West Church Peabody

This Sunday we return to our series, "Living in God's World, Even When It's Hard." This is a whole different side of the book of Daniel than what has come before. It is a vision of the future and it is dark and scary. Strange monsters devouring and destroying the world. One has lots of horns. One of the horns has eyes and a mouth and attacks the people of faith in the world. Even Daniel is deeply...

The theme of VBS has been about how we Magnify the Lord. This Sunday, the children and the VBS crew will share with the whole church and their parents all that we have experienced this week. It will be so amazing and so much fun. Then we will take a few minutes to look at what Psalm 19 says about how we magnify the Lord.

We continue in our series, “Living in God’s World, Even When It’s Hard.” This Sunday we will look at one of the most famous Bible stories of all time, Daniel in the lions’ den. Even under a new administration, Daniel still has a horrible time with opposition. This time, the trouble doesn’t come from those above him, but his colleagues and those below him. They are so devious. And yet Daniel shines...

As we continue in our series "Living in God's World, Even When It's Hard," guess what? It gets harder and worse. The next King of Babylon mentioned is worse that those before. Have you ever been in difficult times, asking God for relief, only to have life get even harder? It happens to all of us at one time or another. Yet when it seems to get worse, God is still there. He shows up. Daniel still b...

In our ongoing series, "Living in God's World, Even When It's Hard," we will see one more scene with the troubled king Nebuchadnezzar. Once again, Daniel is on the spot to help him. Why is God so on this particular king's case? What does he want from the King? What is God doing? When we know a little more about the history of Babylon and Israel, both inside and outside of the book of Daniel, we se...

This Sunday in our series, "Living in God's World, Even When It's Hard" we will see the first recorded vision that Daniel receives as a prophet of God. Daniel's visions are among some of the most unusual in the entire Bible. What I notice in Daniel 2 is the striking contrast. There is the little picture of what Daniel, his friends and Nebuchadnezzar are going through. But then there is the big pic...

In Genesis 12, God’s focus shifts to one man, Abraham. God gives Abraham a promise that will address the sin that exists in the world and reconcile fallen humanity back to himself. By God’s Grace and the power of His presence and Spirit, Abraham responds by faith to God’s commands. Through the person of Abraham, God created a promise for his people. That promise is intact and available to this ver...

Since the love of Jesus is the very core of our spiritual life, because it is the power behind our vision: "Loved by Jesus, Loving Others," since it is the only way to true happiness in this life in the next, I wanted us to stop and drink from the well of Jesus love for a few weeks. We will look at Luke 7:36-50 this week. We will see that we do not have to be worthy to come to Jesus. In fact, we m...

The disciples on the road to Emmaus were distraught. They thought their story was over, with no happy ending. But when Jesus tells them a better story, suddenly they are transformed and run with burning hearts to proclaim his resurrection. We will look at how the risen Jesus is the center of a new and better story, and how we can trust him to rewrite our stories in light of the cross and the empty...