Westside Church in Vancouver B.C. aims to be a church that contends for the never-changing gospel of Jesus Christ entrusted to His followers but taught in a contextualized manner for an ever-changing culture.
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The Apostle Paul challenges the Christians to do some hard things because they lead to good things. Series: Ordinary Church Speaker: Cliff Ursel Date: May 16, 2021 Text: 1 Timothy 2:1-7 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
The Apostle Paul calls Timothy to "wage the good warfare" and as he does we learn several dynamics of spiritual war for the christian life. Series: Ordinary Church Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: May 9, 2021 Text: 1 Timothy 1:18-20 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
We all need renewal, which is time with Jesus that allows for refreshing and resetting. Series: Ordinary Church Speaker: Cliff Ursel Date: May 2, 2021 Text: 1 Timothy 1:12-17 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
What are we supposed to do with the law of God as Jesus' people? How do we handle a standard for life with God that none of us can live up to? Series: Ordinary Church Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: April 25, 2021 Text: 1 Timothy 1:8-11 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
How can we identify and confront false teaching in ways that honour Jesus and keep relationship with Him at the centre of all we are and all we do? Series: Ordinary Church Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: April 18, 2021 Text: 1 Timothy 1:3-7 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
As we open this study of 1 Timothy we'll see that human flourishing begins with surrender to the counterintuitive and often counter-cultural commands of God. Series: Ordinary Church Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: April 11, 2021 Text: 1 Timothy 1:1-2 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
An encounter with the resurrected Jesus is a life-changing reality. But do we really want to change? Series: Psalms of Ascent Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: April 4, 2021 Text: Philippians 3:7-11 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
Psalm 133 describes the beauty, power, and extreme value of God's people unified in worship. What makes unity so important and powerful? And how can we experience it? Series: Psalms of Ascent Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: March 28, 2021 Text: Psalm 133 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
Pride, arrogance, and god-like self perceptions are hidden noise machines in our lives that never let us rest. Jesus offers a new kind of life for anyone tired and worn out from the old one. Series: Psalms of Ascent Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: March 21, 2021 Text: Psalm 131 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
We all experience pain in life and most of that pain is a mixture of what happens to us and how we respond to it. The pain is real but healing is available. Series: Psalms of Ascent Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: March 14, 2021 Text: Psalm 130 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
In this moment, we have every reason to give up following Jesus. But Psalm 129 reveals that what we're willing to remember and hold to will determine whether we will ever make it to the end of our lives still abiding in Him. Series: Psalms of Ascent Speaker: Nathan Harrison Date: March 7, 2021 Text: Psalm 129 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
Joy is something that everyone seeks after, but there is only lasting, eternal joy found in Jesus. Series: Psalms of Ascent Speaker: Jer Adrian Date: February 28, 2021 Text: Psalm 126 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
Because of COVID, every single one of us is needing some kind of help. Today we look at ways to avoid dangerous proclivities and embrace a better way. Series: Psalms of Ascent Speaker: Cliff Ursel Date: February 21, 2021 Text: Psalm 121 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
As we come together to sing the first Psalm of Ascent we're invited to express the distress inherent in knowing Jesus; the dissonance that exists for every disciple of Jesus and pilgrim on his or her way to God. We're invited to lament. Series: Psalms of Ascent Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: February 14, 2021 Text: Psalm 120 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
In this week's sermon we'll take a look at the opening of the book of Acts, and discuss how what Jesus came to do, and what Jesus died to give us, impact the mission that God has for us. Series: Standalone Speaker: Josh Dool Date: February 7, 2021 Text: Acts 1:1-8 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
This week we'll close out our vision series with an emphasis on the third of our three core values. We'll talk about what it means to humbly pursue Jesus' presence; being continually formed into Jesus' image, for the good of our city as Jesus' kingdom comes. Series: Vision Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: January 31, 2021 Text: John 18:33-38, 19:12-22; Mark 1:14-15 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
This week we'll unpack the second of our three core values: formation into Jesus' image. Series: Vision Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: January 24, 2021 Text: John 15: 1-13 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
This week we'll unpack the first of our three core values: the humble pursuit of Jesus' presence. Series: Vision Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: January 17, 2021 Text: Revelation 2:1-7 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
We begin our vision series with a call to confession and repentance as a church. Series: Vision Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: January 10, 2021 Text: Revelation 2:1-7 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
We begin our vision series with a call to confession and repentance as a church. Series: Vision Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: January 10, 2021 Text: Revelation 2:1-7 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
Today we look at practical ways we can get our lives back on track with God and live lives of meaning and purpose.. Series: Haggai Speaker: Cliff Ursel Date: January 3, 2021 Text: Haggai 2 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
As we journey through the moments of our lives considering each step, may we find that the only eternal joy to be found is in Jesus.
