Mike Westendorf

It's Saturday night and I'm waiting to pick up my older two kids after their participation in the play at Wisconsin Lutheran High School.  I was able to rake, dump leaves, mow the lawn, get a nap in all while…

I've been thinking a lot about what fear does to people, but thinking more on what it actually is. Fear is really a confession of a need for help. A circumstance happens and in that moment we often react to…

American politics and culture are a pretty tough place to be.  It’s always been that way, but over the past 15 years it seems that the political divide has become much larger and the “middle” is much smaller to almost…

In a few weeks I will be returning to Murphy, NC to do a benefit concert to support an addiction treatment center as part of a thank you to something that God did in my life in one of the…

Leaners?  I've been thinking about the idea that we sometimes have a tendency to get out ahead of God.  His command for us in Ephesians 6 is to "stand firm" against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms,…

Two thoughts that have been burning in my heart for the past two months.

The world is in prison with a zombie identity (Ephesians 2), looking for life and for healing; – they will never find it apart from Christ.…

In preparing for the last of the "Awake and Alive 2014 Summer Series" messages, we wanted to focus on the prayer that Paul had in his letter to the churches, specifically to Ephesians.  In it he asks them to pray…

I lead worship frequently at my home church in Muskego called "The Bridge at St. Paul's".  I lead within our modern worship setting and within our contemporary setting - both are topics for another blog one day.  This time I…

I've had the privilege to be part of some great churches growing up and a lot of great mentors in my life.  My life experiences as a meteorologist at Weather Eye, Inc. and the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee running Innovative…