Waynesboro Free Methodist

"Remember your leaders who have spoken God's word to you. As you carefully observe the outcome of their lives, imitate their faith." Hebrews 13:7 To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give  

When the winds rise and the waves crash, fear can take over—unless you know who's in the boat with you. In Matthew 8, the disciples panic in the storm, but Jesus speaks peace into the chaos. What if the presence of God in your life doesn't mean storms won't come—but that you never face them alone? Join us as we explore how God's indwelling presence makes us brave. To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give  

Jonah's story isn't just about God's mercy toward a wicked city—it's about His mercy toward a stubborn prophet. While Nineveh's deliverance grabs the headlines, the final scene zooms in on Jonah's heart, exposing a deeper struggle that echoes in all of us. This week, we're asking the piercing question Jonah wrestled with, and we must as well: Are you okay with God loving your enemies? To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give  

As we draw near to the end of Jonah's story, He's been a first-hand witness to God doing unbelievable miracles AND ministry to reform a whole society far from God, yet we still find a storm raging… not on the sea, but in Jonah's own heart. The story of Jonah leaves us with a cliff-hanger: Does Jonah ever change? Here we find yet another example in the Word of what we all need for true transformation: a therapy session with the Wonderful Counselor. To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give  

The fear of the Lord, faith, and repentance. Where mankind meets the heart of God. To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give

What if all the truth in the Bible could be summed up in a five-word sentence? As Jonah sinks into the sea, powerless to save himself, he discovers the truth that echoes through all of Scripture: “Salvation belongs to the LORD!” This Easter, come and see how God meets us in the depths—and brings us to life. To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give

In the next part of Jonah's story, it's the pagan sailors—not the Lord's prophet—who have more spiritual awareness, who show more compassion, who fear the Lord, pray earnestly, and respond in worship. Jonah, the one with God's word, would rather be thrown overboard than turn back to obedience to his God. In a surprising twist, God uses them to expose him. Could the same be happening today? Join us as we explore how God sometimes uses the unbelieving world to confront His own people—and why that might be exactly what the Church needs to hear right now. Will we be humble enough to hear it? To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give

No one likes to talk about it, but deep down, we all know it's true: our sin has consequences. The choices we make and the actions we take can disrupt relationships, damage our own lives, and cause harm in ways we don't always see. But perhaps the most terrifying reality from Jonah's story this week is this—we can be completely asleep to the destruction our sin is bringing. Are we awake to what God is trying to show us? To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give  

Throughout the ages, our God has repeatedly proven himself to be merciful and gracious, forgiving sin, and blessing abundantly. But what happens when we meet an Israelite prophet who doesn't like that about God and decides to rebel instead of obey when the Lord calls Him? Come find out this and way more as we start our new series through God's word in the book Jonah — The Prodigal Prophet of a Gracious God. To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give  

Christ is continually at work in those who belong to Him, shaping and molding us into His likeness. One of His greatest works is to convince us of and help us live in our true identity as His followers. Among the many things He graciously declares us to be, there's only one that He says will help increase our faith… and that is that we are “unworthy servants.” To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give  

How does the church partner with Christ in seeing people reconciled in all things? 1 John 3:18 "Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth." Hear from our family pastor talk about ways how a local organization, Love INC, equips churches to love people not only with their words, but their actions. To support our local church, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give  

We are a people set apart, called by our heavenly Father to live the Jesus Way... to give a blessing when we are cursed, to forgive when we are hurt, to love when we are hated. As beautiful and right this ideal is, there's one lingering question: how? How can we live so radically? The simple answer is: where are you looking? To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give  

When we think of a “calling,” we often picture a life mission—our purpose, passion, a moment we were made for. While it's true that every follower of Jesus has a calling, Scripture describes it less as a grand mission statement and more as a way of life. Our true calling is to live the Jesus Way. To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give  

If you live long enough in this world, you soon learn that suffering is inevitable. Out-of-control hardships come in all shapes and sizes and never seem to wait for you to get ready for them—they hit when they want to, and all our plans get lost in the dust clouds of the collision. How are we, who are in Christ and sons and daughters of a good and holy God, to endure the suffering that He allows into our lives? How can we experience grief in a way that glorifies Jesus? His word has the answers, and the sooner you learn and trust His answers, the sooner you can steward every second of pain in this fallen world to the glory of Jesus. To support this ministry visit www.waynesborofm.com/give  

