Biblical teaching with present-tense urgency.
Centre Church blends biblical sermons with practical Q&R from a Vancouver congregation. Recent episodes move through Acts, resurrection, sanctification, spiritual gifts, testimony, sin, obedience, and life with the Holy Spirit.
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Centre Church is a teaching feed from a Vancouver congregation, built around biblical sermons and practical Q&R. It sounds local in the best sense: Scripture is read aloud, church life is close at hand, and teaching regularly turns toward what obedience looks like right now. Recent sermons spend time in Acts and Matthew, tracing resurrection, mission, repentance, and the movement of the Holy Spirit. The resurrection is treated as more than doctrine to affirm. It becomes a claim on worship, forgiveness, and freedom. The Acts sermons press hard on listening to the Spirit, discerning his voice, and moving with him rather than merely working for God. That gives the show a strongly present-tense feel. The Q&R episodes shift into conversation but keep the same center of gravity. Erin, Aaron, and Pastor Matt respond to questions about sanctification, spiritual gifts, testimony, sin, and maturity with a mix of warmth, clarity, and directness. The discussions can move from light banter to serious moral reflection in a few turns. They are especially focused on doctrine that produces lived faithfulness: imputed righteousness and lived righteousness, holiness as both state and process, gifts used in love, and testimony as a way of strengthening the church. Local examples matter here. Prayer teams, baptisms, past teaching series, and a guest testimony from Alex Jay all make the podcast feel connected to an actual congregation rather than a detached religious content channel. The show is not trying to sound polished above all else. It values immediacy, conviction, and spiritual application. That can make it feel intense, especially when addressing sin, surrender, repentance, and obedience. But the intensity is usually paired with invitation. Centre Church is for people who want Christian teaching that treats Scripture as alive, the Holy Spirit as active, and maturity as something visible in ordinary choices.
Made for: For Christians who want sermon teaching and church-based Q&R that connect Scripture to obedience, holiness, spiritual gifts, and everyday discipleship. It especially suits listeners comfortable with directness and language about the Holy Spirit.
What sets it apart: Centre Church keeps doctrine close to church life, moving between preached Scripture, practical questions, prayer, testimony, and calls to respond. Its strength is the mix of biblical exposition and local church immediacy.
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
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Centre Church connects close biblical teaching with concrete questions about spiritual maturity, service, obedience, and life in a local congregation.
Centre Church moves between pulpit sermons and question-led conversations, keeping biblical teaching tied to the life of its congregation. Erin and Pastor Matt give the Q&R episodes an approachable rhythm: she presses for definitions and practical consequences, while he…
A snowblower explains spiritual gifts here, and your questions about spiritual maturity get practical answers.
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Acts 13 is framed as a sermon on sending, opposition, and the Spirit guiding the church.
Acts 13:4-12 is framed as a sermon on sending, opposition, and the Spirit guiding the church. Barnabas and Saul are sent from Antioch, preach in Salamis, meet Bar-Jesus in Paphos, and reach the turning point when Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, rebukes him and Sergius Paulus…
Sanctification is presented as both settled status and ongoing formation, with identity, sin, and daily obedience kept in view.
Erin and Pastor Matt treat sanctification as both a settled reality and a process that keeps unfolding. The discussion keeps circling back to the idea that God names his people honestly before he reshapes them, which gives the whole conversation its center of gravity.
A focused sermon on the Holy Spirit speaking as the living voice who leads a worshiping church.
Acts 13:1-3 is handled as a meditation on the Holy Spirit's voice, with Centre Church staying close to the scene of worship and fasting before the Spirit speaks.
A direct Q&A on spiritual maturity through abiding, obedience, and visible fruit.
Center Church's Q&A on spiritual maturity treats discipleship as something that should show up in ordinary Christian practice. Erin and Pastor Matt shape the conversation around putting away childish ways, abiding in Christ, renewing the mind, the fruit of the Spirit, and…
Daniel's faithful endurance becomes the lens through which a king sees his limits and God's enduring rule.
King Darius's spiritual awakening starts with a hard lesson in limits: Daniel's steady faith reveals what royal power cannot command. Following Daniel 6 from the lions' den to the king's decree, the episode keeps its focus on the living God whose kingdom endures.
A grounded introduction to spiritual gifts as joyful service for the common good.
Spiritual gifts are treated here less like a chart to master than a shared church practice to inhabit. Erin and Pastor Matt return to Center Church's formative 2019 series and frame gifts through a snowblower image: the same calling may belong to everyone, yet certain people…
A resurrection sermon where spectacle opens into an invitation to encounter the Holy Spirit.
The sermon frames resurrection power as something more than a doctrine to affirm. Beginning with Mary Magdalene and the other Mary at the tomb, it follows Matthew's earthquake, lightning-bright angel, rolled stone, and empty tomb into a meditation on God's extravagant action.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
This Easter sermon from Centre Church in Vancouver explores Matthew 28:1-10, focusing on the resurrection of Jesus.
Erin and Pastor Matt launch a two-part series on spiritual gifts, responding to church questions categorized into love, word, and power gifts.
Pastor Matt and Aaron open the Centre Church Q&R episode by weighing AI for pastors, praising a sermon-database search tool and rejecting AI-written sermons as "the deadest, emptiest religion." Matt cites Anthropic's resignation warnings, John Lennox, and the Tower of Babel, and links AI to biblical deception and the "mark of the beast." They then take a question on healing childhood trauma, stressing forgiveness, surrender, the Joseph story, and programs like Freedom Session.
This sermon explores the resurrection of Jesus from Acts 13:26-41, emphasizing its fulfillment of prophecy and offering forgiveness of sins through faith.
This episode introduces a series on spiritual gifts, discussing their biblical basis, categorization into love, word, and power gifts, and their practical application in church life.
This sermon explores the biblical account of Jesus' resurrection from Matthew 28:1-10, focusing on the women's encounter with the angel and Jesus, and the transformative power of this event.
Pastor Matt interviews Alex about his testimony and the importance of theology in fostering obedience and surrender to Jesus, as part of a series on sanctification.
This sermon explores Acts 13:13-25, focusing on Paul's message about moving with the Holy Spirit rather than being confused by Him, tracing God's faithfulness from Israel's history to Jesus.
This episode addresses practical questions about navigating sin in sanctification, discerning sinful behavior, and responding to sin in oneself and others from a biblical perspective.
The sermon opens on Acts 13:4-12.
Erin and Pastor Matt pick back up the sanctification thread.
The sermon opens with Acts 13:1-3 and a picture of the church tasting the kingdom of God together.
Erin and Pastor Matt continue the conversation on spiritual maturity.
Sean opens Centre Church's Daniel 6 sermon with King Darius's decree that every nation under his rule should fear the God who saved Daniel from the lions.
This sermon explores Psalm 91, emphasizing God's promise of protection, refuge, and salvation for those who trust and dwell in Him.
This episode addresses biblical perspectives on relationships between men and women in the church, covering topics like singleness, dating non-believers, authority, and God's care for women.
This sermon recounts the biblical story from Daniel 3 where Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are thrown into a fiery furnace but are miraculously protected by God, demonstrating divine power over death.
This episode discusses the importance of prayer and fasting in church life, featuring insights on 24-7 prayer initiatives and a 10-day partial fast.