Westside Unscripted

Since Pastor Peter is out of commission again this week, we are playing a sermon clip from our 2021 Men's Retreat about how we can build resilient households.

If you have a question that you would like Pastor Peter to address on Westside Unscripted, please email it to josh@bibledirectionforlife.com.

Since Pastor Peter is out of commission this week, we are playing a snippet from a recent sermon about some practical principles for prioritizing the Scriptures. If you'd like to listen to sermon in its entirety, follow the link below:

"How You Structure Your Day Shapes Your Heart"

If you have a question that you would like Pastor Peter to address on Westside Unscripted, please email it to josh@bibledirectionforlife.com.

What does repentance look like in the case of a habitual sin? Should we expect the habit to be broken when we confess it to Christ? If we continue to sin after confessing, was our repentance sincere?  Pastor Peter offers some practical suggestions for how we can fight the habitual sins the Spirit of God illuminates in our life.

If you have a question that you would like Pastor Peter to address on Westside Unscripted, please email it to josh@bibledirectionforlife.com.

What was the gift of tonuges meant to do? Was it a sign for unbelievers or for believeres? In this episode, Pastor Peter explains how we can reconcile an apparent contradiction in the letter to the Corinthians and offers practical advice for approaching the gift of tongues today.

If you have a question that you would like Pastor Peter to address on Westside Unscripted, please email it to josh@bibledirectionforlife.com.

How should a Christian approach extra-canonical books like those found in the Apocrypha? Pastor Peter explains how these books were lumped in with the Biblical canon and offers his thoughts about how a Christian should read them today.

If you have a question that you would like Pastor Peter to address on Westside Unscripted, please email it to josh@bibledirectionforlife.com.

Who wrote the book of Hebrews? Pastor Peter gives his answer and explains how we should approach questions of authorship more generally.

If you have a question that you would like Pastor Peter to address on Westside Unscripted, please email it to josh@bibledirectionforlife.com.

When God commanded the Israelites not to cut the corners of their beard (Leviticus 19:27), what was He trying to teach them? Pastor Peter explains how examining odd rules like this one from the Pentateuch provides relevant instruction for daily Christian living.

If you have a question that you would like Pastor Peter to address on Westside Unscripted, please email it to josh@bibledirectionforlife.com.

What happens when we take the Lord's Supper? This question might not seem all that complicated on the surface, but Pastor Peter walks us through how this question sparked vigorous debates during the Reformation and offers guidance for how we should think through the question today.

If you have a question for Pastor Peter Montoro, please email it to josh@bibledirectionforlife.com.

How many birthday candles should we put on creation's cake this year? In this episode, Pastor Peter explains the need for theological triage when approaching these kinds of questions and offers his perspective on the creation debate.

If you have a question for Pastor Peter, please email it to josh@bibledirectionforlife.com.

How should the church relate to the nation-state of Israel? On our inaugural episode, Pastor Peter explains how dispensationalism together with broader social and political forces helped create the nation-state of Israel in the middle of the twentieth century. He then walks us through what he thinks makes up a biblical posture toward Israel today.