Sermons

Escape From Prison

Sermon from Matt Adams of Immanuel Church Millisle.
 
MAIN TEXT
Acts 12:1-19
 
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.

Advancing the Gospel
Advancing the Gospel
Escape From Prison
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We Plant and Strengthen Churches

In the newly-formed church in Antioch, we see a gifted team being assembled by the Holy Spirit that plants and strengthens the church.
 
Unnamed evangelists bring the good news to Antioch; Barnabas brings apostolic exhortation and encouragement; Saul…

Advancing the Gospel
Advancing the Gospel
We Plant and Strengthen Churches
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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…

Advancing the Gospel
Advancing the Gospel
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…

Advancing the Gospel
Advancing the Gospel
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…

Advancing the Gospel
Advancing the Gospel
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…

Advancing the Gospel
Advancing the Gospel
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….

Advancing the Gospel
Advancing the Gospel
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…

Sermons at Foundation
Sermons at Foundation
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.

Advancing the Gospel
Advancing the Gospel
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…

Advancing the Gospel
Advancing the Gospel
Another Threat to the Church - Too Many Plates Spinning
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