Warsaw International Church - Sermon Notes & Articles

Last Sunday’s sermon was preached by Pastor Harry with the title “Repentance” (Acts 20:21; 1 Samuel 7:3-14; Luke 3:3-4) . The sermon and the whole service can be watched on our WIC YouTube Channel. Once again we turn to the subject of baptism – for just a minute. We’ve been occupied a lot with water baptism. And then a couple of weeks ago I gave a message on spiritual baptisms: baptism into Jesus Christ and baptism of the Holy Spirit. But did you know that a fourth baptism is mentioned in the Bible?: the baptism of repentance, which was preached by John the Baptist. What does he mean by “baptism of repentance”? It means he’s calling people to repent of their sins – by which he understands not just feeling sorry for their sins: even worldly people can do that! It means regretting them intensely because they are all sins against God ; turning away from them completely ; turning towards God; and having faith in the Messiah Jesus, whom John knew would come at any moment.   So the ...

Last Sunday’s sermon was preached by Pastor Harry with the title “No Good Fortune, No God” (Matthew 26:57-75) . The sermon and the whole service can be watched on our WIC YouTube Channel. Today’s sermon title is: “No Good Fortune, No God”. I trust this doesn’t apply to our newly-weds, Alan and Maria! We’ll be blessing their marriage in just a while. For them, it must have been a year of good fortune – perhaps particularly for Maria: falling in love; becoming Jesus-centred in her faith; getting baptized in an exotic country; and then the church wedding soon after. Even more, Maria is really playing an active part in church life with her creative digital fliers designed for us each week. That sounds like very good fortune, right? So I’m sure they’ve both drawn closer to God.   But being close to God – as Peter found out – is still no guarantee that the good luck will last for ever. Maybe Peter thought that nothing could go drastically wrong with Jesus close by. So his first shock...

In making the decision to found an orphanage, M ü ller spent much time praying, searching his heart relative to his motives, seeking to dispose of all worldly thinking and seeking input from other church members. He was struck by Psalms 81:10 where it said, “ Open your mouth wide and I will fill it. ” As a result he prayed for a building, funds and workers. Shortly thereafter he received a shilling towards such an enterprise and a large wardrobe. He also received a £100 gift from a poor needlework woman. Opening day everything was in place, but no orphans came. M ü ller realized that he had failed to pray for orphans and added to his prayers.   His purpose in opening the orphanage was to demonstrate God’s faithfulness in furnishing means through prayer alone, promoting the spiritual welfare of fatherless and motherless children, providing for their temporal good and encouraging others to also enter into such a life of faith. As he put it, “ If he, a poor man, without asking any...

Last Sunday’s sermon was preached by Pastor Harry with the title “Spiritual Baptism” (Colossians 2:8-15 and 20) . The sermon and the whole service can be watched on our WIC YouTube Channel. In the Bible, the real baptism is into Jesus Christ and His Holy Spirit, as was made clear at Pentecost, when Jesus appears to His disciples and tells them (Acts 1:5): “In just a few days you will be baptized – with the Holy Spirit!” The water baptism comes after the spiritual turning towards Christ, never before.     Supporters of infant baptism criticize those who hold strongly to believers’ baptism, because they say there should only be one baptism: the one which took place first, i.e. the infant baptism. This is a total misunderstanding of Paul’s assertion of “one Lord, one faith, one baptism”. Neither can infant baptism be justified as being the New Testament “successor” to the Jewish rite of circumcision. Circumcision was regarded as a ceremony of induction into the Jewish religio...

Last Sunday’s sermon was preached by Pastor Harry with the title “Who Did Jesus Die For?” (2 Corinthians 5:14-15 and 17; John 6:44-45) . The sermon and the whole service can be watched on our WIC YouTube Channel. Who did Jesus die for? You might think this question so simple that you could be wondering why I’m preaching on it! I know your answer: “He died for us folks”. OK! But dig a little deeper, and things aren’t so clear. For example, if you’re a Pentecostal, a Methodist or a Catholic, you’ll probably say: “He died for all”. But if you’re a Presbyterian, a Baptist or Reformed Church, your answer might be: “He died for some, but not for all”. I found that shocking, coming from my own church background, when I heard it for the first time as a young adult. It sounded crazy to me, because it meant God was so unfair. So I got confused: both teachings can’t be true.   I decided to search the Bible, and got even more confused! I saw that both teachings are represented in Scriptu...

Last Sunday’s sermon was preached by Brother Kevin with the title “The Mirror And The Mould” (Mark 5:21-43) . The sermon and the whole service can be watched on our WIC YouTube Channel.   This Father's Day, we're not looking at God as our Heavenly Father — we're looking at an earthly one. Jairus was the archisunagogos of Capernaum, the synagogue ruler — a man who held the kind of civic and religious authority that made him, in modern terms, equal parts mayor, judge, and senior pastor. His very name meant "he enlightens." He was the keeper of the light in his town. And yet none of that status could save his dying twelve-year-old daughter — a girl standing at the very threshold of adulthood, with everything Jairus had poured into her about to come to fruition. That's the Mold — what Jairus built, taught, and shaped in his daughter, and the identity he built for himself as a man of influence. But fatherhood eventually brings every man to a wall his title can...

