Forward Church Sermons

Today we begin our Vision and Calling series: Proclaiming the Finished Work of Christ. We’ll discuss the collective vision for Forward Church and also encourage you to seek God for your own life’s vision. You have a calling from God in your life, we want to equip you to find and fulfill that calling.

Good morning! Happy Easter! Today is the day we celebrate Jesus rising from the grave and overcoming death. And always he became like you to deliver you from sin and death. In Him we have eternal life!

God is the Word and the Word is God. All things were made by the Word. The Word is alive and active. It’s in your heart to bear fruits and gifts. Today we’ll discuss the power of the Word in your heart to see healing.

God created the heavens and earth with words. Jesus sent his word and healed people. God's spoken word is creative and authoritative instructions to the material world, organizing it to His will. The amazing truth is. Jesus gave us His authority. We are not God, but His Spirit is in us in power. Today, we discuss the power of the spoken word in our mouth.

Jesus healed people and he gave us his power to heal people. This should be the end of the story but we still live in bodies where sin is having an effect. Thankfully we also have God’s spirit in us giving life to our bodies. We’re not in a dualistic battle between the power of God and the power of sin, we have a belief issue that determines which one will bear fruit in our lives. Join us today as...

God’s a healer. You can always expect God to be true to his character. We don’t always effectively access God’s divine gifts, but that doesn’t mean they’re not available. Join us today as we explore the promise of healing.

Are you allowing fear and stress to make you self-centered and mean? In life, we will have pressure and tribulation, and how we respond to it might destroy our relationships with the people who love us the most. Today, we’ll discuss how to recognize when we’re being self-centered and mean and identify scriptural strategies to overcome stress and pressure.

Journey with us, as Lyle takes us through his transformation in Christ!

God loves you!! That’s His whole motivation toward you. He doesn’t needs subjects in His kingdom. He doesn’t need servants. He doesn’t NEED a family, He wants a family, to enjoy His love in His eternal kingdom. God is love and wants you to experience all the He is. As you personally experience His love, you heal and are made whole from all the pain of life. Join us today as we discuss letting Him...

God is seeking to show himself strong on behalf of those whose hearts are at perfect peace toward him. Today we will discuss how to guard your heart to have perfect peace to experience God strength in every situation.

God is seeking to show himself strong on behalf of those who have a perfect heart toward him. Today we will discuss what it means to have a perfect heart and how to have a perfect heart to God so you can experience God‘s strength in every situation.

Do you want to do great things for God? What do you think He considers to be big or great things? When you discover what God celebrates, you can rest easy and live a quiet life. Join us today as we discover what God rewards and celebrates.

Today we remember Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. A man synonymous with love and compassion for all mankind. He knew what it meant to love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. Today we will discuss how to overcome the hurt and injustices we have experienced by loving those who have hurt us.

When is a believer forgiven? The Gospel makes it clear that forgiveness comes when one believes in and confesses Christ as Lord. However, there can be confusion regarding whether believers need to continue confessing their sins, as mentioned in 1 John 1:9. Is this meant only for unbelievers? Join us today as we answer this question and leave you firmly rooted in the Gospel of redemption through fa...

Paul instructs the Thessalonian church to embrace this philosophy as a guiding principle for both their daily lives and as a means to spread the Gospel more effectively. This timeless concept remains relevant today. As we welcome 2024, let's reflect on this age-old philosophy of simplicity and explore ways to realign our lives in the present. Happy New Year!

God's most incredible marvel was His descent into humanity, becoming one of us and shattering the dominion of sin and death. However, this extraordinary mission was not complete without enduring our mortality and confronting the grip of the grave. Jesus, indeed, reigns as Lord of all, possessing unparalleled authority and power, earned through the profound sacrifices He made on our behalf. It was...

It is a fascinating and glorious mystery how God could become like us so we can become like Him, but this is what He accomplished through Christ. Hebrews 2:14 Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, 15and release those who through fear of death wer...

Do you worship God because of what he can do for you? Or because of who he is. When you fully see who he is, you recognize all he has done for you. When you worship God in light of Christ’s finished work, you see that God has given you everything he has to give you because he gave you Christ, who is all in all, the beginning and the end, the all-sufficient one.

#2 in "His Wondrous Works" series. Great is the Lord and He is worthy of praise. Sometimes we just need to lay aside our desire to learn and focus on Him, lifting Him up in our hearts and minds, giving Him all praise!!

God is great, and worthy of praise. We are to worship the Lord our God, but He does not want us to be afraid of Him. In this Christmas season, we will walk through several stories and passages to position ourselves to be in awe and reverential respect for God and His glorious splendor. Jesus is the reason for the season, and He is greatly to be praised!!

Gratitude makes everything better. Especially in a fallen world. We can be thankful to God for the gift of eternal life in Christ, and the promise of renewal in Him. We eagerly await the restoration of all things. But until then, throughout our life on earth, we can be at peace through thankfulness in all things. Not all things are from God, but God will be with us in all things. Thanks for joinin...

Gratitude is proactive. It can be reactive, but proactive thanksgiving is a powerful way to repent and shift your thinking to spiritual awareness. Today we’ll discuss how to have proactive thankfulness and discover how it can powerfully bring about change in our lives. #2 in A Grateful Heart series.

#1 in A Grateful Heart series.

The beliefs of our heart shape our lives. What we believe at a heart level is what filters every thought and choice. If our heart is overcharged with guilt and condemnation, we will make decisions in alignment with the condemnation. But if our hearts are confident toward God, we are promised that we will see the fruit of God’s kingdom in our lives. This may sound complicated but it’s actually a si...

You think with your mind and your heart. But your heart is a deeper aspect of your being. Your heart is where you believe what you believe. Jesus said all things are possible when we doubt not in our hearts. Today we’ll discuss how to eliminate doubt so our beliefs and our thoughts are persuaded of God’s truth.