Centre Church

Speaker: Lee Francois Date: May 31, 2009 Text: Ruth 1:1-5 Summary: If life is a highway, it is one that is filled with detours, traffic jams, and roadblocks. The temptation we face as we encounter these obstacles is to look for shortcuts that bypass all trouble. These shortcuts often appear like the perfect solution, but more often than not end up being dead ends themselves. Today we meet a family...

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: May 24, 2009 Text: Colossians 1:21-23 Summary: Jesus is supreme in His assurance.

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: May 17, 2009 Text: Colossians 1:15-20 Summary: Jesus is supreme over His creation.

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: May 10, 2009 Text: Colossians 1:9-14 Summary: Jesus is supreme in His freedom.

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: May 3, 2009 Text: Colossians 1:3-8 Summary: Faith, hope and love, but the greatest of these is love. Yes, but in addition, love is an overflow of one's faith in Jesus and hope in heaven. The love the Colossians had for all bears evidence to this.

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: April 26, 2009 Text: Colossians 1:1-2 Summary: This message intros a new series on the letter to the Colossians. A letter, although written 2000 years ago, has so much relevance today. This letter hits on topics like morality, self-denial, hedonism, asceticism and assurance of faith, just to name of few. Have you ever wondered how to attain salvation. Have you ever doubted...

Speaker: Laurence East Date: April 19,2009 Text: Luke 4:16-21 Summary:Luke 4:16 is probably the most dramatic opening moment of any story told in the Bible, and perhaps more importantly heralds the ministry of the One who would change history. Jesus drops a bombshell on his own church and begins to explain the Kingdom of God, only it doesnt look anything they expected! Why is it, that throughout h...

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: April 12, 2009 Summary: This message, given on Easter Sunday in conjunction with the baptism of 17 people, ends the series, The Cross.

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: April 5, 2009 Summary: Crucifixion was cruel, ghastly, brutal, horrific and scandalous. The Jewish people considered those who died on the cross a disgrace and cursed, the Romans considered them defeated - losers died on crosses. How then does Jesus declare the event of the cross to be the pinnacle of His and His Father's glory? And how does Paul come to a place where...

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: Mar 29 2009 Summary: A common question that gets raised regarding the cross is,

Speaker: Norm Funk Date Mar 22 2009 Description:Greater love has no one than this, that a man lay his life down for his friends. For God so loved that He gave. In this is love, that God sent His son. The cross is many things but none more significant than the overwhelming demonstration of God's love for us.

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: Mar 15 2009 Description:Although highly resisted by most, even those in the church, the discussion surrounding the wrath of God is key to understanding the purpose of the cross.

Speaker: Rachel Barkey Date: Mar 4

Speaker: John Imbeau Date: Mar 8, 2009 Text: John 15:1-12 Summary: People are under immense pressure all over the globe as we spin inharmoniously and out of control. Stimulus, stocks, and striking oil are what we garner to feed our hope. There is however an economy described in John 15 that is the perfect word for our troubled times. The harmony of the vine, its branches, and the vinedresser is a...

Speaker: Norm Funk Text: 1 Corinthians 15, Colossians 2 Summary: This message explores the theology behind, and the practice of, baptism.

Speaker: Norm Funk Date: 02/22/09 Text: Ecclesiastes 12

Speaker: Norm Funk 02.15.09 Text: Ecclesiastes 11

Speaker: Norm Funk 02.08.08 Text: Ecclesiastes 9:13-10:20

Speaker: Norm Funk 02.01.08 Text: Ecclesiastes 9:1-12 Summary:One of the key aspects of studying Ecclesiastes is remembering the perspective in which it is being written. Solomon is writing about life from a God-less, non-eternal perspective and attempting to find meaning in it. However, that isn't reality, there is more to life than what is seen under the sun and therefore how we live here m...

Speaker: Norm Funk 01.25.09 Text: Ecclesiastes 8 Summary: Because all people have been created to worship, we all worship something. Because of that we have a great proclivity towards elevating leaders to places where they don't belong, deifying them in the process, and placing our hope in them. Ecclesiastes 8 speaks of the how to live in the in between of this world with its present day lead...

Speaker: Norm Funk 01.18.09 Text: Ecclesiastes 7:15-29

Speaker: Norm Funk Text: Ecclesiastes 7 Summary: In Ecclesiastes 7 Solomon moves from talking about how abundance isn't always what its cracked up to be to suggesting that adversity isn't necessarily a bad thing either - even the grand pooba of adveristy, death.

Speaker: Norm Funk 01.04.09 Text: Ecclesiastes 6 Summary: Solomon, in his continued evaluation of a world attempting to live without God, yet still seeking joy, meaning and contentment, concludes that it's all vanity for even joy itself is a gift from God.

Speaker: Norm Funk Text: 1 Thessalonians 2:13 Summary: Why do we teach from and through the Bible at Westside? Because to not teach from it is the sign of the utmost of arrogance.

Speaker: Norm Funk 12.21.08 Text: Luke 2:11-26 Summary: Christmas is associated with a lot of things: gifts, turkeys, family, vacations, etc. But one of the other things its associated with is waiting. But not waiting for what as much as waiting for whom. Christmas brings with it the anticipation of the coming of Jesus.