Captivate Podcast

There might be nothing worse than a half-hearted person. No one wants a half-hearted spouse, friend, boss, dentist... that would be painful. No one wants a half-hearted God, but thankfully our God went all in for us! In this series we will talk about how to end casual christianity, going all in on Jesus, my church family, my corner, with some commitment and baptism Sundays to wrap it up! The reali...

This Sunday we had a time of extended worship, prayer, and communion. Pastor Wes shared a message all about moving the heart of God. So often in the new year we want to move God’s hand more than his heart. We want his hands of blessing and favor to show up in our life to give us what we want. But what if this year was different? What if this year, above all, we just wanted him? A genuine believer...

We hope you are enjoying some rest and relaxation with God and your loved ones this week! This is the time of year where we get the chance to reflect on the past and look towards the future. We've had a lot to celebrate, but we believe we are only getting started and have learned a lot of lessons along the way. As we reflect, we've prepared a video devotional in which some of our staff took some t...

Merry Christmas! We had a great time celebrating the coming of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! If you want to share how God is moving in your life through this ministry, please let us know at info@captivatesd.com! Decided To Follow Jesus? Sign up to receive a copy of our “I Have Decided” booklets - https://bit.ly/3RFzfCB Get plugged in! Next Steps - captivatesd.com/nextsteps Visit - captivatesd...

One quick look at our world would tell you that peace is hard to find. War and conflict, and dissension and turmoil are all around us, which begs the question: is peace a reality for today, and if so where is it? This week we faced these questions head-on by learning what the real peace of Jesus is and how we can access it daily in a messaged titled, “The Path Toward Peace.”

Jesus of Nazareth is a name most of us know, but few of us know why we know it. As Nathaniel put it in John 1 after he heard the Messiah was from this nowhere town he said, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Nazareth was insignificant, overlooked and undervalued. But it was there that Mary found the favor of God and Jesus himself grew in favor. Favor was found in the insignificant, overlook...

We kicked off this series by talking about “Jesus, The Light of the World.” The truth is that our world is filled with darkness. Five minutes spent watching the news would reveal that. Hopelessness, loneliness and depression are at all time highs. Now more than ever, we need the message of Christmas—the light that entered the world. This week we talked about what it looks like to live with that ho...

The holidays are a wonderful time of the year full of joy and celebration. But with this season often comes much stress, busyness, and anxiety. So how do we combat those feelings and experience all that God has for us this season? One word: gratitude. This week we looked at what it means to be truly grateful in hopes of experiencing the fruit of gratitude this holiday season in a message titled, “...

When people hurt us it can make us all spiritually twisted up. We may want to forgive them in one moment and yet have God unleash his wrath on them in the next. The reality is, forgiveness is hard. It can feel complicated. But you are not alone. This weekend we unpacked a “church hurt” story out of 2 Timothy, as a prominent Bible character gives us a healthy framework for how to forgive when we do...

This week we continued our series, Church Hurt, by talking all about the dangers of putting things in God’s place. We often put our faith and hope in things that look like God (people, gifting, church) rather than in God himself. This week we'll talk about how the church can fight against this, and also how we, as members of the body, can guard ourselves against this temptation in a message titled...

Hypocrisy is a wrecking ball, smashing souls in its path, leaving disoriented saints staggering through the rubble of betrayal. This week we looked at what God said about hypocrites, how we can give an answer for hypocrisy, and most importantly how God can heal our wounds of hypocrisy, both the ones we have received and the ones we have inflicted. Check out part 3 of our series, “Church Hurt”, in...

This Sunday we continued our series, “Church Hurt”, which is all about healing from the wounds of toxic religion and being the church we want others to experience. This week we examined the story of the woman caught in adultery. We learned in this story that knowledge of God is not only meaningless, but potentially harmful when not aligned to the heart of God in a message titled, “Drop the Rock”.

Jesus did not come to start a new religion. He came to set us free from toxic harmful religion, but toxic religion still exists. Whether it was bad theology, manipulative leadership, or just someone falling short, it doesn’t take long until we ourselves or someone we know experiences “church hurt.” This week we looked at the shortfalls in the history of the church, acknowledged the pain many have...

This week we looked to answer the question, "If church is a hospital, how do we get people there?" What we learned by examining Jesus' life, is that there's a vehicle that we can use to take people to Him, and that vehicle is called, empathy. We studied this further by looking at how Jesus led with empathy in the death and resurrection of his friend Lazarus in a message titled, “A Dose of Humanity...

We all need healing, perhaps more than we care to admit. But what do we do when it seems far away? This weekend we studied a story in the Bible of a person who seemed hopeless, far from the healing they needed in a message titled, “When Healing Seems Far Away”.

When it comes to others, often we, or the world around us, focus on either Grace or Truth. But scripture teaches us that Jesus is both Grace personified and Truth personified. This Sunday we learned that both Grace and Truth are a package deal in a message titled, “He Wasn’t Shocked.”

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The way Jesus lives often shows us that we are doing too much to be healthy inside or to be in a place to say yes to God. The truth is, we often can’t say yes to God until we say no to things that are less than God. This Sunday we learned how to say “no,” how to become less, and how to embrace limits, like Jesus did.

This Sunday we turned 5! We took time to PAUSE and PRAISE God as we heard some powerful parts of our story, some big wins from this last year, and some fresh vision for the future.

After years of disobedience, the Israelites get an opportunity to right the wrongs of the past by obeying God’s voice to experience breakthrough. To experience God’s breakthrough in our lives, we learned that we need to exercise a real faith. This Sunday we wrapped up our series with a message titled, “Faith Is”.

This Sunday we continued our series “Take The Land” and talked about how to lay down our side missions, be on God’s side not ours, and lay aside every heavy weight in life that Jesus never gave us in a message titled, “Which Side Are You On?”

In Joshua 4, the people of Israel have crossed the Jordan river on dry ground and Joshua instructs them to set up a memorial to the mighty way that God had moved. This weekend we learned that often the strength to press forward comes from remembering to look back in a message titled, “Looking Ahead. Remembering What’s Behind.”

Preparation plays a big part in our lives. We have to get ourselves ready daily to do things like go to work, but we also have to prepare for bigger things in life like having a baby. Preparation in these arenas is key and it’s no different in our spiritual lives. The problem is we often find ourselves in the middle of spiritual battles without the preparation needed to win the fight. This weekend...

Even though God has called and destined us to do great works with him, sometimes we doubt that. When we doubt, it’s not that we don’t believe in God, but we rather don’t believe in ourselves and sometimes even feel like we are in the wrong place to be able to serve God. In the second week of our series we learned that what was the wrong place without Jesus can quickly turn into the right place wit...

What's fascinating about God is that he rarely does anything alone. God doesn't need us and yet he loves to include us. God loves having a "+1" in whatever he does in and through our lives. This week we opened our new series through the book of Joshua by unpacking Joshua’s blueprint of how to be a great “+1” to God.