
Compassion Immersion — Week 2: Museum, Monument or Mission?
As a church are we becoming a museum, a monument or a mission? Religion is at its purest when we honor God with our lives and when we take care of the least in society. What do you see around you or around the world that distresses you or excites you to action?
Compassion Immersion — Week 1: The Next Step: Serve52
The people of WestGate are a generous people. This week we’ll celebrate the fruits of our giving over the past year. Yet, is there more? What would happen in our communities and on our planet if we committed to serving one on one, face to face with one another for one another one more time during the next year? Could we change a bit of our world?
Summer Mixtape — Week 6: Encore Song
When life becomes a complete mess, moving toward God in authentic worship will radically change your perspective. The symphony of praise in heaven in the book of Revelation can show us how to worship Jesus with more than our music. We must worship with everything that is in us.
Summer Mixtape — Week 5: Song of Honor
What is honor? Who does our culture honor and what does Jesus’ life show us about true honor and humility? We’ll unpack that as we look at the writing of Paul to the Philippians.
Summer Mixtape — Week 4: Song of Lament
We’ve learned to make light of our pain, to minimize it, ignore it and treat is as meaningless. In contrast we’ll look at how one of the Psalmists confronts his pain and see how, through his lament, his pain intersects with God’s presence and power.
Summer Mixtape — Week 3: Song of Deliverance
Hezekiah, King of Judah, set his heart on God and God delivered him from his enemies. What can we learn from Hezekiah’s desperation and God’s faithful response?
Summer Mixtape — Week 2: Song of Confession
Confession is crucial in how we deal with sin, it is needed in directing our living, and it enhances our understanding of God’s grace.
Summer Mixtape — Week 1: Psalms of Ascent
Most of us come to worship irregularly and with little or no preparation. In fact we prepare against any worship. We stay up late, fight with our friends and families, drag our kids. We are consistently and regularly prepared for distraction, not worship. We’ll look at what the Hebrews did to prepare themselves for worship.
Father's Day
Father’s Day means all sorts of thing to all sorts of people. Some believe that God knows us only as our earthly fathers know us. But what if we could really see that that God sees us as His beloved? How would that change us?
Now & Not Yet: Life, Death, and What's Next — Week 5: Question & Answer
Steve fielded questions live during service. He also addressed questions that were submitted throughout this serie
Now & Not Yet: Life, Death, and What's Next — Week 4: Jesus' Ascension
Jesus destroyed death by rising from the dead, then he ascended into heaven. But what did the ascension of Jesus look like? Who saw it and what does it mean for us?
Now & Not Yet: Life, Death, and What's Next — Week 3: Jesus Resurrected
Jesus’ resurrected life gives us a glimpse of what it will be like for us. We’ll look at snapshots of the resurrected Jesus, what that means for us and what we’re to do until then.
Now & Not Yet: Life, Death, and What's Next — Week 2: Jesus' Death
The most common questions about heaven deal with when and where. In this week's teaching we look at the interaction between Jesus and the thief on the cross in Luke 23, to discover not only the when and where of heaven but most importantly the who.
Now & Not Yet: Life, Death, and What's Next — Week 1: Jesus' Life
Does anyone know what is heaven like and what does Jesus tell us to do in the meantime?
Mother's Day
Whoever is forgiven much, loves much. That is what we learn from the woman who anointed Jesus with oil, washed his feet with her tears and dries them with her hair
Jesus: Unfiltered — Week 4: John 15
Who do you believe Jesus was and is? This question has huge implications. Is Jesus just a figment of our imagination? Lots of people are willing to teach a smaller, less significant Jesus than what the gospels say about Jesus. Today we look at the Jesus who can raise people from the dead.
Jesus: Unfiltered — Week 3: John 11
Who do you believe Jesus was and is? This question has huge implications. Is Jesus just a figment of our imagination? Lots of people are willing to teach a smaller, less significant Jesus than what the gospels say about Jesus. Today we look at the Jesus who can raise people from the dead.
Jesus: Unfiltered — Week 2: John 3&4
Jesus turned water into wine at wedding and turned over the money changers’ tables in the temple. We’ll take a look at two aspects of God, grace and justice, cultural norms in Jesus’ day, and what that means for us today.
Jesus: Unfiltered — Week 1: John 2
Jesus turned water into wine at a wedding and turned over the money changers’ tables in the temple. We’ll take a look at two aspects of God, grace and justice, cultural norms in Jesus’ day, and what that means for us today.