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Sunday, October 18 · The Presbyterian Church of Wyoming

Sunday Worship - October 18th, 2026

Stewardship season opens with a call to walk forward as a church, step by step, at the pace of God's love rather than by shortcuts, trusting that God already knows the future he is leading us into.

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What does it actually look like to walk with God day by day instead of all at once?

The sermon's whole picture is a life lived step by step, not in leaps. Koyama's three-mile-an-hour God meets us at walking pace, and the pastor admits he once tried to shortcut the life of faith and found there was no way around the slow road.

A man’s steps are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way. Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.

Psalms 37:23–24

A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

Proverbs 16:9

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Therefore, don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Ephesians 5:15–17

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Hebrews 12:1–2

If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.

Galatians 5:25

How do I keep from letting my job and my family crowd out the God who gave me both?

The pastor names the way good responsibilities can fill every inch of a life until God is functionally gone from it. It is not that work and family are wrong, but that they can become a shield that blocks the giver out of view.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.

Colossians 3:23–24

These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart; and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates.

Deuteronomy 6:6–9

But seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Matthew 6:33

As they went on their way, he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. She had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet and heard his word. But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came up to him, and said, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister left me to serve alone? Ask her therefore to help me.” Jesus answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

Luke 10:38–42

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain. It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil, for he gives sleep to his loved ones.

Psalms 127:1–2

Who is carrying a burden I could help with if I spoke up?

The sermon says people around us are laboring under sin and failure on their own, and that we hold words from God that could help them carry it. The question is whether we speak those words or swallow them, and Paul is the obvious example of someone who finally spoke.

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Galatians 6:2

I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am. Send me!”

Isaiah 6:8

But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel. For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

Acts 9:15–16

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back, let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

James 5:19–20

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, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

2 Corinthians 1:3–4

Does the church I grew up in still exist, or are we only ever moving forward?

The pastor looked in every closet for the way back machine and did not find it. The church of 1924 is gone and the church of 2026 is being made now, and the only direction available is the one the saints before us took, one generation handing on to the next.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. For by this, the elders obtained approval.

Hebrews 11:1–2

We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done. For he established a covenant in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children; that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children, that they might set their hope in God, and not forget God’s deeds, but keep his commandments,…

Psalms 78:4–7

…having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, in you also. For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

2 Timothy 1:5–6

Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you today; for you will never again see the Egyptians whom you have seen today. Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still.” Yahweh said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward.

Exodus 14:13–15

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to the things which are before, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 3:13–14