18 - Our world is increasingly unsure about Church. Who are these people, these Christians? And what’s the point? The growing skepticism in our culture can even cause us to question the purpose and value of Church. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
09.09.18 - As Good News people, now is not the time for followers of Jesus to be anxious. The Gospel is more than big enough to adequately address and successfully engage today’s culture and today’s problems. Despair is not an option for disciples of Christ. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
09.02.18 - God chooses us, he serves us, he sends his Son for us, he accepts us -- this is the model for how we are to act with others, especially when they’re with us in the church building. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
08.26.18 - We are no longer bound to the means and goals of this fallen world; we are set free by Christ to live in the glory of God’s eternal creation and will. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
08.19.18 - We “carry each other’s burdens” and “each one should carry his own load.” This is not a contradiction. This is a beautiful picture of mutual accountability and personal responsibility in Christ’s Church. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
08.12.18 - The Bible says that if we surrender to God’s Holy Spirit, if we make the decision to allow the Spirit to move in and take over, he will produce virtues in us that lead to unity and peace and reflect the true glory of God. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
08.05.18 - We are freed for the purpose of serving one another in love. Living with love as your guide is better than being guided by the law because love is actually the fulfillment of the law. Love is the completion or the perfection of the law. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
07.29.18 - We debate worship styles, doctrinal positions, and denominational differences; but there’s only one thing that matters. We argue about methods, traditions, structures, and rules; but there’s only one thing counts. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
07.22.18 - God knowing me takes a much larger salvation priority than me knowing God. And it results in peace and joy, acceptance and encouragement, forgiveness and belonging in ways that our knowledge about God can never produce. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
07.15.18 - The fullness of God's Kingdom is found in the tiniest acts of faith. And if we're not paying attention, if we're not in tune with what our Lord is doing, we'll miss it. Speaker: Jordan Hubbard
07.11.18 - Summer Wednesday night series "More Ready Than You Realize." Topic is on conversation: "Knowing My Neighbors." Speakers: Tanner Albright & Kevin Schaffer
07.08.18 - The integrity of the Good News is both proclaimed and maintained by the ways we treat one another in the Church. This passage is revolutionary in its explicitness, its immediacy, and its force. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
07.01.18 - This Sunday we'll consider together the really Good News of God’s promise, received by us today the same way Abraham received it in the beginning: in faith. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
06.24.18 - Guest speaker Jake Perkins from Canadian Church of Christ takes us through a passage in Luke for a look at prayer. Speaker: Jake Perkins
06.20.18 - Summer Wednesday night series "More Ready Than You Realize." Topic is on conversation: "Listening to My Neighbor's Story." Speakers: Mark Love & Allan Stanglin
06.17.18 - We know Jesus told his disciples, “Upon this rock I will build my Church!” But do we know what Jesus meant when he said it? Speaker: Allan Stanglin
06.13.18 - Summer Wednesday night series "More Ready Than You Realize." Topic is on conversation: "Knowing My Story." Speakers: Adam Gray & Mark Love
06.10.18 - Guest speaker Gary Green takes a hard look at our true identity found in Jesus Christ. Speaker: Gary Green
06.03.18 - The era of the Spirit and the grace of God that unites us has begun. The Scriptures claim we are all children of Abraham by faith, that we all belong together in God’s family. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
05.27.18 - The death and resurrection of Jesus has changed everything. The authority and power of “Christ Alone” has rescued us from the present evil age and delivered us to a new age of salvation and life. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
05.20.18 - God’s grace and power reverses things, it upends our priorities, it changes our minds. It causes church persecutors to become church planters. And God in Christ is still doing those same things among us today with the most unlikely of people. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
05.13.18 - The Gospel of Jesus Christ is fundamentally about grace. It moves us from one state to the next, from “this present evil age” to the eternal age of salvation and life, from the control of this world and its structures to the merciful control of our good and faithful God. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
04.29.18 - We are the letter of the Gospel that is known and read by everybody. So, it’s vitally important that we own it. We must know it, live it, share it, apply it -- everything it means for the gift of salvation from God in Christ to be inside us. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
04.22.18 - We don’t have to share the Good News by ourselves. Our God is at work through his Spirit to draw people to himself and to use us in the process. The Spirit guides us and gives us the words to say. Speaker: Allan Stanglin & Mark Love.
