Christ Journey Church

Through faith in Jesus as God’s Christ, we become children of God. Being a Christian isn’t a matter of pledging allegiance to a set of doctrines or religious rules and rituals. In fact, when we trust Jesus Christ, God is able to do something quite amazing through our lives!

Imagine if before you start your day you choose to forgive every offense before it ever happened. When we live out of God's DNA in us, it’s possible to live our days like that. As children of God, his traits are passed on to us, therefore we have victory over sin and love for others.

What does God want us to know about eternal life? For a Christian, the good news of Christ’s resurrection proclaims that death does not speak the final word over us. Following his resurrection, Jesus showed us life after death. The witness of his life promises more life, victory, and peace for those who place their life in His.

There is a sense in which every book of the Bible fits the statement, it’s all about the people, especially in the book of 1 John. John understood how people got themselves into problems they couldn’t easily get out of, or how people were vulnerable to temptation. But he also knew and understood the plans and future God has for His people in Jesus Christ.

It is not uncommon to think that if we place our lives in God’s hands, He’s going to ruin our fun, steal our joy, and slap a bunch of rules in our lives. And yet, in Scripture we read Jesus came that his joy might be in us and our joy be full. This Easter, how do we join in the joy of Jesus?

Is it possible that every one of us is mad at God for something? Something we believe he could have done, should have done, but didn’t? The answer may be painful for you to admit, but it is possible to find understanding. God is always striving to reach us with breakthrough in order to give us an opportunity to live a life with purpose!

It is human tendency to focus mainly on what is right in front of us while the mind is too dull to experience God. The Bible tells us there’s a deceiver at work in the world, set to destroy us, almost like a spiritual parasite. This parasite has implanted words in the human brain that we’ve never recovered from.

Would you settle for a self-made life when you can have a great and God-graced life? You can live trying to make yourself great without God. Just live by any number of worldview options – the road is wide! Or, you can live trusting God to make your life great with a blessing – that’s the narrow road. How you think matters. How you look at life matters. How you live your life matters.

"What is truth ?” Pilate asked this question of Jesus before his crucifixion. How would you answer? Does truth have to make rational sense? Do we need to be able to "feel it” to know it’s true? The topic can turn confusing and our understanding may be limited, but there are answers to these questions.

Life on earth doesn’t last forever. How do you make sense of that? What do you do with that? Scripture tells us that …God has set eternity in our hearts – but we can’t get there by ourselves. It’s through faith in Christ that God graces us to walk with Him into life beyond death.

Why can’t we all just get along? It’s a question that has been asked so many times. Humanity’s story looks a lot like the ones we find in the Book of Genesis – full of rebellion, disobedience, jealousy, and chaos. Humanity had a powerful and personal beginning with God, but then the freedom gifted to us was misused starting a chain of devastating consequences.

What or who makes us become who we are? It can be a complicated question to answer. We become like the things we believe. We become like the people we believe, the truths we trust, and the stories we tell ourselves. Therefore, it is important to be aware and understand belief systems and world views. How can you decipher who to trust? What to believe? How to behave?

Knowing who you are, where you are and how you are going to move from there makes a big difference in life. What is your mind map – your worldview? The Bible offers a clear storyline to help us know who we are, where we are, and how we are to make our journey through life.

Would you consider yourself a generous person? People feel your concern for them in the provisions you’ve made for them – gifts of time, talent and financial treasure. In Scripture we see that when believers are so moved to be generous, their sacrifice rises like a sweet aroma that is pleasing to God.

As Christians, everyone we help come home to the Father is an offering of worship we bring to God. He is pleased when we do good to others and help those who are far from him get to know him personally. In fact, God himself rejoices every time someone trusts him in the forgiveness of sin, receiving the gift of salvation. Do you know the joy of helping someone take that step of faith?

God absolutely loves us. It’s not our humanity that separates us from him, but rather our sin. God is solid, trustworthy, steadfast. Yet, his character as God also makes him a destroying force to all sin. The good news is that He has a plan to make his holiness and goodness present in humanity in such a way that sin will be consumed without damaging the people he loves in the process – how does he...

When we receive Christ as our Lord and Savior, we open our hearts for God’s Spirit to live in us, to be alive in us. As we live out our faith, we are to offer our bodies as a living sacrifice, but have you ever wondered why? Why would anyone do that?

How will 2021 be any different for you? Will this be a new year where truly a new thing takes place in life, or will this year be more of the same old desperations? What do you want? Your answer will give way for some tension. The difference between God doing a new thing in you this year and the same old desperations is what you are willing to sacrifice.

Are you building your life on a sturdy foundation? 2020 has exposed what we’ve truly been building our lives upon. How do we head into 2021 with a fresh sense of hope? Let’s get to work!

Merry Christmas, Christ Journey Family! This year’s experience may look and feel different as we gather around screens, but we will not let that stop us from remembering and celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. No matter how dark the night has become, God’s light still shines through. Prepare Him room in your heart and let His light shine in and through you. It will bring yo...

God wants everyone to be part of His family. His invitation is radically inclusive. Is there someone in your life you’d like to see rescued by God’s power and love? Your acts of kindness and generosity can show others the love of Jesus. Make room for others this Christmas – in your heart, your home, and your neighborhood.

The holidays and the family… how do we make it through? Well, humor helps. We can find the fun in family dysfunction, can’t we? The Christmas Story is full of the unexpected and the dysfunctional too. Have you noticed? A messy humanity is not hard to miss if you look closely at the people in the story.

Thank God for Christmas! Even if this year’s Christmas will be like no other, we still thank God for Christmas. Christmas means God wants to be with us, and God wants us to be with Him.  This is why Christ came. God wants us to experience being with Him, together. Prepare Him room...

Embraced. Known. Accepted. Received. Celebrated. We become and are gifted these when we allow ourselves to be found by God. It doesn’t mean we won’t still struggle with the challenges of our nature, circumstances and choices. However, the good news is we won’t be far from God as we do. He’ll be with us all the way. To Jesus, to be found by God is to be incredibly happy. Joy this big has got to be...

Luke 15 can be considered the Lost & Found department of the Bible. God does for us what we cannot do for ourselves. He lights the lamp, he sweeps the house; in other words, he searches carefully until he finds us. However, God won’t force you against your will. He will wait for you to come to him and let yourself be found. What’s your choice?