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 the kingdom swung wide open so that outsiders can […]

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...

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 amazing about-turn, there is a faithful, Spirit-empowered disciple called Ananias who […]

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...

3 Life-Changing Headlines from the Resurrection – An Easter Sunday sermon. MAIN TEXT Mark 16:1-8   SPEAKER David Varney, Pastor Foundation Church Belfast   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.

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   FOUNDATION CHURCH BELFAST Every Sunday 10:30am – 2d Knockwood Crescent, Belfast, BT5 6GE We are […]

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...

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...

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 from Jerusalem arrive.   If this were not strange enough, interlaced with this […]

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. They went to extreme lengths to […]