04.15.18 - The Good News of salvation from God in Christ is good news for my world. It’s good news for my neighborhood, for my school, for my workplace. To share that Good News is a requirement for all disciples of Jesus. For us, particularly speaking, it’s going to require getting out of our comfort zones a bit. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
04.08.18 - What are the things we need to stop believing so we can be more effective proclaimers of the good news in our communities? We must stop believing everybody we know is already a Christian. We have to stop believing people don’t want to be invited to church. We have to stop believing the Gospel is too complicated to share. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
04.01.18 - On that first Easter morning, the disciples of Jesus heard some really good news that broke past and obliterated all the bad news they couldn’t quite shake. It decidedly declared that everything broken in this world is being fixed, and it continues to reverberate down through the generations into our ears and hearts today. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
03.28.18 - Steve is an international speaker and well-known author, an experienced therapist, and founder of Ultimate Escape Ministries. His illustrations, object lessons, and life experiences all contribute to a better understanding of our sexually-saturated culture and God’s plan for healthy sexuality for his people. Speaker: Steve Holladay
03.25.18 - Steve is an international speaker and well-known author, an experienced therapist, and founder of Ultimate Escape Ministries. His illustrations, object lessons, and life experiences all contribute to a better understanding of our sexually-saturated culture and God’s plan for healthy sexuality for his people. Speaker: Steve Holladay
03.25.18 - Steve is an international speaker and well-known author, an experienced therapist, and founder of Ultimate Escape Ministries. His illustrations, object lessons, and life experiences all contribute to a better understanding of our sexually-saturated culture and God’s plan for healthy sexuality for his people. Speaker: Steve Holladay
03.25.18 - Steve is an international speaker and well-known author, an experienced therapist, and founder of Ultimate Escape Ministries. His illustrations, object lessons, and life experiences all contribute to a better understanding of our sexually-saturated culture and God’s plan for healthy sexuality for his people. Speaker: Steve Holladay
03.18.18 - Baptism is the moment when one is united to Christ in his death and resurrection, when one’s sins are forgiven, and when one receives the gift of the Holy Spirit. But this tendency reveals a common misunderstanding about who’s doing the work and who’s guaranteeing the benefits in our baptisms. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
03.11.18 - Jerry Taylor, Bible and Ministry professor for Abilene Christian University and a great friend of Central, will be with our church family for the worship assembly this Sunday. Let's consider together the power of prayer. Speaker: Jerry Taylor
03.04.18 - As we look at Revelation, join us to consider what our God is doing in this world and how we can join him together in his redemption mission. Speaker: Dan Bouchelle.
03.04.18 - Guest speaker Dan Bouchelle leads our adult classes in "We're On a Mission From God."
02.18.18 - Our regular church gatherings are sacred times and places where we can be cleansed of society’s influences. Around the Word and Table is where the culture’s stories are corrected, supplanted, by the everlasting story of God and his people. The rituals of our worship assemblies form us. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
02.11.18 - To acknowledge Jesus, the crucified Messiah, as “Lord” or “Master” in baptism is to accept a brand-new identity as his servant and to affirm that the shape and course of my life now lays wholly within his power. I belong to him. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
02.04.18 - What if we understood our church gatherings as sacramental encounters with the Lord? What if we believed God’s Holy Spirit was powerfully at work during our songs and prayers, Scripture readings and meals, to shape us more into the image of Christ? Speaker: Allan Stanglin
01.28.18 - As we consider together all that our God is doing in the waters of baptism, we’re not backing away from the importance of baptism. We’re wanting to move to an even richer understanding of what God is doing in this holy sacrament. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
01.21.18 - Sometimes we get into a dark place and we question where all this is headed. We wonder if God really is in control. Then we take our places at the table and we realize that Christ Jesus himself is with us. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
01.14.18 - During our times of suffering and temptation, how do we resist? How do we stand firm in the faith? Let's consider together our true enemy, the nature of his prowling, and the victory we share in Christ. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
01.07.18 - All seven hundred of us at Central are “sent” by Christ to participate in his mission. Our Lord says, “Just as the Father sent me, so I am sending you.” All of us are called to seek and save, to heal, to forgive, to love, to reconcile. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
12.31.17 - We declare that God helps us in times of need. We proclaim that our Lord takes care of us always. And we stand on it and say it so vigorously and so confidently that it changes the very nature of the conversation. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
12.24.17 - The statistics suggest you’re more likely to hand money to a person on the corner around Christmas time than you are in August. You’ll write the check or donate to the cause in December when you wouldn’t in the Spring. Why is that? Scripture implies it’s a holy impulse directly connected to the ways of our Lord. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
12.17.17 - You might be spending a lot of money and energy on a lot of Christmas presents this year. Just like you did last year. Why? To see the joy on the faces of those who receive your gifts? To fulfill a social or familial obligation? Speaker: Allan Stanglin
12.10.17 - We see it all around us: the wreckage and carnage, the twisted bodies and warped minds, the moral and institutional vileness -- we live in a dark world. And we don’t have it within us to fix it. This world of darkness needs the light of Christ. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
12.03.17 - The tomb is empty. Jesus himself appears to Mary Magdalene in the garden that morning and to his closest disciples during dinner that night. Some believe. Some doubt. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
11.26.17 - If I were in charge of the Bible, I’m not sure the very first miracle I’d choose for Jesus would be to provide 150-gallons of amazingly excellent wine at a huge wedding celebration. Here we dive into the powerful imagery of the salvation message proclaimed in this timeless story. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
11.19.17 - "Come and See." Three little words. Three little syllables that contain divine power to eternally change broken lives. Three words that could lead directly to your friend or your neighbor or your family member finding forgiveness, salvation, and peace in our Lord. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
11.12.17 - What if our Christian gatherings were understood as the time and place for spiritual formation? What if God is not the audience or the spectator? Speaker: Allan Stanglin
11.05.17 - So many of us live in fear. We're concerned about the future of the church and the future of the country. We're anxious about our kids and about North Korea. We worry about our forgiveness and our salvation. Jesus gives us comfort by giving us a command: Don't be afraid. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
11.01.17 - Step by Step: Discipleship in the Psalms of Ascent (8). Psalm 134 - "Blessing: The Final Step." Wednesday night class series. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
10.28.17 - "Transforming Encounter: Baptism, Lord's Supper, and Assembly" curriculum training. Part 4 of 4. Speaker: John Mark Hicks.
