Core Values
Sermons on Westside's core values, which spell the acronym PEACE.
Embrace Limitations
November 21, 2021 • Matthew 14:13–23
Embracing limitations does not mean lowering expectations. When we acknowledge our real physical, spiritual and emotional limitations, God delights to show his power working through them, or through other people. Embracing our limitations becomes, paradoxically, a way of maximizing collaborations, expecting God to do more than we could ever try to do ourselves.
Cultivate Place
November 14, 2021 • Walter Henegar • Genesis 2:5–17
God designed people to live in dependence on him and in interdependence with the created world: In Hebrew, humankind is adam, and the ground is adamah. This design has been complicated by our fall into sin, but it is being redeemed by the work of Christ. When Christ returns, he will fully restore our relationship to himself, to our bodies, and to the earth. Until then, Christians have the privilege of living in alignment with our design, while resisting many of the ways our society tends to deny it.