Ask the Pastors Season 8 Episode 3: “I’m a new Christian; how do I live like it? (pt.3)” by West Hills Church

The podcast episode was a follow-up Q&A session where Pastor Will answered a series of questions from a listener named Brad, based on Sunday's sermon on Deuteronomy chapters 2 and 3. The main topics discussed included God's sovereignty over both nations and individual lives, the challenge of trusting God during confusing or unfair circumstances, and the critical balance between human responsibility and dependence on God.

As we noted in our introduction to Deuteronomy, the book is mostly comprised of three sermons Moses preached to the people of Israel just before they entered the Promised Land. This Sunday, Moses continues his first sermon by recapping their journey through the wilderness and reminding God’s people of the lessons He has taught them over the past 40 years. As God’s new covenant people, still living between our own “exodus” (salvation) and our eventual homecoming to the better “Promised Land” (Heaven), we need these reminders today just as much as the Israelites once did. Check out this sermon for God’s “Lessons from the Wilderness”, part two!

As we noted in our introduction to Deuteronomy, the book is mostly comprised of three sermons Moses preached to the people of Israel just before they entered the Promised Land. This Sunday, Moses opens his first sermon by recapping their journey through the wilderness and reminding God’s people of the lessons He has taught them over the past 40 years. As God’s new covenant people, still living between our own “exodus” (salvation) and our eventual homecoming to the better “Promised Land” (Heaven), we need these reminders today just as much as the Israelites once did. Join us in this sermon for God’s “Lessons from the Wilderness”!

Ask the Pastors Season 8 Episode 2: "I’m new to Christianity; how can I learn to pray?" by West Hills Church

Liturgy from Every Moment Holy: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59764bcb725e2575438613ad/t/59f8f38f8e7b0f22895351c1/1509487503325/One+Battling+a+Destructive+Desire.pdf

Reach Reproductive Health joins us for Sanctity of Life Sunday, and their message to uncertain pregnant mothers echoes Moses’s exhortation to the people of Israel in Deuteronomy 30: “Choose LIFE!” Join us for this sermon as we discover what it means for us to choose life personally, collectively as a church, and corporately as the Church in America.

Ask the Pastors Season 8 Episode 1: "I’m new to Christianity; where should I start with Bible reading?" by West Hills Church

After the Sermon: Deuteronomy 1:1-8 by West Hills Church

It’s often said that “those who don’t learn from the past are doomed to repeat it”. Yet many of us in the modern world are ignorant of history, preferring instead the recent and “relevant”. God’s word declares “Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in his ways” (Ps 128:1). Yet we repeatedly disobey God, at times without even knowing “his ways”. God assures us “I know the plans I have for you… to give you a future and a hope” (Jer 29:11). Yet we are often quick to forget God’s promises, and live in fear and worry instead.

Remembrance. Obedience. Faith. God wants each of these virtues for each of us, His people. And He offers them to us in the book of Deuteronomy. Even more importantly, God offers us Himself here: His law, His love, and His invitation to relationship.

Join us for this sermon as we begin our journey together through this beautiful book of the Bible!