Centre Church

Speaker: Aaron Boswell Date: Nov 4, 2018 Text: Genesis 50:19-21 How does the Bible call us to forgive and extend grace to those who commit evil against us? What do we learn from the life of Joseph that helps us understand this? And is this possible for us? That's what this message addresses as we wrap up the last few weeks of studying the life of Joseph.

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: Oct 28, 2018 Text: Genesis 39:20-40:23 What do you do when your commitment to righteousness and good works takes you from bad to worse? That's what this message addresses as we look at Joseph as he's thrown into prison under false accusations of attempted rape. We see how he responds and how, most importantly, he was able to carry on in spite of the great trial h...

Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: Oct 21, 2018 Text: Genesis 39:1-23 In this sermon we will continue our exploration of the life of Joseph. We'll watch as God leads him into blessing, temptation, and a whole host of other life-altering realities. Ultimately we'll see that Jesus is the one who walked through each of these things fully and completely on our behalf. And we'll wrap things up w...

Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: Oct 14, 2018 Text: Genesis 37 In this sermon we will begin looking at the story of a boy named Joseph. We will see the extreme measures that God used to call him and the great cost, suffering, and service that call lead him into. We will also see that Joseph wasn't alone in this call as every disciple of Jesus has been called in the same way and to the same things.

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: Oct 07, 2018 Text: Jonah 4:1-11 We wrap up our look at Jonah in this message with three takeaways that have weaved their way through the book and culminate in chapter 4. In doing so we will once again be confronted with the reality that we are more like Jonah than we may care to admit and need God's grace as much as he did.

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: Sept 30, 2018 Text: Jonah 3:1-10 In this message the call of God on Jonah comes a second time. But unlike the first, this time, Jonah goes and calls out to Nineveh and a city is turned upside down in light of God's mercy and grace.

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: Sept 23, 2018 Text: Jonah 2:1-10 In last week's message we entered a storm that came about because of Jonah's fleeing. Today, in chapter 2, we learn from Jonah the right response to our storms and how Jesus is the ultimate rescuer from them.

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: Sept 16, 2018 Text: Jonah 1:1-17 In this kick off message to the series, Trial and Trust, we look at Jonah, his call and the effects of his unfaithful response. We end by noticing how God overwhelms Jonah's sin with grace and mercy.

Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: Sept 9, 2018 Text: John 17:17-26 In part two of 'Life and Labour' we will head back to Jesus' prayer for the Church in John 17. What would it look like for disciples of Jesus to be aligned with the heart of God in our time and place? How can we make sure that the values at the centre of God's heart are the same ones at the centre of our lives?

Speaker: Joseph Peterson Date: Sept 2, 2018 Text: John 17:14-16 In part 1 of this series, we will unpack John 17 by looking at following Jesus. What does it mean to follow Jesus. Put another way, we're answering the question, "If I follow Jesus, what should I expect?" "Based on the life and teaching of Jesus, what sort of life does He call his followers to?" Is it a giant...

Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: August 26, 2018 Text: Matthew 25:1-46 In this sermon we will bring our time in Matthew 25 to a close by asking the all-important question, 'how?' How can we become the people of radical love that Jesus calls all of His disciples to be? How will the love of Jesus be formed in us? And how should we respond to everything God has shown us through His Word over the...

Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: August 19, 2018 Text: Matthew 25:1-46 In this sermon we will go back to Matthew 25 to see what it looks like to live lives of radical, sacrificial, and practical love. What does it cost to live lives like that and what shifts are we required to make in order to become people marked by the love of Jesus?

Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: August 12, 2018 Text: Matthew 25:1-46 In this sermon we will unpack three parables that Jesus told to describe what will happen when He returns to set up His Kingdom. Jesus will introduce us to the ordinary and completely counter-cultural life of those who are living with a heightened sense of anticipation for that day.

"I know that God loves me because ..." - We may naturally answer this question based on our performance, success, health or a myriad of different ways. But is there a more solid ground for our hope that we are loved by God? 1 John teaches that the answer is a resounding YES. Specifically, we know that we are loved by God through God the Son, Jesus, manifesting the love of God through his...

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: July 29, 2018 Text: Matthew 24 One of the key doctrines of the Christian faith is the return of Jesus - as certain as His first coming is His second. This sermon out of Matthew 24 addresses what the signs are that mark His return and what the church is to be up to in the meantime.

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: July 22, 2018 Text: Matthew 23 Chapter 23 of Matthew is a crescendo chapter. Not only does it record the last public discourse of Jesus, it culminates thousands of years of history with Jesus pronouncing a series of woes on those who led those away from Him.

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: July 15, 2018 Text: Matthew 22:41-45 Some questions are more important than others but there is one that trumps them all. In this message we look at a question that is posed by Jesus, a question that is paramount for our eternal security rests on how we answer.

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: July 8, 2018 Text: Matthew 22:34-40 In the ongoing frontal attack on Jesus, He is asked this time what the greatest of all commands is. In His answer Jesus affirms what we need to give ourselves to first and how else flows from it.

Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: July 1, 2018 Text: Matthew 22:23-33 In this sermon we will come across a group of religious leaders called Sadducees. We'll look at the reasons they rejected the God they claimed to worship and the power they missed out on because of it. We'll see that the same dynamics exist today and that Jesus made a way for us to experience more life and more power than we...

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: June 24, 2018 Text: Matthew 22:15-22 As we near the end of Matthew and as the cross looms, the tension between Jesus and the religious establishment has reached a heightened state. In this message we look at the first of what will be several questions posed to Jesus by the religious leaders in hope that they're able to trap and entangle Jesus in His own words.

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: June 17, 2018 Text: Matthew 22:1-14 In this passage Jesus finishes off a triad of parables by comparing the kingdom of God to a wedding feast. This message seeks to not only explain the parable but understand some of the characteristics of our Heavenly Father, the Son He sent and what heaven will be like.

Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: June 10, 2018 Text: Matthew 21:23-46 In this sermon Matthew shifts our focus from the liberating work of Jesus to the response of the religious leaders. As Jesus is opposed He won't defend Himself but instead, as the Great Physician He is, diagnose their illness and work to help them understand that if left treated their condition is terminal.

Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: June 3, 2018 Text: Matthew 21:1-22 In this sermon we will look at Jesus' into Jerusalem. He knew execution was in front of Him, so why did He keep walking? What was it that drove Jesus to lay down His life? What salvation does He offer us today?

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: May 27, 2018 Text: Matthew 20:17-34 In this message, we come to the end of Jesus' fourth of five discourses recorded by Matthew. As Jesus wraps up things before entering Jerusalem for the last time He reminds and recounts how greatness is viewed and evaluated by God and what is to be true of those who are a part of His kingdom. It's a lesson that's those the...

Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: May 20, 2018 Text: Matthew 19:27-20:16 In this sermon we will see Jesus' disciples response to His conversation with the rich, young ruler and the ways in which we are confronted by God's grace. Why is it that we have such a tough time accepting grace? And how can we move from a works-based life to the life of grace?