Note: If you’ve completed the Forward Basics sessions listed on this page, then the Forward Experience is your next step. Click here to learn more.
Welcome to Forward
No matter where you are, God wants you to move forward!
Forward Basics is a transformational, 4-week course created to help you take your relationship with Jesus to the next level. Come ready to discover how to hear God, break unhealthy cycles, learn your true identity, and gain an appetite for the eternal!
Can’t make it to each class in person? You can still move forward at your own pace through our online Forward Basics Courses.
01 Hearing God
Develop an ear for God’s truth, discover new ways to hear from Him, and enhance your dialogue with Him.
02 Sabotage Cycle
Uncover the roots of your mistakes and bad habits, and break the life cycles that are holding you back.
03 Identity
Discover who you are in Christ and walk in your true identity as a child of God.
04 Appetite for the Eternal
Explore the ways you were made to experience the fullness of all your needs in Christ.
When & Where
In person classes coming soon!
Apply What You’ve Learned!
After you have completed all four sessions of Forward Basics, it’s time to apply what you have learned in Forward Basics. You will receive practical teaching, experience passionate worship, and participate in a variety of life-changing ministry exercises.
Let’s Move Forward Together!
Have you ever felt like you’re stuck in a loop, going down the same road over and over again? You realize you’re moving, maybe even to the point of exhaustion, but you aren’t actually getting anywhere. In fact, you’re running in circles! Sometimes in life there are habits and patterns that you repeatedly come back to, even though you prayed the prayer and you took the classes to get unstuck. You’re not alone! It’s time to link arms and move forward together!
Programs, Ministries, Retreats
Get away and grow in your relationship with God.
Safe Harbor Ministries
Exists to provide Spirit-filled, Biblical counseling at affordable rates for individuals, couples, and families.
Tres Dias
Three days retreat to seek God and listening to His voice in your heart.
Additional Resources
Words To Live By
Your thoughts can hold you back, push you down, and feed you lies. But they can also lift you up! Is it time for you to change the way you’re thinking? Start with something simple.
Find Your Words
A three-step plan, to discover and renew your mind through daily declarations that will change your mind in a way that lasts.
MessengerX
With MessengerX, you have the opportunity to explore a rich library of content including courses, ebooks, audiobooks, short films, and more for you to watch, read, and listen to. You’ll have access to subjects including: healthy relationships, finding your purpose, how to build your faith, hearing from God, business and more!
Healed
This album was created and prepared to bring hope and raise the level of your faith. Faith in the fact that God wants you to be healed. Be immersed in God’s truth about healing through original songs and inspirational teaching. Listen, be inspired, and increase your faith in God’s healing power.
Understanding The Holy Spirit
We want to equip you to fully understand the Holy Spirit. In an effort to do just that, we’ve compiled a few resources for you: a booklet on Understanding the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and our video message series on the Holy Spirit.
Books
- The Search for Significance, Robert S. McGee
- Drawing Near, John Bevere
- The Holy Spirit, John Bevere
- Driven by Eternity, John Bevere
- A Hunger for God, John Piper
- Heart Made Whole, Christa Black Gifford
- Broken for Good, Rebecca Rene Jones
- Translating God, Shawn Bolz
- Battlefield of the Mind, Joyce Meyer
- Forgotten God, Francis Chan
- Uninvited, Lysa Terkeurst
- Made to Crave, Lysa Terkeurst
- Finding Eve, Rita Springer
- The Most Powerful Man I Never Knew: Levi Carter
- David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell
- Our Mothers, Ourselves, Henry Cloud & John Townsend
- Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, Peter Scazzero
- 21 Day Inner Healing Journey Jimmy Evans
Songs
- Protector by Kim Walker Smith
- Break Every Chain by Tasha Cobbs
- Surrounded (Fight My Battles) by Upperroom
- No Longer Slaves by Bethel
- The Cross Has the Final Word by Justin Owens
- Out of Hiding by Stephanie Gretzinger
- Highs & Lows by Hillsong Young and Free
- I Am Loved by Mack Brock
- Gratitude by Brandon Lake
- Run to the Father by Cody Carnes
- You’re Not Finished Yet by The Belonging Co
- Broken Prayers by Riley Clemmons
- Make Room by Community Music
- I Won’t Go Back by William McDowell
- Breakthrough (Single Version) by Red Rocks Worship
- Fresh Wind by Hillsong Worship
- Million Little Miracles by Elevation Worship & Maverick City Music
- Wait On You by Elevation Worship & Maverick City Music
Has Forward impacted you in a significant way? Tell us about it!