Wyoming Valley Church Sermon Podcast

In the Christian life we need a strategy for success. This strategy thankfully has been clearly defined for us if we are paying attention. Today Pastor Mel Walker will teach us this strategy from James 1 so that we might go the way Christ intended us. We hope this would bless you!

In our world, pride and riches are what gets most people to the top, but in God's Kingdom, it's quite the opposite. In this lesson, we'll discuss the importance and significance of humility and how to live, act and speak as those who know where the True Power comes from. We hope this is a blessing to you!

As we make our way through the first chapter of James, we pause to consider the trials and sufferings of Jesus in an effort to prepare our hearts to partake of Communion as well as be motivated and inspired to face our own trials and temptations with joy because the Lord did so for our sake. We hope you'd be blessed!

We're in the middle of 2020, so we each know what difficult times look like. Thankfully the Scriptures have a lot to say about dealing with difficult times. In this lesson, Pastor Mel will guide us through the first half of James 1 as we discover how to properly navigate trials and avoid the temptation to sin in our journey of following Jesus. Many blessings to you!

The Christian Life is a long, intense journey full of tests and trials, but we might be surprised what these trials are given to us for. Today we will discuss why trials are a gift to us as we begin a series through the book of James. Many blessings to you!

For "Launch Sunday" we try to get our minds, hearts and goals for the Church on the same page. 2020 has presented us challenges that the Church has rarely to never faced before and we along with the proper perspective, we need motivation to keep going forward in advancing the Kingdom of God when many want to lie down and quit. Today we hope will be used to strengthen and encourage us all to put "All Hands omg Deck" for Jesus. Blessings!

Today we conclude our series on "Following the Master" by taking a different approach to discovering how important sold-out devotion is to our Lord Jesus. Today we put Jesus on trial to figure out if TOTAL devotion is too strict to demand of His people OR if it's exactly what we should expect and desire as recipients of Eternal Life. We hope this would bless you!

ALL Christians have to be trained to live the Christian life properly, but where does that training come from? Thankfully it comes from the One who knows EVERYTHING there is to know about the Chrsitian life because He invented it and because He navigated it perfectly Himself. In order to follow the Lord, we must learn what He did and then make it our every practice to follow the Leader. We hope this blesses you!

As we continue our series on "Following the Master" we direct our attention to the Commandments of Jesus in an effort to do what He says. Our validation that we truly belong to Jesus is how we live based on what Jesus taught us. This incredibly important lesson is a game changer for following Jesus and we hope the hearing of it would bless you greatly!

We continue our series on "Following the Master" by looking at Part 2 of what it means to follow Jesus. Pastor Mel speaks to us about 3 primary objects that often keep people from following Jesus and encourages us to watch out for the same traps. We hope this would encourage you towards greater devotion to the only One who is worthy of it. Blessings!

In our 3rd lesson into "Following the Master", we will study what it looks like to actually follow Jesus. Considering the Lord's great worth to our soul and that He is the ONLY One that knows the right way, we must learn from Him and do EXACTLY as He instructs us to do. We hope this lesson would encourage you to Follow the Master. Blessings!

In part two of our lesson on Discovering the Master, we will ask a few tough questions in order to explore the value and profound worth of the Lord Jesus to our souls, so that we would be properly prepared to follow Him the way He desires and deserves. Blessings to you!

Today we begin a new series on "Following the Master", and first we will seek to discover who that Master is and why He is worthy of us to follow Him with our entire lives. Once we discover His beauty, value and supremacy, we will be ready to hand our very lives over to Him. We hope this would bless you today!

Sometimes we need a fresh start. This happens spiritually as well, unfortunately. But fortunately, we have a God who allows a us fresh beginnings. We will look at what a fresh beginning looks like and how to get one, as well as two Biblical examples of men who needed fresh beginnings. We hope you would be blessed in hearing this!

It's certainly a great thing to have wisdom. But perhaps we're more concerned with the wrong type of wisdom? In this lesson we will study the two kinds of wisdom and consider why Godly Wisdom is SO much greater than worldly wisdom. We will also discuss what it takes to get true Wisdom, use true Wisdom and stay truly Wise during our lives upon the earth. Hopefully we will all see and value the Treasure of Wisdom. Blessings!

What does it mean to live a life that truly matters for eternity? Is education the highest purpose? Perhaps skill or pleasure or achievement is what we should live for. Today we will look at a classic story from a very wise king and with his help and his failures, we will discover the greatest purpose imaginable. Blessings to you!

What does it look like to live for Truth? Thankfully, the Lord Himself came to this earth to guide us and teach us what Truth is. And since He did so, He demands that we follow ONLY Him. We will look at a story of a people group who didn't listen to the Lord's Commandments and decided they could serve a false god ALONG WITJ the Lord. We will use their tragic story to help us stay devoted and faithful to the Lord Jesus. Blessings!

Today we look at 3 Bible stories that all point to one Truth, that undeserving love has come to us. And since we have all been given love we didn't deserve, perhaps it will cause us to love better the One who is truly DESERVING. We hope you would be blessed!

There's a truly sad story in the Old Testament that serves as a warning to us to not act in the same way the children of Israel did by blaspheming the one, true God and bowing down to false gods. But perhaps we can take their mistakes and turn them into positives by reflecting on how we should act towards the one, true God. Today we will seek to do just that as Pastor Mel Walker guides us through 3 Commitments for Living FOR God. We hope this would bless you greatly!

What if we could experience the peak of God's love for all-time? What if we never had to be afraid? What if the One who holds the universe together by His Word was our Protector and Sustainer? Can you imagine what difference that might make in our lives? And if so, what sort of love would that Lord be worthy of from us? In this lesson, we'll discover the best love that anyone could ever experience - in hopes that we'll give that same love back to the Lord. Blessings to you!