10.28.17 - "Transforming Encounter: Baptism, Lord's Supper, and Assembly" curriculum training. Part 3 of 4. Speaker: John Mark Hicks.
10.28.17 - "Transforming Encounter: Baptism, Lord's Supper, and Assembly" curriculum training. Part 2 of 4. Speaker: John Mark Hicks.
10.29.17 - Let's consider together the power of God’s love to defeat the forces of sin and Satan and everything else that brings trouble to us and to the world. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
10.28.17 - "Transforming Encounter: Baptism, Lord's Supper, and Assembly" curriculum training. Part 1 of 4. Speaker: John Mark Hicks.
10.22.17 - Love in the brain doesn’t do much for people or for the world. You and I may want love and feel love and say love, but the words of Scripture remind us that love does things. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
10.15.17 - As the Father lovingly sent his Son, we too are sent by Jesus to go to where people are, to meet them in their situations, to share with them this saving love of God. Speaker: Kelley Grant.
10.11.17 - Step by Step: Discipleship in the Psalms of Ascent (7). Psalm 130 - "Hope: The Deliberate Step." Wednesday night class series. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
10.04.17 - Step by Step: Discipleship in the Psalms of Ascent (6). Psalm 128 - "Happiness: The Joyful Step." Wednesday night class series. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
10.08.17 - Christ’s love was on full display at every private dinner and in every public healing. His life was love. And this is still what our world longs to experience through his body, the Church. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
10.01.17 - God’s love is not made complete, it’s not finished its work, it’s not done everything it was given to do until we have taken that love and generously shared it with the people of the world. Love is the reason for our mission. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
09.27.17 - Step by Step: Discipleship in the Psalms of Ascent (5). Psalm 125 - "Security: The Solid Step." Wednesday night class series. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
09.24.17 - Jesus calls the losers. He surrounds himself with the outcasts and the marginalized. He invites to his table the sick and the lame. He bears disgrace, he wears shame, he clothes himself with suffering. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
09.20.17 - Step by Step: Discipleship in the Psalms of Ascent (4). Psalm 124 - "Help: The Proclaiming Step." Wednesday night class series. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
09.17.17 - I’ve had a lot of amazing worship experiences in my life. Not too many of them have been at “church.” Why is that? The preacher in Hebrews gives us the truth about Sunday mornings. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
09.13.17 - Step by Step: Discipleship in the Psalms of Ascent (3). Psalm 122 - "Worship: The Natural Step." Wednesday night class series. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
09.10.17 - Following Jesus is difficult; it comes with a cost. Disciples of Christ pay for their devotion financially, socially, emotionally, politically--the price is high. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
09.06.17 - Step by Step: Discipleship in the Psalms of Ascent (2). Psalm 121 - "Providence: The Confident Step." Wednesday night class series. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
09.03.17 - We are one with these heroes of the faith. We, too, have heard the promises of our Lord and he is faithful to fulfill all of them. We don't give up. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
08.30.17 - Step by Step: Discipleship in the Psalms of Ascent (1). Psalm 120 - "Repentance: The First Step." Wednesday night class series. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
08.27.17 - Jesus, the Word of God made flesh and blood, offered the perfect sacrifice to take care of all our sins. We are made righteous by that one-time, end-all-be-all sacrifice. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
08.20.17 - Baptism plays an undeniably central role in the life of a Christian. It's not magic, it's not a formula, and it's not the way a person saves himself. It is the "all-in" faithful pledge in the power of God at work in the resurrection of Jesus. Speaker: Randy Harris
08.16.17 - Reading the Book of Revelation: Part 2 of 2. Wednesday night series. Speaker: Andrew Hay
08.13.17 - The call from our God is to rest in his promises of eternal glory and honor for those who remain steadfast and true. His promises are certain and they give us the confidence and the strength to keep going. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
08.09.17 - Reading the Book of Revelation: Part 1 of 2. Wednesday night series. Speaker: Andrew Hay
08.06.17 - If Jesus came to destroy the devil’s work, then he came to destroy this power of death. Once we no longer fear death, we are liberated to live confidently for Christ and others, the way we were always intended to live. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
07.30.17 - How do we stay focused? How do we maintain our edge? What does it look like to “pay more careful attention?” Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
07.23.17 - We need to focus on the things we hear, not the things we see. We need to concentrate on the Word. According to Hebrews, a Word is worth a thousand pictures. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
07.16.17 - Consider with us the deep-rooted joy --- the inner joy --- that enables followers of Jesus to cope with disappointments and see everything as it truly is. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
07.09.17 - Sanctification, the process of being made holy, is both a gift from God and a goal. It is both experienced right now and still to be accomplished. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
06.11.17 - As followers of Christ, all things come back to the cross. Speaker: Jason Alton
06.04.17 - We’re promised that if we’re in Christ, we’re in heaven. And if heaven is in our hearts, our lives will reflect it. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
05.28.17 - The Scriptures presume that genuine love and concern for my Christian brothers and sisters will influence, if not determine, the things I do in my life outside the church. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
05.21.17 - The Spirit is given to us to root out the sin in our lives and lead us in the process of sanctification. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
05.14.17 - Our shepherds only have authority in our church to the extent that we, the church, submit to them. And we, the church, will only submit when we see in our elders the character and life of Christ. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
05.07.17 - As we quickly approach the end of the school year, we want to take time to acknowledge our high school seniors and offer them a blessing as they prepare for this next stage of life. Speaker: Tanner Albright
04.30.17 - Jesus is the tough, yet tender, leader of the flock who knows his sheep by name and protects them from danger. He’s the shepherd who unites the flock within himself. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
