Forest City Church Burnaby

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...

Prayer as Relationship - Desiree Sarris Forest City Church February 4, 2024 This week, we had Pastor Des from Broadway Church speak on the topic of Prayer As Relationship. What do we do when it seems like so many around us have this tight knit relationship with God? Can we have that too? How do we cultivate a truly close relationship with God? First time watching? We’d love to hear from you! Conne...

Prayer as Intercession - Jordan baker Forest City Church January 28, 2024 As a faith community that feels a strong desire to support and lift up the world around us in prayer, it’s imperative that we examine Prayer as Intercession. What does it look like to to be bringing prayer requests to God on behalf of the needs of others? How and why should we? Let’s get into it! First time watching? We’d lo...

Prayer as Petition - Amy Baker Forest City Church January 21, 2024 As we continue on in our prayer series, this Sunday we looked at how we approach and ask God for the things we need in our life. Why do we even need to ask God? Shouldn’t He already know what we need? Why does He make us ask and then doesn’t answer them? What do we do then? We unpack all this and more! First time watching? We’d lov...