Weekly preaching from Westwinds Community Church
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What if the life we're chasing is upside down? Everything around us teaches us to look out for ourselves first. Protect yourself. Get ahead. Build your own success. But when Paul writes to the church in Philippi, he points them to a completely different way of living. At the center of his letter is a beautiful picture of Jesus, who didn't grasp for power or privilege but willingly emptied himself…
What can actually hold your life together? We spend a lot of time building on things that feel secure—our beliefs, our accomplishments, our certainty, even our opinions. But Jesus asked a different question: What kind of foundation will still be standing when the storms come? This week, we explored the apostle John's simple but profound declaration: "God is love." After decades of walking with…
Sometimes the Bible can feel like one long list of rules. Do this. Don't do that. Behave this way. Avoid that. It's easy to read Paul's letter to Titus and come away wondering if following Jesus is mostly about checking the right boxes. This week, we explored the deeper purpose behind Paul's instructions. Again and again, he points beyond behavior to something much bigger: the kind of people—and…
We spend a lot of our lives searching. Searching for success. Happiness. Security. The next achievement. The next stage of life. The thing that will finally make everything feel complete. The writer of Ecclesiastes spent a lifetime chasing those things—and came to a surprising conclusion. Pleasure wasn't enough. Work wasn't enough. Wisdom wasn't enough. Even success couldn't carry the weight of a…
Summary Lamentations is one of the most emotionally honest books in Scripture. Written after Jerusalem's destruction, it gives voice to grief, confusion, trauma, and unanswered questions. This week we explored why lament isn't something to avoid but something to practice. Rather than offering quick solutions, Lamentations teaches us that faith has room for sorrow, honest prayer, and seasons that…
You may never hear a voice from heaven. You may never see a burning bush or a miraculous sign pointing you toward your next step. But what if God has already placed you exactly where you are for a reason? This week, we explored the book of Esther—a story that reminds us that ordinary people, living ordinary lives, can become extraordinary agents of grace. Sometimes faith isn't about waiting for a…
Most of us know the story of Jonah.... A prophet. A storm. A giant fish. A city called Nineveh. But beneath the familiar story is a question that feels just as uncomfortable today as it did thousands of years ago: What do we do when God’s mercy reaches people we don’t think deserve it? This week, we looked beyond the whale and into Jonah’s heart. It’s a story about running from God, wrestling with…
Life doesn’t always unfold the way we imagined. Relationships break. Plans fall apart. Grief changes us. Sometimes even our faith begins to feel more complicated than we expected. This week, we begin our summer series, Common, by stepping into the book of Ruth. It’s often remembered as a simple love story, but beneath the surface is a story of loss, vulnerability, unexpected kindness, and a God…
When you think about the future, what do you picture? For many of us, the Christian hope has been reduced to one idea: someday we’ll go to heaven. But what if that’s only part of the story? In the final message of The Baby or the Bathwater, we explore the closing words of the Apostles’ Creed: “the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting.” Together, they paint a bigger picture—not of…
Most of us know what forgiveness means. At least in theory. But many of us still carry the weight of shame, self-condemnation, regret, and the quiet feeling that we haven’t quite done enough to deserve God’s love. This week, we explored one of the simplest lines in the Apostles’ Creed: “the forgiveness of sins.” Along the way, we wrestled with a deeper question: What if forgiveness isn’t something…
For all the ways Christians disagree, there has always been a deeper question underneath it all: What actually holds us together? Across centuries, cultures, denominations, and traditions, the church has wrestled with power, belonging, identity, and who gets to decide who’s in and who’s out. Yet the Apostles’ Creed makes a surprising claim: there is one holy Catholic Church and a communion of…