Westside Church Northwest Podcast
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Westside Church Northwest Podcast
Every Good and Perfect Gift | Rick Renner
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In this message, Rick Renner goes after a question many believers still wrestle with: When life is crushing you, did God send it—or allow it from a distance?
We walk through James 1:1, 13, 17, and 5–8 and show from the Greek why James uses a double negative: stop saying God is the source of what destroys you. God cannot be tempted with evil and does not give evil. Every good and perfect gift comes down from the Father of lights—habitually, abundantly, with no shadow of turning.
You’ll hear:
- The difference between God acting directly vs. people blaming Him remotely
- Why Old Testament thinking (“everything comes from God”) still shows up in the church
- The test for whether something is from God: is it good, advantageous, and moving you upward?
- How to ask God for wisdom
- Why a double-minded person is unstable and why faith has to be rooted, not tossed
He also talks honestly about self-sabotage, personal responsibility, drawing near when you don’t have answers, and lining your mind up with who God actually is.