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How we spend our money tells us where our heart is--what we value, desire, and love. It tells us what we think is worth a sacrifice. In a similar way, how we pray tells us what we think of God, ourselves, Christ's church, our neighbor, and the world we live in. Our prayer life reveals what we really trust, care about, long for, and love. This Sunday, like the disciples, we too will ask, &quot...

The Lord's Prayer does not simply show us how to pray.  It is a blueprint for living and giving to the glory of God.  See you Sunday as we begin to explore together this great prayer Jesus taught us. Support the show

The home where we have lived and the citizenship of the country we live in profoundly shapes our values, beliefs, life perspective, desires, goals, and dreams, even when we are away from our home and even when we are residing in a different country.  The Bible assures us Christians that Heaven is our eternal home and the place of our spiritual citizenship.  Mature faith breathes the air of Heaven...

What do you think of God's Church?  What do you think about Westtown Church?  What difference might it make if you and I saw God's Church, including Westtown Church, the way Christ sees her?  The Bible shows us.  Let's think and pray about that this week. Support the show

Years ago there was a wonderful little book written by J.B. Phillips called Your God is Too Small. It's what Martin Luther meant when he said to Erasmus in the 16th century, "Your God is too human [like]." The LORD Himself puts it like this in Isaiah 40:25, "To whom then will you compare me...?" (ESV) God is great, Westtown Church! Let's move Forward in Faith and cele...

Jesus alone is the Head of God's Church and the King of God's kingdom.  As the risen King, He has a kingdom on earth that He is building that is concentrated in the local church.  Our Lord rules His kingdom on earth through His divine Word and Spirit and through His ordained officers of the kingdom--pastors, elders, and deacons--who are called to prayerfully, graciously, and practically...

How you treat my wife is how you treat me. To injure or love my wife is to injure or to love me. When Saul, the hate-filled persecutor of the early church who later became the Apostle Paul, was confronted by the risen Lord Jesus Christ, He did not say to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting the church?" Rather, Jesus said to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?" T...

There was once a man who went and bought a very expensive piano for his home.  No one in his family knew how to play piano nor did he have any intention of learning piano.  But there the piano sat, for years, gathering dust.  God mercifully saves us sinners through faith in Christ.  But for what purpose?  Just as a piano purchased at great expense is meant to be played, a sinner purchased by the p...

It is one thing to be thirsty and know you need water to live.  It is another thing altogether to know where to find that life-giving and life-sustaining water.  It is one thing to know you are a sinner and to find your hope in the sovereign mercy of God alone.  It is another thing altogether to know where to find that saving mercy of God, how to drink from that divine well, and how much it will c...

What is the secret of becoming better lovers at home, in the church, and of our neighbors in the community?  Speaking of the sinful woman who wet Jesus' feet with her tears, wiped them with her hair, kissed them and anointed them with expensive perfumed oil, Jesus said to Simon the Pharisee, "Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven--for she loved much.  But he who is...

Let's re-commit to God's Word in 2025 and beyond. Support the show

Advent is a time of anticipation, and this year we’re celebrating the “God of Wonders.” The Christmas story is about the miraculous birth of Jesus but also about the supernatural ways God works in the lives of ordinary people for our good and for our salvation. Together, we’ll explore the wonders of His promises, His presence, and His power, drawing us into the incredible hope we have in Christ. S...

In the story of the Magi, we see that the news of Jesus’ birth is good news for all people, from all nations. Matthew wants us to examine the responses of The Magi, Herod, and the Jewish Clergy to the news of Jesus’ coming, and see that there’s no middle ground when it comes to Jesus. We are either troubled by Him and reject him, or we rejoice over him and worship Him. Support the show

Jesus and Immanuel the two names that told Joseph everything he needed to know about Christ. They tell us about who God is and the salvation we have in him. Support the show

In a classic 1979 Steve Martin comedy The Jerk, Steve plays a man named Navin, who bursts with excitement and jubilation when the new published phone book arrives.  We laugh precisely because a phone book doesn't warrant such ridiculous excitement.  We may be tempted to treat the genealogy of the Gospel of Matthew like a list of names in an old phone book.  But the beauty of God’s gracious an...

In the Fall of 1621, our Pilgrim forefathers celebrated a three-day Thanksgiving feast with 90 Wampanoag Indians. They had previously lost about half of their fellow Pilgrims to death due to that harsh first winter, yet, they were thankful to God for His great mercy and many gracious blessings upon them. We, too, have much for which to be thankful to the LORD, as our Creator and Redeemer. Let&apos...

Hear the good news about what God is doing around the world to advance his Kingdom Westtown's normal Sunday morning worship services and Sunday School classes will have a missions theme on November 17th. Come and hear all about how God calls us to fulfill the Great Commission both at home and abroad with our time, talent, and treasures. Missions Sunday is an opportunity to share more about wh...

During the 16th Reformation, church reformers like Martin Luther, John Calvin, and others brought the church back to the clarity of the biblical gospel--the gospel of "justification by faith alone." It is one thing to know God forgives sinners but how can I know God has personally forgiven me ? It is one thing to know that God graciously gives sinners the free gift of righteousness but h...

We will all give an account to God at the Final Judgment. So how is it that we as sinners can get right with a holy God? How do we know that God is at peace with us? How can we be assured that we will spend eternity with God and His saints in Heaven forever? A German monk named Martin Luther wrestled with these same questions over 500 years ago. Luther's conscience was tormented by his sin in...

What does a moderately firm handshake, a limp handshake, a firm handshake, a kiss on the cheek--perhaps once, twice or even three times!--a bow, one's nose to the forehead, a smile and a nod, and sticking out your tongue all have to do with love? Come this Sunday and find out as we continue in the Love Chapter of 1 Corinthians 13. Support the show

In the first part of Ephesians 1 Paul lays out for us the doctrine of the Trinity, God’s eternal and perfect family. He also explains how the church is grafted into that family. The Father adopts, the Son unifies, and the Holy Spirit seals us to the praise of His glory! Support the show

As our church family gathers together, at Westchase Elementary after Hurricane Milton, let us remember the promises God gives us that He is in control and He will deliver us from the storms in our lives. We look to Lamentations 3 and are reminded that the steadfast love of the Lord never ceases – His mercies never come to an end. Support the show

The King James Bible says 'charity [or love] vaunteth not itself.' It does not walk around saying, like one of Will Ferrell's movie characters, 'I'm kind of a big deal.' Love doesn't write a book entitled, 'Humility and How I Achieved It.' Rather, love willingly stoops to do the work of the lowliest slave, dies to self, and absorbs suffering for the goo...

The sin of envy has been placed by Western theologians among the list of Seven Deadly Sins, meaning envy is not simply a particular sin, like an individual weed, but a vice, like a crawling vine that takes over the yard. This is why Rebecca DeYoung says that envy is not so much like a broken arm but cancer, a cancer fueled, not by sugar, but by pride. This Sunday we will consider from 1 Corinthian...