Fort City Church

Sometimes to know where you’re going, you need to know where you’ve been. Deep roots make for a healthy tree. A firm foundation makes for a sturdy structure. If there is a time for firm foundations, it is now.

Advent #3: Jesus lived a scandalous life. Scandalous because he elevated and gave value to people that society was content just to throw away. He gave women a voice. He treated children with dignity. He expressed racial equality. If Jesus had a people, it was the down and out, the abused and forgotten, and the marginalized.

Advent #2: We are looking at a series of events leading up to the birth of Jesus, and how all along the way, it was a series of holy interruptions. Of God breaking into the lives of normal people and giving them a choice to maintain the status quo or interrupt it for something greater.

Advent Hope: The beauty of advent is that we don’t just look back at Jesus's birth and remember the night hope was born. We don’t just cling to history. In advent hope, we look forward to a day when Jesus himself makes all things new again.

Reset Your Mind #7: Our culture and major religions of the world encourage a performance-based system. What you do, and how you act, determine whether you are good. Earn this, earn that. What did Jesus teach? What do we need to do to be right with God? Is it our good deeds? Acts of service? Spoiler: it's neither of those.

Reset Your Mind #6: Are your old ways of thinking still finding their way into your life? Are you looking for peace and stability in Jesus-less substitutes? You want to follow the Jesus way but still find yourself looking for spirituality in places other than Him. Jesus wants to reset the way you think.

Reset Your Mind #4: Jesus never said, “Come to me, all of you who have it all together and figured out." He said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens.” Are you feeling burdened? weary? discouraged? Bring it to Jesus.

Guest Doug Balzer speaks on the matter of overcoming shame in the believer’s life. Shame is a huge barrier to spiritual and relational growth. Shame and guilt are related but are different. Many believers experience freedom from guilt but shame still lingers. Why is that?

Reset Your Mind #2: What if genuinely knowing ourselves begins by looking at God and noticing how God is looking at us? Let's talk about it.

Bill Finnemore's boots have been on the ground in Ukraine and is our main contact helping us assist refugees. Listen as he joins us to talk about what to do when our friends come under fire.

Why We Do What We Do

We find ways to keep Jesus at arm’s length. We find ways to keep Jesus in the church building. Even though Jesus wants to walk beside us.

Disruptive honesty can make everyone feel a little uncomfortable. Maybe that's what we need sometimes. Let’s talk about how you can count on Jesus to tell you the truth in the best way possible.

It's true. God has a sense of humour. He even invented the smile. So, why do so many people think of him as angry, upset, or worse—indifferent?

Sure, he's holy, but what if he's also playful? cunning? fierce? generous? disruptive? Maybe it's time to shatter our stained-glass version of Jesus. Let's talk about it in our new message series, Beautiful Outlaw.

Jesus exchanges our lack for his abundance... our not good enough for his better than... our fear for his love.

Feeling like you're in a spiritual desert? Only Jesus can show us the way out. Only Jesus is able satisfy the deepest desire of our soul. And good news, He has more for you.

It's been said a penny ain't worth a dime anymore. Gain HELP and HOPE as you learn practical and Biblical ways to win with your money, with guest speaker Joe Sangl.

Each person is a beautiful and often messy entanglement of body, mind, and spirit. When one suffers the others do too. How knowing your identity can bring healing.

Prayer: Move Heaven & Change Earth #3 - The closest galaxy to ours is Andromeda. If you traveled at the speed of light it would take you 2.5 million years to get there. It can feel like God is 2.5 million light-years away, too. Let's talk about God, us, and the space between.

Welcome, Sarah Hunter. She works at the Western District of The Alliance Canada. She is the Discipling Environments Catalyst there, and has a particular passion for helping churches grow in the area making disciples of Jesus.

Join us as we hear from Miriam Charter, a mission practitioner, retired professor, speaker, and mobilizer based in Calgary. For ten years, she served faithfully as an international worker in communist Europe with the underground church.

What would our lives look like if we chose to take on each moment with Jesus at the center? Not just the teachings of Jesus. Not just the idea of Jesus. Not some existential sense of Jesus. But the person, Jesus.

Christmas at Fort City #5: In John's Gospel, he refers to himself "as the one that Jesus loved." Seems a bit arrogant at first glance. But maybe John's trust teaches us how a realization of Jesus's love can change our whole identity.

This Is What We Do #2: When Jesus showed up on the scene the 10 Commandments had ballooned to over 600 written and verbal laws. When he was done? Only one seemed to matter. Why our faith must become less about what we don't do and more about what we do.