Last Sunday’s sermon was preached by Brother Daniel with the title “The Power Of God’s Presence” (Exodus 33:12-17; Matthew 28:16-20) . The sermon and the whole service can be watched on our WIC YouTube Channel. God's Presence gives us the true identity that cannot be taken away from us even in the next world. Hence, this is the most important identity we can have. Exodus 33:16   God's Presence also confirms His grace in our lives. Again, with God's presence, we become carriers of His glory. This makes us true followers of Christ, not mere worshippers.   In the Great Commission - Matthew 28:16-20 – we learn that Jesus firstly gave us "confidence" before the "commandment", and lastly "comfort". He promised that He would be with us to the end. This means God's Presence lives in us through the Holy Spirit and the power of His Presence gives us the ability to have dominion over His creation.   To live in God’s Presence, we need to pr...

Last Sunday’s sermon was preached by Pastor Harry with the title “Living In A Bubble” (Genesis 3:6; 4:1-12) . The sermon and the whole service can be watched on our WIC YouTube Channel. One of my interests is ornithology: watching birds and identifying them. But we all know that most birds are very shy, and don’t let you get near them. So I was thrilled when our nephew made an app available to us, which identifies birds by their song: you just press “record”, hold it up in the direction of the sound, and it’ll give you the names and pictures of all the birds that are singing near you! In this way, we made an amazing discovery in the Kabacki Forest, when one of the birds we recorded was a beautiful yellow and black bird I would never ever see (a golden oriole), because it’s so shy. But it was there, and we heard its song!   You know, it struck me that God is a bit like those birds: you can’t see Him, but you can certainly hear His voice! But can you identify it as God’s voice wh...

Last Sunday’s sermon was preached by Sister Thais with the title “You Have To Be Like A Child” (Luke 18:15-17) . The sermon and the whole service can be watched on our WIC YouTube Channel. Sermon Summary — "You Have to Be Like a Child" Preached by Sister Ty | Warsaw International Church | May 31, 2026 Scripture: Luke 18:15–17 Core Message Jesus said the kingdom of God belongs to those who receive it like a little child. Sister Ty unpacked what that actually looks like for adults — not just being innocent or cute, but genuinely adopting the posture and character of a child toward God as Father. Key Points Dependence — Children rely entirely on their parents. We need to cut our roots of self-sufficiency and become dependent on God. Hunger & Thirst — Kids ask for food and water constantly. We should be the same with God — seeking him daily, not just at monthly communion (John 6, John 4). Provision — A good father clothes and provides for his kids (Luke 12). God is t...

Last Sunday’s sermon was preached by Sister Renata with the title “Bible Bee” (Judges 4:1-16; Mark 16:1-8) . The sermon and the whole service can be watched on our WIC YouTube Channel:   My dear Sisters (Brothers also). One of our Sisters inspired me, some days ago, when she mentioned a lady from the Old Testament Book of Judges: Deborah. Only two chapters speak of her, and frankly it’s the same story, in prose and as a poem. She was the fourth judge of Israel, and the only woman in this position, ever. She was also a political and a military leader, and more importantly, she was a prophetess of the Lord.             We don’t know much about the private life of Deborah. She had a husband called Lappidoth, and probably also children, as an ordinary Jewish woman. To my mind, she was a middle-aged woman rather than a young lady, because in ancient times old age was more connected with wisdom and respect than it is now. I i...

   Last Sunday’s sermon was preached by Pastor Harry on “The Power Of A Testimony” (Romans 10:14-17) . The sermon and the whole service can be watched on our WIC YouTube Channel: We often treat our personal story as the least impressive thing we have to offer. Theology feels weightier. Doctrine feels more credible. A carefully reasoned argument feels more persuasive. And so we hold our testimony back — unsure of its value, embarrassed by its ordinariness, convinced that what happened to us isn't significant enough to share. But what if that instinct is exactly wrong? Scripture suggests that a testimony — a simple account of what God has done — is one of the most powerful forces in the Kingdom. Not because of who is telling it, but precisely because of who it points to. Three figures from the Gospels show us just how far a single story can travel, and just how much damage it can do to the kingdom of darkness. The Woman at the Well: When the Wrong Person Carries the Right Word I...

  Last Sunday’s sermon was preached by Pastor Harry on “Elected To Serve” (2 Timothy 2:1-10) . The sermon and the whole service can be watched on our WIC YouTube Channel: Dear Friends, when we look at all the strange developments happening around us, and the sometimes bizarre ways in which people behave, we might well ask ourselves: “what decides that some people are saved, but others aren’t”? Because there are many people around who do the most stupid things and say the most foolish words, and they don’t even feel bad or ashamed about it. The Bible has a simple explanation for this – but it’s one that not many people accept. In fact, a lot of people hate it; because they think they need to have a hand in their own salvation. The Bible tells us we’re all terrible sinners – we surely sin many times a day, if we’re completely honest. And as we read our Bibles, we learn that we’re helpless and can’t save ourselves. Only God can save us. And because He’s a sovereign God, He does entire...