by malachiobrien | Jul 17, 2024 | Articles, Featured
Excerpted from my sermon on discipline. Few things are more critical and more overlooked in the life of a believer than discipline. It truly is the key to finishing strong. Proverbs 25:28 says, “Whoever has no rule over his own spirit is like a city broken down,...
by Westside Christian Fellowship | Jul 5, 2021 | Articles, Events, Featured
I tend to be “safely conservative.” I use The MacArthur Study Bible and read Spurgeon’s sermons. My father was an extremely hardworking man who grew up on a farm in Oklahoma. As a result, I was raised in a tough environment where crying was not allowed and...
by Westside Christian Fellowship | Jul 8, 2015 | Articles
I often ask, “How many can say like Jeremiah, ‘His word was in my heart like a burning fire, shut up in my bones; I was weary of holding it back, and I could not’ (20:9)?” If we are honest, we realize that the power of the Holy...
by Westside Christian Fellowship | Dec 11, 2010 | Articles
As mentioned last week: Many of us do not want to admit that there is something lacking in our spiritual lives. Pride, religious upbringing, denominationalism, etc. will keep scores of Christians from experiencing the life-changing power of God. If we truly want to...
by Westside Christian Fellowship | Sep 25, 2010 | Articles
A few years back, I listened in astonishment as postmodern leaders talked about replacing “preaching” with “having a conversation.” At first, I thought that maybe they were confusing individual conversations with preaching, but I was wrong. They felt that we should...
