Centre Church

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 list of do's and don'ts, is it easy, or comfortable, make your life better, awesome, terrible, or something different altogether? What should mark us as citizens of the Kingdom of God living in Vancouver?

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 last three weeks?

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 life and, supremely, through His death on the cross in our place. God's love has been clearly manifested through Jesus, and as this love grounds and transforms our hearts, we love others with a self-sacrificial, humble love as a response. And as we love one another as we have been loved, we reveal God's love for those around us who desperately need it. In so doing, we make Jesus Known.

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.