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Becoming Your True Self - Jordan Baker July 28, 2024 Forest City Church Why do we desire the things we desire? Sometimes we aren't even aware of the things we are striving towards - but their reality is vivid in our every action or inaction. What happens when we consciously commit to new desires? Life-giving purpose that not only re-orients our goals - but also empowers us to live lives of honour...

Jesus Is The Prize - Riley Braun July 21, 2024 Forest City Church This week Riley encouraged the FCC community in our posture towards receiving the gifts of the Spirit. Do we seek the gifts as a prize for our own fulfillment or as instruments to know the true prize , Jesus Christ, better? Following this exhortation, Riley gave space and time to reflect on and dwell with the Holy Spirit and what He...

The Calling of Unity - Jordan Baker July 14, 2024 Forest City Church First time watching? We’d love to hear from you! Connect with us: https://www.forestcitychurch.ca/connect To invest in the ministry of Forest City Church, visit: https://www.forestcitychurch.ca/give To join a small group: https://www.forestcitychurch.ca/small ... To connect with us on social media, visit: / forestcitychurch.ca

Rooted & Established - Amy Baker July 7, 2024 Forest City Church Jumping back into our Ephesians series, Amy unpacked Paul's enthusiastic sentiments to the Ephesians urging them both to make sure they don't miss the enormity of love God lavishes on them - but also - his urging for best practices of cultivating and acting upon this potent, endless source of strength and hope. First time watchin...

A Mystery Revealed - Jordan Baker June 23, 2024 Forest City Church This week, Jordan spoke on the mystery of faith. In a culture where often the way we live is determined by what we can empirically prove or chart, what does it look like to lean into the unknown things of God? The sense of yearning that every heart seems to lean towards in a world determined to only focus on the known? Jordan unpac...

Olinka, Catherine, Noah June 30, 2024 Forest City Church First time watching? We’d love to hear from you! Connect with us: https://www.forestcitychurch.ca/connect To invest in the ministry of Forest City Church, visit: https://www.forestcitychurch.ca/give To join a small group: https://www.forestcitychurch.ca/small ... To connect with us on social media, visit: https://www.instagram.com/forestcity...

A New Family - Jordan Baker June 16, 2024 Forest City Church This week Jordan tackled the reality of social division - not just in our modern context, but how the equalizing power of the Gospel message Paul was speaking about was just as if not more scandalous in his day than it is today. Even when society would try to build up differences and conflict - the Gospel transcends all differences and p...

Made Alive by God's Grace - Joel Flores June 9, 2024 Forest City Church First time watching? We’d love to hear from you! Connect with us: https://www.forestcitychurch.ca/connect To invest in the ministry of Forest City Church, visit: https://www.forestcitychurch.ca/give To join a small group: https://www.forestcitychurch.ca/small ... To connect with us on social media, visit: https://www.instagram...

Prayer of Thanksgiving - Amy Baker June 2, 2024 Forest City Church First time watching? We’d love to hear from you! Connect with us: https://www.forestcitychurch.ca/connect To invest in the ministry of Forest City Church, visit: https://www.forestcitychurch.ca/give To join a small group: https://www.forestcitychurch.ca/small ... To connect with us on social media, visit: https://www.instagram.com/...

The Invitation - Jordan Baker May 26, 2024 Forest City Church As we continue into our new Ephesians series, Jordan examines Paul's stirring words explaining the powerful, symbiotic relationship with the Trinity, (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) that is available to us as believers as a result of God's desire and intention for us to be fully reunited and rightly related to Himself. First time watching...

Introduction to Ephesians - Riley Braun May 19, 2024 Forest City Church umping into our brand new Ephesians series, Riley unpacks the power of the invitation. How one invitation can have an impact far beyond the moment it's extended. As Riley jumps into the first verses of Ephesians, he helps paint a picture of the context in which these verses are written and how the book of Ephesians presents us...

Church Conversations - Riley, Bella and Chip May 12, 2024 Forest City Church As we finish off our Why Church series - we heard from many time and time again about their personal experience and how they related to different points and topics throughout the series. While each story is unique in and of itself - the common denominator is that anyone who's been in church a while - has a story! We wante...

