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Stay up to date with the happenings of West Side Baptist Church by visiting our blog. You'll find information such as announcements, sermon notes and thoughts from our pastor to encourage and challenge your walk with the Lord.

Faith

by: Pastor Clay Jackson

07/30/2025

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God is outside the realm of the five senses. We cannot sense Him. We must connect with Him through Faith. It says, He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. We don’t accept the worldly view of God, because He stands outside of our demension. He is in the supernatural, and we seek Him supernaturally. Faith is supernatural, it is that which we Hope for, supernaturally, will materialize in the natural. It is the substance of things Hope for … Faith is the fou

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Grace

by: Pastor Clay Jackson

07/21/2025

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Grace is an unmerited favor from God. It is not giving us what we justly deserve. We are living under Grace in this age because the price has been paid for our sins. God has spared us because of the sacrifice that Jesus gave for us. We were living with the stain of sin on us, but Jesus shedded His blood and made the eternal sacrifice for our sins and caused us to live under Grace.

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God’s Love

by: Pastor Clay Jackson

07/17/2025

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Can we really understand the depth of God’s Love for us? Can you really see how He watches over us day and night. He cares about us, our problems, our troubles, things that upset us and causes us to cry. He cares so much for us that He gathers our tears in a bottle. God Loves us so much that He sent His Son to die so that we might live. So, I question the Love we have for one another. Can we see our brother or sister alone and destitute without having feelings for t

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Thoughts on the Disaster in Texas

by: Pastor Clay Jackson

07/07/2025

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It is a tragedy that fell on that Texas community. People were made unalive and some have not been found. There is no way we can ever prepare ourselves for a tragedy like this. We will continue to pray for the families and those that are lost, we pray that they may be found safe.

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Independence Day

by: Pastor Clay Jackson

07/04/2025

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We are celebrating Independence Day today.  This day marks a day of freedom from control.  It is wonderful that we gained our freedom from Great Britain on this day in 1776.  We should strive to stay free from tyranny, being ruled by a government that does not have our best interest as a priority.  We celebrate this day as a day of freedom … but are we truly free? 

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Clutter, Confusion and Worry

by: Pastor Clay Jackson

06/26/2025

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Our minds can be filled with so many things that it makes it difficult to put things into its proper perspective. Clutter and Confusion has a close association with Worry. When things don’t come together as we think they should, we have a tendency to worry about it and get confused. Confusion is a never ending circle of worries. We think about the clutter and get confused and worry about it. I Corinthians 14:33 says, For God is not the author of confusion but of p

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No Kings

by: Pastor Clay Jackson

06/23/2025

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We are experiencing a huge gap in our relationship with the Lord. Instead of being led by the Lord, we are choosing a king to lead us.

Just as Israel chose a king, we are following suit. Samuel was saddened that Israel wanted a king, but God told him to let Israel have their way, for they did not reject him, they rejected Me. God told Samuel what is expected from a king. He will take your sons and daughters into his service, take a tenth of your crops and your live

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Stability in Christ

by: Pastor Clay Jackson

06/11/2025

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The only safe place to be at this point is in Christ. All around us is unstable ground. Things are not as we would hope. But this is the most ideal place for us to be. Because, when we are at our lowest, we must realize that Christ is at His highest. We go through things to make this spiritual journey relevant and to substantiate our relationship with Him. The song says, "If we never had a problem, we would never know that Christ could solve them … we would never know wh

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Blindness

by: Pastor Clay Jackson

06/06/2025

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There are different types of Blindness. The one we are most familiar with is physical blindness. A more severe blindness is spiritual blindness. This blindness is caused by the enemy. It keeps us from experiencing truth. The truth can only be realized when we have been exposed to the Lord Jesus Christ.

In John’s Gospel, there was a man born blind. This man was blind so that the works of God could be in him. Jesus anointed the blind man’s eyes and told him to go wash. When

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He was before the beginning

by: Pastor Clay Jackson

05/26/2025

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Jesus is the second person of the God-Head. The Son of God. He is the agent through whom all things were made. In the Gospel of John, it is said that He is the Word. The spoken Word created all things. The worlds were framed by the Word of God, the things that are seen are not made of things which do appear. It is the power of God that brings all things into existence.

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Too Blessed to be Stressed

by: Pastor Clay Jackson

05/19/2025

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Stress is how we react to outside pressures that will come upon us at any given time. Stress can harm us greatly. There are certain things that we can do to handle stressful situations.  When we feel stressed we should pull back from that situation, take a breath and pray. The Lord does not want us to be overwhelmed with problems. 1 Peter 5:7 says, Cast all your cares on Him, for He cares for you. We should put God first and everything else next.

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The Loss of a Loved One

by: Pastor Clay Jackson

05/10/2025

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We will experience loss in this life. This life wasn’t given to us to keep. We have been given a gift and we must cherish this gift and to hold it sacred and dear, not for ourselves, but for others.

We try to be the best we can be so the life we live will not be in vain. We must cherish every moment that we have been blessed with. We must love ourselves so that this love can be passed onto others. We don’t love ourselves selfishly, we love ourselves to the point of be

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Never Give Up

by: Pastor Clay Jackson

05/05/2025

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We may find ourselves in one confusing situation after another… it’s called life.  We experience turmoil in life, this is what builds character and trust.  When we are struggling to find a way out of the situation we are in, it is then that we receive help from the Lord.  But we really have to want it. The woman with the issue of blood did not stop or give up, she kept moving until she reached out and touched the hem of His garment.  We must never give up.  This Christian

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Deliver the Message of God

by: Pastor Clay Jackson

04/21/2025

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After the Resurrection of Jesus and He had gone back to heaven, the disciples decided to go fishing. Jesus stood on the bank of the sea and called to them. When they discovered it was indeed the Lord Jesus they came to the shore with a multitude of fish.

Jesus restores Peter by asking him to feed His sheep. That was the order Jesus gave to Peter, He also gave this order to us. We should be about our Father’s business. We should spread the Word of God to all people. Telling

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Depend on Me

by: Pastor Clay Jackson

04/08/2025

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We have a tendency not to trust anyone we are not sure about.  Trust abides in the heart.  It moves us in the direction that we know will be beneficial and safe.  When I was very young, not even school age, my great Aunt would send me across the street to borrow sugar, flour etc…we did that in those days.  There was a ditch in front of our house and across the ditch was a board.  To go across the street would mean to walk across the board.  When Ii got to the board my Aun

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