04.23.17 - The spiritual development of a congregation, the growth of a church family, is directly related to the style and manner of leadership within its eldership. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
04.19.17 - Part 3 of 3: Gary Marriage, The Supreme Court, and God's Church. How do Christians uphold and represent Christianity in a culture where the law disagrees? Hear from Allan Stanglin and a panel of our Central elders on this topic. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
04.16.17 - The resurrection of Jesus is not just about heaven someday. It’s about living a full life today. But some of us don’t live like we’ve been given this great blessing of life by the almighty author of life. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
04.12.17 - Gay Marriage, The Supreme Court, and God's Church: Part 2 of 3. How do Christians uphold and represent Christianity in a culture where the law disagrees? Hear from Allan Stanglin and a panel of our Central elders on this topic.
04.09.17 - How do we move so quickly from praising our Lord to denying him? How do we go so fast from vowing to die for Christ to betraying him? Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
04.05.17 - Gay Marriage, The Supreme Court, and God's Church: Part 1 of 3. How do Christians uphold and represent Christianity in a culture where the law disagrees? Hear from Allan Stanglin and a panel of our Central elders on this topic.
04.02.17 - Michael W. Holmes suggests, “Christians in the United States are in greater danger of being seduced by non-Christian cultural values than of being persecuted by them.” Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
03.26.17 - You’re not believing and suffering alone. We are part of an eternal family of brothers and sisters in Christ. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
03.19.17 - Churches do become like their leaders. And according to 1 Thessalonians, the group leading that church led with courage and integrity and love. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
03.12.17 - In 1 Thessalonians, Paul shows that the church is a family. He urges disciples to live lives worthy of God. And he reminds us that Christ is coming. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
03.05.17 - Today we recognize and honor the new babies and their families that are part of our church family. Speaker: Mary McNeill
02.26.17 - Our identity in our God frees us from the need to please people. Listen to this message from guest speaker Rick Atchley, longtime preacher at The Hills Church of Christ. Speaker: Rick Atchley.
02.26.17 - Rick Atchley presents the first lesson on Ecclesiastes to our combined adult Bible classes. "Looking for a Better Deal" is the first of 12 lessons that we'll be learning together. Speaker: Rick Atchley
02.19.17 - This is the Sunday we begin putting all our money into the Ignite One Fund for two years, to enhance and expand the vision and the mission of the Central church family. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
02.12.17 - Let's consider together the many people in the Gospels that Jesus personally impacted, who went on to immediately spread the good news about his love and grace. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
02.06.17 - Central gratefully stands on the shoulders of the courageous saints who’ve gone before. Inspired by their resolute dedication to Central’s God-ordained purposes, each of us now commits to doing what is necessary to continue this legacy of bold faith. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
01.29.17 - Through “Ignite” we acknowledge together that there are dark places in Amarillo, there are desperate situations in our world. And we are called by God to faithfully shine his light of love and life into those places. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
01.22.17 - Our vision at Central brings us now to a season of new opportunity: challenging us to take greater steps of faith, making the best of our momentum and resources, serving in love those who are far from God. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
01.15.17 - The New Testament is clear that all good works of our Lord’s Church are coordinated by God for the benefit of his people and his world. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
01.08.17 - We are fully and firmly convinced that consistent and sacrificial giving is an act of Christian gratitude. It reveals a true grasp of the magnitude of God’s salvation gifts to us through Christ. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
01.01.17 - As a child of God and a follower of his Son, it’s not “Love, but…” It’s never “Love, maybe…” or “Love, under certain conditions.” It’s “Love, Period.” Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
12.25.16 - The infant in the manger, this Jesus, is the light that gives life to every person. It’s through this Messiah that God destroys the destroyer. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
12.18.16 - The last word in the Apostle’s Creed isn’t a throwaway. It’s an affirmation of the promises underneath and throughout the doctrinal statements on which we’re banking our lives. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
2016 - Salvation & God's Law: Our Blessed Righteousness Part 5 of 5. Special Wednesday night series. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
2016 - Salvation & God's Law: Christ's Perfect Fulfillment (2) Part 4 of 5. Special Wednesday night series. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
2016 - Salvation & God's Law: Christ's Perfect Fulfillment (1) Part 3 of 5. Special Wednesday night series. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
2016 - Salvation & God's Law: The Law's Holy Purpose Part 2 of 5. Special Wednesday night series. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
2016 - Salvation & God's Law: God's Eternal Intentions. Part 1 of 5. Special Wednesday night series. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
12.11.16 - Death has been defeated. So has sin and disease and poverty and old-age. We are free on the glorious resurrection day to live forever in God’s presence. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
12.04.16 - Guest speaker Doug Peters shares with us from the gospel of Luke--a story about coming home. Speaker: Doug Peters
11.27.16 - The Son of God is who motivates us to live with each other the way we do. We realize that Christ Jesus never once did anything to please himself. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
11.20.16 - If something’s going to be done about sin, it’s not going to be with laws and commands or with judgments and punishments. No, forgiveness is the only way. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
11.13.16 - We look forward to Sunday when we will be gathered again as a people of peace, faith, and hope in a very big God. Speaker: Adam Gray
11.06.16 - The story of Naomi and Ruth shows us the amazing grace of our God and how he can redeem any situation for his purpose and glory. Speaker: Jake Perkins.
