Captivate Podcast

I wonder if you can remember a time when you were lost? When I was younger I thought it would be funny to hide from my mom in the clothing rack at the mall, but when I jumped out to scare her she was gone and panic filled my little heart. I yelled out for her, I ran around looking, I literally thought in that moment I would never see her again. It is an emotion I can still feel when i relive it. M...

Every Sunday Night we will be diving deeper into specific chapters and verses throughout the bible. We created this service to provide a space to equip our church family with a deeper knowledge and understanding of scripture. We invite you to join us on Sunday Nights at Captivate Point Loma ! ----- Join us for service online or in person every Sunday at 8am, 9:30am, 11am, & 12:30pm (PST). If y...

Perhaps the most-like-Jesus of any character we study in the New Testament, and also one of the most relatable, is Stephen the Martyr. This guy is not an apostle, not a preacher, church planter, prayer warrior, and has no impressive resume or skills that we know about. And yet, because of his choice to forgive in Acts 7, he becomes more like Jesus than perhaps anyone else. Why? Because... We're ne...

Every Sunday Night we will be diving deeper into specific chapters and verses throughout the bible. We created this service to provide a space to equip our church family with a deeper knowledge and understanding of scripture. We invite you to join us on Sunday Nights at Captivate Point Loma ! ----- Join us for service online or in person every Sunday at 8am, 9:30am, 11am, & 12:30pm (PST). If y...

Are you good at math? This is a complicated question because there are many types of math. But the type of math that can be hardest for us to understand in this life is what we will call, in this week's message, "God Math." We see in the beginning of Acts, as the church begins, that God adds to their number daily. We see God multiply their faith in others. This type of math is exciting! But in Act...

Every Sunday Night we will be diving deeper into specific chapters and verses throughout the bible. We created this service to provide a space to equip our church family with a deeper knowledge and understanding of scripture. We invite you to join us on Sunday Nights at Captivate Point Loma ! ----- Join us for service online or in person every Sunday at 8am, 9:30am, 11am, & 12:30pm (PST). If y...

As we've been journeying through the book of Acts and reading all about the incredible feats of the early church, we’ve found ourselves marveling at the disciples' superhuman faith and strength and resolve. Except we know that they were anything BUT superhuman. Rather, they were ordinary people who God used for extraordinary purposes. So the real question is, why THEM? And the answer, in part, is...

For those of us who have lived in California for any length of time, we know that at any moment when we least expect it the ground can start to shake. Every time we feel the initial jolt we wonder in our minds, "Is this going to be the big on?!" There is nothing we can do to stop these quakes from coming, but we can prepare ourselves to respond and withstand them.  Well, life is the same way. When...

Busyness has become something our culture celebrates. It's become a badge of honor to overwork, get little sleep, and do "too" many things in life. Try telling someone you're not busy in 2025, they'll probably look at you like you're an alien. But how much of life do we truly miss when we are simply running through it? How often do we miss God, miss people, and miss miracle moments because we just...

One of the greatest examples of community in scripture is found in our chapter of study this week: Acts 2. What we learn in this chapter is that when the Holy Spirit works in our lives He drives us outside of ourselves and toward 3 things: 1. The Lord  2. The Lost  3. The Lonely  So often when we look for meaning in life, happiness, purpose, and a sense of belonging, we tend to look within. We oft...

Last week we kicked off our new years series "Church in the Wild" by giving an introduction of the book of Acts, what the purpose of the church is, and where we are going this year. Acts 1 gives us what is essentially the thesis statement for the church of Jesus in the known world today: "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and i...

The Book of Acts is the remarkable story of how God used a group of ordinary people to catalyze the largest faith movement in the history of the world. And thus, the church began!  But why did God make the church? What's its purpose? The truth is everything God makes has a purpose, and that includes us as the church. God made the church to lift up his name, end loneliness, and be the light to the...

We hope that you had an amazing holiday season surrounded by loved ones! As has become tradition at Captivate, we kicked the year off with a Praise Party! We want to jump into 2025 the best way we know how, by honoring and praising our God together. We also talked about various ways to dive into spiritual disciplines together as a church, which is a focus of ours in this new year— things like fast...

