Capital Church Messages

Do you like listening or singing music? Music has a certain way of connecting with us. Whether that be in the tune of a song or in the lyrics themselves. This week, Visiting Teaching Pastor Jeff Lucas walks us through a psalm that was sung by people in Jesus’s time, and shows us how God can speak through music.

What do children often do when they break something? They hide it. This is a problem for several reasons, but one of the biggest detriments of hiding what’s broken is that the child prevents their parent from helping them fix it.  This week in our series Better Together, we look at a story about the power of refusing to hide, and how this is the first step in our healing.

The Five Love Languages is easily one of the most important books ever written on how to love others well. Among the love languages, words of affirmation and gift giving are easy to identify as gifts. But, hidden within the love language of quality time is one of the most difficult ways to show someone love – listening. This week in our series Better Together, visiting teaching pastor Jeff L...

It’s natural to get hungry. Of course. And you can say you’re hungry. But at some point, you have to make a sandwich, drive through to grab a burger, or have a burrito delivered. Whatever it is, you have to decide and then do it. This week, in our series Better Together, we talk about doing the hard work of taking ownership of the work we need to do to bring the best version of ourselves to t...

We can shop from home. We can work from home. We can even worship from home. Because of this, life has become so much more convenient. But it’s also become so much more lonely. And the sociological studies prove it. This week, we begin a brand new series called Better Together. In this series, we’ll explore how we were created for connection with others, and how even our walk with Jesus was never...

Messing up can make us feel pretty bad, whether we lied to our friends or did something we knew we shouldn’t have done. It can take a mental toll. What if those slip ups become more than a one time thing. In that case we can start to make it apart of our identity. But what if they didn’t have to be? This week we look at shame and how even the apostle Paul in his letters experienced sha...

Weddings are incredible events filled with deep symbolism. The rings, the unity candle, receiving communion, and the grand finale – the kiss! The kiss is when the officiant declares the couple to be husband and wife. So many symbols packed into one day. But none of the symbols was ever meant to only apply to that day. Every symbol is a declaration for how the couple will live every moment of...

How often do we hear someone say, “That’s impossible!” in a book or movie, only to find, just a short time later, it is possible? These words are often what signal us as the reader or viewer to get ready for something incredible – perhaps even miraculous – to happen. What if we began to live our lives with the same mindset we have when reading and watching these stories? What if we bel...

God always listens to our prayers. Whoever we are, whatever we’re reaching out to him for, he’s listening. But we all probably know “that person” whose prayers seem to get answered on a regular basis. This week in our series The Way, James guides us in how to become the kind of people who seem to have our prayers answered more frequently. And just to be clear: it has nothing to do with being more...

Being patient isn’t always easy. Waiting for your boss to finally give you that promotion after years of hard work. Waiting for your grade to come back after weeks of studying. But while patience is important, being passive and simply waiting without doing the work to prepare may not be the best way to go about it. This week in our series The Way , James challenges us to move beyond passive patien...

It’s good to trust. You can trust that having money in the bank will keep the lights on. You can trust having food in your refrigerator will keep your stomach full. You can even trust your well-maintained car will get you to work every day. But there’s a big difference between trusting something to serve you in life and trusting it to sustain and even save your life. This week in our series The Wa...

Most of us know that we bend the truth sometimes. Whether that’s because we forgot to take the trash out, we woke up late or we just really wanted them to think we got a good grade.  Well this week in our series The Way, James pleads with us to not bend the truth and to just be honest with what we say and how we say it.

One of the most consistent questions Jesus Followers asking is how to discern God’s will for their lives. But how do we tell if we’re following our will or God’s? What wisdom does the Bible offer for navigating this crucial question? Visiting teacher Jeff Lucas is back to bring us another message in our series The Way. This week, we explore what James has to say about aligning our plans with God’s...

If you have a stomach virus it’s not going to do you any good to ask your doctor to prescribe topical antibiotics and a torso cast. Why? Because the virus doing battle against your body is inside of you. This week in our series The Way, visiting teaching pastor Jeff Lucas explores James 4 and the things trying to destroy our character, reminding us that the real battle is not external, but within...

Everyone wants our reviews. Businesses send a text or email asking us to leave a review of our experience. We get a prompt to leave a review for our Uber and Lyft drivers as soon as we get out of the car. Rotten Tomatoes is built on those of us with no experience in writing and producing movies leaving a review of the film we just watched. We’re so conditioned to leave reviews that we think it’s o...

Most people know how to explain their “type.” Maybe you find a sense of humor attractive. Maybe a specific kind of job or hobbies draws your attention. Maybe it’s someone who champions a cause you’re passionate about. Or maybe your type is all built on someone’s looks. This week in our series The Way, James shows us what true beauty looks and acts like.

Jack Russel terriers can be trained to fetch slippers and throw items in the trash. Dolphins and sea lions have been trained in the U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program to detect and clear underwater mines. And carrier pigeons were trained to transport vital messages that were crucial in the Allies winning WW II. But humans can’t seem to train or tame their tongues. This week in our series The Way, we...

Everyone has had the experience of being picked last or not being picked at all. It hurts to be on the negative side of favoritism. Yet, more often than we realize, we are the ones creating negative experiences for others with how we show favoritism.   This week in our series The Way, the Apostle James warns us of the dangers of a treating one group of people with more respect than anoth...

There’s nothing better than a carton of fresh blackberries. So, there’s nothing worse than opening that cartoon and finding blackberries covered in mold.  This week in our series The Way, the Apostle James reminds us that we as believers must constantly check ourselves to get rid of anything “molding” in our lives so we may continue to be the best representation of the sweetness of life in Go...

Someone handing you a check for $100,000 sounds nice. But not if you’re being pulled deeper into raging river rapids! If they keep trying to “bless” you with $100,000, you’re probably going to scream, “I need a life preserver more than I need a check!” We’re all guilty of less extreme versions of this everyday. We think we’re being helpful when we offer our input or advice. But maybe…maybe there’s...

Someone handing you a check for $100,000 sounds nice. But not if you’re being pulled deeper into raging river rapids! If they keep trying to “bless” you with $100,000, you’re probably going to scream, “I need a life preserver more than I need a check!” We’re all guilty of less extreme versions of this everyday. We think we’re being helpful when we offer our input or advice. But maybe…maybe there’s...

How do you feel about rain? It probably depends on your circumstances, doesn’t it. If you just got a new book and a fresh bag of coffee beans, the rain may be the perfect companion to a day inside enjoying two of life’s greatest delights. But if it rains on the day of your outdoor wedding…you may not find the rain so delightful. Regardless of your circumstances, the rain is good. It waters the fie...

You want to get from your house to work in under 10 minutes, but it will require you to drive 120mph. You know exactly how to accrue a six-figure income in a way that requires you to go against your morals. You are able to have your cake and eat it too if you don’t share it with anyone else. You can accomplish your will in all of these situations. But they all require you to go outside the will of...

Having a good job is such a blessing. And a good job can help us create a comfortable bank account. That bank account may afford us the means to healthy eating and a healthy lifestyle that results in a healthy body. And that healthy body may draw the attention of someone of the opposite sex that could lead to a healthy relationship and a healthy marriage. But as good and healthy and wonderful as a...

If you hire Gordon Ramsey to teach you to run a restaurant, you’re off to a great start. If you follow his instructions for how to organize your kitchen, you’re really on the right path.  But if you ignore his instructions for how to properly sear Ahi Tuna, you’re going to set yourself back.  If you then ask for his guidance on plating and presenting Bananas Foster, he may have some ques...