West Ridge EC Podcast

This week we are tackling 8 questions: 1. It seems like being an authentic Christian takes a lot of self-reflection. Is there a general checklist in the Bible? 2. What is the church’s view on public school? There seems to be some judgement towards it by members in our church but our pastors send their children to it. 3. Are women supposed to cover their hair when praying? Only a few Christians I k...

This week we cover 6 questions: 1. How can we be supportive yet truthful with unbelievers who have suffered loss or tragedy when they do not understand God’s word but are still angry at God for “allowing” their situation to happen? 2. Where does the church stand on engaging with the teachings of pastors like Steven Furtick or Mark Driscoll? 3. Which words are meant to be capitalized? I know “God”...

Today we tackle 6 questions: 1. When Jesus told the man on the cross "today you will be with me in paradise", did Jesus go to Paradise first and then to hell? 2. If someone was attending West Ridge Church and you discovered they were in the US illegally would you report them to government authorities? 3. How do I know if God is calling me to do something? Especially in the moment, when I only have...

Today we are tackling 8 questions: 1. Why are there so many versions of the Bible? 2. Could you explain how BC works and why AD doesn't seem to start at Jesus' birth? 3. Do people who have a relationship with Jesus go to heaven or hell if they keep committing a sin? If a "saved" person steps away from God do they need to get "saved" again or is there a necessary "refresher course" or prayer? 4. Do...

In the conclusion of our message series in the book of Joel, we dissect the blessing that is prophesied over Israel to see that we need to battle for the blessings of God's presence in our lives, God's anointing in our lives, and God's vengeance in our lives.

This week we talk about the battle for souls so that people can experience God's mercy rather than his wrath, experience revelations of God's grace and love, and experience Jesus in refuge rather than wrath.

As we enter into chapter three of the book of Joel, we learn about different types of spiritual battles. Battles against dehumanizing people, for treasures and temples, and the Last Battle.

We begin our Easter series on Palm Sunday by looking at the first three sayings of Jesus from the cross as we discover that true love wants to forgive us, wants us to live as family, and to care for our needs.

Today we are joined by Bishop Walter Harvey, who will share with us a message on being the salt of the earth and fishers of men.

We continue our study in Joel, where we get to a passage where hope is restored. In this message, we will discuss how God does great things, the former and latter rain, and repaying what "locusts" have stolen.

This week we pick up where we left off from last week looking at the call to rend our hearts in the context of a sacred assembly. We will discuss how a sacred assembly provokes reflection, repentance, and awakening.

In the next section of Joel's prophecy, he calls the people back to the basics by communicating to them that the Day of the Lord will not be a blessing for all believers, the wrath of God will be avoided by those who rend and return, and those who rend and return can experience awakening.

Joel is an intervention type of prophetic book. Today we will look at how God calling us to cry out and not run out of time is His means of intervening and what it looks like for us to move from hearing to listening.

Today we start a new sermon series in the book of Joel. In this prophetic book Joel beckons the people of God to get back to the basics of faith and we will look at the how, why, and when of back to the basics.

In the final message in this series we pay special attention to Storge or family love. As we examine a passage on the depravity of the final days we will explore how each love should be lived out today.

Today we study a passage in John 15 where Jesus describes his relationship with his disciples and we look at the friendship quotient in each of the other types of loves.

Today we discuss the marriage relationship through a passage in the Song of Songs. Throughout the passage we will see how each type of love contributes to the marriage relationship, with special attention to Eros (erotic) love.

This week we begin a new series on the four Greek words for love. Today we define all of the loves, but see how Agape is the supernatural form of love that we are called to bring into all the others.

In this week's message we discuss the types of baptism and learn that baptism initiates a progressive burial of the sin-nature, association with Jesus, and freedom to obey.

Today we have a guest speaker with us to share about the Holy Spirit's work and how it is about prayer and building up the body.

Today we conclude our study in the book of Philippians where Paul concludes is letter talking about investment. we will learn that friendship requires investment, investment is the test of professed love, and the revelation of the grace of giving.

We just back into Philippians 4 to discover the secret to contentment, its all about what we choose! We will look at three areas of choosing: what we consume, others over ourselves, to be content through Christ.

This week we complete our Christmas series with an often forgotten part of the Christmas story- the flee to Egypt. Through this narrative will discuss receiving dreams, threats to dreams, returned dreams.

Through the story of the magi we rediscover the love of the Spirit of Christmas, that love doesn't require "big" demonstrations, and that Christmas love gives.

This Christmas as we read through a story most of us have heard before, we want to re-discover how it impacts our lives today. In week two of our series we rediscover Joy in three areas: home, "behold" and praise.