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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 resurrection. He gave the church two visible symbols, called ordinances, as reminders of His death. These two ordinances are Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. The Lord’s Supper is an object lesson that represents a great spiritual truth for believers. The whole purpose of the Lord’s Supper is for us to remember what Jesus did on the cross. 

Some people drink to forget. We as Christians drink to remember. When you take the Lord’s Supper, you’re preaching a sermon. There’s a forward look and a backward look. We look forward to the fact that Jesus is coming back and He says do this until He comes back. And we look back at the cross. Jesus didn’t stay dead. He’s coming back again. 

Let's get ready to find hope in Jesus, by listening to this message. 

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If this message encouraged you and inspired you to boldly follow Jesus, we ask that you share it with a friend by sending them this message! We help YOU find hope in Jesus. We can't wait to see you in person at Forward Church in Irvine, every Sunday at 11 am! 

CONNECT WITH FORWARD: For more information, please visit: www.forwardchurchirvine.com and follow us on Instagram: @forwardirvine.

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 resurrection. Just like Jesus Christ died and was buried in the ground for three days and then rose again. In the Bible, there was no such thing as a person claiming to be a Christian and not being baptized. It was automatic. You were baptized as soon as you gave your life to Christ. It was a picture of the new life you had been given by Jesus. 

Baptism doesn’t make you a believer—it shows that you already believe. Baptism does not “save” you, only your faith in Christ does that. Baptism is a picture of putting off the old way of living and putting on a new way of life in Jesus. Off with the old, on with the new. Buried with Christ in baptism, and raised to walk a brand-new life. 

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/4g9b4Gm

If this message encouraged you and inspired you to boldly follow Jesus, we ask that you share it with a friend by sending them this message! We help YOU find hope in Jesus. We can't wait to see you in person at Forward Church in Irvine, every Sunday at 11 am! 

CONNECT WITH FORWARD: For more information, please visit: www.forwardchurchirvine.com and follow us on Instagram: @forwardirvine.

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 to Salvation and Green Pastures as He, Jesus, is our Good Shepherd.

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/4g9b4Gm

If this message encouraged you and inspired you to boldly follow Jesus, we ask that you share it with a friend by sending them this message! We help YOU find hope in Jesus. We can't wait to see you in person at Forward Church in Irvine, every Sunday at 11 am! 

CONNECT WITH FORWARD: For more information, please visit: www.forwardchurchirvine.com and follow us on Instagram: @forwardirvine.

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 the reality of the resurrection and encourages us with the fact that if Jesus really did come back from the dead, and He did, then all will be ok and more importantly, you will be ok! 

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/4g9b4Gm

If this message encouraged you and inspired you to boldly follow Jesus, we ask that you share it with a friend by sending them this message! We help YOU find hope in Jesus. We can't wait to see you in person at Forward Church in Irvine, every Sunday at 11 am! 

CONNECT WITH FORWARD: For more information, please visit: www.forwardchurchirvine.com and follow us on Instagram: @forwardirvine.

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 for your life, or else, with no vision, it’s like driving in the fog, at night, with no headlights on. You don’t know where you are going and it can be rather dangerous. We come to church so that our loves and longings are indexed toward God and His kingdom. When talking about different religions, we believe that within Christianity—robust, biblical, Christ-Centered, Christ-exalting Christianity—there are rich resources and remarkable power made available to us to deal with and solve the problem most people face including having an understanding of what is their main purpose on this Earth, to find the meaning of life and to find a solution to the brokenness and sinfulness that is in this world and in our life. 

In this message, Pastor Kipko focuses on how Jesus is our life and our light that not only gives us a new life but that Jesus also makes us better at life. 

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/4g9b4Gm

If this message encouraged you and inspired you to boldly follow Jesus, we ask that you share it with a friend by sending them this message! We help YOU find hope in Jesus. We can't wait to see you in person at Forward Church in Irvine, every Sunday at 11 am! 

CONNECT WITH FORWARD: For more information, please visit: www.forwardchurchirvine.com and follow us on Instagram: @forwardirvine.

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 that you are saved? Have you believed in the Lord Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior? Do you believe that Jesus Christ is God? Are you loving Jesus? Are you being obedient to the things that He commanded you to do through His Word? Does the knowledge of the fact that Jesus saved you from your sin keep you humble by relying on Him every day? 

The reality is that you aren’t saved because of the words you said; you are saved because of the Word you heard. Get ready to receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior and receive knowledge that will assure you that you have been made right with God through Jesus Christ. 

