Warsaw International Church - Sermon Notes & Articles

Last Sunday’s sermon was preached by Brother Mark on “Plan With God – The Master Planner” (Jonah 1:1-15; 2:1-2; 3:1-5) . The sermon and the whole service can be watched on our WIC YouTube Channel : From the sermon we are reminded to keep God in our plans and seek His counsel throughout our walk in life.   Why must we Plan with God? 1. In order not to disconnect from our source. This reminds us that whatever resource we have and put into our plans are given by God and planning without Him means we do not have a source. 2. To avoid wasting our resources. In the first reading, we place emphasis on how Jonah paid for his journey but never got to his destination, which resulted in a waste of his resources. With God in our plans, we would not find ourselves in such situations. 3. In order not to be disappointed. When we plan with God, we are guaranteed not to be disappointed. Jonah tried to run from the presence of God and when the ship failed in the storm he became disappointe...

B y Irene Sun We teach our children many things. We teach them to be strong, brave, and swift, yet patient, kind, and gentle. Rarely do we teach them how to be broken. Yet brokenness before the Lord is the fount of these very blessings. Courage and meekness flows most generously from a broken and contrite heart.   A few years ago, I was a zealous collector of Jonah picture books from libraries all over Illinois. The obsession began when I was searching for a faithful rendition for my children. Among the few dozen books I acquired, nearly all of them claimed that Jonah prayed for forgiveness in the belly of the fish. I found this interpretation a little unsettling. In my readings of chapter two, taught by a few professors at my seminary, Jonah did not repent. He did not even acknowledge that he had done anything wrong.   My obsession with picture books soon turned into an obsession with the book of Jonah. I had the most difficult time understanding Jonah ’ s prayer. Wha...

  Last Sunday’s sermon was preached by Brother Kevin on “Breaking Free!” (Luke 10:38-42) . The sermon and the whole service can be watched on our WIC YouTube Channel Introduction - The early church was powerful - Chains could not bind the movement - That power seems to be diluted today - We needbto understand why sobthat we too can break free of our chains 1) We must MAKE prayer - Acts 12:5: "Peter therefore was kept in prison, but prayer was made earnestly of the church unto God for him." - They did not SAY prayer, they MADE prayer - To make is to construct, to build brick by brick - When we pray we neednto pour who we are into our prayers. Each brick is a piece of us. - We MAKE prayer like we MAKE conversation, it is two way communication. - God also puts His bricks into the prayer, making it complete. 2) We must LIVE in the Word - John 1:1: " In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God". - If Jesus is the Word then we must live li...

 By Pastor Andrew Osakue When we are commanded to put on the full armour of God, I believe the greatest thing Paul says to do is to “ pray in the Spirit ” (Eph. 6:18). Only through the prayer of the righteous do we see how God moves and availeth much (James 5:16).   Let ’ s take a look at Acts chapter 12 to see more about what only prayer can do.   In this passage we read that Herod “ had James, the brother of John, put to death with the sword. When he saw this pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also... ” (vv. 2-3). After arresting him, Herod had him secured in prison in extravagant fashion. Most people were chained to just one guard, but Herod had Peter chained to two guards (v. 6). He handed him over to be guarded by “ four squads of four soldiers each ” (v. 4). And in addition to this is the big iron gate (v. 10).   Let ’ s focus on verse 5: “ So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him. ” Here is the contest...

Last Sunday’s sermon was preached by Pastor Miguel Guzman from Venezuela on “One God, One Saviour, One Family” (John 10:30; Galatians 3:28) . The sermon and the whole service can be watched on our WIC YouTube Channel . As Christians, we need to remind ourselves that Jesus and we are one, and practise this in our daily life. We can never get away from His presence – He is everywhere. So we need never say that we are alone. We need to be obedient to God’s plans which sometimes change our plans. And we are one family in God. The Miami church is also part of our family at WIC!   Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and He will give you all you need. This is an amazing principle we should practise: if we make Him our number one all the time, we can ask Him to supply our needs and He will! Jesus can take care of all our needs: health, work, family, our soul. Jesus has the power to mend all that is broken.   Amazing things happened in our church in Venezuela, and we are su...

Taken from his book “Mere Christianity” “I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God’. That is the one thing we must not say . A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”   “Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can u...

Last Sunday’s sermon was preached by Pastor Harry on “God’s Providence In 2026” (Luke 12:21-32; Romans 8:28-29) . The sermon and the whole service can be watched on our WIC YouTube Channel . Welcome to 2026! How many of you made New Year resolutions, at the start of this year? It’s good to make resolutions, to mobilise yourself – but how long will we keep them? We underestimate our own weakness – we’re not as strong in character as we think we are.   For example, how many of us take the Bible seriously? Almost everyone. Now: how many of you worry? Again, almost everyone! Yet the Bible says, don’t worry! Jesus says it! Don’t worry about what to eat and wear! And He says: “Don’t be afraid” – and yet we are. Sometimes we even panic. I panic every time I can’t immediately find my glasses, my keys, or my credit card. If I can’t find one of my two phones, I can always phone the number from the other phone and listen out for the ringing tone. But I can’t phone my glasses, my keys or m...

by J. G. Lawson Christmas Evans, often called the “ John Bunyan of Wales, ” was born on Christmas Day, 1766, hence his name Christmas. His parents were very poor. His father died when he was nine years of age, and little Christmas did chores for six years for a cruel, ungodly uncle. His education was neglected, and at the age of seventeen he could not read a word.   Many accidents and misfortunes befell him. Once he was stabbed in a quarrel, once nearly drowned, once he fell from a high tree with an open knife in his hand, and once a horse ran away with him and dashed at full speed through a low and narrow passage. After his conversion to Christ some of his former ungodly companions waylaid him at night and unmercifully beat him so that he lost one eye in consequence. But God mercifully preserved him through all these trials.   He left his cruel uncle at the age of seventeen, and soon afterwards, during a revival, he identified himself with the church. From an early ag...