Forest City Church Podcast

In our 2nd week of Fighting to Win, Pastor Leonard unpacks Deuteronomy 6 in his message titled: "Fighting To Win".  to show that God’s goodness is lavish and undeserved, leading His people into abundance they did not earn. Yet God’s promises are often met with resistance, reminding us that winning requires a fight—naming our resistance, staying focused, and responding to God’s goodness with intentional faith. Use the Sermon Reflection Guide linked below to go deeper and reflect on how God is inviting you to fight for what He has promised.

 

All I Do Is Win Week 2 Fighting To Win sermon reflection guide.

Week 1 of All I Do Is Win reframes what it truly means to win—not as comfort, ease, or success, but as faithfully moving toward God’s promises. In "Winning Through Obedience", Pastor Leonard teaches from Deuteronomy 6, showing that obedience is the pathway to flourishing and the way we take possession of what God has already promised. Rather than merely consuming God’s Word, we are invited to submit to it, allowing revelation to shape our lives through faithful obedience. Even in hardship, obedience positions us to live with confidence, courage, and trust in a God who wants it to go well with us.

 

Be sure to use the link to this week's Sermon Reflection Guide to prayerfully process the message and take intentional steps of obedience throughout the week.

 

In week three of The Promise Advent series, Jackie Glass reminded us that Christmas celebrates not only what God did—sending a Savior—but what God is still doing: keeping on saving. Through the stories of Simeon and Anna, she showed how seasons of silence are not signs of God’s absence, but sacred spaces where God is attuning our hearts for His saving work. As we wait, we’re invited to name both our longing and the God who meets us in it—our Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace.

 

 

 

Pastor Leonard's final message of 2025, “Remember the Whole Way”, invites us to pause at the edge of a new year and reflect before rushing ahead. Drawing from Deuteronomy 8, Pastor Leonard reminds us that God calls His people to remember the whole journey—both blessings and hardships—as places of His faithful leading, shaping humility and trust. As a church and as individuals, we’re invited to remember what God has revealed, recognize His faithfulness, and carry His invitations forward into the year ahead.

 

Use this reflection guide along with your journal to help create space and lean in to what God has reveled to you this year and what God may be inviting you into in the upcoming year.

In His Christmas message titled “The Promise Fulfilled,” Pastor Leonard explores how the birth of Jesus marked the long-awaited fulfillment of God’s promise to Israel—and its expansion to all people. What was once experienced externally through kings, sacrifices, and systems is now made personal and internal through Christ, offering restored relationship with God, true peace, and abundant life. Christmas invites us to pause in wonder as we receive the good news of great joy: God has come near, and the promise is fulfilled in Jesus.

 

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In week two of our Advent series The Promise, Pastor Leonard walks us through Isaiah’s powerful image of a stump and a shoot—reminding us that God’s promises are not canceled by human failure. Even when Israel’s disobedience led to discipline and loss, God was still at work, bringing life from what looked dead. This message points us to Jesus, the promised King, and invites us to trust that God is still faithful, still restoring, and still growing new life in the places we thought were beyond hope.

In the first message of our new series The Promise, Pastor Leonard Davis shows how Advent is rooted in a covenant God made long before the manger in his message titled "The Promise Made". In a world of uncertainty, we anchor our hope in the One who keeps His word. God’s promise gives us confidence to move forward—even when we can’t see the outcome.

Angie Addy brings the final message in our Made For More series with Purpose in Community. She’ll remind us that God designed us to live out our purpose together—building one another up, multiplying our impact, and reflecting Jesus to the world.

Pastor Leonard Davis has Week 5 of our Made For More series with his message titled Overcoming Uncertainty. This week’s focus reminds us that God’s purpose isn’t only discovered in the big, life-changing moments—it’s found in our everyday faithfulness. The small acts of kindness, the unnoticed service, the steady love we show to others… all of it matters deeply to God.

In Week 4 of Made for More, Pastor Leonard teaches that while our purpose is to know and glorify God, the way we live it out is uniquely shaped by our gifts and experiences. God doesn’t call the qualified; He qualifies the called, empowering us to serve in the way He designed. Discovering purpose begins with discovering who we were made to be, and it’s never too late to step into the life God has planned for you.