Wyoming Valley Church Sermon Podcast

We all struggle showing patience in some area of our lives. And most of us consider patience to be a virtue. But what we need patience for most of all is something that will impact every area of our lives, and something that affects our eternal soul. We will discuss why patience is important for Christ followers and how to become patient where we need it the most. As we will discover, true patienc...

As Americans, we have a different and higher standard of living than most of the world. Those riches are often seen as God's blessings, but what if they weren't? What if being rich was a huge obstacle to following Jesus? In this heavy but very necessary and helpful message from James 5, we will discuss how to handle being rich and the dangers of letting them control us. We hope this warning would...

This world we currently live in is topsy-turvy. We're told each new day that there is something important for us to think about and even worry about. We're told there are SO many crucial things and people that we need in our lives. But what is the MOST important thing? What do we TRULY need to ensure that we have everything we need? Well, today's lesson is ALL about living for the ONE that is our...

We often believe we know best for our life, and that error in thinking gets us into huge messes. But the Lord came not only to die for us, but to shepherd us so that we might live the best way we possibly can. Pastor Mel Walker will take us on a journey through the end of James 4 and the contrast between our Will and God's Will and how we can start living brand new this New Year. Blessings to you!

Our special speaker, Pastor Travis Walker from First Family Church in Ankeny, Iowa continues our series through the book of James as we discuss who we are and who we are NOT in the Christian life. Our efforts are to motivate us all to leave the judgment to Christ so we can simply love one another. We hope this would bless you as we seek to finish the year 2020 on the proper note.

What a year 2020 has been. We all would have benefited from a little hindsight in order to live with more hope and confidence. But perhaps we can find the hindsight we need to go forward, especially as it pertains to the Christian life and the future 2nd coming of Jesus. We will discover that we don’t need hindsight in order to have 20/20 vision. We hope this blesses you!

Today we finish part 2 of our lesson on “A Tug of War” through James 4:1-10. Today we will focus on a very BIG sin problem in the Church and how we can defeat it with God’s help. We hope this would bless you in your struggle against the sinful flesh - for God’s glory!

We have a serious battle raging on, and it's a battle for our souls. In today's lesson we will look at the beginning of James 4 and discuss this battle and why some of us are still losing it, even though we have all the divine help we need. And we'll seek to understand how we can turn this battle around and gain certain and eternal victory! Many blessings to you!

There are two kinds of wisdom, earthly and heavenly. As great as it sounds to be wise, we need to make sure we have the right kind. Or as we'll learn from James 3, if we put the wrong things into our minds, the wrong things will come out. Pastor Mel Walker gives us great insight on the value of heavenly wisdom and putting that wisdom into our minds. Blessings!

It's 2020 and almost Thanksgiving Day. But many of us may be struggling to find reasons to be thankful this year. So we will explore the question, "Thankful For What?" by looking at a passage from Isaiah 12. We hope this would give you a fresh perspective today and this week and you'll find thousands of things to thank and praise your Lord for. :)

It can be dangerous when we misuse something powerful. Today, we will discuss one of the most powerful weapons ever and how we often misuse it for evil. James will give us a lesson about our speech and how capable it is of mass destruction. We hope you'd be encouraged to give the Lord Jesus FULL reign of your speech, as well as your life. Blessings!

Who do we owe our lives, livelihood and future to? Most of us know this answer, but today we'll focus our attention on the WHOM we owe everything to and what that should mean for our lives. We hope this would bless you!

2020 has us all feeling very anxious about our lives, and we need some help overcoming anxiety because it's so against what the Lord has for us as His people. Today, thankfully we will discover the cure for anxiety if we simply listen to the Word of God. Many blessings to you!

There are forgeries and fakes all around us. It's frustrating when you get scammed with a fake when you thought you were getting something valuable. Today, Pastor Mel Walker finishes our mini-series on "Tangible Faith" looking at how real faith shows up in our lives. We hope this blesses your soul!

The Christian life is based entirely on faith in Jesus. But what is faith? It might be different than we imagine. Today we'll explore what faith really is through James 2 and why it's so crucial to validate that faith with obedience to Jesus. Many blessings to you!

There is a force in this world unlike any other, a force SO strong it compels some to lay their entire lives down for someone else. As we'll learn, our Lord Jesus was compelled by a love this strong once and now we're going to ask us all today, if we too will be compelled by that love to live our lives for Him. We hope this would bless you!

Sometimes we find ourselves loving only some people and neglecting others. Today, through James 2:1-13, we will explore why this is and how we must change our mindset on who and when we should love others, as we represent our Lord Jesus upon this earth. Many blessings to you!

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 "A...

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 th...