Journey Community Church La Mesa, California

Message Summary: The reality of this world is that there is a way that leads to life. We flourish when we come to hold real values (vs blah blah blah values) as we seek God with our time, our space and our energy. It’s when we really experience these values of God, Love and Grace that we begin to transform and move toward health. Series Summary: Life can be so busy — full schedules, distractions and financial stress! Time has a way of escaping our grasp. This treadmill, non-stop life can place our spiritual, financial and relational health in the back seat, or for some even in the trunk! Coming into the New Year, how do we deal with life fatigue? We combat it by developing some “healthy” habits. Join us as we kick off the year by exploring habits that will help us flourish in 2018.

Message Central Thought: Keeping our streak (consistency) through building healthy habits will set us up for holy moments. Message Summary: Realizing that God is calling us to something more is imperative to keeping our streak (consistency). We need to develop healthy habits and practice them with consistency in order to prepare us for the holy moments God is calling us to. Build these healthy habits: stop caring about what other people think, get a new “they”, establish rhythms, refuse to let emotions dictate enthusiasm, acknowledge the past and keep the change.

Have you ever noticed how many Christmas movies, especially the kids ones, have something or someone trying to stop Christmas from coming? Of course there’s the Grinch, Scrooge, the Abominable Snowman, or the more nuanced materialism that threatens Charlie Brown’s Christmas. Christmas is God sending unspeakable goodness to us. Since even before the very first real Christmas, dark forces have threatened to try to prevent the Goodness from arriving. But God’s Goodness, like Christmas itself, is UNSTOPPABLE!

Message Central Thought: The subtle sneaky power of disappointment can threaten to stop the experience of God’s goodness. Message Summary: God came to Zacharias, bringing His unstoppable goodness and preparation for the arrival of Christmas. But the disappointment Zacharias had experienced in life almost disabled him from receiving it. God can get through to us as we let MORE true things sink into our lives, as we begin to deepen our take on things and as we learn to ask better questions of God. Series Description: Have you ever noticed how many Christmas movies, especially the kids ones, have something or someone trying to stop Christmas from coming? Of course there’s the Grinch, Scrooge, the Abominable Snowman, or the more nuanced materialism that threatens Charlie Brown’s Christmas. Christmas is God sending unspeakable goodness to us. Since even before the very first real Christmas, dark forces have threatened to try to prevent the Goodness from arriving. But God’s Goodness, like Christmas itself, is U

Message Central Thought: In spite of incredibly evil forces at play in our world, Jesus overcomes evil. Message Summary: Powerful evil forces opposing God and trying to stop His work are at play in our world. This darkness has a face that is present at the time of the first Christmas in Bethlehem. But God is at work in an unstoppable way. He inserts Himself into the situation through a dream, instructing Joseph and Mary to flee with Jesus to a place far from Herod’s reach. Evil was overcome. Series Summary: Have you ever noticed how many Christmas movies, especially the kids ones, have something or someone trying to stop Christmas from coming? Of course there’s the Grinch, Scrooge, the Abominable Snowman, or the more nuanced materialism that threatens Charlie Brown’s Christmas. Christmas is God sending unspeakable goodness to us. Since even before the very first real Christmas, dark forces have threatened to try to prevent the Goodness from arriving. But God’s Goodness, like Christmas itself, is UNSTOPP

Message Central Thought: God promises to come through in response to our cries for help and rescue. Message Summary: The Israelites cried out for God’s rescue and anticipated it’s promise. Although the wait was long, God continued to communicate through prophecy that He was going to make good on that promise. We walk through that time of waiting for rescue with honesty, and with a recognition of God’s promise, knowing that Jesus is with us in the wait. Series Summary: Have you ever noticed how many Christmas movies, especially the kids ones, have something or someone trying to stop Christmas from coming? Of course there’s the Grinch, Scrooge, the Abominable Snowman, or the more nuanced materialism that threatens Charlie Brown’s Christmas. Christmas is God sending unspeakable goodness to us. Since even before the very first real Christmas, dark forces have threatened to try to prevent the Goodness from arriving. But God’s Goodness, like Christmas itself, is UNSTOPPABLE!

Series Central Thought: Can ordinary people hear the voice of God? Maybe it’s not only possible but essential to the life God has for us. In this series we’ll look at the ways God speaks to us and how to hear God speaking to us. Message Central Thought: How do we recognize the voice of God? Message Summary: God wants to speak to us. He speaks most commonly through His Word, an inner voice, the peace of Christ, other human voices and our own discernment. We can learn to know God’s voice. His voice is consistent with the Bible. It often can be identified in thoughts that are cross current, recurring, seem to have more weight than others and are confirmed by other Christ followers. We seek to hear as a part of a conversational relationship with God.