This Christmas can possibly be the most meaningful Christmas of our life, if, we can trust that Jesus is our Glorified Lord. He is the Lord of all. Series: Humble Glory Speaker: Cliff Ursel Date: December 20, 2020 Text: Philippians 2:9-11 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
Jesus has a vision for His Church. He has a call on His people. And His Spirit is ready, willing, waiting to empower them for it. It's a vision that begins with embracing divine emptying. Series: Humble Glory Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: December 13, 2020 Text: Philippians 2: 5-8 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
As the Apostle Paul begins one of the most beautiful descriptions of Jesus' humility and glorification in all the Bible he starts with the high calling for Jesus' people to be a people of relational peace. Series: Zeal - The Gospel of John Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: December 6, 2020 Text: Philippians 2:1-4 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
A man comes to Jesus desperate for his dying son to be healed. Jesus heals but as He does, He exposes the real disease underlying our sickness. Series: Zeal - The Gospel of John Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: November 29, 2020 Text: John 4:46-54 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
Today concludes the conversation Jesus has with a woman who was sinful, but now being 'born from above' discovers has a voice of healing and redemption. Series: Zeal - The Gospel of John Speaker: Cliff Ursel Date: November 22, 2020 Text: John 4:31-45 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
Jesus meets a woman at a wall and invites her to imagine a kind of water that would remove her thirst once and for all. Why does He do this and how can we experience this living water for ourselves? Series: Zeal - The Gospel of John Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: November 15, 2020 Text: John 4:1-30 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
As we study this interaction between John's disciples and the questioning Jew, we'll see how the author is setting up a Comparison, an Invitation, and concludes with an Imperative that challenges believers and non-believers alike. Series: Zeal - The Gospel of John Speaker: Josh Dool Date: November 8, 2020 Text: John 3:22-36 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
A religious leader came to Jesus at night to have a dangerous conversation. Jesus pointed him to the one thing he needed, to be born again. An impossibility made possible for all of us. Series: Zeal - The Gospel of John Speaker: Cliff Ursel Date: November 2, 2020 Text: John 3:16-21 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
A religious leader came to Jesus at night to have a dangerous conversation. Jesus pointed him to the one thing he needed, to be born again. An impossibility made possible for all of us. Series: Zeal - The Gospel of John Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: October 26, 2020 Text: John 3:1-15 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
This is the second 'sign' John gives to reveal Jesus to us. As Jesus makes His way into Jerusalem for Passover we'll see His authority and His zeal put on display. We'll see Jesus' passion for His Father's house to be all that it should be. Series: Zeal - The Gospel of John Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: October 18, 2020 Text: John 2:12-25 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
As we unpack Jesus' first 'sign' in John's account of His life, we'll see the lengths He went to to secure our joy today and forever. And we'll see exactly how we can taste that joy starting right now. Series: Zeal - The Gospel of John Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: October 12, 2020 Text: John 2:1-11 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
In the story of Jesus' encounter with two early disciples, Jesus tells what happens to us when we surrender to His call on our lives. When we begin to grasp what He is saying we cannot but want to follow Him wherever it is He wants to lead us! Series: Zeal - The Gospel of John Speaker: Darrell Johnson Date: October 4, 2020 Text: John 1:43-51 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
In this text we watch as the first disciples take their first steps in following Jesus. But He's no ordinary Rabbi, Guru, Prophet, Priest, or King; He's the Messiah. Following Him means answering His question, accepting His invitation, and identifying with His promise. Series: Zeal - The Gospel of John Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: September 27, 2020 Text: John 1:35-42 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
