Foundation Church Belfast

History, Theology and Need – Three Perspectives on Easter

Easter Sunday 2018 – sermon by David Varney.
This sermon sets out to show that we must understand that Easter, before it is anything, is a historic event. The whole of the Christian faith rises and falls on the fact of the empty tomb. Easter is more than history – it is history rich with meaning – theology.
After considering the history and theology behind the Easter event, we are provoked to think through the need for Easter: why did it all happen, and how should we position our lives as a response?
Main text: Mark 16:1-8

Three Ways God’s Word Influences Transforming Community

Sermon by David Varney
Main text: 1 Thessalonians 2:13-16

Two Attributes That Build Transforming Community

St. Paul points us to two attributes that are essential and powerful in the building of Transforming Community – authenticity and missionality. Both are required to function together so that true, transforming community can not only be created but grow and thrive.
David Varney preaches the second message in our series Transforming Community.
Main Text: 1 Thessalonians 2:1-12.

The Four Foundational Principles of Transforming Community

Message by David Varney in our new series Transforming Community.
Transforming Community – a community that transforms, and a concept that transforms our idea of community. Both of these constructions are addressed by St. Paul’s first letter to the church in Thessalonica.
The church in Thessalonica was a young church, born out of Paul’s gospel mission a few years earlier in the midst of much opposition from the city. Unlike most other local churches that Paul wrote to, the church in Thessalonica apparently had no major internal problems – no doctrinal errors or moral wandering.
So what we have in this letter to the Thessalonians can be understood as what Paul considered essential teaching for a young, new and excited church.
First, he lays out the Four Foundational Principles of a Transforming Community:
Originates in God
Birthed by Word and Spirit
Resilient in Adversity
Attractive to Outsiders

The Unsettling Extent of God’s Mercy

The final message in our series through the book of Jonah, Running from Mercy.
Sermon by Noah Bartlett

The Power of a Life of Repentance

Why We Can Call Out to God From the Darkness

The second sermon in the series Running From Mercy.

CAP Life Skills Launch Sunday

Emma Jackson from Christians Against Poverty shares with us about CAP Life Skills.