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The Dangers Of Familiarity - Jordan Baker April 27, 2025 Forest City Church Have you ever lost something valuable? Jesus taps into that feeling to show us the heart of God in Luke 15. A chapter full of unforgettable stories about lost things being found. Jordan starts our new series by inviting us to see the Prodigal Son story with fresh eyes. Sometimes, being familiar with a story can cause us to...

The Power Of Doubt - Jordan Baker April 20, 2025 Forest City Church Pastor Jordan shared a powerful Easter message about doubt—not as something to hide, but as something to bring into the light. Through the story of Thomas, we’re reminded that doubt has a place in the life of faith and can even lead us closer to Jesus. If you’ve ever wrestled with faith or questions, this message is for you. First...

The True Vine - Laura Liira April 13, 2025 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 Way, The Truth & The Life - Jordan Baker April 6, 2025 Forest City Church In this sermon, Jordan explores Jesus' words from John 14:6, where He says, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." Jesus is not just showing the way to God, He is the only way. Jordan emphasizes that following Jesus leads us to true peace, security, and a relationship with God. He explains that Jesus’ statement is...

The Resurrection & The Life - Amy Baker March 30, 2025 Forest City Church In this sermon, Amy shared from our series, I AM: Jesus According to Jesus. We explored John 11 and Jesus' powerful statement: "I am the resurrection and the life." Through personal testimony and the story of Lazarus, we see how Jesus meets us in our grief, calls us to faith, and invites us into new life. His words remin...

The Good Shepherd - Jordan Baker March 23, 2025 Forest City Church Burnaby 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...

The Gate - Joel Flores March 16, 2025 Forest City Church In John 10:1-10, Jesus declares, ‘I am the gate,’ revealing Himself as the only way to salvation and true life. This sermon unpacks how Jesus leads, protects, and provides for His followers like a shepherd with his sheep. We also explore the contrast between Jesus and the thief who seeks to steal, kill, and destroy. How can we learn to recog...

The Light of the World - Sandra Yip March 9, 2025 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 Bread of Life - Jordan Baker March 2, 2025 Forest City Church Jordan kicked off our new series “I AM: Jesus According to Jesus’, examining the seven "I am" statements found in the book of John. Jordan took time to unpack and shade in Jesus' statement ‘I am the Bread of Life’ and together, we examined what does Jesus mean by this and what should our response be? First time watching? We’d love t...

How to Apply the Bible - Jordan Baker February 23, 2025 Forest City Church This week, Jordan ended our series on The Bible, unpacking and meditating on the reality that it's easy to hear lots of information - (especially on a topic as dense as the bible), but to actually put it into action requires an intentionality that Jesus spoke strongly about. What does it take for us to live in such a way th...

How Should We Read And Study The Bible? - Joel Flores February 16, 2025 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: /...

Why Should We Read The Bible? - Jordan Baker February 9, 2025 Forest City Church As we’ve spent the last number of weeks learning more about the bible, its origins, accuracy and and validity as a religious text - it’s now time to consider the question - why read the bible at all? Why as Christians does this seem to be widely understood but often not followed through on? Does reading the bible real...

Can We Trust the Bible? - Jordan Baker February 2, 2025 Forest City Church Week four of our series on the Bible, Jordan dedicated this time to explaining the historical process, critique and controversy that has gone into trusting the Bible as a trustworthy work. A literary collection that spans significant timelines - fulfilling prophetic events and congruent historical events . But also - how ca...

Jesus and the Bible - Amy Baker January 26, 2025 Forest City Church As we continue our series seeking to better understand the bible, Amy took time to unpack the crucial question of "How Does Jesus fit into the bible?" Looking at such questions as "How do we make sense of the Old Testament in light of the things Jesus says in the New Testament?" "How do we relate to all of this and what implicatio...

What is the Bible - Jordan Baker January 19, 2025 Forest City Church As we jump into week 2 of our series on the bible - today we tackled the basic question of: What exactly is the bible? but furthermore, how do we read it properly?. Jordan took this time to breakdown the construction of the bible as we know it but also, how understanding how it's comprised should help us determine our approach wh...

The Bible As A Story - Jordan Baker January 12, 2025 Forest City Church 37 views Jan 12, 2025 Buckle up! As we've become accustom to, we like to begin each new year with a series focusing on a key building block for a vibrant relationship with God. This year we are exploring The Bible. How does this ancient book fit into our lives now? Is it still relevant? How do we read it? What did Jesus think...

ACCEPTANCE / TRUST / OBEDIENCE December 29, 2024 Forest City Church 3 for 1 Sundays are some of our very favourite of the year! Tune in as three members from our community share "What God taught them in 2024". The diversity of their experiences but resounding reflection of the beauty of God working in their lives is sure to leave you inspired and encouraged! First time watching? We’d love to hear...

Love - Joes Flores December 22, 2024 Forest City Church As we wrapped up our Advent series, Joel spoke on Love. Examining what unconditional love love has to do with the Christmas story. And if this story shows the life-changing love of God - what must we do to possess this kind of love? First time watching? We’d love to hear from you! Connect with us: https://www.forestcitychurch.ca/connect To in...

Joy - Sandra Yip December 15, 2024 Forest City Church As we enter the third week of Advent, reflecting on joy - we had our very own Sandra Yip sharing about the privilege of partaking in the rhythms of joy in the ups and the downs of life through the beautiful demonstration and reassurance of the ebbs and flows in the dance of the Trinity. First time watching? We’d love to hear from you! Connect w...

Peace - Amy Baker December 8, 2024 Forest City Church In our second week of advent we examined PEACE. If last week we meditated on the idea of hope being rooted in the future, this week we examined peace being a gift for the present time. Where in the world do we find peace? Can we achieve it in our own effort? How does peace or a lack of peace affect our lives? Is it even realistic to think we ca...

Hope - Jordan Baker December 1, 2024 Forest City Church On the first Sunday of Advent, Jordan zeroed in on the subject of hope. Examining both the original context of Isaiah 9 and how it relates to our current realities as well as the views of both pessimism and optimism Christians often hold - Can we truly hold a healthy, resilient view of hope in our time? What do the events of Christmas really...

Andy Moore November 24, 2024 Forest City Church This past Sunday, Pastors Andy and Lisa Moore were with us from Coastline Church in Victoria. Pastor Andy examined the journey of Elijah from of 1 Kings 17. Even though the mighty prophet was obediently speaking with authority from God - he was not without hardship and suffering. Pastor Andy brought us so much encouragement as he illuminated three sp...

Next Gen Takeover Sunday - Riley Braun November 17, 2024 Forest City Church t's time for one of our favourite Sundays of the year! And as such, we couldn't just crop one part - but felt we needed to share this entire experience with our online community. We believe at Forest City we learn so much from one another - and that includes the youngest amongst us! This Sunday our kids joined the 'big peo...

To end our Hard Conversations series, Jordan sat down with Jodi Enns. Jodi specializes in conflict management and resolution. Jordan and Jodi sat down to talk through some of the practicalities behind the issue of conflict; how to approach conflict well, how to prepare for hard conversations and what should we do when conflict seems never ending. All this and more in this packed interview! For mor...

To take our Hard Conversations series from a different angle; Jordan took this week to discuss encouragement and unpack the reality that sometimes to be intentionally encouraging in a way that calls people to more and better than their currently reality can truly be - HARD! What does it take to provide someone with the encouragement that really could change the course or trajectory of their lives?...