10.30.16 - Through the story of the lost brothers, our Prodigal God begs us to not only come into the house and sit down at the table with everybody else he’s saving, he implores us to get in on the inviting. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
10.23.16 - Our partnership with Continent of Great Cities / Great Cities Missions is a glorious expression of the surprising and powerful grace of our God. Speaker: Mark Abshier
10.16.16 - God’s unmerited grace extended to us requires that we, in turn, give it to others without partiality, without distinction, and without qualification. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
10.09.16 - Nearly everybody defines “sin” as breaking a law or a list of rules. But in Jesus’ timeless story in Luke 15, our Lord shows us that it’s possible to perfectly obey all the regulations and still be trapped in “sin.” Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
10.02.16 - In this parable, we see that the whole world is lost and that --- praise God --- his loving invitation is for the whole world. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
09.25.16 - The Gospel of salvation from God in Christ Jesus unites us. It seeks to save all people and it brings together all people. In fact, it’s our differences that make the Body of Christ what it is. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
09.18.16 - When God shows Ezekiel the valley of dry bones, he asks his prophet, “Can these bones live?” And the faithful prophet answered, “O Sovereign Lord, you alone know.” Speaker: Allan Stanglin
09.11.16 - God’s name is not what he’s called; it’s who he is. God says, “This is my name. This is who I am. And this is why I’m saving you.” Speaker: Allan Stanglin
09.04.16 - God’s people are scattered. We’re all over the map. We bicker and argue. We’re lost and injured. And God through Christ keeps his promise to search and bring back and strengthen. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
08.27.16 - Romans: A Gospel for the Sake of Others (Part 3 of 3) Adult Bible class curriculum training on "Romans." Presenter: Grady King
08.27.16 - Romans: A Gospel for the Sake of Others (Part 2 of 3) Adult Bible class curriculum training on "Romans." Presenter: Grady King
08.27.16 - Romans: A Gospel for the Sake of Others (Part 1 of 3) Adult Bible class curriculum training on "Romans." Presenter: Grady King
08.28.16 - What if the apostle Paul wrote his letter to the Romans as an effort to unite struggling churches for the sake of serving and saving others? What if Romans is more than a step-by-step, textbook-style plan of salvation? Speaker: Grady King
08.21.16 - The Spirit is our Lord’s gift to us of his holy presence, his eternal power, and his unspeakable joy. We embrace the Spirit of God here at Central and yearn to know more and experience more of his blessings and strength. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
08.14.16 - Join us as we experience together the awful silence in the face of God’s holy wrath. Then anticipate in joy with us the coming of God’s unmerited grace. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
08.07.16 - Through his faithful prophet, our God acknowledges the things in the past that distort the shape of our present and future. He knows that baggage is real. But he provides a gracious escape. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
07.31.16 - Worship belongs to God. And he’s very protective of what happens when his people come together in his presence. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
07.24.16 - Sometimes it can feel like everything around us is crashing. But Ezekiel’s penetrating words cut right through the noise and lead us to a place of clarity. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
07.17.16 - In this age of “Don’t judge me!” this basic article of Christian faith comes under a lot of fire. Society bristles at the idea and the Church doesn’t want to talk about it. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
07.10.16 - The festivals and feasts were ordained by our God to assure we spend time together in community, in his presence, and with great joy. Speaker: Allan Stanglin, Deb Dubin.
