I admit it. I love books. I love practically everything about them. I love the thoughts and ideas, stories and personalities to be discovered. I actually have about two dozen books about books and reading. Nerdy, I know. And I like to read books about authors. Some people think this is quirky about me, while [...]
This Sunday we begin twin series which we are calling iCulture and redefineOne. Through an engagement with Paul and James, we want to look at spiritual community against the background of individualism and selfishness in our culture. To enhance our consideration, we are asking you to participate in six practices that can nourish our [...]
This is Holy Week. The stations of the cross are now open in our West Hall, Tuesday and Wednesday, 9 am to 9 pm (click here to view the booklet). Our Good Friday service will be held this Friday at 10:10 am. Our Easter Sunday celebrations will be at the regular times of 9:29 and [...]
This is the time in the year to remember the passion of Jesus. When we say the “passion” of Jesus, we mean his sufferings. For almost the entire length of the year Christians practice an Easter faith, a faith that celebrates the risen Jesus and his presence with us. But at this time, while we [...]
There is a lot of talk about spirituality in culture these days. It has become cool to be spiritual. But this interest does not always translate into a return to God. The problem seems to be that we in the contemporary west want a spirituality that we design, that we dream up. We want a [...]
It is interesting to note that in many of the recorded instances where Jesus is said to pray, we are not given the substance or content of his prayer. We are merely told that he prayed. Apparently the content of his prayer was not always the issue. The gospels tell us that once he merely [...]
This Sunday concludes our Synchronize series, our engagement with the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7). It has been a meaningful study for so many of us. We have come to see that the life Jesus calls us to is not merely an improvement on the life we already have. It is instead an altogether [...]
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Suburban Monastery represents one way for us at Westside King’s Church to deepen our understanding of Christian spiritual practice. Here are our plans as we move towards Easter. For the Wednesday evenings of March 17th and 24th we present a two-part series we are calling The Baptized Life — a Lenten meditation on what it [...]
This past Sunday we reviewed one of the most well-known of Jesus’ statements: “judge not”. In our review of this text, we noted that these words are popularly referenced as code for “leave me alone”, or, “let me do what I want to do”. They are often quoted because they fit perfectly in a culture [...]
John was the youngest of Jesus’ disciples and the last of all to die. He began in the company of Jesus as “young John” but lived long enough to be called “John the elder”, or as we would say, “old John”. After years of faithful teaching, he left us a gospel and three letters in [...]
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