Captivate Podcast

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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.

There are many metaphors that God uses to describe His role in the universe. God calls Himself Father, Shepherd, Friend, Groom, King, and many others. Some of God’s titles are harder to understand, but there is one role that is easy to understand, and yet is very hard to accept. This week we looked at the challenge and comfort of God being our General.

Both comforter and provider are parts of God's person that are likely easy to understand and accept, but often we lack the practical tools it takes to experience these sides of God and the breakthrough that comes with allowing Him to take these roles in our lives. This week we continued our series by discussing what it means for God to be our comforter and our provider.

We all have misconceptions about God. Our experiences create biases in us that we often use (intentionally or not) to inform our view of God. If we want to see God clearly, with unveiled faces, it requires breaking down these ideas and learning who God truly is. This week we opened up the conversation by exploring what it means for God to be our father in a message titled, “The Prodigal Father”.

Sharing Jesus with others and inviting them to church is not always easy in the culture we live in. However, passion is the most important ingredient towards ending spiritual loneliness. This week we learned that passion is the fuel that gets us through the discomfort as we hunger and long to see those around us experience our Jesus in a message titled, “Save Your Tears”.

Friendship is a vital, but often-overlooked ingredient to living a vibrant spiritual life. True friends help keep us accountable, they offer support, and they point us back to Jesus. This week we looked at the importance of having and keeping true friends in a message titled, “True Friendship”. Join us for service online every Sunday at 8am, 9:30am, 11am, & 12:30pm (PST). If you’re in San Dieg...

In the ancient world of the Bible, cities had walls surrounding them to provide protection from enemies. When the wall was breached, the city was vulnerable to destruction and the only way to secure it was for people to risk their lives by literally standing in the gap in the wall and fighting the enemy. Here we learn that God calls us to stand in the gap for others. This week our panel discussed...

Apathy can strip us of our spiritual fervor and cause us to never take a step forward in our walk with God. However, scripture shows us that God calls us to exactly the opposite. We are called to be risk-takers, agents of change, and to bring hope and light to an increasingly dark world. This week we learned the causes of apathy and how we can combat apathy in our own lives in a message titled, “A...

Many times in scripture, as men and women of God ask Him to move in the supernatural, they give in the natural. They sacrifice to partner with God. This week during “Sacrifice Sunday” we had a family moment of prayer, testimonies, extended worship, and heard a word about sacrifice and partnering with God to bring revival! Join us for service online every Sunday at 8am, 9:30am, 11am, & 12:30pm...

One of the great names of God in scripture is “Jehovah-Jireh,” which means “God our provider.” Sometimes it’s hard in life to trust him as our provider. But this name of God sets us free from that burden! This week we studied the story in the Bible where God first receives this name and what it means for us in a message titled “Jireh: Is He Enough?” Join us for service online every Sunday at 8am,...

This weekend we shared Captivate’s future vision and conviction to continue to End Spiritual Loneliness in San Diego. We shared the what, where, who, when, and how to get involved. We can’t wait to see how God will move!

We learn in scripture that honor is truly one of the love languages of God, but it is being lost in our world. The Bible teaches us that we honor God when we honor others. This Mother’s Day weekend we learned how honor can unlock God’s blessings in our lives in a message title “The Flavor or Honor”.

In Part 4 of “The Christian Atheist”, we learned how we often protect the idols that become a normal part of our lifestyle. But the Holy Spirit invades our lives to set us free, not by giving us more of what we think we need, but rather freeing us from the belief that we need these idols at all. This week we discussed how Jesus wants to free us from loving things that will not love us back in a me...

In our series, “The Christian Atheist”, we learned we were created to need attention from God and that the Bible is very clear about what kind of life God gives and does not give attention to. This week we talked all about attention-seeking behavior in a message titled “Does Anyone See Me?”.

In our series "The Christian Atheist”, we're discussing how deep down we know God loves us, but we often lack the belief that God has anything to say to us. This week we talked about how we can clearly hear God’s voice in a message titled “Fighting to Listen”.

This week we opened up our series, “The Christian Atheist”with a message about the struggle of taking back control from God. We discussed what happens when we do this and what our role really should be as it relates to control in our lives.

Jesus said 7 statements as he hung on the cross for us. They were all powerful and expressed his true motivation. One of the final statements Jesus said was, "It is Finished." But even though Jesus told us this, sometimes in life we don't feel like "it is finished." We often feel like there is much more work to do, proving ourselves, searching for deeper meaning or purpose, and trying to become mo...