Forest City Church Burnaby

How To Have Good Conflict - Steph Plumb October 27, 2024 Forest City Church We were privileged to have Pastor Steph Plumb from Coastline Church speak into our Hard Conversations series, addressing the topic of conflict. What is it, where does it come from and as Christians, what does it look like to work through conflict well? First time watching? We’d love to hear from you! Connect with us: https...

Learning How To Disagree - Jordan Baker October 20, 2024 Forest City Church Jordan continued our Hard Conversations series discussing the topic of disagreement. Is there space in a Christ following context for healthy disagreement? How do we disagree but still genuinely honour and love one another well? Together, we examined the topic of how Christians can be unified and loving, but hold different...

Listening - Amy Baker October 13, 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

Jordan kicked off the first week of our new series "Hard Conversations" discussing the importance of deeper conversation and the power of words. We took some time to examine why meaningful discussion often seem to be lacking in this current reality but why we must be intentional about having them. First time watching? We’d love to hear from you! Connect with us: https://www.forestcitychurch.ca/con...

A People: Who Pursue Growth - Jordan Baker September 29, 2024 Forest City Church As Jordan wraps up our "A People" series, he encouraged and reminded us that the journey of faith is never one that crosses a "finish line", or that we "arrive" or "complete". But a life walking intentionally with God means we are continuing to transform, grow and change. The bonus is, as we participate in church comm...

A People: Who Are Generous - Jordan Baker September 22, 2024 Forest City Church In our third week of the "A People:" series, Jordan examined what it looks like to be a community that embodies a posture of generosity in every aspect of our lives and how it should differentiate church community from the cultural values around us - both us, both presently and in biblical times. First time watching? W...

A People: Who Pray - Amy Baker September 15th, 2024 Forest City Church As we continue into the second week of our series - A People:, Amy looked at prayer as a value of Forest City Church. How a dependency and intentional prayer life is the avenue by which we are transformed more into the image of Christ. And as such, when we lean into prayer as a pillar in our lives, all our relationships and com...

A People: Who Are Honest - Jordan Baker September 8 2024 Forest City Church As we begin a new season, we have launched into our fall series "A People" looking at practices and postures that we seek to embody and model at Forest City. Jordan kicked off our first week starting with "A people who are honest". Unpacking the value of honesty, how it affects every relationship (even with ourselves) and...

Armour of God - Doug Fredrick September 1 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

Slavery and the Bible - Jordan Baker August 25, 2024 Forest City Church While the last few weeks have given us no shortage of tricky material to drive into, Jordan unpacks Paul's message to slaves and how they are to live in obedience to their masters. Leaving us both the question of - if God is all for justice - how could Paul condone this? And, what does this mean for us? The application from to...

Family and its Complexities - Jordan Baker August 18, 2024 Forest City Church As we continue to look at the "Household Values" as Paul lays out in his letter to the Ephesians - Jordan took a look at the context and responsibilities of children, parents & the church community. What does it look like to live in Christ-centered parent-child relationships? How as a church community can we support...

Wives Submit to your Husbands? - Amy Baker August 11, 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: / forestcitychu...

Imitate God by Walking in Love - Joel Flores August 4, 2024 Forest City Church As we continue on in our exploration through the book of Ephesians, Joel looked at how we love others well - how do we do this with authenticity and integrity? Is it really love if we just we love because we are supposed to? Or what about if I don't feel like loving others? Joel breaks down three ways in which the Holy...

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...