Westview Church Podcast
Welcome to the Westview Church Podcast, where Pastor Marty explores life’s biggest questions, unpacks biblical truths, and invites you to grow in faith and community. Join the conversation now!
Episodes
The Fifth Commandment
It reaches far beyond the taking of a life. Anger, contempt, neglect,
and indifference can all diminish the life of our neighbor. Luther turns the commandment
toward a positive calling: protect life, defend the vulnerable, and help the neighbor flourish.
Listen to Episode 5 of The Ten Commandments: Law. Gospel. Life.
The Fourth Commandment
What does it mean to honor those who came before us? It cannot require silence about
abuse, dishonesty, or harm. In Episode 4, Pastor Marty moves beyond simple obedience
toward truthful remembrance, intergenerational responsibility, and the strange communion
we share with those who came before us and those who will follow. Listen to Episode 4 of
The Ten Commandments: Law. Gospel. Life.
The Third Commandment
You are not a machine, and the world does not depend upon your constant labor. Sabbath is
God's holy gift: rest for bodies, communities, workers, animals, and the earth itself. In
Episode 3, Pastor Marty explores why rest is not laziness, but an act of faith - and why the
command to rest carries social and economic consequences. Listen to Episode 3 of The Ten
Commandments: Law. Gospel. Life.
Who gets to say, “God told me”?
The Second Commandment is about far more than swearing. It confronts pastors, politicians, and movements that use God’s name to make their own power unquestionable.
Episode 2: How Do You Use God’s Name?
The Westview Church Podcast with Pastor Marty Lettow.
The Ten Commandments.
Forget the commandments as a religious checklist. Luther saw something much deeper.
Episode 1 starts with the big one: What is your god? What do you actually trust when everything starts falling apart?
Join Pastor Marty Lettow for Law. Gospel. Life. and a fresh, unapologetically Lutheran trip through all Ten Commandments.
🎙️ Westview Church Podcast — Episode 1: What Is Your God?
Has Christianity lost credibility?
Not because people stopped asking spiritual questions—but because too often the church has failed to protect the very things it claims to believe.
In this episode, Pastor Marty Lettow explores the Eighth Commandment through the lens of Martin Luther, the Good Samaritan, and the call to bear truthful witness in a culture shaped by outrage, politics,...
What if the things we own are actually shaping us?
In Part 2 of Stuff, Pastor Marty explores how our possessions, technology, and memories influence who we’re becoming—and asks what it might look like to live with a little more freedom.
Listen now on the Westview Church Podcast.
From rabbit-ear TVs and cassette tapes to smartphones and AI, our generation has lived through entire eras of technology—and every object tells a story.
But when does a memory become clutter? And how do we honor the past without being trapped by it?
Join Pastor Marty for a new two-part Westview Church Podcast series exploring memory, gratitude, grief, and the freedom of letting go.
...Fourth of July Special: Celebrating 250 Years of Freedom and Faith
Why has the separation of church and state been such a gift—not only for America, but for the church itself?
In this special episode, Pastor Marty Lettow reflects on the Lutheran understanding of freedom, conscience, and the gospel. Together we’ll explore why authentic faith cannot be created by government, why...
The early church didn’t change the world because it had better buildings, better programs, or better marketing.
It changed the world because it created communities where people practiced a different way of being human together.
This week on the Westview Church Podcast, Pastor Marty explores the habits that made the early church different—and asks whether those same habits can still transform us today.
In this episode of Westview On Deck, Pastor Marty sits down with Ali during her final week of her first year of seminary and asks a simple but powerful question:
“What was your favorite question of the year?”
The conversation moves through theology, faith, curiosity, learning, and the questions that continue to shape discipleship. Honest conversation before worship at Westview Church in Boulder, Colorado.
Before worship on May 3, Pastor Marty Lettow and seminarian Ali Gebhardt sat down on the deck at Westview Church to talk about one of Jesus’ most challenging statements:
“I am the way, the truth, and the life.”
What does it actually mean to walk “the way” of Jesus in a world full of noise, anxiety, politics, distraction, and exhaustion?
This isn't...
This might be the most famous miracle story in the Bible—and it doesn’t make sense.
In John’s account of Lazarus, Jesus:
•delays when his friend is dying
•says things that don’t seem true
•weeps even though he knows the ending
•raises a man… but leaves others to finish the job
So instead of explaining it, this episode asks seven questions.
Not to resolve the story—
but to open it.
In one of the most famous stories in the Bible, a shepherd boy confronts a giant. But the story of David and Goliath in 1 Samuel 17 is about more than courage. It’s about power—how intimidation works, why systems freeze in fear, and how faith can break the spell of bullying power. In this new reflection from Westview Church, Pastor Marty explores what this ancient story teaches about p...
Why does Jesus call people to follow before explaining anything? In the final episode of Why Matthew, Pastor Marty brings the series together, exploring Matthew’s unique approach to discipleship. This episode reflects on why learning comes through participation, how faith is formed along the way, and why understanding follows commitment—not the other way around.
Matthew ends his Gospel not with comfort, but with a commission. In this episode of Why Matthew, Pastor Marty explores the purpose of the church through Matthew’s lens: not as a faith-maintenance institution, but as a community formed to make disciples. This episode challenges common assumptions about church, mission, and belonging, and invites listeners to reconsider what the church is actually for.
Matthew presents faith not as an idea to agree with, but as a way of life to be practiced. In this episode of Why Matthew, Pastor Marty explores discipleship as a walk—formed through daily practice, questions, failure, and growth. Drawing on the Sermon on the Mount, this episode invites listeners to see faith not as certainty, but as commitment to learning the way of Jesus over time.
Following Jesus doesn’t just change how we think—it changes how we feel. In this episode of Why Matthew, Pastor Marty explores how Matthew understands heartbreak as part of discipleship, not a failure of it. Jesus is repeatedly moved by compassion, grief, and love, and his disciples are formed by learning to see—and feel—the world differently. This episode reflects on what happens when our hearts grow tired ...
In the Gospel of Matthew, discipleship isn’t measured by how much you know—it’s revealed by how you move, who you stay close to, and how willing you are to be changed. In this episode, Pastor Marty explores the markers Matthew gives us for recognizing real discipleship: movement, proximity to Jesus, imperfect obedience, and outward transformation. This is not about getting faith “right,” but about part...
Because it was written for communities under pressure—not perfect people.
New episode of the Westview Podcast with Pastor Marty is available now.
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