Wyoming Valley Church Sermon Podcast

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 "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!