We become what we behold. Last week we 'beheld' Jesus as the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. But that's only the first half of the Good News. As we look again we'll see that Jesus is also the one who baptizes us with the Holy Spirit. Series: Zeal - The Gospel of John Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: September 20, 2020 Text: John 1:29-34 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
As we move into a brand new season of life and ministry there's only one thing that really matters. One thing Satan, the enemy of our souls, would love to distract us from; beholding Jesus. Seeing Jesus. Knowing Jesus and making Jesus known. Series: Zeal - The Gospel of John Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: September 14, 2020 Text: John 1:29 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
John the Baptist was chosen by God to reveal Jesus as the long awaited Saviour to a watching and waiting world. Today isn't just about a great man, it's about us finding fulfillment and purpose in difficult times. Series: Zeal - The Gospel of John Speaker: Cliff Ursel Date: September 6, 2020 Text: John 1:19-28 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
In this sermon we will come to the very centre of the prologue or overture in John 1:1-18. We'll see the implications of God taking on flesh and dwelling among us in Jesus. Series: Zeal - The Gospel of John Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: September 3, 2020 Text: John 1:14-18 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
In this sermon we'll unpack what the Revelation of Jesus as the 'True Light', discuss why so many people reject him, and talk about how we go about engaging with the life he came to give. Series: Zeal - The Gospel of John Speaker: Josh Dool Date: August 23, 2020 Text: John 1:9-13 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca
The Apostle John continues to answer the question, 'Who is Jesus?' by pointing to a brand new kind of life and light. Series: Zeal - The Gospel of John Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: August 16, 2020 Text: John 1:4-8 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca.
As the Apostle John sets out to answer the question, 'Who is Jesus?' he takes us back, before the beginning, to reveal the essential nature of the God of love. Series: Zeal - The Gospel of John Speaker: Matt Menzel Date: August 9, 2020 Text: John 1:1-5 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at www.wchurch.ca.
We'll look at Matthew 5:13-16 and see what Jesus says about the identity, mission, and cost of being his disciples today.
In this sermon we will unpack Paul's call for the women in Corinth to wear head coverings as they prayed and prophesied in the church gathering. We'll unpack what was behind that call and what it means for us today.
As we consider Paul's challenge to the Corinthian church to imitate him as he imitates Chris, we ask ourselves, "Who do I imitate?" and "Who is imitating me?".
This week we will examine three principles that govern our freedom in Christ, and discuss how we live out Paul's command to 'glorify God in everything we do'.
The first part of 1 Corinthians 10 the Apostle Paul makes a big observation that could lead to catastrophe if not addressed. Today's text is the prescription and the motivation to make the changes.
After helping the Corinthians understand the priority of love over knowledge, Paul now moves to use his own life as an example of laying down our rights. In this sermon we'll see three ways the gospel of Jesus transforms our lives: drudgery to joy, stewardship to reward, and self-interest to love.
Why is love at the centre of life in Jesus' Kingdom? And how can we, as a church, embody His love for the world the way He embodied His love for us?
The heading in your Bible might make you think we are going to be talking about 'food offered to idols' though we will talk about that we will see that this text uses 'food offered to idols' as a springboard to talk about today's sensitive issues while at the same time providing perspective, hope and a solution.
The role that single people are invited to play in Jesus' Kingdom signals a shift in how we experience God's favour, live out our purpose, and respond to divine love.
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