Today we give thanks for the kids that God has blessed us with over the past few years at Westside.

1 Corinthians begins with Paul reminding the church in Corinth that they are sanctified as God's holy people. That means God wants the church to prepare for him to work powerfully through their church, and it means they are being called upon to go out and serve in God's Kingdom. With that in mind, the first thing Paul talks about tin his letter is the importance of unity in the body. We have an important mission to undertake, and there's no time to get sidetracked with infighting and divisions within the church.

Tonight we meditate on what it means to seek God's Kingdom first, how we can be content in every situation, introduce the Ignatian Prayer of Indifference, and talk through the spiritual discipline of simplicity.

Melissa Richert shares about her recent humanitarian / mission trip to Ukraine.

1 Peter 4 teaches us that we all have a gift from God, and these gifts are meant to be shared. One of the five habits of Christ centered families is making the decision to serve others together.

Tonight we focus on the spiritual discipline of studying Scripture. Our class begins with an exercise called Lectio Divina--Latin for "divine reading--which allows us to slow down and prayerfully consider what God is calling us to know, believe, or do after reading a short passage from the Bible. For the rest of our class, we focus on the spiritual discipline of studying scripture.

Bryan leads a class on Galatians 5-6 for the last session of Ladies' Bible Class.

Zerubbabel was born into a time of uncertain and adversity. His family--a long line of Kings--had turned away from God and brought about divine discipline on the people of God. Zerubbabel inherited a family dynamic that was anything but Godly. But Zerubbabel still had a bright future ahead of him... if he was willing to trust in God's power instead of his own.

In this section, Paul continues his emphasis on faith over the law. He talks about the differences between the promise given to Abraham and the covenant established with Moses, the fact that all of us are one in Christ, the foolishness of turning back to the Law after Christ has set us free from it, and why Christians are the children of Sarah living in freedom rather than the children of Hagar living in slavery.

Everyone leaves a legacy for the next generation. What kind of legacy are we leaving? Psalm 78:1-8 shows us the importance of passing the baton of faith from one generation to the next.