Centre Church

Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: June 26, 2016 Text: Revelation 22:6-21 As we come to the end of the series we will wrap it up with a call to see ourselves and our lives in light of this 'Revelation of Jesus Christ.' We will also get to hear the testimonies of twenty Westsiders as they enter the waters of baptism. There really is no better way to bring this letter to a close than with that kin...

Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: June 19, 2016 Text: Revelation 21:9-22:5 As we continue looking at John's vision of the eternal Kingdom of God we will be prompted to ask a number of questions including: What is it that makes the Kingdom of God so different from the Kingdom of man? Why can't God's Kingdom and the Kingdom's of this world simply co-exist? And finally, how is God leadin...

Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: June 6, 2016 Text: Revelation 21:1-8 As we come to chapter 21 John's vision transitions to a picture of the eternal home God has prepared for His children. There are five specific aspects of Heaven that we will look at in this sermon that are meant to strengthen us to faithfully follow Jesus until He returns.

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: June 5, 2016 Text: Revelation 20 In this message we investigate the thousand year period known as the millennium. We consider whether it's a time in the future or something now. We end by looking at some major reminders for all.

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: May 29, 2016 Text: Revelation 19 With the fall of Babylon the multitudes cry, "hallelujah." This message looks at why they cry out, what makes the destruction of Babylon so certain and ends by asking whether or not the battle depicted in chapter 19 should be viewed as a literal and physical battle or as something else.

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: May 24, 2016 Text: Revelation 18 Where chapter 17 focuses on the deception of Babylon, chapter 18 focuses on its destruction. Why it's destroyed and how followers of Jesus are to live in light of its certainty is the focus of this message.

Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: May 15, 2016 Text: Revelation 17 In Revelation 17, John records a vision that personifies the forces of evil at work in our world. How do we see them at work around us today? And what tools have we been given to stand against them?

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: May 8, 2016 Text: Revelation 15:5-16:21 Revelation, chapters 6-19, include some of the most sobering chapters in the Bible. What are we to see and how are we to respond to the plans and purposes of God's judgment as depicted in them? This message considers those questions and more.

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: May 1, 2016 Text: Revelation 15:1-4 Before looking at the 7 bowls being poured out in chapter 16 we slow down in the first four verses of chapter 15 and look deeper at the follower of Jesus as conqueror and singer.

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: April 24, 2016 Text: Revelation 14 Few, if any, topics in the Bible are most hesitantly approached as the topic of hell. And yet, if we ignore the sobering horror of hell we will never fully appreciate the gracious goodness of Jesus and His sacrifice for us. In this message we look at hell, it's reality and our only hope of being saved from it.

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: April 17, 2016 Text: Revelation 13 In Revelation 13 we encounter two beasts, two beasts empowered by the dragon (Satan). In this message we look at how and to what end are these beasts empowered by Satan and how Christians stand against them. We also consider why some churches undergo such great persecution while others languish in spiritual apathy in the midst of great pr...

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: April 10, 2016 Text: Revelation 12 After the finality of chapter 11 this sermon, coming out of chapter 12, doubles back and answers three main questions: why is Satan so angry, what are his tactics and how do the people of God conquer him?

Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: April 3, 2016 Text: Revelation 11 Revelation 11 brings us to the end of a major section in the book. As this section wraps up we will see the call and identity of Jesus' Church in this period of redemptive history.

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: March 27, 2016 On this Easter Sunday we look at Jesus' post-resurrection encounter with Thomas where Jesus tells us why it's more blessed to not see and believe.

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: March 25, 2016 On this Good Friday we go back to the early hours of the first and join Jesus in the garden where we see His agony and temptation as well as His strength that fortified Him for the cross.

Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: March 20, 2016 Text: Revelation 10 In Revelation 10 we begin another interlude in the flow of the book. In the midst of increasingly intensifying imagery our attention is briefly redirected so that we can remember the place and purpose of the Church in the middle of all of this.

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: March 3,2016 In this address at the 2016 Multiply Conference in Vancouver Norm gives a brief history of Westside Church and the things learned along the way.

Speaker: Mark Clark Date: March 13, 2016 Text: Revelation 9 In Revelation 9 trumpets five and six are blown. The judgments released are more intense than anything seen to this point. How are we to understand God's hand in all of this? What does it mean to have the seal of God on our foreheads? And what role does Satan play here as the vision unfolds?

Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: March 6, 2016 Text: Revelation 8 As we turn our attention to Revelation 8 we will be faced with more images of God's judgment. How are we to understand who God is in light of these things? What do these divine judgements tell us about the one who sits on the throne?

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: February 28, 2016 Text: Revelation 7 Chapter 6 ends with the most appropriate of questions: who can stand? Who is able to stand, in their own strength, before God on the throne and the wrath of the Lamb? In this message that takes us through chapter 7 we discover the answer.

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: February 21, 2016 Text: Revelation 6 In this message we consider first off the doctrine of the rapture before seeing Jesus remove the first four seals of the scroll of God.

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: Febuary 14, 2016 Text: Revelation 5 In this message we transition from looking at the throne of God in chapter 4 to the Lamb of God in chapter 5. More specifically, we recognize four aspects of the Lamb - the Lamb's worthiness, weakness, way and worship of Him thereafter.

Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: February 7, 2016 Text: Revelation 4 As we come to Revelation 4 the vision John sees changes. He looks and sees a throne in heaven, occupied and surrounded by worshipers. But what does all this mean? How is the existence of a throne in heaven meant to change our lives today? And what is revealed about the one who sits on the throne?

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: January 31, 2016 Text: Revelation 2-3 In this message, which is in response to last week's, we look at the ways Jesus strengthens the church for the battle we wage against our chief enemy, Satan himself.

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: January 24, 2016 Text: Revelation 2-3 The book of Revelation is written originally by Jesus through John to 7 churches located in Asia Minor. In this message we do a flyover of chapters 2 and 3 and discover what Jesus tells them then - and us today - about Satan's tactics used in opposition to the church.