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The best way to listen to the audio recordings of our sermons is to subscribe to our weekly sermon podcast. Search for New Church Westville in your favourite podcast app or use the links below. There’s no cost and, once you subscribe, the recordings of the sermons will automatically be available on your phone or computer as soon as we upload them (usually on a Monday). Contact us if you need help setting this up.

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You can also listen to recent sermons by clicking on the links below under Recent Sermon Recordings. Click on a red title of a sermon (above one of the New Church Westville logos). Then a new window will open. Once the page has loaded, click the play button or the Download link.

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There also is a text version of our sermons. Follow that link to download PDFs of recent sermons and to learn how to subscribe to receive our Weekly Sermon emails.)

Older Sermons & Sermons from Around the World

There are years’ worth of sermons from New Church Westville and congregations around the world stored on newchurchaudio.org. Here is the archive of sermons from New Church Westville. And here is the homepage for newchurchaudio.org where you can find search for sermons on different topics, or by different speakers, or from different places in the world.

Recent Sermon Recordings

Changing Our Spiritual Landscape
You can tell a lot about someone by the things and people they surround themselves with. On the one hand, this is because where we choose to put time and effort is a reflection of what we value. On the other hand, it is also because we are shaped by our environments: we become like what we are surrounded by. This statement is true spiritually. If we surround ourselves with heavenly influences, we will become heavenly. If we surround ourselves with hellish influences, we will become hellish. Where and how we spend our time is not just a matter of personal preference. It is a matter of choosing who we will become.

Sun, May 11, 2025
Source: New Church Westville Podcast

Making Faith Our Own
When you were born you knew nothing about the world and how it worked; nor did you know anything about the Lord or spiritual life. These were things that had to be taught to you, from a young age, both through education and through the examples set by the people around you. As you matured your faith became your own. No longer did you have to rely on others: you could enter into an adult relationship with the Lord and an adult understanding of spiritual life. Yet as simple as that sounds, we can all stand to reflect on how much of our faith is really our own, and how much work still needs to be done to move past what we were taught and live our faith for ourselves.

Sun, May 04, 2025
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Finding the Risen Lord
Easter is of course about the Lord’s Resurrection after His Crucifixion. But just because the Lord rose and lived again does not mean that we ourselves feel His living presence within ourselves. There is a process of being led to Him; it is a process that involves both the head and the heart, a process that involves grief and joy, faith and doubt. This Easter Sunday we will explore what the Gospel of John has to tell us about finding the Risen Lord in our own lives.

Sun, Apr 20, 2025
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The View From the Cross
We mostly think of the view that we have of the Lord. When we think of the crucifixion, perhaps we picture the Lord on the cross. But what was (and is) the Lord’s point of view? In His moment of suffering and death what did He observe, and in observing, what was His response? For an ordinary person they may have felt despair or anger; yet the Lord, even then, continued to look out with mercy and love, even on His enemies.

Wed, Apr 16, 2025
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The Coming Kingdom
When Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey the onlookers took it to be an ancient symbol of kingship. And indeed, it was. Yet their expectations of that coming kingdom were far removed from the kingdom that Jesus sought to establish. Jesus knew that the people expected an immediate overthrow of oppression and the onset of an earthly kingdom with Jesus as their benevolent ruler. The kingdom Jesus actually established was one of hard work and repentance, in other words, a spiritual kingdom. This Sunday we will look at how our own expectations are contrary to what the Lord actually intends for us.

Sun, Apr 13, 2025
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