Forest Lake Church Sermon Podcast

If you have anxiety in life, don't feel like you're alone. We all have anxieties in our lives, but when we look to the words of Jesus we have the hope factor that the morning is coming and the night is almost over.

Sin is a hopeless, miserable place because everyone living in sin remains at war with their Creator, and at odds with their Savior. But it doesn’t have to be hopeless like this—God wants peace with you, even though He and you know you are a sinner. There is, for you and for me, more than just wishful thinking; in Jesus, we have hope!

Believing leads to knowing. There are times when in order to know, you must believe.

Creation science will never prove the Creator, for the Creator is greater than anything our senses can determine. At the same time, secular science, the approach demanded by the plausibility structure of our time, will never disprove God as Creator, even if its findings seek to claim to have done so. So put the arguments to rest. It is by faith you believe and understand. The call of God to us today is to believe: 1) Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God 2) In the beginning, God created This is faith. And when all else has passed away, this faith remains.

Anyone can tell you that Jesus is the Son of God, but no one can make you believe it. Only God can convict you that Jesus is His Son, and when the conviction comes to your heart you must believe by faith that it is true.

The more you grow up as a believer, the more you will realize it really is all about faith, hope, and love. And even if you get everything else right, if you get these three wrong, you’ve got nothing.

If faith, hope, love are what remains, shouldn’t we spend the most of our time and energy focusing on and perfecting faith, hope, and love in our lives? Yet how often do we spend our energy in the church and in our private lives on anything but faith, hope, and love? Scripture is clear that God gives spiritual gifts to everyone, but no one gets them all. Yet every one of us can have faith, hope, and love.

The call of the world can be strong, and the entertainments are so fun, at least for a season. But in the end, what do these idols give us? If you believe in God, don’t you think it’s time to go All In?

Sometimes, even if we think we have our life all planned out, God may call us to follow a different road. And if we have the courage to listen, we will be blessed beyond what we could have imagined doing it our own way.

No matter what our circumstances are, our lives still speak. The Bible teaches us that everybody matters, so even if someone doesn't have the appearance of success, if they are a widow, is to young, is to old, or handicapped, or divorced, or just seem to be someone that society has thrown away...their lives--our lives--still have a story to tell.

When our lives overflow with the love that Jesus has for us, we can't help but to share that love with others.

We all have a story. Some parts good, some parts difficult, but we should not be afraid to share it with others because Jesus may use our story to enrich the lives of others.

A father's love is a love without end, and that is exactly how much God loves us.

God is building a bridge between you and Him, and the cross is the foundation pillar of the bridge. And one day Jesus will come to take us back home to spend eternity with Him.

Often times we don't hear God because we've either filled our lives with so much noise we can't, or we're afraid to hear what He has to say. But if we're still and open to His voice, we'll find He's right there with us.

We may not always know what the voice of God sounds like, but if we turn our hearts to Him we can be sure to hear Him when He speaks to us.

Dr. Derek Morris celebrates the 10th anniversary of Hope Sabbath School and the blessing it and other programming has had worldwide through the ministry of the Hope Channel.

From even the smallest seeds can come great things. We should always be ready to listen to God when He wants us to do something, no matter how insignificant it might seem or how far out of our comfort zone it might send us.

We can't explain all the contradictions of this life, all the intricacies, and all of the problematic issues that we face. But one thing we know, one day all that is wrong will be made right through the name of Jesus.

Have you ever found yourself not giving as much grace to the poor as you do to others around you? We pass judgment and make assumptions about the poor, yet Jesus says our voice towards the poor must be one of grace, of favor, of not judging them, and not trying to "fix" them. Jesus shows us undeserved and unmerited favor, and if we follow Him we are to treat people with that same grace and favor.