WS Update: Invite a Friend to Our Spring Conference
If you’re a regular at Redeemer West Side, I want to take a moment to not only remind you about our upcoming conference, “Redeeming Anxiety,” but to invite you to consider if there are any friends or neighbors who you can bring along with you. In an article for The Atlantic, Arthur Brooks cited a stat that…
WS Update: Global Mission Partnership with Mexico City
We’re preparing to launch a new Evening Worship service at Redeemer West Side on March 29th, 2026, at 5 This Sunday, March 8, we’re thrilled to welcome Pastor Victor Cruz with us at Redeemer West Side. Victor is a pastor and church network leader in Mexico City, and over the past year, Redeemer West Side…
WS Update: Evening Service Launch Team
We’re preparing to launch a new Evening Worship service at Redeemer West Side on March 29th, 2026, at 5 pm, and we’re gathering a launch team to help it begin with prayer, presence, and relational energy. People who join the launch team are willing to commit to three things: We won’t ask you about specific roles yet—right now,…
WS Update: Redeeming Anxiety
I love our church’s name: Redeemer. That’s who Jesus is and what Jesus does. He redeems and renews and transforms. There’s nothing that Jesus can’t redeem. And that includes our anxiety. Many of us are anxious, and we’re anxious about all kinds of things. What if Jesus is inviting us to bring all our anxiety…
WS Update: Lent Begins Next Week
Throughout history, Lent has been a season during which Christians engage in spiritual self-examination and renewal. Lent invites us to see and confess the real ugliness of our sin and, even more, to turn to the wonder and beauty of Jesus’ amazing grace. As Esau McCaulley wrote, Lent is “inescapably about repenting… repentance is a…
WS Update: Friendship, Community, and Welcome
Yesterday, we had our monthly church family meal. Every so often, it’s important to remind ourselves why these monthly lunches have become such an important part of our RWS rhythm. Theologian Robert Karris said that if you read through the Gospel of Luke, you’ll see that “Jesus is either going to a meal, at a…
WS Update: Redeeming Anxiety: RWS’s Spring Conference
A recent article in The Atlantic noted that at any given time, more than 40 million adults—not to mention adolescents—experience some form of anxiety. Modern technologies, political polarization, and epidemic loneliness have increased restlessness, worry, and fear. We are living in an age of anxiety. You’re invited to join us at Redeemer West Side for…
WS Update: On Being a Good Neighbor
In the early 1960s, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. preached a sermon called “On Being a Good Neighbor.” In the sermon, Dr. King is reflecting on the meaning of Jesus’ well-known parable about the good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37). What makes the Samaritan such a good neighbor is his radical selflessness. Dr. King puts it this…
WS Update: Deepen Your Practice of Prayer
Our next RWS Prayer Cohort kicks off this Wednesday, January 14. This cohort provides space to not only learn more about prayer, but to actually practice prayer as you build community with others in our church family. The following illustration challenges me when I think about the importance of prayer for my life, and for…
WS Update: Prayer as We Begin a New Year
John Wesley was an 18th-century pastor and, at the start of each new year, he would encourage the churches in his network to pray this prayer: Gracious God, I am no longer my own, but yours. Put me to what you will, rank me with whom you will. Put me to doing, put me to…