What is the most beautiful thing you have ever seen in this world? What is the greatest love you have ever experienced in relationships? What revealed truth has given the greatest light to a problem in your life, enabled resolution and granted times of peace to flood your soul? What experience of goodness has most filled you with delight in life? Now what if you could look face to face with God Himself, the Source of all truth, goodness, and beauty in this world? That is ultimately where a life ...
Aug 03, 2025•43 min
Every wise investor knows to take into consideration the long view of things. And every wise person knows to keep eternity in view, for eternity gives light to the one thing that matters most in our brief life: love--love for God and one another. Support the show
Jul 27, 2025•33 min
Love is not a sprinter but a marathon runner. The world record in the dead lift is currently over 1,104 pounds! That is strong! But love is stronger--as the Song of Songs says, even stronger than death. God is love. Love endures all things. We see this so clearly in the sufferings, death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Support the show
Jul 20, 2025•40 min
One of the important aspects of a faith that powerfully loves others is hope. Spiritual vision of God's glorious future promised to His people is what ensures we treat others in a way that refuses to let their sins and failures have the last word. We see in the Cross of Christ it is God’s saving love, not our sin, that got the last word. Support the show
Jul 13, 2025•41 min
Scripture says "love believes all things." Does this mean Christians are to be naive in our relationships? If we are to love others, does this mean we Christians are expected by God not to face reality in our relationships? By faith, love wears a hard hat because it knows it lives in the midst of God's constructions zone. This Sunday our Lord will help us understand and grow in our loving one another. Support the show
Jul 06, 2025•43 min
By the grace of Jesus, we are empowered to do what is right even when it is difficult. Support the show
Jun 29, 2025•39 min
God makes Himself known—but not just through the beauty of nature. While creation points to His power and majesty, it’s through special revelation—His Word—that we come to know His grace, His righteousness, and His desire for relationship with us. Join us this Sunday for worship, as we read through Psalm 19 – We’ll see how God's revelation, both general and special, is meant to lead us not just to awe, but to repentance and the abundant life only He can give. Support the show...
Jun 22, 2025•30 min
God is love, and love is like a good roof that covers, protects, endures, and never leaks. Support the show
Jun 15, 2025•34 min
God is love, but God is also light and truth and just. He is a God who is merciful and forgiving, but who will by no means clear the guilty. Jesus is not only the Savior of sinners but the Judge of all men. This is why the true prophets had broken hearts and Jesus Himself wept over Jerusalem, a city that hated Him. It is also why the father of the prodigal son joyfully celebrated his son's return home after facing the truth about himself. Support the show...
Jun 08, 2025•38 min
In personal relationships, resentment is an accountant who keeps a record of wrongs, but love is a firefighter that quenches relational fires big and small. We see this most beautifully and supremely in Jesus Christ and His death on the Cross for us and for our sins. Support the show
Jun 01, 2025•40 min
What happens in your heart when someone wrongs you? In this profound exploration of 1 Corinthians 13:5, we discover the supernatural quality of love that remains unshaken even when deeply wounded. "Love is not irritable or easily provoked" challenges us at our core, revealing how far we are from Christ's example of perfect love. Let's commit to the means of grace: corporate worship without fail, immersion in God's Word, prayer, sacraments, and fellowship. This is how God changes us from within. ...
May 25, 2025•42 min
Jesus concludes The Lord's Prayer in Matthew with "For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever. Amen." This closing praise to God our Father who is King, who is in control, and who gets the glory. Spoiler alert! It isn't us! But that is good news! Together we'll understand why as we venture Forward in Faith! Support the show
May 18, 2025•39 min
A friend of ours lives in the mountains of Tennessee. One morning she walked out early into the dark onto her porch, only to realize there was a bear at the edge of her porch. She quickly proceeded back inside. But do you realize that there is a lion waiting for you each morning, afternoon, and evening, prowling around, ready to devour you and your family and your church? Jesus is teaching us here in this sixth petition of The Lord's Prayer to take Satan and the powers of demons and darkness in ...
