Centre Street Church Audio Sermons

Pastor Ashwin preaches about the third key to overcoming temptation: the power of worship. Who or what are you worshipping? In Matthew 4:8-11, Satan tempted Jesus with a more “glamorous” life plan than God’s, and asked Jesus to worship him. Yet Jesus did not compromise. He remained determined in His surrender to God’s plan, and in the end – He won the ultimate victory on the cross!

Jesus’ second temptation is found in Matthew 4:5-7 where Satan wanted Jesus to manipulate His Father God by using the privileges of His Sonship to twist God’s hand. Pastor Ashwin preaches on the second key to overcoming temptation: having an identity rooted in Christ. If we don’t know our identity, we will manipulate God and others in order to gain approval and acceptance.

In this first sermon of a three-part series, Pastor Ashwin examines Matthew 4:1-11 when Jesus was tempted by Satan to act independently from God. The subtle suggestion to act on our own outside of God, to take what is within our reach, is at the heart of temptations we face today as well. There is a lot to learn from how Jesus countered Satan’s strategies with Scripture and walked away from the temptation trap.

The second part of a two part series, ‘Holy Spirit: How He Guides’ examines the questions: “How can we be more receptive to hearing God’s voice?” and “How can we discern whether we have heard from the Lord?”

This sermon is part of the Christianity 101 series focusing on the foundations of our faith. We have explored the nature and character of the triune God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. God created us to enjoy a meaningful friendship with us. His desire is to love, encourage and empower us to live in victory, but also to guide us. God wants to be our personal guidance counselor through the ministry of the Holy Spirit.

This is the final sermon in the Pursue Generosity series. The question, ‘How can I be sure I am pleasing God in my financial decisions?’ is explored. It looks at how we can make decisions about our priorities and lifestyle that will answer that question.

This sermon, the seventh in the Pursue Generosity, focuses on Paul’s teaching in I Timothy 6 on how we can have maximum impact for Christ in the lives of others through generosity. How we view money and use our time will impact the live of the people in our sphere of influence.

This sermon is Part 6 of the Pursue Generosity series. It examines the key reasons people struggle with being generous, that is, the problem of debt and a failure to have a God-honoring financial plan. It explores the Biblical foundations for financial freedom.

This sermon, Part 5 in the Pursue Generosity Series, explores what the Bible teaches about contentment - about how one comes to that place of resting in God alone. Discontentment always creates a struggle over generosity with our time, abilities and money. The quest to have more brings the stress of debt and in our desire to impress others we will be exhausted from frantically trying to do more than God ever intended us to do.