Fuel For Life

In this message, pastor Bogdan Kipko continues the Christmas Sermon series by drawing our attention to the fact that Christmas means that you can overcome your fear of failure. The big idea of this message is that Jesus came for the failed and the flawed because the failed and the flawed are all that there are. Everything about the birth of Jesus points to poverty, obscurity, and even rejection. B...

In this message, pastor Bogdan Kipko continues the Christmas Sermon series by drawing our attention to the fact that we aren't promised perfect circumstances but rather a perfect Savior. The point is that Jesus is born this day, for you. Jesus is your hope, not just for tomorrow, but for today, for right now, for this day. The promise of Christmas isn’t perfect circumstances but rather a perf...

In this message, John Stanley begins the Christmas Sermon Series Season by preaching on the fact that Christmas Fulfills Old Testament Prophecy. In the gospel of Matthew, several Old Testament prophecies are fulfilled in our Christmas story! This wonderful evidence of supernatural intervention, by God, is a boost to our faith.  Let's get ready to find hope in Jesus, by listening to this messa...

In this message, pastor Bogdan concludes the sermon series entitled The Six Sins Of Suburbia. God’s people were disobedient to God’s purposes in order to fulfill their own desires. How often do we neglect the things of God in the pursuit of more for ourselves? God has always called his people to live counterculturally when culture is in opposition to his purposes. Like the people of Haggai’s time,...

In this message, pastor Bogdan continues the sermon series entitled The Six Sins Of Suburbia. Choosing the path of life means we must be willing to relinquish the default to convenience. Jesus calls his disciples to action, even when the journey is hard. In this text, Jesus describes Two Gates, Two Ways, Two Groups, and Two Destinations. As you listen to this message, think about the following: Ar...

In this message, pastor Bogdan continues the sermon series entitled The Six Sins Of Suburbia. Comparison is the enemy of contentment. Jesus sets up the story with two well-known types of people: a religious insider and a religious outsider. We don’t have the details of who this parable is focused on. This is important since our tendency is often to fill in gaps such as these and to do so in ways t...

In this message, pastor Bogdan continues the sermon series entitled The Six Sins Of Suburbia. Complacency is a feeling of quiet pleasure or security, often while unaware of some potential danger, defect, or the like; self-satisfaction or smug satisfaction with an existing situation, or condition. Complacency has a way of leading us to neglect what is important in favor of serving ourselves. We neg...

Last week we talked about the Suburban Sin of Comfort. This week we will be talking about the Sin of Control which is closely related. A big idea of the Bible is to expose the fact that we are not in fact in control but rather are controlled. So the question is what are you controlled by? Let's get ready to find hope in Jesus, by listening to this message. YOUR NEXT STEP: If you don't ha...

This brand new, six-week sermon series will examine the six deadly sins of Suburbia by looking at six common temptations facing the modern Western Christian. Temptations like comfort, convenience, control, complacency, comparison, consumerism, and conceit knock on our door daily. What will we choose: the way of Christ or the way of self?  In this first sermon in this new sermon series, Pastor Bogd...

In this message, Pastor Victor Chayasirisobhon, 1st Vice President of the Southern Baptist Convention, President of the California Southern Baptist Convention,  Director of Missions of the Orange County Southern Baptist Association, and Pastor at First Southern Baptist Church of Anaheim, joins Forward Church for our Ordination Sunday.  He shared an encouraging message from Joshua 1 that inspired a...

Let's get ready to find hope in Jesus, by listening to this message. YOUR NEXT STEP: If you don't have a home church, then your next step of faith is to click this link and fill out the digital connect card. We would love to connect with you: https://bit.ly/forwardconnect. If this message encouraged you and inspired you to boldly follow Jesus, we ask that you share it with a friend by se...

In this message, pastor Bogdan delivers the final message in the series entitled: What Is The Church? It's time to grow up. It really is. The Bible teaches us that as we grow up, we are no longer children. What do children do? They are tossed to and fro. What do adults do? They remain stable, not being tossed to and fro. As it is normal for a child to develop in all areas of life, so too the...

