West Side Church of Christ

Guest Speaker Steve Henderson gives some practices to not worry.

Where is your 'Jerusalem' right now, and who are the specific people God has placed in your life to love and lead toward Christ?

At the heart of this message lies a profound question: what do we truly seek when we encounter Jesus? The shepherds, Simeon, and the Magi all share one remarkable quality-they weren't satisfied with signs and wonders alone. They wanted to see Jesus himself. Simeon's prayer captures this beautifully: he was ready to depart in peace because his eyes had finally seen God's salvation. This wasn't abou...

This sermon explores how God faithfully worked through ordinary people and quiet moments to bring about His greatest promise—the birth of Jesus Christ. We examine the 400 years of biblical silence between the Old and New Testaments, recognizing that God's apparent silence never means His absence. Through the lives of Joseph and Mary, we saw how God chose faithfulness over fame, surrender over stat...

This sermon explores the life of Josiah, an eight-year-old king who rediscovered God's Word hidden in the temple during renovations. His story mirrors our own spiritual journey—sometimes we lose what matters most in the very places meant to protect it. Josiah's genuine repentance and radical reforms were commendable, yet they couldn't undo generations of rebellion. His story points us forward to J...

The sermon explored how Jesus' family tree includes some of the worst kings in Judah's history—men who rebuilt pagan altars, sacrificed their own children, and led God's people into deep spiritual darkness. Yet Matthew deliberately included their names in the genealogy, reminding us that Jesus didn't come into a sanitized, perfect world. He entered into real darkness, real brokenness, and real dys...

King Hezekiah inherited a spiritually broken kingdom from his father Ahaz, yet chose to follow God faithfully. What patterns or legacies in your own family line might God be calling you to either continue or redirect?

In today's message: Rehoboam had access to wise counsel from his father's advisors but chose to listen to his friends instead. What voices in your life are you currently listening to, and are they challenging you toward wisdom or simply echoing what you want to hear?

This message invites us into the complex and cautionary story of King Solomon, whose life began with extraordinary promise yet ended in tragic compromise. Using the striking image of the Leaning Tower of Pisa—a beautiful structure built on unstable ground—we're reminded that even the most gifted among us can drift when our foundation shifts. Solomon's story in 1 Kings reveals a man who asked God f...

This powerful reflection on Founders Day invites us to consider the concept of an 'Ebenezer stone'—a memorial marker declaring 'thus far the Lord has helped us.' Drawing from 1 Samuel 7, we explore how the Israelites experienced renewal, victory, and God's continued faithfulness after a season of spiritual wandering. The message challenges us to examine our own spiritual foundations: Are our heart...

What if the king we need isn't the king we expect? This powerful exploration of King David's story challenges us to reconsider our understanding of leadership, authority, and God's purposes. We journey from the shepherd fields of Bethlehem to the throne of Israel, discovering that God's metrics are radically different from ours. While we fixate on appearance, wealth, talent, and status, God search...

The story of Ruth offers us a profound reminder that our past does not disqualify us from God's grace. Ruth was a Moabite—a foreigner from a spiritually wicked nation that practiced detestable worship, including child sacrifice to the god Chemish. Yet when we encounter her in Matthew's genealogy of Jesus, we see that God welcomed her into the covenant family. Her journey from outsider to ancestor...

On our journey through Matthew's genealogy of Jesus, we come to an unlikely hero. Rahab wasn't and Israelite, and her professional occupation wasn't one that is often glorified. Rahab was a prostitute, and yet, God didn't hide her name, he placed it front and center. Rahab's story of assimilation into the nation of Israel and her inclusion in the family tree of Jesus, remind us that our past doesn...

This past week we had a guest speaker, Steve Henderson who preached on the enduring Word of God, using 1 Peter 1:25 as his base text.

As we continue our investigation into the Family Tree of Jesus, as recorded for us in Matthew 1, we now come across two individuals who are intrinsically linked, Judah and Tamar. Judah is the fourth son born to Jacob and Leah. Judah is recorded as finding a wife among the Canaanites, a practice which he followed for his own son. In this message we find Judah pointing us toward Jesus through the ac...

In this fourth sermon in our Rooted series, we open up the story of Jacob, the son of Isaac, and the grandson of Abraham. Jacob was the second twin born to his father and mother, and yet, he was the one the promise ended up going through. His mother, Rebekah new this from the time he and his brother Esau were in the womb. In this sermon, we unpack the story of Rebekah's deception of Isaac, Esau se...

In this third sermon of our Rooted Series, where we are taking a look at the genealogy of Jesus that Matthew records for us in his gospel, we continue with Abraham's son Isaac. Isaac was the son of the promise that Abraham and Sarah had waited 25 years for. When it was time to find a wife for Isaac, Abraham knew he could not take one from the pagan people they were living amongst. So he sent his h...

In this second sermon of our Rooted Series, where we are taking a look at the genealogy of Jesus that Matthew records for us in his gospel, we start with Abraham. Abraham was promised that his descendants would become as numerous as the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. After 25 years of waiting, the son God promised was finally born. Yet, when this son had grown, God put Abraham to t...

In this series introduction sermon we examine why Matthew wrote his gospel and why he started with the inclusion of Jesus' genealogy.