Series Central Thought: Can ordinary people hear the voice of God? Maybe it’s not only possible but essential to the life God has for us. In this series we’ll look at the ways God speaks to us and how to hear God speaking to us. Message Central Thought: We can learn to hear God speak through His still small voice. Message Summary: We NEED to hear God’s words and we were made to hear Him. One of the main ways He speaks to us is through The Voice which is often still and small. So we must learn to hear it in an ongoing relational process of understanding and practice. It can be missable, resistible and ignorable. So we start learning to listen through an interactive reading of God’s word. We then expect God to speak, evaluate whether there is anything blocking me from hearing and then take the time to really listen.

Series Central Thought: Can ordinary people hear the voice of God? Maybe it’s not only possible but essential to the life God has for us. In this series we’ll look at the ways God speaks to us and how to hear God speaking to us. Message Central Thought: God speaks and wants to interact with us. Message Summary: God’s plan, nature and book all point to His invitation to be in conversational relationship with Him. God the Father speaks through creation. God speaks through Jesus who is God embodied. He speaks through the Spirit who lives in all those who follow Jesus. We can start to hear Him now by dropping our unbelief, deciding we want to learn how to hear God and recognizing “that might have been God” moments.

Big idea: We learn to combat the destructiveness of lust as we choose to give ourselves as a gift of sacrificial love to others as persons of immense value made in God’s image. Series Summary: It seems like there’s never been more controversy and confusion regarding our bodies. Maybe what’s missing is an understanding of God’s vision for who we are and what we’re meant for, revealed through the creation and design of our bodies. Our bodies are not just biological, but spiritual and theological as well. Even our sexuality is a message from God. There is great freedom to be discovered for people who are seeking God’s direction for life. Surprisingly, this is also GREAT NEWS for the world in understanding the NAKED TRUTH — it actually can lead us to that “something” that we’ve felt was missing our whole lives.

Big idea: We learn to combat the destructiveness of lust as we choose to give ourselves as a gift of sacrificial love to others as persons of immense value made in God’s image.

Big Idea: God’s design for covenantal marriage speaks of the union of a man and a woman sealed by the visible sign of sexual union. Series Summary: It seems like there’s never been more controversy and confusion regarding our bodies. Maybe what’s missing is an understanding of God’s vision for who we are and what we’re meant for, revealed through the creation and design of our bodies. Our bodies are not just biological, but spiritual and theological as well. Even our sexuality is a message from God. There is great freedom to be discovered for people who are seeking God’s direction for life. Surprisingly, this is also GREAT NEWS for the world in understanding the NAKED TRUTH — it actually can lead us to that “something” that we’ve felt was missing our whole lives.

Big Idea: God’s design for covenantal marriage speaks of the union of a man and a woman sealed by the visible sign of sexual union.

Big Idea: The Bible is full of images of marriage as a description of God’s invitation to both married and single persons to union and communion with Himself. Series Summary: It seems like there’s never been more controversy and confusion regarding our bodies. Maybe what’s missing is an understanding of God’s vision for who we are and what we’re meant for, revealed through the creation and design of our bodies. Our bodies are not just biological, but spiritual and theological as well. Even our sexuality is a message from God. There is great freedom to be discovered for people who are seeking God’s direction for life. Surprisingly, this is also GREAT NEWS for the world in understanding the NAKED TRUTH — it actually can lead us to that “something” that we’ve felt was missing our whole lives.

Big Idea: The Bible is full of images of marriage as a description of God’s invitation to both married and single persons to union and communion with Himself.

Big Idea: Contrary to the popular belief that our bodies are an impediment, a decorative accessory or vehicles of pleasure, our bodies are the visible expression of the irreplaceable, unrepeatable invisible person, inseparable from who we are. Series Summary: It seems like there’s never been more controversy and confusion regarding our bodies. Maybe what’s missing is an understanding of God’s vision for who we are and what we’re meant for, revealed through the creation and design of our bodies. Our bodies are not just biological, but spiritual and theological as well. Even our sexuality is a message from God. There is great freedom to be discovered for people who are seeking God’s direction for life. Surprisingly, this is also GREAT NEWS for the world in understanding the NAKED TRUTH — it actually can lead us to that “something” that we’ve felt was missing our whole lives.

Big Idea: Contrary to the popular belief that our bodies are an impediment, a decorative accessory or vehicles of pleasure, our bodies are the visible expression of the irreplaceable, unrepeatable invisible person, inseparable from who we are.

Guest Speaker, Christopher West — the world’s most widely recognized teacher of the Theology of the Body. He presents this profoundly beautiful and life-changing vision of human life, love, and sexuality in a way that people from any background can understand.

Big Idea: When we choose to live directed by God’s vision for our lives, we will flourish! Series Summary: It seems like there’s never been more controversy and confusion regarding our bodies. Maybe what’s missing is an understanding of God’s vision for who we are and what we’re meant for, revealed through the creation and design of our bodies. Our bodies are not just biological, but spiritual and theological as well. Even our sexuality is a message from God. There is great freedom to be discovered for people who are seeking God’s direction for life. Surprisingly, this is also GREAT NEWS for the world in understanding the NAKED TRUTH — it actually can lead us to that “something” that we’ve felt was missing our whole lives.