May 11, 2025•45 min
Have you ever considered that your soul can live and act without your body but your body cannot live and act without your soul? In this fifth petition of The Lord's Prayer Jesus teaches us that the vital importance of caring, not just for our bodies, but for our souls. And there is nothing more critical to the care of our souls than God forgiving our sins, even those sins that sometimes haunt us when we put our head on the pillow at night. Do you know the forgiveness of your sins through Christ?...
May 04, 2025•41 min
Jesus teaches us to pray for daily bread. Not weekly, monthly, or yearly, but daily. Daily bread. Not filet mignon, sea bass, or chicken fettuccine alfredo, but bread. If we are experiencing discontent, grumbling, or filled with anxiety and fear, we need Jesus to teach us to truly pray this fourth petition of The Lord's Prayer, that we might live our lives with contentment, gratitude, and peace. See you in worship Sunday as we learn how to pray for daily bread as we move Forward in Faith togethe...
Apr 27, 2025•40 min
What gives life ultimate meaning and purpose? What will make the way you live your life today matter in 500 years, or 500,000 years, or 500 million years? How do we face personal tragedy and suffering and death? There is only one adequate answer: Jesus Christ is bodily risen from the dead! This Lord's Day let's celebrate together this glorious fact of history that puts eternal meaning and purpose into everything we think, say, do, or don't do. Support the show...
Apr 20, 2025•38 min
Jesus rode a donkey into Jerusalem on Sunday, at the beginning of what we call Passion Week. Why is Jesus' riding of a donkey into Jerusalem so important, for it is recorded in all four Gospels? Jesus was "crossing the Rubicon" for the salvation of the world! In this event the beauty of Christ's heart for sinners is on full display. Support the show
Apr 13, 2025•42 min
What is your favorite food? Jesus told us what His favorite was in John 4:34, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work" (ESV). This third petition of The Lord's Prayer reminds us we need to align ourselves with God's will revealed in His Word and with His will revealed to us by His providence--that is, those things He appoints in our life. In short, this is a prayer for God to fill His people and the peoples of the world with the meekness of Jesus Christ. Let's po...
Apr 06, 2025•41 min
We cannot understand what is going on inside of us or in the world around us unless we understand that we live in a world where there is a clash of kingdoms--the kingdom of God and the kingdom of Satan, the kingdom of light and the kingdom of darkness, the church and the world. This second petition of The Lord's Prayer reminds us that we cannot fix what is wrong with us or with the world. We need's God's sovereign power and grace for that. Let's think about that this Sunday in worship as we move...
Mar 30, 2025•43 min
What is the purpose of a coffee maker? It certainly isn't designed to make ham sandwiches. It's purpose is to brew coffee. That's why it was created. What is the purpose of an adopted child of God our Father? Jesus teaches us in the first petition of The Lord's Prayer and this purpose gives direction to all things in the Christian life. See you Sunday as we continue Forward in Faith together. Support the show
Mar 23, 2025•38 min
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Mar 16, 2025•32 min
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, "Lord Jesus, teach us to pray." Support the show...
Mar 09, 2025•40 min
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
Mar 02, 2025•38 min
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 and is profoundly heavenly-minded. This Sunday we'll consider the massive difference that makes in how...
Feb 23, 2025•42 min
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
Feb 16, 2025•41 min
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 celebrate our great God together! Support the show
Feb 09, 2025•41 min
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 apply the King's Law (the Bible) to the life and ministry of the local church for both hopeful encouragement and...
Feb 02, 2025•40 min
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?" This Sunday let's consider Jesus' holy, jealous love for His Bride and what that means practically for us. Support the sh...
Jan 26, 2025•40 min
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 precious blood of Christ is saved for a divine purpose on this earth. See you Sunday as we get clarity on ...
Jan 19, 2025•41 min
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 cost you for that merciful water. Let's meditate upon that together this coming Lord's Day. Support the ...
Jan 12, 2025•37 min
