Centre Church

In this sermon we’ll come to the decision of the Jerusalem council and unpack how they resolved the debate between law, grace, and requirements to lay on young christians.Series: ActsSpeaker: Matt MenzelDate: July 12, 2026Text: Acts 15:19-35To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca

In this sermon we’ll see where grace leads, what it means that Jesus came to rebuild the tent of David, and the kind of life all nations are being invited into.Series: ActsSpeaker: Matt MenzelDate: July 5, 2026Text: Acts 15:12-18To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca

Drawing on Ephesians 3:14–19we will explore how a deep, experiential encounter with the love of God can heal us from the shadow of shame and enable us to live and lead with greater joy and lightness of being—to become our true self, which most reflects the beautiful image of God.Speaker: Ken ShigematsuDate: June 28, 2026Text: Ephesians 3:14–19To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca

In this sermon we’ll hear what one of the primary lies of the enemy sounds like and how to defeat it.Series: ActsSpeaker: Matt MenzelDate: June 21, 2026Text: Acts 15:1-11To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca

In this sermon we’ll see what it takes to stay in step with the Holy Spirit as a church.Series: ActsSpeaker: Matt MenzelDate: June 14, 2026Text: Acts 14:24-28To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca

Tribulation can be more than just hardship - it can have a beautiful and eternal purpose. Can you see it?Series: ActsSpeaker: Cliff UrselDate: June 7, 2026Text: Acts 14:19-23To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca

Coming out of the 3-week Spiritual Gift series, this sermon highlights how spiritual gifts were practiced by Paul and Barnabas, and how they opened up the opportunity to preach the good news.Series: ActsSpeaker: Sean ByunDate: May 31, 2026Text: Acts 14:8-18To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca

In this episode, Erin & Pastor Matt get specific and discuss how we serve and use our gifts, how our ministry teams operate, the call for both mutual submission and submission to authority, why church membership matters, and why we practice prayer, confession, and contending together as a local church.

In this sermon we’ll continue in our spiritual gifts series and unpack the gifts of: Prophecy, Words of Wisdom & Knowledge, Tongues & Interpretation of Tongues, Faith, Healing, Miracles, Discernment of SpiritsSeries: Spiritual GiftsSpeaker: Matt MenzelDate: May 24, 2026Text: 1 Corinthians 14:1-5, 26-33aTo connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca

In this episode, Erin & Pastor Matt discuss the confusion and misconceptions surrounding the church's role and function, our call and conviction on age- and stage- specific ministries and the classes we offer, our decision to end live-streaming, and the vital importance of gathering in-person as Jesus’ people.

In this sermon we’ll give some biblical context for spiritual gifts and unpack the gifts of apostleship, teaching, exhortation, leadership, shepherding, and evangelism.Series: Spiritual GiftsSpeaker: Matt MenzelDate: May 17, 2026Text: 1 Corinthians 13To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca

In this episode Erin & Pastor Matt sit down to discuss the difference between the local church and global Church, primary and secondary doctrines, the Apostles’ Creed, if the church should be political, responding to gossip and divisive conversations in the church, and the call to speak the Truth in love.

In this sermon we’ll give some biblical context for spiritual gifts and unpack the gifts of Administration, Mercy, Service, Giving.Series: Spiritual GiftsSpeaker: Matt MenzelDate: May 10, 2026Text: 1 Corinthians 12To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca

In this episode Erin & Pastor Matt sit down to discuss three questions we recently received on the topic of the Church: church partnerships, multi-church gatherings as the greater body of Christ in the city of Vancouver, and “The Centre” rentals discernment process.

Instead of focusing on how hard obedience is, we look at how refreshing it is.Series: ActsSpeaker: Cliff UrselDate: May 3, 2026Text: Acts 14:1-7To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca

In this episode Erin & Pastor Matt sit down to discuss and respond to your questions about the “power” gifts, walking in the authority of Jesus, the ministry of angels, biblical order, and if dreams & dream interpretation are spiritual gifts. This is part four.

As disciples of Jesus, our response to His word defines us more than our background since true discipleship is a life of continually listening to and obeying His voice.Series: ActsSpeaker: Sean ByunDate: April 26, 2026Text: Acts 13:48-52To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca

In this episode Erin & Pastor Matt sit down to discuss and respond to your questions about the “word” gifts, testing, discernment, hearing the voice of God, and the gifts of tongues & interpretation. This is part three.

In this sermon we’ll hear a warning not to scoff as God moves and an invitation to step into all that He is doing.Series: ActsSpeaker: Matt MenzelDate: April 19, 2026Text: Acts 13:40-47To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca

In this episode Erin & Pastor Matt sit down to discuss and respond to your questions about spiritual gifts, the call for love, order, and unity, discerning our gifts, using our gifts with boundaries, and the gifts we are currently seeing at work within the body of Centre Church. This is part two.

In this sermon we’ll unpack two ways the Apostle Paul described the experience of resurrection power.Series: ActsSpeaker: Matt MenzelDate: April 12, 2026Text: Acts 13:26-41To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca

 In this episode Erin & Pastor Matt sit down for an introductory conversation about spiritual gifts - specifically what they are and how the bible instructs us to use them. This is part one.

The women heading to Jesus’ tomb at dawn on Easter Sunday only expected to find the corpse of the One they loved. What happened instead changed the world forever.Series: EasterSpeaker: Matt MenzelDate: April 5, 2026Text: Matthew 28:1-10To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca

In this episode, Pastor Matt sits down with Alex, a young man at Centre Church to discuss the importance of our testimony and theology - leading to a life of obedience, surrender & abiding. Alex shares his personal testimony; his journey to surrender, his freedom from addiction, and his love for scripture as his final authority. We know you will be so encouraged by this conversation. Thanks for joining us today!

