Forward City Church Messages
Forward City Church in Chatham, Ontario exists to help people move forward towards a full life in Christ. Our hope is that these messages would encourage you to draw near to Christ, and help plant the gospel in our city of Chatham and everywhere else.
Episodes
178 episodes
Heart of the House: Margin... Making Room for God to Work
This week was packed with collective sharing of God's work. Malachi shared Psalm 33, while we also reflected on Revelation 5 and how Jesus in worthy of our devotion and praise. Colleen then shared the testimony of how she grew closer to Jesus i...
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The Heart of the House: Intentional Growth
This week, Marc updated the congregation on the progress of finding a new space. Currently, the eldership is looking for a space by June. There are also a number of events going on, so we encourage you to pay close attention and take note...
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The Heart of the House: Community
This week, Spencer shares with us about the role of community in Forward as a value that helps move us forward to a full life in Christ. Spencer highlighted that we need each, we belong to one another, and that our communal love for one another...
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Being A Sweet Aroma
This week Marc discusses Mark 5 and the impacts of God's redemptive power over the man possessed by Legion. The man's life was radically altered and when he shared with his community how God had transformed his life, his home community were all...
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Knowing God's Direction: Getting Practical
This week, Marc capped off our series on prayer by discussing the various ways we discern and confirm God's specific direction in our lives. Marc emphasized that above all, our character needs to be in line with God's will. When our character a...
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When God Says No
We had a robust service together. We had friends share on prayer and Life Groups, while also participating in communion together. Spencer spoke a number of passages as he led us in a discussion about God answering our prayers with "No."S...
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Knowing God's Direction Part One
This week Marc continued our series focusing on prayer. Marc discussed how there are different aspects of God's will and how his will works out practically in our lives. Many of us think of God's will as specific direction in the big decisions ...
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How To Wait Well
This week, Marc discusses the normal angst that we feel as we wait on God for good things, but it seems to us that God is slow in answering or quiet. We turn to Psalm 13 where David pours his anxious and desperate heart to God as he endures inc...
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What Role Do Our Prayers Play In God's Plan
This week, Spencer leads us in communion, calling us to reflect on our standing with God and be aware of the weight of his goodness that we are remembering when eat and drink this meal together.In the message, Marc unpacks the difficult ...
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56:14
Prayer as Priority
Marc opens the new year with a new series on prayer. Marc walks us through both Luke 11 and Matthew 6 discussing the different ways the disciples approach Jesus and how Jesus responds to their requests to be taught how to pray.Marc expl...
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50:35
The Way of Humility
This week, Spencer walked us through the Christ Poem of Philippians 2:5-11, helping us to see this beautiful theology about Jesus’ coming as not just theology about Jesus, but as a call that Paul gives to the Philippians and us to be made into ...
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Light of the World
This week, Marc shares from Isaiah 9:2, “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned.” Marc leads us in asking who we consider Jesus to be in our lives. We also ask the...
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Christ in Revelation
This week, Marc led us in communion, remembering and acknowledging the purpose for Christ's coming as we enter into this Christmas season.Marc also began a new series in Revelation, discussing how God showed up to John in power in his da...
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Staying On Mission
Marc provided an update on Forward’s plans for a new location and introduced the Opportunity Fund and a season of prayer. We were encouraged to see this opportunity as a call to be God’s people more than a call to a building or location....
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God's Vision Requires Our Participation
This week, Marc continued our study in Nehemiah. We focused on chapter 3 and the listing off of every member of the Jerusalem community who were building various sections f the wall. Marc notes that each person builds the part of the wall in fr...
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Pray First
This week, Marc began a new series on Nehemiah. Chapter 1 of Nehemiah begins with Nehemiah, a Jewish exile who is an official in Babylon, receiving news of the Jerusalem community. Jerusalem's walls were destroyed and much of the city was in ru...
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Handing Off Well
This week, Marc leads us into thinking about the transition from a faith that is ours to a faith being laid down for the next generation to pick up. Marc emphasizes that God's grace is most active and enabled through our obedience. ...
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Freeing Ourselves To Run Well
This week, we celebrated communion together, intentionally coming to the Lord together to reaffirm our commitments and remind ourselves of to come back to Jesus. Marc discussed the story of Samson and the need to cast off burdens i...
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Joy in the Journey
This week, Marc walks us through what it means to focus on Jesus, who has begun and will finish our faith. Like Jesus, we are to look beyond the trials of the present world into the everlasting joy in Christ. Marc reminds us that we...
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45:50
God is Bigger, God is Better
This week, Marc leads us through Hebrews 11 and 12 to speak to the challenges we face in life as believers in a God who is not of this world. Marc emphasizes that God is bigger and better than every miracle he gives and every trial we experienc...
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The Yoke of God's Peace and Rest
This week Marc led us in communion and then shared from Matthew 11:28–30 about how Jesus calls us to himself to lay down our burdens while finding rest and peace in learning his burdens and his ways. Marc discussed how Jesus’ yoke is easy, how ...
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Courage in the Midst of Persecution
This week, Marc walked us through the challenge of living without fear. Marc reminds us that fear is not from God and that we cannot allow fear to control our lives and shape our interactions with the world.In a world that is becoming in...
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53:40
Our Good Father Disciplines Us
This week Marc teaches from Hebrews 12 about our Good Father who disciplines us. Marc clarifies that this discipline is not about spiritual practices, punishment, or consequences. Rather, the discipline is a spiritual condition that comes to fo...
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