Second At 10 @ Forest Lake Church Sermon Podcast

We need to learn to live for Jesus, not hold ourselves (and others) to expectations we'll never meet.

In order to be closer to God, we must set our ego aside and learn to rely on Him.

We will experience unexpected storms in our lives, but as long as Jesus is in the we are assured that He is in control.

When we're down, beaten, broken, and in the dark, the one thing we need to hear is that there is hope and that there is a God who will come over and lift us back up again.

The heart of spiritual growth and the heart of spiritual life with God is growing to the place in your life where you trust God enough, where you love God enough, to trust Him with your life.

We are stronger when we are connected to Jesus.

Part of spiritual growth is putting aside our differences and preconceived ideas and simply being a follower of Jesus.

Spiritual growth also requires that we work together as a team, helping each other grow.

God works in us to help us grow spiritually.

It's not wrong for us to put effort into our spiritual growth, but God will make us grow. Our effort is about participating in the life He longs for us to live.

What would it look like if all the members of the church were committed to leading others to a relationship with Jesus?

Being a leader is more about just being the boss or the guy up front. We need help along the way.

When we commit ourselves to Jesus, we become leaders for Him, but the hardest person we have to lead is the one we see in the mirror every day.

When we cry out to God, sometimes His answers don't seem like a blessing at that moment, but He is always looking out for us, even if we don't see it fully until later.

We all have different backgrounds and different life experiences that shape our perceptions of the world around us, but we can be unified together through Jesus and start seeing those around us through His eyes.

Like the Israelites in Egypt, we cannot wait for all the hard things or dangerous things to go away first. We must have faith that God will lead us and guide us on the paths we should follow.

By baptism we confess our faith in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and testify of our death to sin and of our purpose to walk in newness of life. By this we acknowledge Christ as Lord and Saviour and become His people.

God, through Jesus, has provided salvation for everyone no matter what we've done, we just need to turn to Him to experience it.

The church is the place that proclaims a bright and hopeful future with Jesus. This message of hope transforms the way we live on earth now (Rev. 21:1-4).

The Forest Lake Church response to the Pulse nightclub shootings in Orlando, free funeral services for any of the victims (and free internet streaming if desired).