Fort City Church
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The weekend messages from our church.
Episodes
- This Is My Part
The episode discusses how God builds His kingdom through ordinary people who serve with humility and faithfulness. It emphasizes that everyone has a unique role in strengthening their community, church, workplace, and relationships, and th…
- Before You Build
This episode discusses how true healing involves confronting and confessing wounds and shame, using Nehemiah's rebuilding of Jerusalem's walls as a metaphor for self-examination, God's grace, and finding renewed purpose.
- The Good Work
This episode discusses the call to serve others, moving from intention to courageous action. It uses the story of Nehemiah to illustrate how individual and community faith can lead to meeting needs and bringing hope.
- Nehemiah
The episode discusses Nehemiah's response to devastation, highlighting how acknowledging personal or external 'ruins' and seeking God with faith and repentance leads to vision, strength, and purposeful rebuilding centered on His presence.
- Breakfast with Jesus
This episode examines the resurrection of Jesus as a source of personal restoration, focusing on the story of Peter. It discusses how Jesus meets individuals in moments of failure to offer healing, new identity, and renewed purpose.
- Easter Sunday
The Easter Sunday episode discusses the natural doubts about Jesus' resurrection, noting that even his followers struggled with belief. It highlights Jesus meeting people in their questions with peace, not condemnation, and presents the re…
- Palm Sunday
The Palm Sunday episode discusses how crowds welcomed Jesus as a king, missing His sacrificial mission. It contrasts faith shaped by personal desires with true worship demonstrated through humble, costly devotion and trust, even when Jesus…
- A Gospel Family
This episode discusses Christian faith as a shared journey within a spiritual family, highlighting the importance of active participation, mutual commitment, and service by ordinary members in building the church community.
- Culture of Honour
The episode discusses how believers should live all parts of their lives as worship and representation of Jesus. It reframes passages on submission and authority as calls for Christlike humility, sacrificial love, integrity, and mutual res…
- Adopted
This episode discusses the Christian belief that true identity is received in Jesus, not created internally. It explains how this new identity, rooted in belonging to God's family, leads to a transformed life reflecting Christ's character.
- Traps of Religion
This episode discusses how true spiritual transformation is achieved through a deep connection with Jesus, rather than through judgment, spiritual elitism, or rigid adherence to religious rules. It emphasizes focusing on Christ for inner c…
- Christ In You
This episode discusses the Christian belief that Christ resides within believers, personally and collectively, as their "hope of glory." It explains how this presence enables confidence, spiritual growth through teachability and Scripture,…
- Jesus +
This episode discusses the concept of grace, emphasizing that Jesus is sufficient and not merely a starting point for religious efforts or self-salvation projects. Baptism is presented as a public declaration of surrender and new life in C…
- Courage. Community. Confidence.
This episode discusses how courage is restored, community is formed through service and love, and confidence is rooted in Christ to build resilience against life's challenges.
- Reconciled To Christ
This episode discusses relational estrangement from God, referencing Colossians 1:21-23. It explains how Jesus’ death reconciles people to God, providing a sense of belonging and dispelling shame or self-salvation.
- The Supremacy of Christ
This episode discusses the supremacy of Christ as presented by Paul, contrasting it with competing worldly voices. It highlights Jesus as the Creator, Sustainer, and Head of the Church, serving as the essential support for a vibrant faith,…
- Colossians
This episode discusses spiritual maturity, emphasizing a focused relationship with Jesus over rules or plans. It suggests that this focus leads to a life pleasing to God, characterized by endurance, resilience, and gratitude, even in diffi…
- Power
This episode explores the concept of spiritual nourishment, emphasizing that humans need more than physical sustenance. It suggests that feeding on God's Word leads to encountering Jesus and understanding life, suffering, and hope through…
- Word
This episode discusses scripture as a trustworthy guide, explaining its nature as God’s revelation, its diversity, and its unified message. It covers how to approach the Bible with confidence, recognizing its enduring power to offer truth…
- Christmas Eve
This Christmas Eve episode explores themes of light, hope, and transformation. It connects personal stories of birth, seasons of waiting, and collective trauma to the message that God enters darkness, offering light and hope.
- Advent Peace
This message defines peace as the deep wholeness God provides through Jesus, drawing from Isaiah. It addresses life's chaos and darkness, presenting God's peace as a source of purpose, leadership, inner guidance, and His constant presence.
- What Does Love Require of Me?
This episode discusses God's transformative love, which enters the world in disruptive ways, uplifts marginalized individuals, and overturns social norms. It emphasizes that this love is expressed through concrete actions such as forgivene…
- Does God Keep His Promises?
This episode examines belief in God's promises, drawing parallels with Mary's experiences from the annunciation to the empty tomb. It highlights themes of hope, peace, joy, and enduring love as reasons to trust God's word, even when faith…
- Advent Hope
This message from Fort City Church discusses the human ache of brokenness, tracing it to a damaged relationship with God and creation. It explores the hope found in Jesus, who offers healing and restoration, reminding listeners that despit…
- Built for Everyone
This message discusses how the kingdom of God dismantles societal barriers, encouraging unconditional love and expanding the definition of "neighbor" through a personal anecdote and the parable of the Good Samaritan. It calls for practical…
- Built to Multiply
This episode uses the parable of the sower and the four soils to illustrate how our hearts receive God's promises. It discusses tending to spiritual soil by addressing sin, worries, and distractions, and how grief can deepen faith, enablin…
- Built for a Purpose
This message discusses how faith in action leads to life changes, referencing friends who tore open a roof to bring someone to Jesus. It emphasizes that faith is communal and encourages praying, giving, serving, and building God's kingdom.
