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Westview Church is about following Christ in all of life. In each episode we discuss how that mission plays out in a different aspect of life.

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    EXHORTATION - Do the Work

    Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2025 4:19


    The commendation for being a fellow laborer is invalid if we do not commit ourselves to any activity sanctioned by Jesus for his disciples. We must exert ourselves in the things Scripture exhorts us in with gospel sweat. Listen to Pastor David's exhortation to do the work for more.

    SERMON - Our Lord, Come!

    Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2025 39:08


    Hell is real. Unity is hard. Christ is coming. In verses that can too easily be glossed over, we see the apostle brings 1 Corinthians to a close in a similar way to how he began it: giving attention the theological reality of God's blood-bought people and the preciousness of Christ himself. Listen to Pastor Brett's sermon on 1 Corinthians 16:19-24 for more.

    EXHORTATION - Confess Fully

    Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2025 6:30


    If you walk into a dirty room that is just utterly filthy, you will quickly recognize that the occupant needs to learn how to clean. The same is true in seeking and offering forgiveness. We can't just offer up a generic, "Sorry." We need to confess fully. Listen to Pastor Zach's exhortation for more.

    SERMON - Act Like Men

    Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2025 42:28


    In a passage like 1 Corinthians 16:10-18, we need to do the diligent work of moving from the original context, across the bridge of the universal principle, in order to land on application for our lives. In doing so, we see we ought to be subject to fellow workers and act like men. Listen to Pastor Brett's sermon for more.

    EXHORTATION - Be Wary of Discontentment

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2025 6:34


    There is a place for godly ambition—doing great things, daring great things in the name of the Lord. But we must not, particularly moms, be discontent with the simple faithfulness of our place in life. Listen to Pastor Brett's exhortation for more.

    SERMON - Good News for the Worst of Sinners

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2025 41:46


    Robert Moffat spent fifty-four years laboring for the advance of the gospel among the Tswana people of South Africa. He saw little fruit of his labors. What could keep him at such work for so long? The perfect patience of Christ to save sinners. Listen to Connor Kennedy's sermon on 1 Timothy 1:15-17 for more.

    EXHORTATION - Don't Walk in Idleness

    Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2025 6:40


    We ought to be stirred up in our diligent labors by looking to the ant. It requires no parent, no supervisor, no authority, yet labors faithfully. Work is good, and no small work should be despised. Listen to Michael Urch's exhortation to not walk in idleness for more.

    SERMON - Planned Generosity for Gospel Partnership

    Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2025 40:44


    You give it away and try to get more every day. You have argued about it, but you don't talk about it with others. What is it? Money. The love of which is the root of all kinds of evils (1 Timothy 6:10). There are a number of ways to safeguard against such a danger, one of which is planned generosity for gospel partnership. Listen to Pastor Brett's sermon on 1 Corinthians 16:1-9 for more.

    EXHORTATION - Desire the Kingdom

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2025 5:57


    Are you ready for the world to come? Are you ready to engage in that life that Christ has secured for eternity? There will be no one in Heaven who does not want to be there, so is there even now a growing desire for the Kingdom of God? Listen to Pastor David's exhortation for more.

    SERMON - Therefore, Be Steadfast

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2025 37:51


    "Preach the gospel, die, and be forgotten." Is that a motto you would ascribe to for your life? It comes from an 18th century German count who saw no disconnect between the resurrected Christ and the work to be done today. Neither does the Apostle Paul. Listen to Pastor Brett's sermon on 1 Corinthians 15:58 to be challenged be steadfast in the hope of the resurrection by abounding in the work of the Lord knowing such work will not be in vain.

    EXHORTATION - Do Not Covet

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2025 8:23


    The Tenth Commandment might not be climactic but it is different as it takes place in the heart. What happens in your heart when a friend receives something good? Listen to Pastor Zach's exhortation to not covet for more.

    SERMON - The Victory Through Christ

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2025 38:44


    When was the first time in your life you experienced death? How do you make sense of this world in light of the problem that is death? First Corinthians 15:51-57 not only provides the solution but provokes us to the boldness of confident hope that God is giving us the victory. Listen to Pastor Brett's sermon for more.

    EXHORTATION - Do Not Steal

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2025 6:23


    Why is stealing wrong? Because when we take what we haven't worked for and what we don't deserve, we tarnish the image of God that we bear. And even if you've never shoplifted, you still might be a thief; stealing takes many forms, but it always robs God of something he has entrusted us or others to steward. Listen to this week's exhortation from Toby Phillips for more.

    SERMON - Wake Up!

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2025 42:19


    Wake up, and know your God! The reality of the resurrection of the dead transforms how God's people live: we are to proclaim the resurrection through a life of sacrifice, and we have hope and contentment now as we fix our eyes on Christ, our ultimate treasure. Listen to Pastor Zach's sermon on I Corinthians 15:29-34 to learn how to live in the knowledge of the resurrection.