07.03.06 - We give out of gratitude for what our God has freely given to us. We also give in a context of faith that our God will always provide for our every need. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
06.26.16 - The words and phrases that describe our weekly giving are all taken from the vocabulary of human relationships with God and sacred acts of worship. For Paul, giving is theological, not practical. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
06.19.16 - The sixth line of the ancient Apostles’ Creed forces us to consider the eternal significance of the ascension of Christ. The ascended Christ rules with all power and authority. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
06.12.16 - The darkness of Friday has been broken by the light of the power of God’s Spirit. The silence of Saturday has been pierced by the trumpet blast of the resurrection of Jesus. The new day has dawned; death has been defeated; Jesus is Lord of all! Speaker: Allan Stanglin
06.05.16 - The fourth line of the Apostles’ Creed forces us to acknowledge the Saturday and to reflect on its significance. What does it mean for Jesus to be dead? Speaker: Allan Stanglin
05.29.16 - Sex is a divine union that is sacred between the marriage partners and an experience of and testimony to the love and faithfulness of God. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
05.22.16 - Marriage is not the end-all, be-all, everything for all people. The New Testament characterizes the single life as the preferable way to live as a disciple of Jesus. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
05.16.16 - If our marriages are intended by God to reflect the glory of the Father’s relationship to the Son, then mutual submission is required. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
04.24.16 - This is where the brutal reality meets the glorious vision. The reality and glory of Christian marriage collide in the middle of our Ephesians 5:21-33 passage. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
04.17.16 - The question is, do you love this person enough to promise to always love him or her into the future? Do you love each other enough to make vows to keep loving each other no matter what? Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
04.10.16 - We're deconstructing some common myths about marriage. We'll look together at what Scripture claims is the true secret of marriage. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
04.03.16 - Sally Gary uses her own personal story to discuss Christ-centered perspectives on homosexuality and ministering to those in our churches who are struggling with same-sex attraction in their own families. Speaker: Sally Gary.
04.03.16 - Mark’s story is not about the foolishness and failure of Jesus’ disciples. The Gospel is about the power of God, which overcomes human dysfunction and disaster. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
03.27.16 - Like the disciples in the Gospel stories, we all come to the empty tomb. And as our Savior asks Mary, so he asks you. “Who are you looking for?” Speaker: Allan Stanglin
03.20.16 - Christ Jesus our Lord is both divine and human. He is deity and he is flesh and blood. He is both. And what we see in Jesus is God’s plan for fixing everything that’s wrong with humanity. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
03.13.16 - What would it be like to live a life from a peaceful center? And to even dare to join God in bringing his peace to a broken, dark, and anxious world? Speaker: Adam Gray.
03.06.16 - Jesus commands us, "Follow me." Live your new life obediently in a way that is visibly and audibly like Jesus. Live in a way that matches up with the Lord and his reign. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
02.28.16 - Mark uses strong and determined women in contrast to the hard-hearted Pharisees and teachers of the Law and the closed-minded apostles to present an unmistakable illustration of humility, trust, and devotion our Lord is seeking in his followers. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
02.21.16 - This is what makes Christianity what it is. Christianity is that God is at work through his Son Jesus to establish his eternal Kingdom and his merciful reign on earth as it is in heaven. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
02.14.16 - The stories in Mark were intended to give us the confidence, the faith, to lift our eyes above the storms to the One who rules all things and promises to deliver. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
02.07.16 - Throughout the whole Gospel of Mark, people are trying to figure out who Jesus is. And nobody knows. When you look at Jesus, what do you see? Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
01.31.16 - Luke 12:48 is tough. It asks us not to just think about, but to change our lax attitudes about the grace we’ve received from God and the responsibilities that go with it. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
01.24.16 - The command is to nurture our children. The idea is to feed them in the ways of the Lord. Holy Scripture explicitly places a high value on our children, a value that should not be taken lightly. Speaker: Mary McNeill
01.17.16 - The first line in the Apostles’ Creed is not about creation versus evolution. It’s a fundamental confession that our God is the only true God. He is not in competition with other gods, he is not the good god over the bad gods --- he is the only One God. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
01.10.16 - All individuals and all communities operate from a center of belief and practice. That core that informs and guides a group’s values and actions can generally be stated in a short summary: a creed. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
12.20.15 - God so loved the world as to become a part of it. God takes on our flesh and blood, he blesses the world and everything in it by coming to live with us and to redeem us. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
12.13.15 - Jesus saw every single person he met as a tender soul who needs forgiveness, mercy, grace, patience, love, salvation. And he sees you in exactly the same way. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
12.06.15 - As we are shaped more and more into the image of Jesus, the natural outcome will be Christian ministry. This is God’s great purpose and will for his children: to call and save and change us so we can sacrifice and serve the people around us. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
11.15.15 - Our proclamation of the Kingdom of God is a personal testimony to the truth that springs from an ongoing transformational relationship with the King. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
11.22.15 - The Spirit of God creates a brand new community of all people, all nations, all languages, all brought to perfect unity under the lordship of Jesus. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
11.08.15 - We have all been brought on to the stage of the great Story. Consider with us our critical role in God’s Story and the Holy Spirit who empowers it. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
11.01.15 - Jesus is the One sent by God to destroy “all dominion, authority, and power. He establishes his Church as his holy partner to testify to and participate in his eternal victory. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
10.26.15 - Living for the mission of God means intentionally living in such a way as to claim our part of the world for God’s Kingdom, for the lordship of Jesus, and in the power of the Spirit. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
10.18.15 - We are sent, each of us, by the power and authority of Jesus Christ to spread the word of his good and righteous rule. By our calling as his emissaries, it is our duty and command, our great honor, to tell the nations they have a new King. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
10.11.15 - People who believe that God is turning the world upside down, righting all the wrongs and fixing everything that is broken are going to be unstoppably motivated to work for God’s new world today in the present. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
10.04.15 - The mission of God is about rescuing people from the corruption and decay of the world so they can enjoy right now the renewal of creation that is God’s final purpose and then become partners with him and with one another in that larger scheme. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
"Stories: God's Story & Our Place In It" Part 3 of 3 - A study of Genesis. Curriculum by Dr. Rodney Ashlock.