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/4g9b4Gm

If this message encouraged you and inspired you to boldly follow Jesus, we ask that you share it with a friend by sending them this message! We help YOU find hope in Jesus. We can't wait to see you in person at Forward Church in Irvine, every Sunday at 11 am! 

CONNECT WITH FORWARD: For more information, please visit: www.forwardchurchirvine.com and follow us on Instagram: @forwardirvine.

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 that much or they are living not in a way that is moral or good, they seem to be doing ok. So why does God allow bad things to happen to good people? To be honest, this is one of the hardest questions to answer. 

Looking to Scripture and drawing from the excellent work of Tim Keller in his book: The Reason for God, Pastor Bogdan dives deep into this question to communicate to all of us that just because we don't see any conceivable reason as to why bad things happen to some people, that is not necessarily evidence that there there isn't a good reason. In fact, the very existence of suffering is actually pointing to the fact that we do have a good God. Jesus took upon Himself our suffering so that we could live forever. Jesus is a God who can relate to us when we suffer. 

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/4g9b4Gm

If this message encouraged you and inspired you to boldly follow Jesus, we ask that you share it with a friend by sending them this message! We help YOU find hope in Jesus. We can't wait to see you in person at Forward Church in Irvine, every Sunday at 11 am! 

CONNECT WITH FORWARD: For more information, please visit: www.forwardchurchirvine.com and follow us on Instagram: @forwardirvine.

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 wake up in the morning or go to sleep at night when the noise of the day is gone, or when we have a few minutes alone with just ourselves and our thoughts, we have this sinking feeling that we haven’t accomplished as much as we possibly can and we squandered the resources that we had and we’ve buried the talents that God has given us. 

You find yourself in this cycle of realizing you aren’t what you should be, you aren’t what you need to be, you aren’t where you want to be, and every day, you are continuing to become something or someone, that you don’t really know whether it is something that you’ll be satisfied with or even proud of. What is it that entrapped you or enslaved you, what is it that you have not been freed from or what is it that you are not free from, or what is it that you are a slave to, that you have given your life over to, that has a stronghold over you, that has you shackled, that you are chained to, and whatever that is, it is keeping you from the peace, joy and hope and fulfillment that the Bible promises to those that come to Christ and drink from the well of his unlimited grace, righteousness, and mercy? In this powerful message, Pastor Kipko unpacks from the Bible how you can find freedom in Christ, by looking at the story of the Israelites crossing the Red Sea and how God rescued them from Egypt. 

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/4g9b4Gm

If this message encouraged you and inspired you to boldly follow Jesus, we ask that you share it with a friend by sending them this message! We help YOU find hope in Jesus. We can't wait to see you in person at Forward Church in Irvine, every Sunday at 11 am! 

CONNECT WITH FORWARD: For more information, please visit: www.forwardchurchirvine.com and follow us on Instagram: @forwardirvine.

Parables provide insight into the nature, coming, growth, and consummation of the kingdom of God. They give us pictures of this kingdom that “has come near." Parables in the Gospels ultimately draw attention to Jesus as God’s Messiah and call us to make a personal decision concerning Him and to follow Him. 

In this message, Pastor Bogdan Kipko is calling us to not only examine this parable but also to examine our own lives to see who is in our circle of influence, is receptive to the gospel message, and focuses on helping those people get into an even more of a deeper relationship with Jesus! 

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/4g9b4Gm

If this message encouraged you and inspired you to boldly follow Jesus, we ask that you share it with a friend by sending them this message! We help YOU find hope in Jesus. We can't wait to see you in person at Forward Church in Irvine, every Sunday at 11 am! 

CONNECT WITH FORWARD: For more information, please visit: www.forwardchurchirvine.com and follow us on Instagram: @forwardirvine.

In this message, we get to hear from Pastor Pete Ramirez, Executive Director of the California Southern Baptist Convention. Pete is encouraging and equipping us to live lives in a way in which we will make the maximum impact on the Kingdom of God. 

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/4g9b4Gm

If this message encouraged you and inspired you to boldly follow Jesus, we ask that you share it with a friend by sending them this message! We help YOU find hope in Jesus. We can't wait to see you in person at Forward Church in Irvine, every Sunday at 11 am! 

CONNECT WITH FORWARD: For more information, please visit: www.forwardchurchirvine.com and follow us on Instagram: @forwardirvine.