    EXHORTATION - Do Not Commit Adultery

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2025 8:39


    The lifelong covenant of marriage is like a greenhouse that allows sexual expression to flourish and bear fruit. Meanwhile, adultery is a blight to the one-faith union, telling lies about the gospel. And lust is adultery in seed form. Listen to Pastor Zach's exhortation on the Seventh Commandment to learn why our sexual behavior matters to God.

    SERMON - Christ Has Been Raised

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2025 48:26


    As we grieve, lament, and question the pervasive presence of death in this world, our perspective is that of Mary and Martha: we wait between the promise of resurrection and its possession. But we do not wait in vain. Christ has in fact been raised from the dead, and his resurrection guarantees both the resurrection of all believers and the triumph of God's kingdom. Listen to Pastor David's sermon on I Corinthians 15:20-28 for more.

    Do Not Murder

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2025 6:10


    Jesus intensifies the Sixth Commandment when he says any who are angry are liable to judgment. Murder begins at the heart and overflows from there. Its root is the disease of anger that can only be remedied by One who was so filled with love there was no room for anger. Listen to Michael Urch's exhortation for more.

    If Christ is Not Raised

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2025 35:45


    Omitting the resurrection from a presentation of the gospel is to leave the work of Christ without effect. There is no salvation if Christ is not raised. And that's the claim we make by believing—or functioning as though—we all will not be raised. Listen to Pastor Brett's sermon on 1 Corinthians 15:11-19 for more. 

    EXHORTATION - Honor Your Parents

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2025 4:43


    The command to honor your father and mother is one to be obeyed throughout your life, not just when you are a child. This is because this commandment serves as a training ground for honoring the LORD who is the one to grant the promise associated with the command. Have you maximally honored your parents? Listen to Pastor Brett's exhortation for more.

    SERMON - Not in Vain

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2025 37:44


    Out of the frying pan and into the fire. One may think 1 Corinthians 15 marks a turn to a great exposition of the significance of the resurrection. It is, but Paul does so because the Corinthians do not merely have a church problem, they have a gospel problem. This gospel problem threatens to reveal that they believed in vain. Listen to Pastor Brett's sermon on 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 for more.

    EXHORTATION - Remember the Sabbath

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2025 4:02


    The Sabbath command has caused no little disagreement over its present day observation. But at the heart, the command to remember the Sabbath is a command to remember who it is that we rely on for our provision. Who is it that you are really trusting in? Listen to Pastor Brett's exhortation to remember the Sabbath.

    SERMON - Decently & Orderly

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2025 47:28


    Whether addressing little children, middle schoolers, or a legislative body, rules are responses. The stem from a particular situation to not be repeated or are a proactive attempt to steer the desired direction. The Apostle Paul provides gracious guidelines in 1 Corinthians 14:26-40 to direct churches to walk according to God's design of gatherings being decent and orderly. Listen to Pastor Brett's sermon for more.

    SERMON - Memento Mori

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2025 21:34


    Who gathers to talk about death—your own death? In contemporary culture, death has been pushed to the margin. Meanwhile, 150,000 people die every single day. Psalm 90:12 says we gain heart of wisdom when we learn to number our days. Listen to Pastor Zach's homily from the Memento Mori service.

    EXHORTATION - Bear the Name Not in Vain

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2025 11:20


    A family will exhibit characteristics that give shape and definition to what it means to be a member of that family. The clearest example of this is a common last name. When a child is adopted, the last name is taken on. And this is what the Lord calls us to in bearing his name. Listen to Toby Phillips' exhortation to bear the name not in vain for more.

    SERMON - Desirous But Discerning (Part 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2025 39:05


    Tools have a clear design and purpose. You can use a tool for an undesigned purpose, but using the right tool for the right job works far better. The same is true in our zeal and desire for spiritual things. Rather than fixate on all receiving the same gift all the time—like how some Christians have regarded the gift of tongues—we ought to desire any gift that the Spirit deems best for the building up of the common good. Listen to Pastor Brett's second sermon on 1 Corinthians 14:1-25 for more on this gift of tongues.

    EXHORTATION - Make No Idol

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2025 8:05


    In the incident with the golden calf, we see the difference between the First and Second Commandments. God is not only concerned with who we worship but how we worship. Our God is rightly jealous for the worship that is due to him alone. Listen to Pastor Zach's exhortation to make no idol for more.