"Stories: God's Story & Our Place In It" Part 2 of 3 - A study of Genesis. Curriculum by Dr. Rodney Ashlock.
"Stories: God's Story & Our Place In It" Part 1 of 3 - A study of Genesis. Curriculum by Dr. Rodney Ashlock.
09.27.15 - Act Six is about the fullness of God coming here to earth to transform all of Creation. The throne of God is actually coming here to this world. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
09.20.15 - The Holy Spirit of God empowers us. He gives us spiritual insights, he reminds us of what Jesus said and did, he provides the words for us to say. As we wait for Christ Jesus to return, we are not alone. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
09.13.15 - The Old and New Testaments are organically linked. And the bond that brings them together is the concept of the sovereign rule of God, his eternal Kingdom. What all the ages had longed to experience is now present, it’s here, in Jesus. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
09.06.15 - The question for God’s people in Act Three is always, “Are we being a light to the world?” The covenant requires God’s chosen people to live according to his purposes so the world will experience his salvation. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
08.30.15 - Act Two of the Story of God presents the major conflict, the thing in the drama that goes horribly wrong and needs to be fixed. Sin happens. And we’re all guilty. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
08.23.15 - Act One of the Story of God is the Almighty’s way of providing the foundation for our relationship with him and the reason for his salvation plan. Genesis 1-2 give us the building blocks for the whole rest of the story. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
08.16.15 - Why do we keep praying when we have so little to show for it? Let's consider together why we should keep trusting God when it can feel like he doesn't care. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
08.09.15 - We see the hungry, the lost, the poor, the sick with the eyes of our Father. We see people for who they are: men and women created in the image of God. Our love for God and devotion to his Kingdom is best seen in the ways we take care of others. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
08.02.15 - We are intended by our Creator to live as children of his, not as slaves. Everything he has, he has given to us. Our obedience, then, is not in order to get God’s things, but to get God himself. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
07.26.15 - The Kingdom of God is described in Scripture as a giant celebratory dinner party. Food and drink, communion and fellowship, acceptance and belonging. This is our salvation. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
07.19.15 - The story of the barren fig tree forces us to participate, to put ourselves in the plot, and to answer the questions about our own lives. How are we responding to God’s patience and grace? Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
07.05.15 - When the disciples ask Jesus to teach them something, he teaches that living in and working for the Kingdom of God is done from a place of deep humility and dependence on the Father. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
06.28.15 - When Jesus says to “Go and do likewise” he changes the question from “Who is my neighbor?” to “Are you going to be a neighbor?” And he takes the abstract noun “love” and transforms it into a powerful verb. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
06.21.15 - What are we searching for? Who can we rely on to help us find what we're looking for? Speaker: Jerry Taylor.
06.14.15 - Guest speaker Tony Morrow speaks about the great work God is doing with troubled young people in Eastern Ukraine. Speaker: Tony Morrow.
06.07.15 - Christian worship has always centered around the Lord’s Meal, the setting has always been around his table. And we are formed at that meal. Transformed. Shaped. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
05.31.15 - We belong to God and with God; we belong to one another and with one another. This home defines us, this is who we are: joined together in Christ. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
05.24.15 - With all of the distractions in a day, are we living a meaningful and engaged life? Are we connecting with those that matter most? Are we connecting to the One who loves us most? Or, are we just distracted? Speaker: Matthew Blake
05.20.15 - Understanding Islam Series: a look at what the Quran teaches about jihad. Speaker: Bill Humble.
05.17.15 - We were the ones imprisoned by Satan, held in slavery by our sins and paralyzed by fear. But now we are rescued. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
05.13.15 - Understanding Islam Series: a look at the Jews and Arabs relationship to the land. Speaker: Bill Humble.
05.10.15 - There's not a mother alive who gets out of parenting without making mistakes, some of them colossal. But our God's grace is sufficient for us. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
05.06.15 - Understanding Islam Series: a look at what the Quran teaches about Jesus. Speaker: Bill Humble
04.29.15 - Understanding Islam Series: a look at the five pillars of Islam. Speaker: Bill Humble
04.26.15 - Most Christians, in their honest moments, feel like God is disappointed in them. But we don’t get that idea from the Bible. The entirety of Scripture is cram packed with testimony to God’s great love for all of us. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
04.22.15 - Understanding Islam Series: a look at the history of Islam. Speaker: Bill Humble
04.19.15 - As we act more like Christ, we’ll sacrifice and serve like Christ. We’ll see that God is working in us and through us for the benefit of others. It’s not about us. It’s never been about us. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
04.15.15 - Holy Sexuality series, addressing how to talk to your teens about sex. Speakers: Adam & Missy Gray
04.12.12 - Transition times. Crisis moments. Life change. Our God uses these times to shape us more into his holy image. He’ll use the four zones to do it --- that’s the “how.” But these transition times are usually a big part of God’s “when.” Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
04.05.15 - The apostles start the Gospel story not with Jesus' birth, his ministry and teachings, or his crucifixion. They start with his Resurrection. All of salvation history hangs on the Resurrection of Jesus. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
03.29.15 - Doing good works to benefit others is an imitation of Christ. It's a reflection of the glory of our God who gives us talents and passions by his Spirit to be used for the good of those around us. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
03.25.15 - Holy Sexuality Series, addressing abuse prevention & victim recovery. Speaker: April Leming
03.22.15 It’s time to make ourselves completely available to God to do with us what he will. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
02.18.15 - Holy Sexuality Series, addressing same sex attraction. Speaker: Cathy Burns.
