Westwinds Teaching

In the beginning, God spoke light into being. Yet even before time itself, God existed in relationship.What if God is not solitary, but community? Not rigid, but in motion?This season, let’s trace the current of the Trinity through Scripture’s epic story. But also through the rhythms all around us - in the cosmos, in culture, and within our own hearts.Lean in as we re-imagine our life through the lens of our relational Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer.What surprises might emerge if we tune our souls to the divine dance of the Father, Son and Spirit? What wisdom might we gain from their profound choreography of self-giving and receiving?Join us as we seek God not as a distant monarch, but as an intimate dance beckoning us in.This changes EVERYTHING—the Alchemist. The ultimate mystery that is in and through all things.

How can we understand the trinity? To begin, there must be no defining, no describing, and no explaining. We can only experience the mystery.

Everyone is welcome to the party.

Welcome to the prayer lab. There are two prayer experiences here, digitally. Additionally, between September 3 and September 10, 2023, you can stop by Westwinds and participate in two different outdoor experiences, anytime.Read the Liturgy of Prayer here, either alongside this video, or together with the people around you: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSS2pfe7ABUrhBwKQQGkjeG40k-kc1RmG6K5sNXhEBenVWxnKlIubKjpJ99r7xL86qWtmE5hac6sKZT/pub

How can we put ourselves in a position to hear God?

When we doubt God, or feel anger towards God, how can we respond?

Prayer is a gift, not a standard.

"My eyes will be open and my ears attentive to every prayer made in this I have place. For I have chosen this Temple and set it apart to be holy—a place where my name will be honored forever. I will always watch over it, for it is dear to my heart."

“You are not oiling the wheels of a machine that’s about to roll over a cliff. You are not restoring a great painting that’s shortly going to be thrown into the fire. You are not planting roses in a garden that’s about to be dug up for a building site. You are—strange though it may seem, almost as hard to believe as the resurrection itself—accomplishing something that will become in due course part of God’s new world. Every act of love, gratitude, and kindness; every work of art or music inspired by the love of God and delight in the beauty of his creation; every minute spent teaching a severely handicapped child to read or to walk; every act of care and nurture, of comfort and support, for one’s fellow human beings and for that matter one’s fellow nonhuman creatures; and of course every prayer, all Spirit-led teaching, every deed that spreads the gospel, builds up the church, embraces and embodies holiness rather than corruption, and makes the name of Jesus honored in the world—all of this will find its way,

Listen to the full panel discussion from today's Cue.

God loves you, God likes you, and God is with you.

Check out our conversation tih Rachel Flowers, LMSW, EMDR.

Our bodies and brains aren't bad. Rather, they are part of who God made us to be.

God is doing good things in all people, everywhere, always.