For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:17-18 To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give  

In The Lord's Prayer, Jesus gives us much more than a pattern for prayer, He gives us prayer priorities. As we look to the second part of these priorities, we'll continue to look to not just learn a routine but to experience all Jesus gives to us in His prayer. Again, do you want to experience prayer the way Jesus taught us to pray? To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give  

As we continue in this season of prayer and fasting and this series on prayer, we turn our minds and hearts to how Jesus told us we should pray, a model for prayer given to us by “He who lives to make intercession for us.” And though it is a prayer that has been quoted millions of times throughout the ages, many haven't yet experienced it. Do you want to experience prayer the way Jesus taught us to pray? To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give  

We're in week two of our annual new-year sermon series, PRAYER•OLOGY, centering all our goals and ambitions for this new year in the heart of seeking God's face and trusting His hand. Today, we'll be led in a thorough examination of the motives of our prayer lives, especially when it comes to praying with others. In it all, we'll see two amazing, prayer-life-shaping truths that will revolutionize how you understand and experience prayer. To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give  

With all the resolutions we've set, changes we want to see, and goals we want to accomplish in this New Year, do any of them involve your PRAYER LIFE? With the start of this new year, we are going to center our meditations, studies, events, and lives on prayer and fasting as we start this annual New Year's series, PRAYER•OLOGY, and kick off HUNGER TOGETHER, a season of prayer and fasting. To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give

You will keep the mind that is dependent on you in perfect peace, for it is trusting in you. Isaiah 26:3 To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give  

 So you also have sorrow now. But I will see you again. Your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy from you. John 16:22 To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give

How, then, can they call on him they have not believed in? And how can they believe without hearing about him? And how can they hear without a preacher? And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news. Romans 10:14-15 To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give  

 For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience. Romans 8:24-25 To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give

What does it look like to live out our faith in tangible, impactful ways? In this week's passage, the Apostle Paul urges us to be devoted to doing good works—not as a way to earn God's favor or saving grace, but as a natural response to the grace we've received. This Sunday, we'll explore how living a life of kindness, service, and love transforms our lives and the world around us. To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give

Christ saved us so that we might love one another. His Holy Spirit activates and advances His kingdom in us and through us. To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give  

When we discuss the Gospel (“Good News”) of Christ Jesus in simple terms, most of us will share the historical, physical events it entails: Jesus lived a moral life, died on the cross, and rose from the dead. These are nonnegotiable essentials to the good news, and yet, there's so much more! What are the supernatural realities behind all of these events? What is the theology of the Gospel? To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give

Everyone knows the saying, “practice what you preach.” To not do so would earn a certain unsavory label, and yet, too many who claim to know God and His Gospel still live lives disconnected from an ethic derived from God. Why is it so vital that the way we live aligns with what we believe? God's word answers this for the Christian: biblically ethical good works both accord with and adorn the Gospel. To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give  

The Gospel of Jesus Christ is a clear composition of truths that secure the rescue and restoration of every human being who receives those truths by faith as revealed in God's word. Yet, what are we to do with those who carry the banner of Christ but teach claims that nullify, contradict, add to, or subtract from the truths of the Gospel? How are we to deal with deceivers? Join us as we discover what it means to be guardians of the truth in a world filled with deceptions. To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give  

When the Gospel reaches a new town or city, and people receive it by faith, begin their discipleship to Jesus, and start to be transformed, what's the next step for that local church? Appoint those who have been and are being shaped inside and out by God to positions of overseeing the local body of believers… appoint Gospelized Leaders. To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give  

What does it look like when someone's life has been gospelized, when their convictions about God, themselves, and the world are aligned with the good news revealed in Christ Jesus? As we start our new series through Paul's letter to Titus, we will be challenged to discover the positions He's called us to, His unique purposes for us, and His promises that are the foundation for our hope. To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give

Living godly lives with Christ in this wilderness world, which provides no true sustenance and can often bring us to critical moments that remind us of our weakness, requires way more than self-willed determination and the latest lifehacks. Only one thing provides us with all that we need for and enables us to live Christ-like, God-exalting lives — God's free, daily GRACE. To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give  

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:4-7 To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give  

Have you ever wondered how to become wholly useful to God? The answer lies in purity. Join us as we explore how living in pursuit of purity prepares us to be instruments of honor, available for every good work God has planned for His purposes. To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give

