Sermons

4 Vision-Shaping Values That Define Our Church

An officer of the Roman army converts to Christianity, signalling a paradigm shift in the advance of the gospel.
Why is it so significant? He and his family are the first Gentiles to be enveloped into the people of God called the church. The doors of…

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4 Vision-Shaping Values That Define Our Church
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Two Ways Jesus Advances the Church

How is it that someone so devoted to the destruction of Christianity can become one of it’s greatest heroes?
 
In the account of the conversion of the Apostle Paul (aka Saul) we see how such radical transformation is possible.
 
But beyond Paul’s ama…

Foundation Church Belfast
Foundation Church Belfast
Two Ways Jesus Advances the Church
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Kingdom Advance: Outsiders In & Insiders Out

The Kingdom of God advances by 
Outsiders Coming In
Insiders Going Out
Both are powerfully depicted by Philip’s interaction with the Ethiopian Eunuch in Acts 8.
 
MAIN TEXT
Acts 8:26-40
 
SPEAKER
David Varney, Pastor Foundation Church Belfast
 
FOUND…

Foundation Church Belfast
Foundation Church Belfast
Kingdom Advance: Outsiders In & Insiders Out
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Community on Mission: Radically Inclusive & Necessarily Exclusive

The gospel advances to all the ‘wrong’ places. Here we see the hated neighbours – the Samaritans – believing the message about Jesus in their hundreds.
 
Curiously, the Holy Spirit appears to be withheld from these new believers until the Apostles fr…

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Foundation Church Belfast
Community on Mission: Radically Inclusive & Necessarily Exclusive
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Spirit-Empowered People

One of the most gifted leaders of the early church was cut off in his prime. Stephen was a man full of the Holy Spirit and was highly effective in the church.
 
But he was the object of sustained opposition from people who hated the message of Jesus….

Foundation Church Belfast
Foundation Church Belfast
Spirit-Empowered People
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United with Christ – Baptism Sunday

Message from baptism Sunday showing how:
Baptism connects us with the past
Baptism orientates us with the future
Baptism gives hope for the present
 
MAIN TEXT
Romans 6:1-11
 
SPEAKER
David Varney, Pastor Foundation Church Belfast
 
FOUNDATION CHURCH…

Foundation Church Belfast
Foundation Church Belfast
United with Christ - Baptism Sunday
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Partnering in Prayer on Mission

Message from Phil Swinburn.
MAIN TEXT
Acts 4:23-31
 
FOUNDATION CHURCH BELFAST
Every Sunday 10:30am – 2d Knockwood Crescent, Belfast, BT5 6GE
We are part of the Advance Movement of churches and the wider Newfrontiers family.

Foundation Church Belfast
Foundation Church Belfast
Partnering in Prayer on Mission
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Another Threat to the Church – Too Many Plates Spinning

The early church had grown rapidly as the Word of God and the Spirit of God spread like fire.
 
Up to this point, the Apostles oversaw the distribution of funds to the poor in the church. But as the church grew, the Apostles found themselves spinning…

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Foundation Church Belfast
Another Threat to the Church - Too Many Plates Spinning
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Community Makers Community Breakers

We hear teaching from an astonishing section of the history of the early church.
 
A husband and wife chose to conspire against the church and ultimately against God and end up dead as a result. Their sin? Using religion to make themselves influentia…

Foundation Church Belfast
Foundation Church Belfast
Community Makers Community Breakers
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How the Word of God and the Spirit of God Build the People of God

The Word of God and the Spirit of God drive the advance of the gospel through the people of God.
 
If we are to see great gospel advance in our day we must share the same conviction of the Word of God – the message about Jesus – that the early church…

Foundation Church Belfast
Foundation Church Belfast
How the Word of God and the Spirit of God Build the People of God
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