Why in the world would someone join a new church? In this round table, Pastors Brett & Zach sit down with Joshua Whetstine, Field Director for Church Planting with the Minnesota-Wisconsin Baptist Convention, to pick his brain on the benefits and difficulties of being a part of a new church.

We sing because we're commanded to. We sing to sink the truths in our head down into our hearts. We sing to serve the faith of our brothers and sisters with us. When we don't sing like this, we need to turn in repentance. Listen for more on this theme in Pastor Zach's exhortation.

Jesus tells us that he taught in parables to have the same effect on his hearers as Isaiah's prophetic ministry: confirming the hard-heartedness of idolaters. He relayed this in the context of the familiar "parable of the sower." Listen to this sermon on Mark 4:1-20, "Soils & Sovereignty" from Pastor Brett to hear more.

We can be gripped by the fear, guilt, or shame of our sin such that we believe the lie that God could never give us peace, never forgive us, or never make us whole. This is why we need to reorient on the gospel each week and be assured of the pardon that is ours in Jesus. Listen to Pastor Zach's exhortation for more.

We all get a kick out of watching someone else be made a fool of—such voyeurism serves to conceal or overlook our own failings. As we read of the failings of the scribes and Jesus' family, will overlook our own shortcomings in rightly following Jesus? Listen to this sermon by Pastor Brett on Mark 3:20-35.

The Westview pastoral team returns from a round table hiatus to discuss how we pursue benefiting from God's manifest grace to us through his varied means. We won't follow Christ in all of life if we don't put ourselves in the stream of his grace.

In this exhortation, Pastor Haakon addresses why we set aside time in our service each week to consider God and his Word that we may repent of sin.

Opposition to Jesus doesn't always look the same. Some times it is rooted in tradition, sometimes in want to just use Jesus, and some times founded in the deceit of sin. In this sermon on Mark 3:1-19, Pastor Brett points to the gathering storm of opposition that leads to the cross.

This recording is an "immersive experience" (read: poor quality with a lot of the ambient noise of worshiping together as families) of Pastor Dan exhorting us to confess our sin lest we deceive ourselves.

Guest preacher Kenny Ortiz (Cities Church) draws our attention to Psalm 33 and the role of singing in the Christian life.