Westside Church Northwest Podcast

Culture is constantly trying to rewrite who you are. In this message, Pastor Cory opens a new series on identity in Christ—how God sees you, how the enemy attacks that picture, and how a new family line changes everything once you are born again.

You’re not defined by your last name, your past, your family history, or the labels culture hands you. When you gave your life to Jesus, you were crucified with Christ, raised with Him, and seated with Him. Old things have passed away. You became a new creation—fused with the Spirit of God.

This teaching walks through Galatians 2:20, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Romans 5:20, Ephesians 2:4–6, and Romans 8:9–11 and calls us to stop identifying with struggle and start identifying with the Son. Sons and daughters don’t stand outside the door. They walk in.

If you’ve ever felt unworthy, stuck in family patterns, or unsure who you really are, this word is for you.
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If you’re believing God for healing, provision, family, or anything that looks impossible in the natural, this word is for you. Abraham didn’t wait to see Isaac before he believed. He took God at His word, refused to consider the deadness of his own body or Sarah’s womb, and stayed fully convinced that what God promised, God was able to perform.

In this message from Romans 4, Pastor Cory walks through the last half of the chapter and shows how faith actually works:
- The promise comes by faith so it can be according to grace
- God gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were
- Unwavering faith is strengthened by giving glory to God
- Being fully convinced is how the promise becomes visible

This is not positive thinking. This is standing on the same promise Abraham stood on—because everyone who believes is an heir of faithful Abraham. 
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Faith isn’t just what you believe on Sunday. It’s what protects you the rest of the week.

In this message, Pastor Cory wraps up our series on Faith and finishes the teaching on the shield of faith. We recap how faith works—what it is, how it comes, how it gets released, how it gets fed, and how it leads—then look at why Paul said “above all, taking the shield of faith.” What you believe about God determines what the enemy can get through.

You’ll hear why unused faith is like ammo still in the box, how to starve out negativity and speak life, why “deconstructing” your faith is a trap, how Jesus answered when the devil quoted Scripture, and a testimony of God’s favor in the middle of layoffs.

God already laid the spread out. Faith is how we stop leaving the good stuff on the table.
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Abraham didn’t earn righteousness by works, the law, or circumcision. He believed God — and God accounted it to him as righteousness. In this verse-by-verse look at Romans 4, we see how that same faith connects us to Abraham’s promises: increase, blessing, a great name, and a life that keeps moving forward and upward.

This message covers:
• Why Abraham was justified before the law and circumcision
• The difference between wages (what we earn) and grace (what God gives)
• How David described the blessedness of sins not being imputed
• Faith that produces action without trying to bargain with God

If you’ve been treating God’s goodness like something you have to work for, this teaching will reset that. Righteousness is received by faith. The promises follow.
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God is not asking for part of your life—He’s asking for all of it. In this message, Pastor Timm shares a powerful call to full surrender. Drawing from his own story of quitting tobacco after 25 years, Tim unpacks what it really means to move beyond “committed enough” and give Jesus every room of your heart.

Key points:
Examine your commitment (2 Corinthians 13:5-7, Psalm 139:23-24)
Full commitment requires surrender (Romans 12:2, 1 John 1:5, Ephesians 4:22-24)
Strongholds keep us from the fullness of God (2 Peter 1:3-8, Hebrews 12:1-2)
Freedom comes through complete surrender (James 4:7-8, Galatians 5:1, Luke 9:23)

This is an invitation to dump the “mud” out of your glass so the Lord can fill it with His peace, power, and presence. No condemnation—just an open door to greater freedom and deeper relationship with Jesus.
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