by Westside Christian Fellowship | Jun 26, 2015 | Articles
In a desperate attempt to avert calamity, the captain signaled: “COLLISION INEVITABLE. TURN TWENTY DEGREES STARBOARD!” To the captain’s amazement, the light signaled back: “COLLISION CONFIRMED…CHANGE COURSE IMMEDIATELY!” Now near panic, the captain signaled:...
by Westside Christian Fellowship | Jun 17, 2015 | Articles
Church is boring for most because the power of God has vanished from many congregations…there is a lack of desire to pursue Him in the pulpit as well as in the pew. Like Samson, they “know not that the Spirit of the Lord has departed” (cf. Judge 16:20). High...
by Westside Christian Fellowship | Jun 12, 2015 | Articles
“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste (influence), how shall its saltiness be restored?” (Matthew 5:13-16). Throughout history, Christians have vacillated between two extremes: compromising with the culture or removing themselves from it...
by Westside Christian Fellowship | Jun 12, 2015 | Articles
Evangelical leader and author, Tony Campolo, recently said this about gay-marriage, “Like so many other Christians, I was deeply uncertain about what was right.” Then added, “I am finally ready to call for the full acceptance of Christian gay couples into...
by Westside Christian Fellowship | May 21, 2015 | Articles
In Russell Moore’s compelling book, Tempted & Tried, a chapter entitled, Why You’re on the Verge of Wrecking Your Life (Especially If You Don’t Know It), caught my attention. Moore writes quoting a scientist who studied cattle behavior, “A slaughterhouse, in order...
by Westside Christian Fellowship | May 21, 2015 | Articles
As a child, I was captured by the stories that my grandfather told about life on the farm in Oklahoma in the early 1900s. The images I’ve held are not those of pleasant surroundings and ideal conditions; they are impressions of twelve-hour days spent working...
