Forest Lake Church Sermon Podcast

God has called you to love and to bless, even when your friends/family/neighbors/co-workers/church aren’t always loving or a blessing to you, or to each other. How you go about loving the people you love will make a huge difference in the experience of your life.

We often find ourselves in situations that may be dangerous, sometimes in physical danger, sometimes in relationship. But God is our ever present hope in trouble, and will help us find our way back to safety.

Jesus showed us what it means to live in the culture of His Kingdom, but it is our choice every day whether we want to align our lives with His or not.

As we encounter temptation, by the grace of God, we must stand up to it with all our might and know that He is with us.

Jesus calls us to do hard things like accepting that He is in control of everything, including the government and its officials. And if the earthly government collides with God, He asks us to have the courage to stand with Him still.

Don't let your circumstance steal your hope. You belong to God. Trust Him, and He will enable you to be a blessing, regardless of your circumstance.

Love must be the foundation the Church is built on. Nothing else is strong enough. Love is the identity of the people of God.

When we look around the church, we should truthfully say "These are the people I love." It’s about the person across the room, but perhaps even more right now it's about the person beside you. Do you need to do some relationship repair in your life Get it done, because that’s what love does.

Outside of your relationship with God, there should be nothing more important in this world than protecting your relationship with your spouse. Then you as a couple become a living example of God's relationship with the church.

A church that truly loves is a church that can change the world. May God help us to live it.

It is possible for us to spend our entire lives in church, proclaiming the coming of Jesus, sharing how much God loves us, how merciful He is...but if we don't have love for everyone and always, we've completely missed the point.

God calls us to live it every where, every time, with every one because the world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.

It doesn't matter how impressive your service and your gifts look on the outside, if you don't have love your gifts are nothing but an empty present...And empty presents never change the world.

Worship is a decision, it's a state of mind, an attitude, a posture. It is our heart and our mind making a decision for Christ, so we can't help but have Him overflow from our lives. That is what it means to worship in spirit and in truth.

Being sure you are right, and purging those who are wrong, sometimes seems like the road to peace. But it isn’t. Only love, as revealed through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, brings peace, and joy, and harmony. We are here to build the Kingdom of God by each of us, alone and together, living the Gospel in everything we do. And step one to achieving this goal is: we must love one another.

Have we just learned the right words to say, or is there something more behind them? Beautiful words from am unloving heart are just noise because if we don't genuinely love others, our words are meaningless. Loving one another as Jesus loves us reflects Him to the world, so let it be said of us that we are truly His disciples by how we love one another. When we walk through the doors of the church, we will look around and say "These are the people that I love."

The thing the world will know is by is our love. In our lives, our conversations, our Tweets, and our online posts we should be showing the love of Christ as He would.

If you give your whole heart to Jesus and make Him Lord of your life, He has promised that He will guide your path.

Jesus wants to give us a wonderful gift that we can share with others. Even when we're at what seems like our lowest point, He's by our side and we can turn a hardship into something to rejoice over. What gift does Jesus want to bring to you right now?

God loves us so much that He sent Jesus to deliver us. Have you let Jesus save you from your sins? Have you done the hard work you need to do today?