Victory Church Providence

All Call Sunday

All Call Sunday

A Sermon by Judy Mensch, missionary to the children  of Europe.

For more information about Judy here.

 

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Introduction

• Introduction of the speaker: Judy Mensch, a missionary, children’s pastor, evangelist, and Bible school instructor.
• Personal anecdotes regarding support and shared history with the church community.
• Humorous and personal stories to establish rapport (e.g., pantyhose story behind the pulpit).
• Emphasis on the church as a community of people, not just a building.

Reflections on Aging and Experience

• Positive perspective on aging: increased wisdom and social skills.
• Physical challenges of aging contrasted with personal vitality and ongoing activity.
• Encouragement to embrace age and continue serving.

Purpose and Structure of the Service

• Explanation of the focus: The Body of Christ and individual roles within it.
• Outline of how the service will conclude:
  • Invitation for newcomers to learn about Jesus.
  • Instructions for congregation members to visit ministry tables and sign up for service opportunities.
  • Emphasis that everyone should find a place to serve.

The Body of Christ: Diversity and Function

• Analogy of the body: Each part has a unique and necessary function.
• Encouragement for all members to participate in ministry, not to remain spectators.
• Assurance that everyone has something to contribute.

The Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25:14–30)

• Reference to the parable as a basis for the message.
• Clarification of terminology: preference for “skills and gifts” over “talents.”
• Emphasis that all have received gifts/skills from God.

Key Points of the Message

• A. Variety of Gifts
  • Everyone has received something; no one is left out.
  • Gifts differ in type and measure, reflecting God’s sovereignty and purpose.
  • Biblical references: 1 Corinthians 12, Romans 12, Ephesians.
• B. Responsibility of Having Gifts
  • Each person is called to use their gifts in service.
  • Serving fills personal gaps and brings fulfillment.
  • God’s will is for everyone to be active, not passive.
• C. Rewards of Using Gifts
  • Joy is the reward for serving and using one’s gifts.
  • Serving others leads to personal growth and spiritual satisfaction.

Diversity and Equality in the Body

• God gives different gifts to different people, but loves all equally.
• No gift is more honorable; all are necessary for the body to function.
• Reference to the “upside down kingdom”: God’s values often differ from worldly values.

Practical Application and Encouragement

• Encouragement to sign up for ministries, including less glamorous roles (e.g., nursery).
• Recognition that some ministries are less visible but equally important.
• Everyone’s contribution matters, regardless of recognition or praise.

Conclusion

• Restatement of the call to serve and be active in the body of Christ.
• Assurance that serving is serving Jesus himself.
• Final instructions for the congregation on next steps after the service.

 

Not on Your Own Understanding

Not on Your Own Understanding

A Sermon by Pastor Richard Sfameni, Lead Pastor of Victory Church in Providence, RI. 

Proverbs 3:5-6

5  Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding;

6  In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct your paths.

God, Israel, and The Church

 

God, Israel, and The Church

A Sermon by Pastor Richard Sfameni, Lead Pastor of Victory Church in Providence, RI. 

Paul’s Perspective

Paul’s Passion

Romans 9:1-5 NKJV

Israel’s Rejection of Christ

9 I tell the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit, 2 that I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my countrymen according to the flesh, 4 who are Israelites, to whom pertain the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises; 5 of whom are the fathers and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, the eternally blessed God. Amen.

Faith, Hope, and Love

Faith, Hope, and Love

A Sermon by Antoinette Marion, Carolyn Grenata, and Shiana Dubois, members of Victory Church in Providence, RI. 

Sound the Alarm on God’s Business

Sound the Alarm on God’s Business

A Sermon by Khrystyna McCoy-Tremaine, Executive Director of Hope International Church in Groveland, FL.  

• Roles of the watchman
• Directing you to safety
• Corporate worship
• Don’t conform to culture
• God’s business vs. politics
• Spiritual constipation
• Forgiveness

 

Isaiah 62:6-7 AMP

6  On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed and stationed watchmen (prophets), 

Who will never keep silent day or night;
You who profess the Lord, take no rest for yourselves,

 

7  And give Him no rest [from your prayers] until He establishes Jerusalem
And makes her a praise on the earth.

The Empowered Woman

Minister Khrystyna McCoy Tremaine

Learn to be prepared Mentally, Emotionally, Physically

Mathew 15: 21-28

What God has for you "No laughing matters"

Minister Khrystyna McCoy Tremaine

THEME: Woman of Judah

Finding the freedom to worship in the midst of the battle.

GENESIS 18: 10-15

I am so Thirsty - Women of Judah Conference, Friday Night

I Am So Thirsty

A Sermon by Pastor Lisa Sfameni, Co-Pastor of Victory Church in Providence, RI.  

• The Well
• The Woman
• The Water

 

John 4:1-38 NKJV

A Samaritan Woman Meets Her Messiah

4 Therefore, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John 2 (though Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples), 3 He left Judea and departed again to Galilee. 4 But He needed to go through Samaria.

5 So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6 Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.” 8 For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

9 Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.

10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

11 The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? 12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?”

13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”

15 The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.”

16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”

17 The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.”

Jesus said to her, “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’ 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.”

19 The woman said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.”

21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. 22 You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

25 The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, He will tell us all things.”

26 Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am He.”

The Whitened Harvest

27 And at this point His disciples came, and they marveled that He talked with a woman; yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why are You talking with her?”

28 The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men, 29 “Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?” 30 Then they went out of the city and came to Him.

31 In the meantime His disciples urged Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”

32 But He said to them, “I have food to eat of which you do not know.”

33 Therefore the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?”

34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work. 35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest! 36 And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. 37 For in this the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.”

The Heart of God

A Sermon by Pastor Richard Sfameni, Lead Pastor of Victory Church in Providence, RI.  

• No opposition
• No accusation
• No separation

 

Romans 8:31-39 NKJV

God’s Everlasting Love

31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written:

“For Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

How Suffering Serves God’s Purposes in our Lives

How Suffering Serves God’s Purposes in our Lives 

A Sermon by Pastor Richard Sfameni, Lead Pastor of Victory Church in Providence, RI.  

• A longing 
• A Leaving
• A Likeness

Romans 8:18-30 NKJV

From Suffering to Glory

18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 19 For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; 21 because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. 23 Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body. 24 For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees? 25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.

26 Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27 Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. 29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.