Centre Church

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: May 13, 2018 Text: Matthew 19:13-26 There is no more important question than, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?" In this passage, we look at the question through the eyes of someone who had everything this world can offer but was still lacking what he - and we - needed most.

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: May 6, 2018 Text: Matthew 19:1-12 This text addresses the topic of marriage and divorce but in reality, it addresses something much more significant than even that. That being, hearts that are hard towards God and His call to go above and beyond, empowered by Him to do so.

Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: April 29, 2018 Text: Matthew 18:21-35 In this sermon we will unpack Jesus' parable of the unforgiving servant. We'll ask what role forgiveness plays in the lives of Jesus' followers, what it means when we find ourselves unable to forgive, and the provision Jesus has made for people who find forgiveness as tough as we do.

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: April 22, 2018 Text: Matthew 18:15-20 "This sermon dives into the oft misunderstood topic of church discipline. Why and how are we to carry out church discipline and what are some of the common objections to it? That's what this message seeks to address."

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: April 15, 2018 Text: Matthew 18:1-14 In this message, we pick up our series in Matthew that we broke away from in December. The theme of this message is that greatness in the kingdom of God comes by humbling ourselves like a child with humility showing itself thereafter in how we accept, care and seek out one another.

Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: April 8, 2018 Text: Ephesians 1:20-23 As we wrap up our series, 'Perspectives On the Cross' we will look more closely at the power of the resurrection. Does the resurrection of Jesus still have power today? If so, what is it doing and how can we experience it?

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: April 1, 2018 Text: Luke 23:55-24:12 In this Easter Sunday message, we gaze at the cross of Jesus through the eyes of three women who observed things first hand. Through their eyes we consider what keep us from fully accepting the reality and implications of the cross today.

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: March 30, 2018 Text: John 19:38-42 In this Good Friday message, we view the cross through the eyes of Joseph and Nicodemus, two Jewish socialites who remind us that the cross calls, costs and comforts.

Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: March 25, 2018 Text: Mark 15:33-39 In this sermon we will begin our series, 'Perspectives On the Cross' by looking at the perspective of the Roman Centurion who supervised the crucifixion of Jesus. We'll consider how he might have thought about Jesus as the day began and the radical paradigm shift he experienced only hours later.

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: March 18, 2018 Text: Genesis 3:20-24 We wrap up this series by seeing how the gospel is depicted in the closing verses of Genesis 3. Specifically, we are going to see how the faith, covering and assurance of Adam and Eve, along with the trials promised to them, point ahead to the good news story of Jesus and the assured hope we can have in Him.

Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: March 11, 2018 Text: Genesis 3:8-19 In this week's sermon we will continue walking through the story of sin entering our world. We'll see how sin has affected us radically by altering the nature of our relationships. We'll look at God's response to our sin and the way He made for us through it.

Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: March 04, 2018 Text: Genesis 3:1-7 In this week's sermon we come to the entrance of sin into creation. We will look at the pattern of thought and action that led to the rejection of the Creator, how it repeats itself even today, and how we can be free from it.

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: February 25, 2018 Text: Genesis 2:18-25 In this week's message, we go back to the first marriage of the Bible - the marriage of Adam and Eve. A marriage that Jesus points back to in Matthew 19 as serving as the prototype for all marriages to come.

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: February 18, 2018 Text: Genesis 2:4-17 Although this message addresses four aspects found within the text - the gardener, the garden, the call on the gardener and the command to the gardener - it's main emphasis is on the topics of work and freedom. God puts Adam in the garden to work and God puts Adam in a garden that comes with a choice - to eat or not to eat of the...

Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: February 11, 2018 Text: Genesis 2:1-3 In this sermon we will walk through the seventh day of creation. We'll ask the questions: Why did God rest? Where did His rest come from? What does His rest look like in us? And How can His rest become our reality?

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: February 04, 2018 Text: Genesis 1:26-31 In this, the fourth message in our Eden series, we address the topics of mankind being created in the image of God and what this means in terms of our role and relationship with the rest of creation. In addition, we address the topics of gender, race and our call to multiply.

Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: January 28, 2018 Text: Genesis 1:6-25 In this sermon we will walk through days two to five of the creation account. We will unpack the way this story confronts the primary origin story of our culture, points us to what's good, and leads us to worship.

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: January 21, 2018 Text: Genesis 1:2-5 In this message we consider why the Genesis 1 account of creation begins with an unfinished earth and what God wants us to see by His shining light into it.

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: January 14, 2018 Text: Genesis 1:1 We kick off our Eden series in Genesis 1:1 in this message by observing what it tells us about God and God, specifically, as Creator. The message concludes by addressing how what we see and observe in our world and beyond demonstrates more convincingly the existence of God than anything else.

Speaker: Norm Funk Text: 1 Kings 19:1-2, 9-16 Date: January 07, 2018 The greatness of the prophet Elijah is without debate; few were more committed to the glory of God than he. However, even Elijah was prone to fear, anger and despondency. This sermon investigates how the restoration of Elijah from places like those takes place and what we can learn from it.

As we end 2017 and look forward to 2018 we'll look at Paul's encouragement to consider everything we could put our hope and confidence in outside of the finished work of Jesus as garbage for the sake of knowing Jesus and being found in Him.

As we end our Christmas Series on this Christmas Eve, 2017, we revisit the most well-known verse in the Bible - John 3:16 - and look at how three great wonders found in that explain why Jesus came.

In this sermon we will unpack an ancient prophecy about Jesus and specifically the four titles given to Him: Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. What do each of these mean? Why do we resist them? And what would it look like to know Jesus in these ways?

In part 2 of our Christmas Series, Light Has Come, we discover what John wants us to know most of all about the coming of Jesus. We call it John's Trifecta in this message, three aspects of Jesus' coming that are paramount to understand.

In this message we begin a series focused on the light of Christmas. In Jesus, the light of the world has come, but as His followers we have been called to be ministers of light. This message digs into what that means for us.