A Christian’s life looks very different when they’re no longer confused about the role of Holy Spirit in their everyday life and learn to move with Him.Series: ActsSpeaker: Cliff UrselDate: March 29, 2026Text: Acts 13:13-25To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca

In this episode Erin & Pastor Matt continue the conversation, responding to your questions about navigating sin in our sanctification, discerning if something is sinful, dealing with a spouse’s disclosure of sin, and confronting sin in someone else’s life.

In this passage we’ll see the sad reality that opposing Jesus is living against our own identities as image bearers of God. Series: ActsSpeaker: Matt MenzelDate: March 22, 2026Text: Acts 13:4-12To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca

In this episode Erin & Pastor Matt respond to your questions about our present, ongoing, progressive sanctification, why we aren’t instantly changed but we are instantly made righteous, the order of importance in addressing sin in our lives, our identity as saints, and how spiritual maturity applies to smoking weed.

From this text we’ll hear our call as a church to wait on the Spirit and to respond in obedience to what He has said.Series: ActsSpeaker: Matt MenzelDate: March 15, 2026Text: To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca

In this episode Erin sits down with Pastor Matt to continue the conversation about spiritual maturity, including putting away childish ways, abiding in Christ, the fruit of the spirit, renewing the mind, and the need for maturity in exercising spiritual gifts.

In this sermon we’ll see how God led King Darius to a spiritual awakening through the faithfulness of Daniel and consider what this means for the church today.Series: DanielSpeaker: Sean ByunDate: March 8, 2026Text: 3/8/2026To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca

In this episode Erin sits down with Pastor Matt to discuss what happens when we get saved, the ongoing work of sanctification, slavery to sin, our new life in Christ, and the call for Christians to continue to grow in spiritual maturity. 

What would our lives look like if not only did we not fear bad things coming our way, but were prepared for them?Series: DanielSpeaker: Cliff UrselDate: March 1, 2026Text: 3/1/2026To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca

In this episode Erin sits down with Pastor Matt to discuss why healthy marriages are so important in the church, answering your questions about the biblical purpose of marriage, covenant, loneliness, adultery, sexual immorality and the biblical grounds for divorce & remarriage. This is part four.

On this Sunday our church changed course to confess some of the ways we have neglected God’s presence among us.Speaker: Matt MenzelDate: February 22, 2026Text: 1 Chronicles 13:1-14To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca

In this episode Erin sits down with Pastor Matt to discuss why healthy dating is so important in the church, answering your questions about dating apps, breakups, and the call for Jesus’ people to prioritize discernment as the goal of Christian dating rather than a practice for marriage. This is part three.

In this chapter the ancient kingdom of Babylon falls and we hear God’s call to reject the spirit of modern day Babylon.Series: DanielSpeaker: Matt MenzelDate: February 15, 2026Text: 2/15/2026To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca

In this episode Erin sits down with Pastor Matt to continue the conversation about relationships, discussing your questions about the purpose of friendship, appropriate relationships between men and women, apathy about marriage, purpose in singleness, and the importance our understanding of personhood is to this conversation.

In this sermon we’ll see what it takes to experience the healing power of God.Series: DanielSpeaker: Matt MenzelDate: February 8, 2026Text: 2/8/2026To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca

In this episode Erin sits down with Pastor Matt to discuss a biblical foundation for healthy relationships in the church, including questions about relationships being a discipleship opportunity, the danger with empathy, offences, unforgiveness, and the need to pursue unity and peace in our relationships within the church.

How many Christians, when it comes to Godly encounters, settle for a predictable when really we live in a time where we the deep encounters.Speaker: Cliff UrselDate: February 1, 2026Text: 2/1/2026To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca

In this episode Erin sits down with Pastor Matt to continue the conversation about sexual integrity: answering your questions about what counts as sex, premarital sex, cohabitation, confronting sexual sin with truth and love, and what is at stake for us when we get this wrong in the church? This is part two.

In this sermon we’ll see how Nebuchadnezzar’s humiliation after his pride ultimately displays God’s love for him through discipline.Series: DanielSpeaker: Sean ByunDate: January 25, 2026Text: 1/25/2026To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca

In this episode Erin sits down with Pastor Matt to discuss a biblical framework for sexual integrity: one flesh, marriage, covenant, sexual immorality and what happens when we engage in sexual activity outside of the parameters given in Scripture? This is part one of a two part conversation.

In this sermon we’ll listen to the how Daniel says the King should respond to the dream God gave him.Series: DanielSpeaker: Matt MenzelDate: January 18, 2026Text: 1/18/2026To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca

In this sermon we’ll see what was underneath the pride of Nebuchadnezzar and the intended outcome of his discipline.Series: DanielSpeaker: Matt MenzelDate: January 11, 2026Text: Daniel 4:19-27To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca

In this sermon we’ll begin Nebuchadnezzar’s own testimony of God destroying his pride. Series: Daniel Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: January 4, 2026 Text: Daniel 4:4-18 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca

God wakes us to make us spiritually alive and after that there is more! Series: Daniel Speaker: Cliff Ursel Date: December 28, 2025 Text: Daniel 4:1-3 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca

In this sermon we’ll unpack the five things Hebrews 1:3 says that Jesus is. Series: Christmas Eve // 2025 Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: December 24, 2025 Text: Hebrews 1:3 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca

We can have joy, and because we can lose our joy we have to take steps to preserve joy.Series: AdventSpeaker: Cliff UrselDate: December 21, 2025Text: Hebrews 1:1-2To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca