These podcast are the weekly sermons of the West Side Church of Christ in Lebanon, Ohio. We invite you to join us if you live in the Lebanon community or are here to visit. To find out more information you can check out our website at www.wscoconline.com.

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Pray on Mission: Prayer Is for Boldness - Audio

West Side, we are on a mission to love and lead people to a life changing relationship with Jesus Christ. But to do so, we must be prepared. This morning we start a four week focus on what it means to Study on Mission to prepare for our life on mission.

Study on Mission: The Word for Purpose - Audio

Would you characterize your life as a Christian as a life marked with joy? Do you find that serving in the church, sharing your faith with non-believers, or helping teach other West Side Christians is an anxiety inducing experience? Jesus did not call us to follow him and our lives be marked with fear and anxiety. Jesus truly wants us to find joy in living a life on mission. In fact, when His first disciples found joy in their second preaching tour, Jesus rejoiced with them as they shared their success. Jesus wants to rejoice with you as you find success in life on mission.

How Can I Find Joy in Jerusalem? - Audio

In the 1960’s TV show, Mission Impossible, the secret agents often finds a hidden recording device with a mission for them to carry out. As the tape begins playing some format of this phrase is spoken, “This is your mission, should you choose to accept it.” The special agent then must decide if they will or will not accept the special mission. As followers of Jesus we find ourselves in the same boat. Jesus called us to live Life on Mission, and part of that mission is to make disciples of Jesus. Will you accept or will you run from that mission? The choice is yours to make.

Will You Go to Jerusalem? - Audio

This morning we have the privilege of welcoming Tom Moll as our guest speaker. Tom served many years as the Senior Minister with Christ Church at Mason. During Tom’s ministry the church saw amazing growth as many were love and lead to a life changing relationship with Jesus. Today Tom serves as the Chaplain with Mason Christian Village.

Guest Speaker: Tom Moll - Audio

I am excited for 2015 as we explore what it means to live Life on Mission. Jesus calls us to follow Him and to make disciples as we do. That is living Life on Mission. But how do we do that? What does it look like? How does our personal growth tie into this mission? Today we begin our journey as we understand that our Life on Mission begins in our Jerusalem.

Life on Mission - Audio

Joining us this morning in worship are our missionary partners Adrian and Jennifer Fehl, Christians Missionary Fellowship Missionaries to Ethiopia. Since 1998 Adrian and Jennifer have worked with the Ethiopia Field Team with a focus on church planning among the Gumuz people. Adrian will share both in our Worship Service as well as in our Sunday School period.

Christian Missionary Fellowship: Adrian Fehl-Missionary to Ethiopia - Audio

In our world of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, and texting people seem to be connected more than at any other time in history. However, even with all of this it still seems that many struggle with relationships. That because when we look at relationships through the normal lens we fight for ourselves and our desires. To have healthy supportive relationships we must view them through a weird lens.

WEiRD View of Relationships - Audio

In our hectic schedules and fast paced lives, we often find ourselves consumed with many “good” things. The problem with many good things is we only have so much time to do them all. While our tasks and opportunities might be good things, the question we must ask is this, “Are they the best things?” Today we will learn some practical ways to determine the best use of our time.

WEiRD Use of Time - Audio

Normal people constantly seem to be striving for bigger and better; more money to buy the bigger house, have the fancy toys, and go on the exotic vacation. In the pursuit of more, often time’s families are shattered, lives are ruined, and hearts are left broken. Weird people do not seek more of this world; weird people seek to find happiness in contentment.

WEiRD View of Money - Audio

Many world religions are defined as man’s attempts to be good enough to please their gods. Sadly, many Christians even believe that about following Jesus. However, our salvation in Jesus is not found in what we can do. Our salvation is not granted because we are good enough. Our salvation does not even waver when we have a bad day. God chose a weird way to save the world when He sent Jesus Christ to die for our sins

WEiRD: A WEiRD Way to Save the World - Audio

Have you ever had a really crazy desire? Maybe it was to back pack all over Europe. Maybe it was sky dive out of an airplane. Maybe it was to some weird food craving when you were pregnant. God gave us the ability to dream and have desires. However, where and when are your desires? Are they for the here and now? Are they for the future? Are your desires your own or are they God’s. Weird people have desires that do not look like everyone else’s.

WEiRD: WEiRD Desires - Audio

When we make God both Lord and Master of our lives, He saves us from the pits of living a normal life. In His salvation He gives us permission to live a WEiRD life. Last week we learned that the weird life is a life that transforms our minds to God’s. Today we will see that the weird life is a life that transforms our actions to God’s making us holy as God is holy.

WEiRD: WEiRD is Better - Conforming Our Actions to God's - Audio

We have grown very accustomed to normal. In high school our goal was to fit in with everyone else and be normal. In college we tried our best to do what normal students do. For many we followed the normal path and married like everyone else. After the kids are born we try our best to return life back to normal. When we hear the term weird, we almost associate it as a negative label. But what if God has a different plan for your life than to be normal? Are we willing to fight the urge of normal and be weird like God desires us to be?

Weird: Weird in a "God" Way - Audio

Over the last several months we have journeyed through Jesus teaching in His famous sermon the Sermon on the Mount. Today we finish this journey. As we do we notice that Jesus speaks with authority; an authority that asks, “How will we live this teaching?” In most cases we are left with two choices. Today we ask the same question Jesus asked, which of the two choices are you going to make?

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