Lifecentral Church

TELEOIS (Greek) - ‘Something has achieved its purpose, fulfilled its intended goal, and has fully matured’. It's where we get the word 'telescope'! Only God is teleois, everything else is on a journey of becoming! For example, if happiness is a pursuit, you will never reach it! That road has no teleois ending. The Good Life isn’t a chase for happiness and blessing; it's a life LIVED OUT OF happiness and blessing. — Speaker: Leon Evans

What on earth am I here for? Things are created on purpose for a purpose and so are we. The tension is, 'does my life really matter? Do I matter? Do I have a contribution to make to this world?' Jesus invites us onto the narrow road to discover and live the good life, which is not only a blessed life but is a purposeful life. You were created on purpose for purpose. — Speaker: Leon Evans

What does it really mean to live the good life? We all strive for it, but defining what "good" actually is can be tough. And when it comes to finding the right path, things get even more confusing. Is there one specific road to follow, or do we need to explore different paths along the way? — Speaker: Leon Evans

Expectations are funny things. They can be good, bad, set by you or placed onto you, reasonable or unreasonable. And we will all have expectations, but many of us don’t realise that we’re playing the Expectation Game until our expectations aren’t met. — Speaker: Laura Hancock

Have you ever seen a conflict resolved by yelling, fighting, attacking, defending, or manipulating? In human conflict, emotions are almost always high. Ever tried to convince someone of anything when they are emotional (and you are emotional)? It doesn’t work!! What does work however, is humility. The truth is that we have way more in common than we have that divides us. —Speaker: Keith Spurgin - Pastor, New Hope Church, Texas.

Playing the shame game creates a rising dichotomy for us in our relationships. We long for more loving, loyal and connected relationships, yet we can be quick to diminish those very same people, shoving them down for errors they make and elevating ourselves in moral superiority. — Speaker: Gareth Blount

In this episode of the Lifecentral Podcast, Andy sits down with Allison Evans and Sam Hughes as they share their own personal strategies for coping with the chaos that comes at Christmas time.

No matter where we may find ourselves in life, we are always looking around thinking, "Why don’t I have as much as they have? Why don’t I have the opportunities; he talent; the looks?" Comparison is so subtle because it is almost always internal. And it may be one of the greatest tools that can derail us... — Speaker: Jayne Sargeant

Competition and games can be fun and healthy, but one area of life should be off limits - Relationships. However, there is a game we can all play that is competitive but it’s where everybody wins - The Honour Game. — Speaker: Lead Pastor, Leon Evans

Working together to break the cycle of poverty. Child sponsorship with Compassion is an opportunity to provide a child not just with the necessities of life but also access to a programme of educational and spiritual resources to shape a better future. —Speaker: Luke Gratton

Are we clinging onto things, people or patterns of life that we know we should be free from? Have we made ourselves comfortable in a culture that is alien to the life that God has called us to live? It isn’t that God is hidden and can only be found now. It is that He can only be found when our hearts are inclined to look for Him, and that inclination itself is a gift from God! — Speaker: Stuart Blount

With the Christmas season just around the corner, it’s the perfect time to invite friends and family to your church’s events. But how do you make those invitations meaningful? In this episode of the Lifecentral Church Podcast, Andy chats with Rachel Payne and Steve Gates as they share their personal experiences of inviting—and being invited—to church at Christmas.

Baptisms October 2024. There’s lots of wisdom that is about in our general language and culture, but how much of it can we actually shape our lives around? What’s your life built on? And is it sustainable? Is it strong enough? Today, people are choosing to build their lives on Jesus. It’s a decision that shapes every part of their lives. And it’s the same message Jesus gave when he talked about building on rock versus sand. —Speaker: Andy Hancock.

Life is not measured in minutes it’s measured in moments. This October is our 45th Anniversary as a church from our beginnings in 1979. Over the years we've taken steps of faith and experienced times of great sacrifice, crisis and celebration. But it’s not only the moments that make our story worth telling... it’s the people! — Speaker: Lead Pastor, Leon Evans

You reap what you sow... You reap more than you sow... You reap after you sow. This law is not just agricultural, it’s about the story you want your life to tell. — Speaker: Lead Pastor, Leon Evans

Church hurt is not a new phenomenon —we see it all through church history. We see it all around the world in all types of churches, styles and traditions. The impact of church hurt cannot be underestimated... however the Church that Jesus started is a place where we carry one another’s burdens, where we stand alongside one another in good times and bad, where we literally 'one another' one another. Community can be where we experience the deepest hurt, but also where find the deepest healing. — Speaker: Lead Pastor, Leon Evans

This October, we celebrate 45 years since the founding of Lifecentral Church! In this episode of The Lifecentral Podcast, Debs sits down with Leon and Allison to look back on the mission, history and the incredible things that God has done over the last 45 years.

When biblical replaces Christ-like we have missed it! The Church is a movement - we need to make sure that it doesn't get stuck and becomes just a monument. For the movement to keep on moving we need more contributors than commentators, and the best investment of our time outside of our families is the local church that’s outward facing.

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Everyone has an opinion about what Church is... Irrelevant? Incomprehensible? Institutional? We believe the Church is unstoppable —an outward facing, multicultural, multi generational, multiplying movement. When we lose sense of this, we lose who we are and who we were meant to be! How can we adopt the tone, posture and approach of Jesus? —Speaker: Lead Pastor, Leon Evans.