    SERMON - Desirous But Discerning (Part 1)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2025 45:34


    If you believe Jesus of Nazareth is God who became man and rose from the dead after being professionally executed, why can it feel like such a stretch to believe that God can lead a Christian to communicate in a way suited for the encouragement of others? The "flaw of the excluded middle" helps explain our hesitation to especially desire that we would prophesy. Listen to Pastor Brett's sermon on 1 Corinthians 14:1-25 for more.

    SERMON - When the Perfect Comes

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2025 39:06


    Like the Corinthians, we think too highly of our gifts and ourselves and too little of one another—and certainly too little of glory. The gifts of the Spirit, they are partial and will give way to the perfect, to completion. So, we need our gaze drawn upward to that world of love that it would flow back upstream into our experience together here and now. Listen to Pastor Brett's sermon on 1 Corinthians 13:8-13.

    SERMON - The Beauty of Love

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2025 45:57


    The absence of love divests spiritual gifts of their value. Love is imperative, but what is it? It's not defined by the one who wields it. If we are going to be governed by love, we need to understand its source, beauty, and practice. Listen to Pastor David's sermon on 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 for more.

    EXHORTATION - Think More of God

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2025 7:36


    You are standing at the kitchen sink doing dishes, grumbling to yourself about the overcooked chicken. The murmuring multiplies, fixating on the mess, the laundry, the homework. In that moment, you're not thinking about the majesty, awe, and glory of our great God. Is there any point when you are most tempted to sin where you are in that moment thinking more of God? Listen to Pastor Brett's exhortation to think more of God.

    EXHORTATION - Remember Lot's Wife

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2025 11:19


    Our varied roles and positions will not be enough to save us, and we will have no hope if our focus is on preserving our own lives. Rather, God must be our treasure. Christ will have your whole heart or have you in Hell. What things in this world do you cling to most? Listen to Gabe Johnson's exhortation to remember Lot's wife for more.

    SERMON - But Have Not Love

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2025 35:30


    There is a stage of parenting where if dad says, “Kids, it's eight o'clock. Time to go!,” there is a high probability that he will hear the reply, “No, it's 7:57, Dad.” “Ok. That's not the point. Get in the car!” The Apostle Paul may have a similar response to how 1 Corinthians 13 is regarded today—quoted at so many weddings as "The Love Chapter." But is that the point? Listen to Pastor Brett's sermon on 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 for more.

    EXHORTATION - Look to Jesus

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2025 8:22


    Many have experienced or known someone who has wrestled deeply with doubt. It has even led some to reject Christianity altogether. Doubt is not a good place to remain—it is an unstable double-mindedness. We need not hide our doubt nor flaunt it. And when we find it, we ought to look to Jesus to find the light of the knowledge of the glory of God. Listen to Pastor Zach's exhortation for more.

    SERMON - You Are the Body of Christ

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2025 44:37


    We face threats from without and from within. One internal threat is disunity. It starts innocuously, a preference for that person or this style. But sprinkle in some gossip with a helping of pride and marinade that in some bitterness, and a church can be divided into camps. Add in the elevation of certain personalities to the marginalization of others, and you get Corinthian confusion. Paul undermines disunity within a local church by applying a gospel solution in God's sovereign, wise, and good design of the body. Listen to Pastor Brett's sermon on 1 Corinthians 12:12-31 for more.

    EXHORTATION - Obey the Lord Jesus

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2025 9:51


    When the Spirit works in someone to profess, "Jesus is Lord," that requires obeying him. Our hearts are prone to wander, and we must repent when they do. Where have you done in disobedience to the Lord Jesus? What have you left undone that he would have you do? Listen to Pastor David's exhortation to obey the Lord Jesus for more.

    SERMON - For the Common Good (Part 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2025 37:43


    Fire shows up in the in two dramatic ways for Israel after leaving Egypt: the pillar of fire in the wilderness imparting God's preserving presence and the "strange fire" that Nadab and Abihu offered resulting in judgment. When we consider the gifts of the Spirit and their place today, which kind of fire are they more like? Listen to Pastor Brett's sermon on 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 for more.

    EXHORTATION - Listen to God's Voice, Not Fear's

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2025 8:28


    There are many settings where fear's voice is loud, saying something you value is under threat. Fear has a voice but should never make your choice. Listen to Pastor Zach's exhortation to listen to God's voice, not Fear's.

    SERMON - For the Common Good (Part 1)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2025 36:20


    You have need of endurance. That's the overarching message for a passage that is focused on for its secondary implications. Paul doesn't want us led astray from Christ, being helped by the Spirit's gifts. Listen to Pastor Brett's sermon on 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 for more.

    EXHORTATION - Come Early

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2025 11:21


    Churches can laugh off arriving late as something akin to operating by "Westview Time" or individuals saying they are not a morning person. And while coming late to public worship is much more to be desired than not coming at all, there are distinct benefits to not only arriving on time but coming early. Listen to Pastor Brett's exhortation for seven motives to come early to public worship.

