Centre Church
Welcome to the podcast of Centre Church in Vancouver BC. We exist to know Jesus and make Him known. To learn more visit our website at centrechurch.ca
Episodes
Today we see what happens when people who are far from God and who walk with God both encounter the Presence of God - and it good for both groups!
Series: Acts
Speaker: Cliff Ursel
Date: July 27, 2025
Text: Acts 10:1-33
To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca
Ever wonder what thinks about His Church? Ever wonder what He wants for His Church?
Series: Acts
Speaker: Cliff Ursel
Date: July 20, 2025
Text: Acts 9:32-43
To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca
We keep control of our lives to ensure we get the right outcomes, but what if giving up control of our lives and giving it to Jesus gives us the life we wanted all along?
Series: Acts
Speaker: Cliff Ursel
Date: July 13, 2025
Text: Acts 9:19b-31
To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca
In this sermon we’ll see what obedience to the voice of Jesus looks like.
Series: Acts
Speaker: Matt Menzel
Date: July 6, 2025
Text: Acts 9:10-19a
To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca
In this sermon we see how the Lord knows us completely and will meet and speak with us exactly how we need to be
Series: Acts
Speaker: Cliff Ursel
Date: June 29, 2025
Text: Acts 9:1-9
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In this sermon we’ll watch as Philip follows the leading of the Holy Spirit.
Series: Acts
Speaker: Matt Menzel
Date: June 22, 2025
Text: Acts 8:26-40
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In this sermon we’ll watch as the Samaritans are filled with the Holy Spirit.
Series: Acts
Speaker: Matt Menzel
Date: June 15, 2025
Text: Acts 8:14-25
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In this final Q+R episode for the season, Erin Ursel sits down with Pastor Matt to discuss your questions about creation, the literal flood, dinosaurs, not imposing the world’s historical timeline on scripture, the Passion of Christ, and embracing our individual missionary callings to this city. We also discuss our summer book clubs: Men, women - sign up today to join us in reading four great books this summer chosen to help us tho...
Simon had amazed an entire city with power—but then the gospel showed up. Acts 8:9–13 tells the story of spiritual confrontation, where darkness gets disrupted and even deceived hearts are confronted with something greater. This message challenges us not to minimize the spirit realm, but to follow Jesus with obedient faith, even into places where darkness has long held sway.
Series: Acts
Speaker: Cliff Ursel
Date: June 8, 2025
Text: Ac...
In this episode Erin Ursel sits down with Pastor Matt to discuss how to discern and overcome apathy, whether or not Christians should own guns, the importance of corporate repentance, the power of the gospel and the freedom from guilt, and how we view the sacraments at Centre Church. Thanks for joining us today!
In this sermon we’ll see how Jesus wants to move through His people in our city.
Series: Acts
Speaker: Matt Menzel
Date: June 1, 2025
Text: Acts 8:1-8
To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca
In this episode Erin Ursel sits down with Pastor Matt to discuss how much authority personality assessments should have in our lives, the difference between Mary questioning God and Zechariah’s doubt, and how to biblically navigate the discerning and testing of spiritual gifts. Thanks for joining us today!
In this sermon we’ll walk through Peter’s wrestle as Jesus restored him as a disciple.
Series: John
Speaker: Matt Menzel
Date: May 25, 2025
Text: John 21:17-25
To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca
In this episode Erin Ursel sits down with Pastor Matt to discuss your questions about the nature of final judgement for Christians, our authority to forgive, the Trinity, Jesus’ physical body, and the spiritual and physical realms. Thanks for joining us today!
In this sermon we’ll see what it takes to follow Jesus.
Series: John
Speaker: Matt Menzel
Date: May 18, 2025
Text: John 21:15-19
To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca
In this episode, Matt Menzel joins Matt Naismith for a meaningful conversation originally featured on The Sowers Podcast. We’re sharing it here so you don’t miss the chance to listen in!
Hear Matt reflect on his journey of faith, emphasizing intimacy with Jesus, surrender, and the goodness of God. He unpacks the role of the Holy Spirit in preaching, the need for repentance in church life, and the call to create a culture of enc...
In this sermon we’ll see Jesus’ desire to sit and eat with His disciples and what happens when we do.
Series: John
Speaker: Matt Menzel
Date: May 11, 2025
Text: John 21:1-14
To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca
In this episode Erin Ursel sits down with Pastor Matt to discuss your questions about navigating boundaries with media consumption, the meaning of covenantal language in church membership, angelic beings, sex in heaven, and confessing habitual sin. Oh, and Pastor Matt’s past music preferences come back to bite him.
We can study the evidence, look for the affirmations of Jesus’ resurrection, but Thomas discovered that it went past investigation and went to his perceiving of Jesus.
Series: John
Speaker: Cliff Ursel
Date: May 4, 2025
Text: John 20:24-31
To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.centrechurch.ca
This is Pastor Matt and Erin’s one year “podc-anniversary” episode and we are going back to where it all began - with your sermon questions. In this episode we are responding to your questions about Pilate’s wife’s dream, Peter’s denial of Jesus, why Jesus had to die in the way that he did, and the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.
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