Each and every year this holiday season offers so many traditions we get to enjoy, but the problem with tradition is we rarely let it transform us. It's more about the past, things we've already learned and experienced, therefore it does not always bring the life change we're longing for. But when Jesus became Emmanuel, God with us, he became our savior, past, present, and future. Therefore, Chris...

Christmas reminds us another season has come and gone. We mark our lives by moments, and Christmas is one moment we all experience. For some this moment is joyful, while others painful, as things are not where you thought they would be. You began 2024 praying, planning, dreaming of a narrative for your life and it did not take long for things to veer of course. The question is, "How will you respo...

Every Wednesday Night we will be diving deeper into specific chapters and verses throughout the bible. We created this service to provide a space to equip our church family with a deeper knowledge and understanding of scripture. We invite you to join us on Wednesday Nights at Captivate Point Loma ! ----- Join us for service online or in person every Sunday at 8am, 9:30am, 11am, & 12:30pm (PST)...

We actually CAN'T live without Christmas. In the Christmas story we find the reality of the incarnation, God becoming man, that is the centerpiece of our faith and our hope. The truth is that we NEED Christmas more than we could ever know, and it's that very truth that will enable us to experience all that God has for us this Christmas season. Join us for service online or in person every Sunday a...

Every Wednesday Night we will be diving deeper into specific chapters and verses throughout the bible. We created this service to provide a space to equip our church family with a deeper knowledge and understanding of scripture. We invite you to join us on Wednesday Nights at Captivate Point Loma ! ----- Join us for service online or in person every Sunday at 8am, 9:30am, 11am, & 12:30pm (PST)...

There are so many things that go on at Christmas time: shopping, baking, parties, traveling, new shows, new movies, gifts, and usually a lot of food! But how do we not lose Jesus in the midst of it all? Advent is about celebrating the arrival of the most important person to ever be born, and yet it is easy to make this season about all the extra stuff. Making Christmas about Christ will take real...

Have you ever paused and wondered what life is really all about? Those deep, lingering questions like, “What’s my purpose? What am I truly meant to do with my time on this earth?” You’re not alone. Even the disciples wrestled with those same thoughts—constantly seeking clarity as Jesus revealed the “why” behind the “what.” This weekend, we peeled back the layers, getting to the heart of why we’re...

Every Wednesday Night we will be diving deeper into specific chapters and verses throughout the bible. We created this service to provide a space to equip our church family with a deeper knowledge and understanding of scripture. We invite you to join us on Wednesday Nights at Captivate Point Loma ! ----- Join us for service online or in person every Sunday at 8am, 9:30am, 11am, & 12:30pm (PST)...

The sin we have called out in this series is called Greed. Greed is not just a bad habit, or just a product of capitalism, it is idolatry according to the Bible and it will take much life from us. In a world that works hard to erase our definition and awareness of sin, the reality is we will never be able to ignore sin. We will always feel the ramifications sin has in our lives and the world aroun...

Every Wednesday Night we will be diving deeper into specific chapters and verses throughout the bible. We created this service to provide a space to equip our church family with a deeper knowledge and understanding of scripture. We invite you to join us on Wednesday Nights at Captivate Point Loma ! ----- Join us for service online or in person every Sunday at 8am, 9:30am, 11am, & 12:30pm (PST)...

Our series, “In Cash We Trust” was titled this way to acknowledge the reality that even as believers sometimes we struggle with really trusting God. If we're honest, there are often times when our knowledge would say, "I trust God," but our actions say, "no, actually I trust money". So why the disconnect? The answer to that was at the heart of our conversation this week. Learning what's at the cor...

Every Wednesday Night we will be diving deeper into specific chapters and verses throughout the bible. We created this service to provide a space to equip our church family with a deeper knowledge and understanding of scripture. We invite you to join us on Wednesday Nights at Captivate Point Loma ! ----- Join us for service online or in person every Sunday at 8am, 9:30am, 11am, & 12:30pm (PST)...