Preaching Topics

Here are the most recent preaching topics or sermon series, currently going on in the church.

FAITH GOES VIRAL!

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Pastor Paul

BOOM!!!!!! Has there ever been a time of explosive faith and dynamic power in the church? The answer is definitely yes! On the day of Pentecost and the weeks and months that followed, faith exploded into the city of Jerusalem and turned it upside down. People were being saved daily, miracles and signs were being done profusely by the apostles, fellowship and generosity were epidemic. It was driving the religious community nuts, as the dramatic power of God challenged the ritual of a dead and dry religious system.

But nothing like that seems to be happening in America. Pockets of revival are occurring for sure. Many churches are thriving, some phenomenally, but it is very rare to find the church so empowered that whole communities have been impacted by the power of God. Everyone in Wilmington is not talking about our church! For many of us FAITH FIZZLES with anemic power, FAITH FUMES and ruminates in some damp, quiet, forgotten corner of our lives, FAITH FLICKERS like a weak candle-flame on a drafty window sill, teetering extinction. Something is terribly, fundamentally and deeply wrong with our faith and our relationship to God. It has lost its explosive power, its explosive passion, and it lacks conviction that comes from a dramatic encounter with the Holy Spirit. We can only ask if there is hope for a reversal. Only God knows if the bones lying dry and scattered about the valley floor can live again (cf. Ezek. 37:1-11). One thing is certain, however, whatever coming together of those bones happens, whatever flesh and sinews finally develop on them, it will take a mighty act of the divine Spirit of God for them to live. If a crazy YouTube video can go viral, with hundreds of thousands of hits, then faith in the living God ought to be able to explode onto the stage of our cities and community. In February 2012, Pastor Paul will speak on extravagant faith, explosive faith, faith gone nuts, faith gone viral.

BUILDING – A DETERMINED EFFORT IN THE FORWARD DIRECTION!

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Pastor Paul

As we go into the New Year, it is hard not to think about the future. Hardly anyone will wish for a worse year than the previous one! We all, without exception, hope that things will improve. For many people, though, there will be little mearsurable progress or difference over past years. They will work and live in the same place, follow the same routines and live in pretty much the same way.

But our burning desire this year is for God to build the WFPHC. We hope to make measurable progress in our own personal spiritual lives and devotion to God, in the growth of our church, in the building program, in the development of our ministry and worship and most of all in our impact for the kingdom of God in Wilmington, North Carolina. So the pastor is preaching a series of sermons this month on the kind of determination it takes to move forward with God.

CHRISTMAS – WHEN GOD TARGETS THE UNLIKELY!

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Pastor Paul

Christmas sermon series. The pastor will be preaching on how God used and targeted unlikley and overlooked people when he set about executing his plan for the greatest deliverance of history. The series will begin on the first Sunday in December.

THANKS – GIVING; APPROACHING GOD!

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Pastor Paul

How do you properly approach God. The pslamist gives us some excellent insights when he invites us to worship God in Pslams 118:19-21 and Psalm 100:1-5. Worship should be a declaration of our gratitude and an exuberant, joyful expression of our praise! If the essence of thanksgiving is declaration, then the essence of praise is giving expression to our wonder and awe of God!

The Unshakable Truth!

Posted on September 4, 2011 by Pastor Paul

Can we know the truth about God? Is there a such a thing as truth? At Jesus’ trial Pilate asked, “What is truth?” He wasn’t sure there was such a thing. Our world today says that there is no objective truth, just personal opinions about morality and God. Jesus said that if we ever found the truth and could know it, it would set us free (John 8:32). The Bible tells us that we can in fact discover the truth about God; and as the Psalmist assures us, just by looking at creation, we can have confidence in the evidence for the existence of God. God has made sure that his word, the Bible, is both reliable and reliably accurate, so that we have is what God originally said when it was first written down by the original authors. Yes we can know the truth! And yes we can be free!

Defeated? Get Out and Stay Out!

Posted on June 4, 2011 by Pastor Paul

Beginning in June, Pastor Paul will start a series of sermons on spiritual defeat, how to get out and stay out. He will deal with topics like how to recognize spiritual defeat, stupid things believers do that lead to defeat and why we can be spiritually victorious and yet fail.

The Fruit of the Spirit

Posted on June 4, 2011 by Pastor Paul

Galatians 5:13-26 has two lists, which have been called vices and virtues. But the way Paul introduces these lists, he makes it clear that these are the actions that flow out of two very different types of people. The list of vices flow out of the base side of human nature that has not been transformed by God, and that is consistently urged to action by desire. The second list of virtues flows out of the believer, whose heart and mind has been transformed by God, and who consistently acts under the impulse of the Holy Spirit. Pastor Paul is leading this study in the Wednesday evening adult Bible study during the early summer.