Centre Church

Speaker: Norm Funk 06.22.08 Text: Colossians 2:16-17 (and various others) Summary: Jesus said,

Speaker: Norm Funk 06.15.08 Text: Luke 15:11-32 Summary: Speaker: Norm Funk 06.15.08 Text: Luke 15:11-32

Speaker: Norm Funk 06.08.08 Text: Romans 4:1-12 Summary: In the church we have the tremendous opportunity to celebrate two very precious God-given gifts - baptism and communion. It seems however that in spite of the high value of these two sacred acts we have lost sight of their significance to us and our participation in them.

Speaker: Kris Martens 06.01.08 Text: Matthew 7: 24-29

Speaker: Kris Martens 05/25/08 Text: Matthew 7: 15-23 Title: False Prophets, False Followers Summary: Near the end of Jesus' sermon on the mount, he warns us of wolves in sheep's clothing - false prophets that disguise their true character and prey upon Christians who don't know what they believe. He also warns us that there will be many people who think they know Jesus, but whom Je...

Speaker: Norm Funk 05/18/08 Text: Matthew 7:12-14 Summary: One of the major criticisms of Christianity pertains to Jesus' claim that He is the only way. Cries of arrogance, exclusiveness, intolerance are common ones given in response. But are they valid? This message investigates that question.

Speaker: Norm Funk 05/11/08 Test: Matthew 7:7-11 One of the ways that people in the Kingdom of God deceive one another is by trying to pretend that everything is always hunky dory. Here's the truth of following Jesus: tough times are coming and sometimes tough times come because you follow Jesus. So how do we carry on, that's the question wrestled with in this message.

Speaker: Norm Funk 05/04/08 Text: Matthew 7:1-6 Summary: One of the statements that is made, inside and out of the church, is that it's wrong to judge. Is it? If true, then how do we make a call or take a stand on anything? Could it be instead that our call is not that we don't judge but that when we do, we judge rightly?

Your Kingdom Come - Part 14 Speaker: Norm Funk 04/27/08 Text: Matthew 6:24-34 Summary: Two things earmark people in God's kingdom the most according to Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount: how they respond to their enemies and their trust in God the Father to be the provider of their needs.

Speaker: Kris Martens 04/20/08 Text: Matthew 6:19-24 Summary: Where is your treasure, what are you focused on, and who do you serve?

Speaker: Norm Funk 04/13/08 Text: Matthew 6:18-20 Summary: Most agree that the practice and discipline of prayer should be a key element in a follower of Jesus' life but what about fasting. If Jesus presumes that we will fast, why don't we, or why don't we more?

Speaker: Norm Funk 04/06/08 Text: Matthew 6:11-15 Summary: In this message we finish up a study of the Lord's Prayer by focusing on the how we hallow the name of God by recognizing that He is our Provider, Forgiver and Redeemer, enabling us to trust and therefore extend forgiveness to others.

Speaker: Norm Funk 03/30/08 Text: Matthew 6:5-10 Summary: The Lord's Prayer has many layers but one of them is that it serves as a guide for the disciples of Jesus to know who they pray to and what they are to pray for. Jesus demonstrates that first and foremost we are to be people who pray that God the Father's name is seen as holy and sanctified by everyone.

Speaker: Norm Funk 03/23/08 Text: 1 Corinthians 15:1-8 Summary: Paul wrote in I Corinthians 15,

Speaker: Kris Martens 03/16/08 Text: John 12:-47

Speaker: Norm Funk 03/09/08 Text: Matthew 6:1-4 Summary: The WWJD craze hit the Christian community with a vengeance in the 90's. What would Jesus Do? Not an entirely bad question but certainly incomplete for you can't begin to attempt to react or respond like Jesus would without doing what Jesus did. What did Jesus do? He made the disciplines a consistent part of His life. Chapter 6 in...

Speaker: Kristian Martens 03/02/08 Text: Matthew 5:38-48 Summary: Peace, Love & Jesus - or - The Way of the Sword-Bearing Peaceable King

Speaker: Norm Funk 02/24/08 Text: Matthew 5:33-37 Summary: Jesus continues His discussion on what fleshed out righteousness looks like as He now tackles the issue of integrity and truth speaking - and like anger, adultery and divorce it is much more an issue of the heart.

Speaker: Norm Funk 02/17/08 Text: Matthew 5:27-32 Summary: Sex and violence sells - the entertainment and advertisement industry is based on that maxim. In God's kingdom however, sex and violence coming out of a hard heart maim, kill and destroy leaving in the wake the used, abused and divorced. To download message notes from a talk on marriage, divorce, and remarriage, go to the main menu: d...

Speaker: Norm Funk 02/10/08 Text: Matthew 5:21-26 Summary: In Matthew 5:21 Jesus goes from talking about the internal transformation of the Spirit to talking about what that tranformation looks like on the outside. Of all the things Jesus could have started with He chooses to begin with anger and forgiveness.

Speaker: Norm Funk 02/03/07 Text: Matthew 5:17-20 Summary: Get some perspective! We've all heard the expression, or ones like it. A wrong perspective, namely His listener's perspective of what the Law and righteousness looked like, was what Jesus is fighting in this passage within the Sermon on the Mt.

Speaker: Kristian Martens 01/27/08 Text: Matthew 5: 11-16 Summary: Continuing his sermon, Jesus reminds His followers that, not only are they blessed for Kingdom characteristics like peacemaking, meekness & hungering for righteousness - but that we should expect a good butt-kicking from the world when we live this way. He then challenges His people that they ARE the salt of the earth - and the...

Speaker: Norm Funk 01/20/08 Text: Matthew 5:4-10 Summary: The kingdom of God is absolutely upside down when contrasted to what current culture says is vital and necessary, this is no more evident than what is seen in the beatitudes of Jesus.

Speaker: Norm Funk 01/13/08 Text: Matthew 5:1-3 Summary: A key mistake in studying the Sermon on the Mt. is to read it and attempt to apply it as a list of do's and don'ts - that wasn't Jesus' point. In fact it's an impossibility to apply Jesus' teaching found in the Sermon on the Mt. without an internal change - a heart change. How does one achieve a heart change? It...

Speaker: Kris Martens 01/06/08 Text: John 14:1-7 Summary: Religion is the enemy of the way and mission of Jesus, and is the institution He came to tear down. Tragically, in our day, Christianity and the Christian church are commonly viewed as institutional structures consisting of underfilled buildings, overhyped programs, well-intentioned social services and legalistic bible-thumpers. What is des...