In this message, Pastor Bogdan continues the sermon series entitled: What Is The Church? God has graciously distributed gifts to gifted people in the church so that the church can be unified. There are gifts that are given to everyone and then there are specific offices to which certain people are called. Everyone has a gift but not everyone holds an office. Everyone in the church is called to be...

In this message, pastor Bogdan continues the sermon series entitled: What Is The Church? The means by which unity will be preserved in the church is when people in the church will use the various gifts given to them by God. Within the body of believers, God has bestowed gifts. The exercise of these gifts plays a vital role in the maintenance of unity within the church. We don’t have to create unit...

In this message, Pastor Bogdan continues the sermon series entitled: What Is The Church? God’s design for the church is to bring all the members of the body to the unity of faith and to the full stature of Christ with the result that they will be a stable and growing body in living union with Christ the head. We see from the text that pride provokes disunity whereas humility promotes unity. The Bi...

In this message, Pastor Bogdan continues the sermon series entitled: What Is The Church? Much of what will be shared in this message on The Body Of Christ and The Lord’s Supper was largely inspired by an amazing Puritan writer named Thomas Watson, specifically as he wrote about it in his short but very impactful book entitled The Lord's Supper.  In this message, we will learn about the five p...

In this message, Pastor Bogdan begins a brand new sermon series entitled: What Is The Church. For the next several weeks, we are going to explore what a healthy church looks like and how can we design and develop a church that produces healthy, mature disciples. There must come a point in your life where you realize that there is nothing more important for you personally to do here on earth than t...

In the Christian faith, there are two main symbols of salvation. They are Baptism and The Lord's Supper. The Lord's Supper is how you have communion with God's family. In this message, Pastor Kipko talks about the second symbol of salvation, which is The Lord's Supper.  Jesus never asked his disciples to remember his birth. But he did instruct them to remember his death and res...

In the Christian faith, there are two main symbols of salvation. They are Baptism and The Lord's Supper.  Baptism is how you identify with God's family. In this message, Pastor Kipko talks about the first symbol of salvation, which is baptism.  Here at Forward Church, we baptize the way they did in the Bible—putting people all the way under the water. It is a symbol of burial and resurre...

One of the big questions in the Bible is trying to answer is how to discern the difference between the real and the counterfeit. The Truth and the Lie. The true prophet and the false prophet. The Voice of God and the Voice of the Devil.  In this standalone sermon, we will explore what it looks like to discern between the voice of God and other voices. We will learn how to follow the voice of God t...

There is more evidence for the resurrection of Jesus than there is evidence for any other event in human history. All of Christianity hinges on this one event. Christianity is the religion of the resurrection. Jesus really did rise from the dead and one of the biggest pieces of evidence of that is the countless number of changed lives!  In this final message in the FAQ Series, Pastor Kipko unpacks...

Have you ever gone in the wrong direction, like for a really long time, while you are driving and then you had to turn around? Have you ever made a mistake, a wrong turn, or a wrong decision? This matters because if you keep walking around in the dark, you won’t know where you are going, and if you don’t know where you are going, how will you get to where you want to be?  You must have a vision fo...

One of the most often asked questions that people have is how can we know with full assurance, that when I die, I will end up in Heaven? The hope is that Jesus does want you to be saved! He proved this by coming to earth, living a sinless life, and then dying on a cross and resurrecting three days later so that you personally can have eternal life. How do you know that you are going to heaven and...

Have you ever wondered why is it that bad things happen to good people? Have you ever doubted the goodness of God? Have you ever doubted that God is actually good?  It can be sometimes confusing because there are people who are doing really good things in life and they aren’t really bad people, but they experience something very difficult. Maybe someone else who doesn’t seem to be honoring God tha...

All of us are highly complex individuals with our own hang-ups, complexities, contradictions, and paradoxes. We say one thing and we do another. We desire one thing but our life reflects the exact opposite. We do what we should not do and we don’t do what we should do. We are a fractured mess of unrealized expectations, shattered dreams, unfulfilled longings, and a stark realization than when we w...