Warsaw International Church - Sermon Notes & Articles

Last Sunday’s sermon was preached by Brother Kevin on “Called By Name” (Isaiah 43:1 and Psalm 139:13-16) . The sermon and the whole service can be watched on our WIC YouTube Channel . Here are the points that Kevin made: Let us study God's love for us in 1 simple verse taken from Isaiah 43:1. - God's Word is alive. The same scripture that we browsed past so many time - even comitted to memory - can have new deep and profound meanings when God uses it to speak to us. - In The Chosen, Jesus uses this verse which Mary Magdelene knew from childhood to pierce through her suffering.  - When God speaks those same words to us, the context changes. God Made Us Perfect - God says He created and formed us. - He created us with a plan and a purpose. We are not here by accident - rather He sees us and has a specific purpose for us. - In that same way He formed us to His specifications. - Every thread of our being was carefully crafted by Him - knit together as David so beautifully sings in ...

  By Taras Dyatlik ( “Christianity Today” )' On July 7, 2024, my phone rang early in the morning. My older brother Misha’s voice was shaking: “Andriy is critically or even deadly wounded by Russians—yesterday late evening—on his birthday.”   A Russian drone had hit my younger brother, a military medical doctor who had spent two and a half years saving wounded soldiers at the front, on his 33rd birthday—the same age as Christ when He went to the cross.   The next two weeks were filled with waiting. We received hospital updates, held on to a hope that kept rising and falling, and prayed even when it felt like no one was listening. On day 5, I wrote in my journal, “Lord, You are silent. Why?” On day 12: “Does prayer actually change anything, or is it simply our inability to accept what we cannot control?” Początek formularza   On day 15, his heart stopped.   During those days of waiting, I kept thinking of the story of Isaiah prophesying to King H...

  Last Sunday’s sermon was preached by Pastor Harry on “How To Pray (Part Two)” (Matthew 6:7-8; Luke 18:1-8 ; Luke 11:2-4 ) . The sermon and the whole service can be watched on our WIC YouTube Channel :   I want to focus today on the words of Jesus Himself. There’s a remarkable consistency in Jesus’ own words, which is not fully appreciated. If you read a Bible that has Jesus’ words in red, you might well be surprised by what you read – especially in two main areas: Jesus’ moral teaching, most of which is in His so-called Sermon on the Mount (in other words, Matthew chapters 5, 6 and 7); and His teaching on how people are saved (most of that is in John’s Gospel). In fact, both a lot of His moral teaching and His teaching on salvation actually go against what is taught in many churches. Check it out for yourselves and draw your own conclusions. Jesus and Christian religion are not the same.   Today I want to say more about Jesus’ words on prayer: we only touched o...

  by Horatius Bonar (1808-89) Horatius Bonar was a Scottish Presbyterian minister and hymn writer.   As possessors of the Spirit of love, we must be loving, laying aside all malice and guile, and hypocrisies, and evil-speaking; discharging daily the one debt that is never to be paid (Rom. 13:8). For the indwelling Spirit is not idle or barren, but produces fruit, divine fruit in human hearts, heavenly fruit on earthly soil, fruit which indicates its inner source, and tells of the glorious Guest within; for “ the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law ” (Gal. 5:22-23).   Let us maintain unblunted the edge of our relish for prayer and fellowship with God, as the great preservative against the seductions of the age; for only intimacy with God can keep us from intimacy with the world.   Let us be on our guard against old self in every form, whether it be indolence, ...

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Last Sunday’s sermon was preached by Pastor Harry on “Prayer And The Annual Meeting” (Matthew 21:22; Luke 11:5-13 ; Acts 6:1-7 ) . The sermon and the whole service can be watched on our WIC YouTubeChannel : In our opening text, and in our first reading, Jesus gives us instructions on how to pray. In the opening verse, He stresses faith for us to get answers to prayer. Don’t pray with indifference. Pray as if Jesus were standing right next to you, and nodding His head in approval as you talk to Him.   And in our first reading, from Luke 11, we read Jesus’ story of a man who has a visitor late at night, who is hungry. The man has no bread left, so he goes to his friend’s house to borrow some loaves. He must have known what to expect – after all, it was midnight. And sure enough, the friend wasn’t too happy at losing a good night’s sleep, and told the man to go away. But the man kept on knocking and got his way in the end – the friend gave him the bread, not out of love and comp...

  by David Bryant [extracts] Chuck Swindoll in his book, The Grace Awakening, makes this observation: "The greatest heresy in the modern evangelical movement is our emphasis on what we should be doing for God rather than on what Christ has done and is getting ready to do for us." In other words, we don ’ t emphasize the hope grace brings to us. If there is any reason why there may be a struggle with prayer in our lives, it could be that we need much more emphasis on what we may hope, on what God gives us permission to believe, and on how large that hope should be because of who Jesus is as Lord.   The Disciples Struggle   Remember when the disciples came to the Lord Jesus to ask, "Teach us to pray." My reaction would probably have been at that point to set up a seminar on prayer and tell them what they need to know about prayer, and what they need to do in prayer! But Luke, chapter eleven, says that when the disciples said, "Teach us to pray," what...

Last Sunday’s sermon was preached by Pastor Harry on “Unveiled Faces?” ( 2 Cor. 3:18; Philippians 4:2-7; James 3:16-18; James 4:1 and 7-8 and 10-11 ) . The sermon and the whole service can be watched on our WIC YouTube Channel : Another crisis seems to be breaking out: the situation in Iran. The religious regime has killed tens of thousands of Iranians who want to see change in their country. Back in England in the 1980s, Ania and I got to know an Iranian lady who was dreading the thought of having to return to Iran soon, where she would have to dress up all in black, like a nun, and even wear a veil over her face. But now Iranians have had enough of this system, and just want to live normal lives. They are breaking their chains, because they want freedom. And very many are turning to Christ.   We know that there’s freedom in Christ when God’s Holy Spirit comes into a person and gives them “new birth”: “Unless you are born again, you cannot see the kingdom of God”. Paul, in his...

by F. B. Meyer Frederick Brotherton Meyer (1847 – 1929) was a deeply influential English Baptist pastor, evangelist, and devotional writer whose ministry spanned continents and decades. He was a contemporary and friend of D. L. Moody and C. H. Spurgeon.   "That ye may be sons of your Father which is in heaven" (Matthew 5:45)   We are made sons of God by regeneration, through faith in the Son, but we are called to make our calling and election sure--to approve and vindicate our right to that sacred name. We can only do this by showing in word and act that the Divine life and principles animate us.   Jesus teaches that the life of God in the hearts of His children will show itself in pure and unaffected love. He says in effect, "God is good; God forgives; God bears with wrong and sin; God loves those who hate Him, blesses those who curse, bestows His favors on the false and unjust, suffers long and is kind; believes, hopes, bears all things. Therefore, if you a...