There's a lot of talk in the church about doing life in community but when push comes to shove, sharing our lives with one another isn't easy. Sometimes it's just way more convenient and comfortable to go alone. But there's no such thing as a solo-Christian. In this teaching we explore both the challenges and the transformative power of doing life in community.

We live hurried lives which often lead to rushed decisions. When asked what one must do to achieve spiritual health, the theologian Dallas Willard once said, You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from you life. In this teaching, we explore both philosophical and practical ways to approach the process of eliminating hurry and rushed decisions from our everyday lives.

Jesus devotes more of His sermon on the Mount to the problem of anger and hostility than to any other matter. The answer is to right the wrong in persistent love, not to harbor anger, and to right it without further real and imaginary wrongs.

Mary is given a child to raise that will cause her great joy and great pain. We see through her that God’s favor and blessing often takes us to places we would never choose. There is nothing flashy about Mary, yet her faith is demonstrated by obedience.

The darkest and most tragic moment in King David’s life which brings about more heartache than he could have ever imagined was 2 Samuel 11 and Bathsheba. Yet there she is right up to the end of his life and right there in the genealogy of Jesus!

Through the story of Ruth we’ll see God’s loyalty to her revealed and what that says to us today about His faithfulness to redeem.

We’ll look at another of the women who are mentioned in Jesus’ lineage, Rahab, and see what her story can help us to see about our own story of God’s love, faithfulness and redemption.

Why is Genesis 38 and the story of Tamar in the bible? Through this story we can learn much about God’s redemptive plan for us individually and for all of humanity.

We want the people of WestGate to feel like this is their home. Home is about relationships and working side by side. Life is hard, we need each other. We need to do life together.

What a day! We’ll look at the day that Jesus fed the five thousand with a young boy’s lunch and ask the question, “When was the last time you were totally over your head for the cause of Jesus?”

The collective good if we could all decide to live “others centered” is a force so powerful that if we could see it and trust it, our hearts would sing for joy in the opportunities that God has given us. Rise up! Enter into the journey and adventure of living the life of Jesus.

Scripture says that we are a royal priesthood. But what does that really mean? What does it say about how and why we serve?

Our culture has a lot to say about God and Christians but what is our message? Does it strike us as genuinely good news that we are creations of a loving God who wants us to thrive, not random byproducts of a meaningless universe. The story of Jesus has this main theme: God God so loved the world that He gave...

The closing portion of the Lord’s Prayer - Give us daily bread. Forgive us as we forgive. Lead us and deliver us. - is often thought of as three or four independent ideas. But in this teaching we discover that these words are all leading us to one crucial question: Do we actually want the good things God wants to give us?

In this teaching we explore the opening lines of the Lord's Prayer. Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. When we pray, we pray to a God who is holy and set apart and yet loves us intimately as a Dad loves his kids.

Every young person is just one caring adult away from a meaningful and significant life. Josh Shipp and Steve will talk about the adults who help shape them at a critical time in their lives when it mattered most.

What could this next generation be? What could this next generation do? How do we help get them there? Ryan plans on highlighting the need to care for the “next generation”, showing that if care is not taken, great consequences have happened in bible. He is also going to walk thru several MAIN stories of the bible that have been led by TEENS.

Each year on the last weekend of Compassion Immersion Steve talks about the life of a missionary who left their mark on the world by listening to what God asked them to do and having the courage to carry it out. This year he’ll tell us about George Müller who opened many orphanages in England and inspired others to the same.