Center Church | Gilbert Sermons

We are better at remembering our sins than the fact that Jesus was killed instead of us. How you feel about yourself does not determine God's opinion of you. Jesus died so that we might live.'

Ron Boomsma, from Sovereign Grace Church of Pasadena, California, preaches from Revelation 21, helping us see that when we look to the glorious future in store for those who have trusted Christ, we find hope and provision for the present.

Our own Jim Hubek shows us Jesus in Psalm 84. We all desire to get home where we belong. But it takes trust in the life and work of Another to actually make it happen.

Our own Jim Hubek shows us Jesus in Psalm 84. We all desire to get home where we belong. But it takes trust in the life and work of Another to actually make it happen.

Guest Speaker Eric Turbedsky showed us that Zacchaeus and his change of heart is not the main point or character of the story in Luke 19. Rather, it is a story that directs our eyes to THE most generous One who ever lived - Jesus Christ!

<p>Hailing from "down under", Guest Speaker Dave Taylor preached to us this morning from Exodus 19, words which remind us afresh just how precious we are to the Lord and the profound opportunities that God's love and salvation now presents to us!

The women who anointed Jesus is an example of devotion that is wonderful and worthy of repeating and celebrating. But her story cannot change us. It can challenge us and make us ask some questions about our measure of devotion. But there is another story of devotion in this passage we need to consider. Look at JESUS and you see one who has boundless love and devotion for you.</p>

The Bible speaks of Christ's return many times, including Mark 13. We don't know when it will happen, but we do know that we are called to "stay awake.", Rich expounds on what this means and some practical ideas on how we can "stay awake while we await Christ's return.

The story of "the widow's mite" is about so much more than money or the widow herself. It points us to Jesus who gave all and calls us to do the same. Give of what you have and don't hold anything back because Jesus is worth it!

Out of ruins God does his greatest work. When all seems lost, God raises up what has fallen, and restores His people.

The Scribes believed all the right things about the scripture, but they used their position to take advantage of everyone they could. Instead of loving and serving the people, they loved and served themselves. Dishonest, unscrupulous spiritual leaders are among the most lethal people on the planet. Jesus is the only leader you can trust without reserve. Even the best human leaders will fail you. J...

If Jesus is not the dominant focus of your field of vision—you will get a bad case of tunnel vision. If your eyes are fixed on anything or anyone aside from Jesus Christ, you have tunnel vision. You might think you can see, but if Jesus is not in your sights, you don't.

What we owe the government is important, but what we owe the One who established that government is even more so. We bear the image and inscription of God and we are called to render to God the things that are God's. We are his. We owe our very lives, souls, and hearts to the one and only Creator. Through Jesus, we are given a chance and a way to both marvel at him in a transforming way and t...

Jesus coming back from the dead was not just him flexing his power, it was him opening a way to God. When Jesus ate the bitter fruit of death and was rejected by God the door to bright goodness was flung open and started to push the darkness back. Evil would not have the final say. Now there was a way for mankind to escape the darkness.

To be devoted to Jesus is to be devoted to His people also. Fellowship is the means by which we build deeply together. True fellowship is to give someone a share in your life and to receive a share in someone else's life.

Jesus saw past the way people appeared and looked deep down into what they needed. We must follow our Savior as He really sees the people around him and looks with eyes of compassion.

We do not need to be taught to worship. Rather we need to be taught WHO to worship and HOW to worship.

What is the one thing that Jesus would have us know? Love. Love God and love others. This is also one thing Jesus would have us make a marker of our church.

The church - the body of Christ - is where we experience the fullness of God in a way that cannot be duplicated by any other gathering or experience. To be meaningfully connected to Jesus, we must be meaningfully connected to His church.

As Jason Hansen and Tyler Jenner leave to start Anchor Church, Rich preaches a prayer for both our church and theirs from Philippians 1 - that love grows and gives sight. That we all would abound in love and approve what is excellent.

The love of God is never going to make real sense to our minds. He loves the undeserving and the obstinate. God reaches out in loving forgiveness to those who repeatedly reject him. We know this because he reaches out with his beloved son toward sinners. God pursues people with an ever loving, never tiring, always running, always forgiving embrace.

If you have to go around telling people you have authority - you don't really have it. Everyone has to respond in some way to the authority of Christ. How are you responding to Jesus?

So very often fake religion masquerades behind a mask of self-righteousness. Jesus is not fooled by the fake. Jesus came to the temple that day to those who knew they needed help. He still offers that kind of help. Jesus introduces a new order of life that is not tied to a temple but to him. An authentic life. The key to not being fake is trusting in God, and to trust God you must know Je...

Guest speaker Jon Payne encourages us from Psalm 16 to see God's great supremacy, God's provision and God's presence in his love and care for us through first saving us and then every day of the Christian life.

This morning we met two groups of people who miss Jesus though He was right in front of them. These two groups were very different but they missed him for exactly the same reason: they expected different packaging. Missing Jesus is not just disappointing but tragic. We must not do the same thing-we must not miss Jesus! Miss Jesus and nothing else you find will matter.