United Methodist Church Of Westlake Village

Send us a textWhen courage gets confused with noise and muscle, we step back and ask what strength really looks like. We follow a fresh reading of Ephesians 6—often reduced to battle talk—and uncover a protective way of living that lets love stand its ground without turning hard. Our guiding vision is simple but demanding: love boldly, serve joyfully, lead courageously. To make that real, we reach for images that breathe—civil rights sit-ins as living armor, campus crowds navigating faith in public, and yes, Superman admitting that his greatest power is being human.We unpack the armor of God as a set of practices rather than weapons: a belt of truth that holds our lives together when spin is cheap, a breastplate of righteousness that guards motives, shoes made for the gospel of peace that move us toward people we’d rather avoid, a shield of faith that absorbs the darts of cynicism, a helmet of salvation that protects our minds from despair, and a Spirit-shaped word that cuts through noise without cutting down