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