Community - Amy Baker May 5, 2024 Forest City Church First time watching? We’d love to hear from you! Connect with us: https://www.forestcitychurch.ca/connect To invest in the ministry of Forest City Church, visit: https://www.forestcitychurch.ca/give To join a small group: https://www.forestcitychurch.ca/small ... To connect with us on social media, visit: / forestcitychurch.ca

Diversity - Jordan Baker April 28, 2024 Forest City Church As we continue with our Why Church series, this week Jordan looked at the unique and beautiful opportunity the church has to be a place of diversity in language, culture, story and perspectives. In a culture often segregated by echo chambers and isolation, we must lean into the discomfort that difference can create but with the knowledge t...

I Don't Need Church to be a Christian - Dave Funk April 21, 2024 Forest City Church If “going to church” doesn’t make you a Christian - what does? There are those that would say "I can do my faith on my own, I don't need an institution to tell me how to be a Christian". However, our guest speaker this week, Dave Funk makes the case for how much we miss out on if we choose to go at it alone; that u...

Hypocrisy & Judgement - Amy Baker April 14, 2024 Forest City Church First time watching? We’d love to hear from you! Connect with us: https://www.forestcitychurch.ca/connect To invest in the ministry of Forest City Church, visit: https://www.forestcitychurch.ca/give To join a small group: https://www.forestcitychurch.ca/small ... To connect with us on social media, visit: / forestcitychurch.ca

The Church Has Caused so much Injustice - Jordan Baker April 7, 2024 Forest City Church First time watching? We’d love to hear from you! Connect with us: https://www.forestcitychurch.ca/connect To invest in the ministry of Forest City Church, visit: https://www.forestcitychurch.ca/give To join a small group: https://www.forestcitychurch.ca/small ... To connect with us on social media, visit: https...

Jesus Walking Alongside You - Jordan Baker March 31, 2024 Forest City Church Easter Sunday in the church is a joyous day of celebration of the day that Jesus conquered death. However, Jesus’ death and our ultimate salvation - are not a one and done experience in our lives - (See our Good Friday message for more details!) meaning - Jesus is now in relationship with us, working things out in us ever...

The Way of the Cross - Jaden Neufeld March 24, 2024 Forest City Church This Palm Sunday we were grateful to have Jaden Neufeld with us, sharing a compelling teaching examining what it looks like to “die to self”. What does it look like to have to say “no” to some things in order to say “yes” to things of greater, more life giving purpose and fulfilment? The struggle is real, but so is the payoff....

Wrapping up our series in Jonah, Jordan delivered a message on the fourth and final chapter of this short book. The significance of the conclusion of Jonah is often overlooked. However, the message of this last chapter puts the hypocritical, hard-heartedness of Jonah on display as we see his acceptance of God’s mercy for himself but his lack of grace for the Ninevites. This serves as a powerful im...

The God of Second Chances - Amy Baker March 10, 2024 Forest City Church As we begin to wind down our Jonah series - this past Sunday we examined one of, if not the major theme of Jonah - repentance. Often a word with a lot of preconceived negative ideas - what we can learn from Jonah about repentance, both for ourselves and others? The answers may be both full of more hope and love than we realize...

Mercy at the Bottom - Jordan Baker March 3, 2024 Forest City Church The crux of the story of Jonah is often overshadowed by the infamous detail of Jonah being swallowed by a large fish. However, if we take a deeper look into the softening of Jonah’s heart once he finds himself in this dark lonely place, we are better able to witness two things - 1) God's love & compassion & 2) Our acceptan...

Embracing "The Other" - Jordan Baker Forest City Church February 25, 2024 This week as we continued our study of the book of Jonah, Jordan unpacked the very common mentality we all wrestle with from time to time - "othering". The idea of us removing the God-given preciousness of others, viewing them through a lense of judgement, fear and stigma. Jordan challenged us with what it looks like to embr...

God's Agenda or Ours? - Jordan Baker Forest City Church February 18, 2024 Kicking off our brand new series exploring the book of Jonah, Jordan examines the motivations and plans we may or may not even realize we hold onto so tightly even when following God. At the end of the day, what does it look like to follow a God whose direction for our lives may look different than our own preferences or pla...

Prayer: Q & R Sunday - Jordan & Amy Baker Forest City Church February 11, 2024 To wrap up our series The Practice of Prayer we are finishing off the series responding and wrestling with your questions that have arisen and been submitted throughout the series. Due to the volume of questions and the time limit - please refer to our Suffering Series Q&R in regards to prayer & sufferin...