Now more than ever, we're told to make our lives as loud as possible with busyness, productivity, and influence, or we're lulled to idle, silent sleep by the American Dream or our poor habits, not realizing there is power and peace to be found in a life marked by basic habits of rest, reflection, and health. Is it your ambition to lead a quiet life? To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give  

In a society often characterized by distance, isolation, and indifference, hospitality stands as a beacon of warmth, love, and hope. From the Old Testament Israel to the early church, hospitality has been a cornerstone of faith and the strategy for advancing the frontlines of the Kingdom. Join us as we delve into biblical narratives highlighting hospitality's significance and how it can transform our lives and communities. To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give  

"...that you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long." Deuteronomy 6:2 To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give

The Gospel is good news about how Jesus has rescued us from sin and death and restored us back to right community, communion with God, and with His people. Christian fellowship, belonging to and living together with citizens of heaven, is a source of incomparable joy and strength to believers who are eager to live on mission for the advancement of the Kingdom. Are you living life together with God AND His people? To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give  

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give  

"The Lord spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they paid no attention. Therefore the Lord brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh with hooks and bound him with chains of bronze and brought him to Babylon. And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. He prayed to him, and God was moved by his entreaty and heard his plea and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God." 2 Chronicles 33:10-13 To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give  

At the end of John's Gospel, Jesus answers the question we all needed the answer to: What about Peter? He had denied even knowing Jesus three times during Jesus' most critical hour… what would Jesus do with Peter? To our amazement, He offers Peter what he offers us in our failures: reaffirmed love and restored purpose. To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give http://www.waynesborofm.com/give

Remember the day when Jesus called you to follow him? What you were struggling with, most guilty of, couldn't see ever changing… remember what he saved you from and how much grace He offered you! No matter how far you fall, how cold your heart becomes, or how often you go and play in the mud, that same grace, motivated by that same love, that he held out to you back where it all began, He still holds out to you even now. To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give

Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!” Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” John 20:28-29 To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give

"Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, 'Peace be with you.' When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.” And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, 'Receive the Holy Spirit.'" To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give  

The reality of the historical, bodily resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth changes absolutely everything and is essentially relevant to everyone. It is the only way we can live life alive, life to the full. With Jesus risen, we rise too.  To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give

Do you feel like your faith in Jesus is hidden in the shadows? Have you ever kept your faith quiet for fear of the risks you face? Jesus invites us to follow Him with a kind of faith that is both public and radical. You can step out of the shadows of your fears and live out your faith in Jesus unashamed. To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give

Ever wonder if Jesus' death on the cross was just a tragic accident or a show?  God's word tells us His death was so much more… it was the culmination of an incredible plan and accomplished a work impossible to any man! Your life can be forever transformed by the word Jesus fulfilled and the work Jesus finished on the cross. To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give

Heartbreakingly, all humanity has a long track record of rejecting those sent by God to guide, counsel, exhort, or rule. When God shows up in the person of Jesus of Nazareth, the rightful and true King, offering citizenship and life in His invading kingdom, humanity behaves no differently. Instead of receiving His reign, they put their King on trial and cried for his crucifixion. This ultimately forces every one of us to ask ourselves how we'd fill in the blank when we say, “NO KING BUT ______________." To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give

"Then Pilate said to him, 'So you are a king?”'Jesus answered, 'You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.' Pilate said to him, 'What is truth?'" John 18:37-38 To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give

Have you ever messed up in a major way, not just once, but many times over? We all have. This week we explore when Peter denies Jesus three times. But this isn't just about Peter's failure. It's about how Jesus responds when we fall into failure. We'll discover the power of repentance and the unfailing love that welcomes us back, no matter how far we've strayed. Join us as we learn to run to Jesus, not from Him, when we fall. To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give

We often focus on the betrayal by Judas as the main theme of the Garden of Gethsemane, but John's account focuses on a deeper truth about Jesus. He emphasizes a particular trait in Jesus' character, one we as His disciples will need in this increasingly hostile and consequential world: COURAGE. To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give

Just before Jesus goes to the cross to offer up His life for us, He goes to the Father to pray for “those who believe in me through the [disciples] word.” Church… Jesus prayed for you, and His prayerful concerns were less about what we'd DO and more about who we'd BE. Come see what Jesus prayed that WE may be and prayerfully agree, “Your will be done." To support this ministry, visit www.waynesborofm.com/give