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Sermons from Sunday morning worship at Forest Lake Baptist Church in Tuscaloosa, AL.
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Because we are living in the last days, believers must be committed to prayer, perseverance, and conviction that God is still changing lives until he returns.By Donnie Payne
Because the kingdom of God has come, we can step into 2021 with hope that God is in control, faithful to his promises, always present with us, and one day will return to set right all that's broken and fractured in our world today.By Patrick Cochran
Just as Christ showed mercy to the leper in meeting his needs, Christ also shows mercy to us in meeting our needs today.By Rick Mitchell
At Christmas, we celebrate Jesus' first advent as we anticipate his second advent.By Patrick Cochran
In Matthew's narrative of Jesus' advent, we see three things to celebrate and be challenged by at Christmas: supernatural birth, salvation, and submission.By Donnie Payne
In this message from Luke 17, we're reminded that servanthood assumes one is greater and the other lesser, often means that we get little rest, and calls us to embrace our opportunities because they have eternal significance.By Rick Mitchell
In this passage from Luke 16, Jesus shows us that God forbids loving wealth, despises wasting wealth, and rewards using wealth to advance his kingdom.By Donnie Payne
Like the father in Luke 15:11-32, God loves with a compassionate, scandalous, prodigal kind of love.By Patrick Cochran
We're challenged in this message to pray for God to bring revival and spiritual awakening to our families, our churches, our nation, and the world.By Guest Speaker
Jesus invites us to humanity, humility, and honesty.By Donnie Payne
Jesus longs to save those who are willing to trust in him. Those who are find rest; those who aren't face judgment.By Patrick Cochran
Only by living out genuine faith in Jesus Christ can we enter through the narrow door of salvation.By Rick Mitchell
Jesus encourages us to make bold, confident, intimate prayer a consistent habit in our walk with him.By Donnie Payne
In a world full of distractions, Jesus is better.By Patrick Cochran
We pray you're challenged and encouraged by this week's message from Pastor Rick Mitchell on the good Samaritan in Luke 10:25-37.By Rick Mitchell
Just as Jesus sent his disciples out on mission in Luke 10, so he sends us, his followers, on mission for him today.By Donnie Payne
In Luke 9:57-62, we're reminded that we're either all-in, totally committed, fully surrendered followers of Christ, or we're not followers of Christ at all.By Patrick Cochran
Those who walk with Jesus will identify with him as their Lord, his people as their people, and his mission as their purpose in life.By Rick Mitchell
Just as Christ rescued the hungry and needy when he fed the 5,000 in Luke 9, Christ also rescues us from our spiritual need if we'll come to him in faith.By Donnie Payne
Christ has called and invited us, as his disciples, to play the lead role in advancing the gospel to the ends of the earth.By Patrick Cochran
Jesus not only has power over nature and evil; he also has power to work in your life.By Rick Mitchell
In every heart, the seeds of the gospel are either snatched, scorched, stifled, or sown. What kind of soil resides in your heart?By Donnie Payne
The gospel creates and brings us into a new community that's based not on biology, but on obedience to and love for Jesus Christ.By Patrick Cochran
This story in Luke 7 reminds us that Jesus can heal even the deepest wounds and cover the deepest shame if we'll walk in humility and honesty before him.By Donnie Payne
In the story of John the Baptist in Luke 7:15-30, we learn how to move from doubt to conviction, conversion, and commitment.By Rick Mitchell
Faith is humble trust in God.By Patrick Cochran
Those following Jesus listened because his words and influence made a difference in the lives of those who heard, those who were hurting, and those who observed.By Rick Mitchell
Just as Jesus called twelve disciples to follow him 2,000 years ago, he calls us today to follow him as his chosen disciples that he will use to advance his kingdom to the ends of the earth.By Donnie Payne
The gospel is the only remedy for self-righteousness.By Patrick Cochran
True disciples of Jesus Christ have a personal relationship with him, live and walk in his Spirit, are anchored in his Word, love his people, and desire for the lost to be saved.By Rick Mitchell
The gospel penetrates all cultures and ethnic backgrounds, and redeems dark pasts and current struggles.By Patrick Cochran
In his temptations, Jesus not only identifies with us as humans, but also demonstrates the hope we have in God, who is able to empower and enable us to overcome our temptations through Christ.By Donnie Payne
Through Jesus' genealogy in Luke 3:23-38, Luke reminds us that God sovereignly uses ordinary people to accomplish his eternal purposes.By Rick Mitchell
With his baptism, Jesus identified with us, showed us the importance of baptism, and demonstrated for us how God pours out his love on us when we follow in obedience with believer's baptism.By Donnie Payne
Biblical salvation can't be earned or inherited. Rather, biblical salvation requires a changed heart and always results in a changed life.By Patrick Cochran
Jesus' birth and childhood show us that although Jesus was truly divine, he also was truly human, experiencing the full range of human emotions and experiences while simultaneously ushering in the kingdom of God.By Rick Mitchell
John the Baptist's birth signaled that, in Christ, God's kingdom had come to earth to renew all that was broken, fractured, and decaying in this world.By Donnie Payne
Kingdom breakthrough happens through ordinary people who pray for hope in the middle of their hurt to a God who is with us, and who is always faithful to his promises.By Patrick Cochran
Luke, the Gentile scholar-physician, passed down to us a record of Jesus' life and ministry in hopes of making Jesus known in his world. Luke Gospel should likewise encourage and challenge us to make Jesus known in our world.By Rick Mitchell
If Jesus didn't rise from the dead, then our faith is futile, our forgiveness is false, and our future is fruitless.By Donnie Payne
In Christ, God's cosmic story of redemption came to its climax. Through the church, this story continues until the day Christ returns and fully, finally fedeems all things.By Rick Mitchell
Only God has the power to transform our lives, to bring us from death to life, to give us new hearts and desires for him.By Donnie Payne
God adopts us into a new family as our perfect Father.By Patrick Cochran
With his perfect life and death on our behalf, Christ earned our justification, our right-standing with God, if we'll put our faith in him.By Donnie Payne
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