- Built for the Cross
The episode discusses the Kingdom of God being founded on the cross, which symbolizes humility and self-giving love, not worldly power. It highlights the cross as God's victory, revealing a love that overcomes barriers and invites people i…
- Built for the Nations
This message from Fort City Church, rooted in Matthew 9, calls listeners to view themselves as a global family in Christ. It discusses Christianity's growth in Africa and Asia, the Alliance's work with unreached peoples, and encourages pra…
- Built for Life
This episode discusses Jesus's claim to be the resurrection and the life, interpreting it as a present-day declaration of power that brings healing and hope, transforming the world.
- Built from Above
This episode discusses Jesus invitation to join his unconventional Kingdom by being "born from above" and viewing challenges through lenses of hope, provision, and power. It encourages trusting God's abundance and acting as agents of renew…
- Built to Heal
This episode examines Jesus's healing ministry, highlighting that His miracles were central to His mission and revealed the nature of His Kingdom. It asserts that His power and compassion remain active today.
- Built to Bless
This episode examines the Beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount, highlighting Jesus' message that God's Kingdom is based on belonging and receiving gifts, not on merit. The teachings suggest that blessings are available in the present, t…
- Built on Service
The episode "Built on Service" from Fort City Church explains that greatness in God's Kingdom is characterized by service, contrasting it with worldly power. It emphasizes that Jesus taught leaders should be servants and highlights how eve…
- Built on Prayer
This episode discusses prayer as a foundational element of God's Kingdom, emphasizing its power to change circumstances, transform hearts, and advance God's will on earth, as exemplified by Jesus' teachings.
- Built on Good News
This episode, based on Mark 1:1-15, discusses Jesus' baptism with the Holy Spirit and the nature of His Kingdom. It explains how allegiance to Jesus involves changing one's mind and pursuing holiness, leading to personal and communal trans…
- Between Old and New
This episode traces the biblical story from Abraham to the rebuilding under Ezra and Nehemiah, addressing themes of longing and falling short. It presents Jesus as the greater Temple and King who meets people in their struggles and transfo…
- Between Conformity and Conviction
This message focuses on Daniel’s story of courage and conviction in Babylon, where he chose not to conform to the king’s demands. It explores living faithfully in a self-focused culture and trusting God’s presence through acts of surrender…
- Between Burnout and Breakthrough
Even in seasons of exhaustion, burnout, and uncertainty, God meets us with fresh strength and quiet presence. Elijah’s story shows us that when we bring our struggles to God, pursue His presence with intention, and partner with Him in obed…
- Between Chaos and Order
Life often feels like a space between chaos and order, yet Genesis reveals a God who brings purposeful design out of formlessness. Creation wasn’t a battle between rival gods, but the work of one sovereign Creator who made humanity in His…
- Beetween the Desert and the Promised Land
Life is full of moments where we feel lost, off track, or stuck in the “space between” where God’s promises feel distant. Just as the Israelites wandered and doubted on their way to the Promised Land, we too can miss God’s signs of faithfu…
- Between Grief and Grace
Ruth’s story reveals how God works through the unexpected, weaving redemption from places of loss and uncertainty. As a Moabite widow, Ruth faced a bleak future, yet she courageously chose loyalty to Naomi and faith in the God of Israel. H…
- Between Insecurity and Identity
In a world full of noise, doubt, and imposter syndrome, it's easy to lose sight of who we truly are. This message invites listeners on a journey of rediscovering their God-given identity through the lens of Moses’ story—a man who felt unwo…
- Between Dream and Destiny
God often does His deepest and most transformative work in the uncertain and difficult "in-between" spaces of life—the moments between dreams and destiny, promises and fulfillment. Through the story of Joseph, we're reminded that experienc…
- Between the Wrestling and the Blessing
We all grow through life’s steady rhythm—but sometimes, it’s the unexpected crisis moments that shape us most. This episode explores what happens when we stop running, face our past, and wrestle with God in the dark. It's a story of strivi…
- Between the Promise and Provision
Life moves fast, often swept up in the everyday grind—work, errands, dishes, routines that blur together. But every so often, a moment breaks through the monotony. A moment that shifts your trajectory. Some of those moments are marked by j…
- Come Holy Spirit
God’s presence often goes unnoticed—not because He is absent, but because we’re not always aware. Throughout Scripture, people encounter God without realizing it at first: a woman mistakes the risen Jesus for a gardener, disciples don’t re…
- Attention and Direction
In seasons of uncertainty, distraction, and change, it's easy to lose focus and drift off course. This message is a call to fix our attention on what matters most. Drawing from scripture and real-life moments, we’re reminded that our direc…
- What Are You Passing On?
God invites ordinary people into extraordinary journeys of faith, often asking them to surrender their deepest securities—family, land, comfort—for something far greater: a life aligned with His purposes. Drawing from the story of Abraham'…
- Turn Your Eyes
Perspective has the power to shape how we see everything—our struggles, our past, and even our future. Sometimes the truth is right in front of us, but we miss it because our focus is clouded by fear, doubt, or pain. Yet when we fix our ey…