03.15.15 - Our God has worked to deepen our faith and enrich our relationships through community. As part of our new vision and mission focus, we want to do community well at Central. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
03.11.15 - Holy Sexuality Series, addressing abuse prevention & victim recovery. Speaker: April Leming
3.08.15 Mostly, learning at Central will primarily be aimed at understanding the Bible as God’s current and ongoing story and discerning together our own roles within that story. Speaker: Alan Stanglin
03.04.15 - Holy Sexuality series, addressing how to talk to your teens about sex. Speakers: Adam & Missy Gray
03.01.15 As we are shaped more and more into the image of Jesus, the natural outcome will be ministry and service to others. This is God’s great purpose and will for his people. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
02.22.15 Jesus is the Great Delegator. He refuses to reign alone. He enlists ordinary men and women to work with him and for him, commissioned to be his body, ordained to be the only glimpse of Jesus a lot of people will ever see. Speaker: Alan Stanglin
02.15.15 The rule of Christ is hard to see because it’s carried out by a weak little band of disciples. It’s expressed in a single act of forgiveness by a wounded man, it’s realized in an act of kindness by a little old lady, it’s accomplished in worship and service rendered by a tiny church. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
02.08.15 - Jesus is the one who initiates the action of saving. Forgiveness comes only through Jesus. Reconciliation comes only through Jesus. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
02.04.15 - The Life of Moses: Pursuing the Presence of God. Wednesday night series (3 of 3). Guest Speaker: Ty Lovell.
02.01.15 Jesus was a miracle worker. And wherever he went, wherever he was, there was life. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
01.28.15 - The Life of Moses: Pursuing the Presence of God. Wednesday night series (2 of 3). Guest Speaker: Ty Lovell.
01.25.15 Eye witnesses paint a picture of Jesus constantly mixing it up with the multitudes, meeting strangers on the road, hanging out with family and friends. Mostly, Jesus was known for eating and drinking with gusto at a table full of folks: sinners and religious leaders, prostitutes and Pharisees, men and women, Jews and Gentiles. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
01.21.15 - Holy Sexuality Series, addressing how to talk to your kids about sex. Speaker: Mary McNeill
01.18.15 - It’s no surprise to us that when Jesus came to this earth, he talked. He talked a lot. The Gospels tell us that Jesus came preaching and teaching the good news that the Kingdom of God had come. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
01.14.15 - The Life of Moses: Pursuing the Presence of God. Wednesday night series (1 of 3). Guest Speaker: Ty Lovell
01.14.15 - Holy Sexuality Series, addressing how to talk to your kids about sex. Speaker: Mary McNeill
01.11.15 - Sometimes it’s really hard to see Jesus. He lived and breathed as a human being just like us. He experienced everything we do. His Spirit lives inside us. Jesus is one with us. But he’s still so very different from us… Speaker: Allan Stanglin
12.21.14 - What is God about to do in your life that you just can’t wait for? Join us as we explore together what it means to live in great expectation of our Father’s promised salvation. Speaker: Allan Stanglin.
12.14.14 - Anchor for the Soul Series: Someday the whole world will be healed as it is drawn into the fullness of God’s glory. God created us for eternal life. Eternal communion. Eternal fellowship. Sin and death are alien invaders. Evil and suffering don’t belong. And they will not win.
12.06.14 - Because God loves, because he listens and understands, we trust that he has our best interests in mind. We have faith that God has a divine purpose for the troubles we experience. And everything that happens serves that goal. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
11.29.14 - God didn’t send a representative; he came here himself! He doesn’t send his sympathy and condolences from heaven; he actually bears our sufferings in himself! God doesn’t look down on us; he joins us! Speaker: Allan Stanglin
11.21.14 - Our God invites us to speak, and he promises us that he will be near. He will listen to us and he will comfort us. God will come to us in our lament. He will hear our cry. And he will console and reassure us in our troubles. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
11.14.14 - “As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you.” ~Isaiah 66:13 Speaker: Allan Stanglin
10.26.14 - God’s strength is seen in our weakness and his power is revealed in our inadequacy. He does his greatest work when the odds are stacked against him. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
10.16.14 - Our God will go to whatever lengths are necessary, he’ll do whatever it takes, he will not ever give up on saving his people. Speaker: Allan Stanglin
09.07.14 - Part 2 of 3 - After reviewing how we've arrived in a postmodern and post-Christian society, we take an in-depth look at hospitality as the means to spread the gospel. Speaker: Jeff Cary
09.01.14 - Part 1 of 3 - An overview of church history leading up to our current postmodern era and the evolving of a post-Christian society. Speaker: Jeff Cary.