    SERMON - Persevering Prayer

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2025 44:44


    Scripture and prayer going together. Reading Scripture without praying is the road to dead orthodoxy, and praying without reading the Bible is the road to paganism. Jesus is eager for us to pray and not lose heart that we would be ready for his return and overcome worldliness. Persevering prayer is a privilege in accomplishing God's mission. Listen to Pastor David's sermon on Luke 18:1-8 for more.

    EXHORTATION - Reassess Your Use of Time

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 29, 2024 5:48


    The use and allocation of our time is the substance of our faith. Peter says the time that is passes suffices for all manner of sin, and Paul exhorts us to make the best use of the time because the days are evil. At this point in the year, reassess your use of time. Listen to Pastor David's exhortation to do so and give it careful consideration.

    SERMON - To the Teaching & the Testimony!

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 29, 2024 39:11


    A particular glory of winter are the earlier hours when the stars are visible. Can you fathom your life depending on navigating by them? As we turn the calendar to a new year, it is good to take our bearings from the firmament of God's Word and make the necessary course corrections. We cannot follow our hearts into judgment but must flee to the teaching and to the testimony! Listen to Pastor Brett's sermon on Isaiah 8:16-22 for more.

    SERMON - Poverty for Riches

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2024 15:11


    The incarnation we celebrate at Christmas was the act of Jesus whereby our poverty became his, and his riches became ours. This great exchange was initiated when Christ conveyed grace in becoming poor though he was rich so that we—all who look by faith for the long-expected Jesus—we become rich in the communion of untainted fellowship with God himself. Listen to Pastor Brett's Christmas Eve homily on 2 Corinthians 8:9 for more.

    EXHORTATION - Be of Good Cheer

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2024 5:33


    It's good to take an old phrase every now and then and dust it off. Would you ever tell a man paralyzed, a group fearful of a fierce storm, or those facing persecution, "Be of good cheer!"? Yet there is nothing like a Christian of good cheer. Listen to Michael's exhortation for more.

    SERMON - O Little Town of Bethlehem

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2024 36:21


    The familiar carol "O Little Town of Bethlehem" may conjure up a serene view in our imaginations, but the prophecy it is derived from is less so. A people were up against a formidable foe and the certainty of exile. What good is a call to repentance and promise of far away king? The same could be asked of us as we too see rampant evil and no guarantee we will live to see it end. Listen to Pastor Brett's sermon on Micah 5:2-3 for more.

    EXHORTATION - Take Care How You Hear

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2024 6:58


    Over the course of a Christian's life, many sermons will be heard. It is rather simple to hear much. It can also be easy to listen for what others may need to benefit from. But you need to take care how you hear, that you might hear for the good of your own soul. Listen to Pastor David's exhortation for more.

    SERMON - To Us a Child is Born

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2024 41:23


    "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me." Those well known words of commission from the end of Matthew's gospel are not just a powerful motive or fitting conclusion. They are a necessary bookend to a gospel that conveys the coming of long-expected king. An expectation that was built in part by Isaiah's prophecy in Isaiah 9. Listen to Pastor Brett's sermon on Isaiah 9:6-7 for more.

    EXHORTATION - Digest the Word

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2024 8:20


    You sit down to partake of a wonderful feast, but you don't chew the food. You don't digest it all. What gain would you receive? Do this over weeks, and you would be malnourished. The same is true if we take in sermons, Bible reading, and songs if there is no meditation. Listen to Pastor Zach's exhortation to digest the Word.

    SERMON - The Virgin-Born Immanuel

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2024 40:40


    A photo of an alpine lake surrounded by mountains looks like it is a solid wall of rock. In reality, the mountain peaks are miles apart. When you look at the glorious peaks of the sign of a virgin-born son, we can see it with the same kind of perspective. When we do, we see that both Isaiah and Matthew direct our gaze to the salvation that comes through judgment. Listen to Pastor Brett's sermon on Isaiah 7:14 for more.

    EXHORTATION - Rehearse the Truth

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2024 4:29


    All the world is a stage, and we are players in it. Do you know your role in it? Yes, that includes knowing your lines, but you need to do them. However, on this stage, we don't have the full script the Author has written. We need to prepare and be ready when our time to act comes. Listen to Michael Urch's exhortation to rehearse the truth for more.

    SERMON - A Star of Jacob, A Scepter of Israel

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2024 37:01


    A significant contributor to the nostalgia we experience each December are the familiar things: traditions, songs, foods, etc. That is true as well for the Scripture passages we come back to time and again each December. But what are these prophecies really about? Listen to Pastor Brett's sermon on Numbers 24:17 and the expectation of a kingly star that would be seen by the magi of Matthew 2.

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