At Forest Lake, we are committed to missions. For us, that means that as a faith family we are committed to declaring and demonstrating the gospel here and around the world.

At Forest Lake, we're committed to cultivating five core values we see the early church model in Acts 2:42-47: missions, discipleship, service, worship, and community.

Every one of us has to decide what we're going to do with Jesus: reject him or repent before him. But we must choose one, because the cross demands a response.

Through the trials Jesus experienced on his way to the cross, he made a way for us to endure trials we face today.

Weakness. Betrayal. Brokenness. Restoration. This is Peter's story. But it's also ours.

To be great in God's kingdom, remember: the way up is down, rewards are usually delayed, and failure is never final.

The resurrection of Jesus offers us hope for the past, anchors our hope for the present, and secures our hope for the future.

In Luke 20:45-47, Jesus gives us four warning signs that we're beginning to drift toward hypocrisy, or doing Halloween on Sundays: we have biblical knowledge without spiritual transformation, we crave the approval of others more than the approval of God, we receive grace but don't extend it, and we want to appear godly without actually being godly.

Disobedience before God leads to judgment, but repentence before God leads to salvation.

Potato Head Jesus is the Jesus of our imagination who wants us to be happy, comfortable, and successful. The real Jesus is the Jesus of the Scriptures who calls us to love him, pursue him, and submit to him. In the end, we must decide which Jesus we're going to follow: the real Jesus or Potato Head Jesus?