FPC Podcast - First Presbyterian Church Norfolk

The Magnificent One || Isaiah 61: 1-2

We have a Magnificent Savior! Come and Worship Him!
We will be overwhelmed with the beautiful music of Mary’s Song and what the ancient prophets foretold. We have a God who comes in love, light and peace. Let us worship him with our heart, soul, mind, strength and living!
What needs to be magnified in your life in this season?
Sermon by: Jim Wood, Senior Pastor 

Impacting: Producing Fruit for the Kingdom || John 12:23-25

Seeds are a great illustration for our true identity.  Seeds contain life and form that remain invisible to us.  They are an actuality that contain a possibility. They contain a blueprint for something far greater than what we can see merely by looking at the seed.
Seeds contain a form. We are not accidental – we are created with intent. We are not lumps of something but intricately formed, highly complex beings. Scripture teaches us that as human beings, we have been pre-formed. Long before we were born, we existed in the mind of God. God, therefore, foreknew us.
Our destiny is to be con-formed, and trans-formed into the image of Christ. Our essence preceded our existence, and your essence and existence are fascinating.
This four-week series will guide us through our FPC Spiritual Growth Map as we consider our true identity in Christ.
 
Sermon by Jim Wood, Senior Pastor 

Luke 13:18-19 || Discovering: The Kingdom of God Within

Seeds are a great illustration for our true identity.  Seeds contain life and form that remain invisible to us.  They are an actuality that contain a possibility. They contain a blueprint for something far greater than what we can see merely by looking at the seed.
Seeds contain a form. We are not accidental – we are created with intent. We are not lumps of something but intricately formed, highly complex beings. Scripture teaches us that as human beings, we have been pre-formed. Long before we were born, we existed in the mind of God. God, therefore, foreknew us.
Our destiny is to be con-formed, and trans-formed into the image of Christ. Our essence preceded our existence, and your essence and existence are fascinating.
This four-week series will guide us through our FPC Spiritual Growth Map as we consider our true identity in Christ.
 
Sermon by Jim Wood, Senior Pastor 

Matthew 13:1-23 || Growing: Hearing and Understanding the Word

Seeds are a great illustration for our true identity.  Seeds contain life and form that remain invisible to us.  They are an actuality that contain a possibility. They contain a blueprint for something far greater than what we can see merely by looking at the seed.
Seeds contain a form. We are not accidental – we are created with intent. We are not lumps of something but intricately formed, highly complex beings. Scripture teaches us that as human beings, we have been pre-formed. Long before we were born, we existed in the mind of God. God, therefore, foreknew us.
Our destiny is to be con-formed, and trans-formed into the image of Christ. Our essence preceded our existence, and your essence and existence are fascinating.
This four-week series will guide us through our FPC Spiritual Growth Map as we consider our true identity in Christ.
 
Sermon by Jim Wood, Senior Pastor 

1 Corinthians 3:1-9 || Exploring: God Gives The Growth

Seeds are a great illustration for our true identity.  Seeds contain life and form that remain invisible to us.  They are an actuality that contain a possibility. They contain a blueprint for something far greater than what we can see merely by looking at the seed.
Seeds contain a form. We are not accidental – we are created with intent. We are not lumps of something but intricately formed, highly complex beings. Scripture teaches us that as human beings, we have been pre-formed. Long before we were born, we existed in the mind of God. God, therefore, foreknew us.
Our destiny is to be con-formed, and trans-formed into the image of Christ. Our essence preceded our existence, and your essence and existence are fascinating.
This four-week series will guide us through our FPC Spiritual Growth Map as we consider our true identity in Christ.
 
Sermon by Jim Wood, Senior Pastor 

1 Corinthians 13 || Keys to a Full Life: Love

The soul’s house, that interior dwelling-place which all Christian believers possess, is a place in which we can meet God or, from which in a sense, we can exclude God. Of course, no imagery is perfect when we speak of the spiritual life, but our hope is that Evelyn Underhill’s book ‘The House of the Soul’ will allow us to uncover many truths that govern our interior life of prayer.
 
Join us each week as we unlock the "6 Keys to a Full Life" based on mystic Evelyn Underhill’s book "The House of the Soul"
 
Sermon by Jim Wood, Senior Pastor 

Isaiah 40:31 and Ephesians 1:18 || Keys to a Full Life: Hope

The soul’s house, that interior dwelling-place which all Christian believers possess, is a place in which we can meet God or, from which in a sense, we can exclude God. Of course, no imagery is perfect when we speak of the spiritual life, but our hope is that Evelyn Underhill’s book ‘The House of the Soul’ will allow us to uncover many truths that govern our interior life of prayer.
 
Join us each week as we unlock the "6 Keys to a Full Life" based on mystic Evelyn Underhill’s book "The House of the Soul"
 
Sermon by Jim Wood, Senior Pastor 

Hebrews 11: 1-6 || Keys to a Full Life: Faith

The soul’s house, that interior dwelling-place which all Christian believers possess, is a place in which we can meet God or, from which in a sense, we can exclude God. Of course, no imagery is perfect when we speak of the spiritual life, but our hope is that Evelyn Underhill’s book ‘The House of the Soul’ will allow us to uncover many truths that govern our interior life of prayer.
 
Join us each week as we unlock the "6 Keys to a Full Life" based on mystic Evelyn Underhill’s book "The House of the Soul"
 
Sermon by Valena Hoy, Associate Pastor 

Philippians 3:10-14 || Grit: For No Word From God Will Ever Fail

The soul’s house, that interior dwelling-place which all Christian believers possess, is a place in which we can meet God or, from which in a sense, we can exclude God. Of course, no imagery is perfect when we speak of the spiritual life, but our hope is that Evelyn Underhill’s book ‘The House of the Soul’ will allow us to uncover many truths that govern our interior life of prayer.
 
Join us each week as we unlock the "6 Keys to a Full Life" based on mystic Evelyn Underhill’s book "The House of the Soul"
 
Sermon by Jim Wood, Senior Pastor 

Matthew 6:33 || Self Control: But First Seek His Kingdom

The soul’s house, that interior dwelling-place which all Christian believers possess, is a place in which we can meet God or, from which in a sense, we can exclude God. Of course, no imagery is perfect when we speak of the spiritual life, but our hope is that Evelyn Underhill’s book ‘The House of the Soul’ will allow us to uncover many truths that govern our interior life of prayer.
 
Join us each week as we unlock the "6 Keys to a Full Life" based on mystic Evelyn Underhill’s book "The House of the Soul"
 
Sermon by Jim Wood, Senior Pastor