Jesus Culture Sacramento Message of the Week

God is calling us to turn aside to encounter Him so that he can bring revival to the nation and our churches. Our Jesus Culture Youth Pastor, Jonathan Gilstrap, challenges us to turn away from distractions and personal agendas in our lives, in order to turn toward God, engage with His plans, and hear His voice.

What we do in this life matters greatly for eternity. Pastor Banning reminds us that success is not determined by short term accomplishments. Kingdom success is determined by our faithfulness and obedience in this life. 

Pastor Banning leads our church into a powerful morning of prayer, and reminds us that when we face disappointment and encounter loss, we can either draw away from God, or move towards Him. God wants us to come to Him with our anger, confusion, sadness, disappointment, and frustration. We cannot allow unanswered questions to diminish or take away from the reality of God’s will and goodness.

Hope is the bridge from our present reality to our eternal destination. Pastor Becky Johnson encourages us that living in hope is not ignoring our current circumstances, but rather, anchoring ourselves to Jesus and looking for the inevitable goodness of God to show up in our lives. Hope is an active mindset, and a powerful place to pray and believe from.

Michael Brodeur, co-founder and CEO of Pastor’s Coach and of Destiny Finder, shares with our church family about the importance of tending to the garden of our heart. Life flows from our hearts, and because of that it is necessary to guard our hearts from anything that would pollute or dilute its strength. In order to do so, we must tend to the soil of our hearts and be aware of the seeds we are p...

Pastor Banning Liebscher is joined by Michael Brodeur and Elizabeth Woning to discuss God’s original design for sexuality, why it is important for believers to understand His design, and why sexuality matters to God. Michael Brodeur is the co-founder and CEO of Pastor’s Coach and of Destiny Finder, and Elizabeth Woning is the co-founder of Equipped to Love, a ministry seeking to serve and equip th...

Our Jesus Culture Sacramento community takes the morning to honor father’s by discussing what it means to be a father, the battles father’s must overcome, the sacrifice required, and how men carry a standard of love in their homes. Cody Williams hosts a panel of fathers from our community that includes Ben Serpell, Mike Horn, Mark Hemington, and Ethan Kastello.

Pastor Banning continues his message on faith for revival by teaching us the practicals of guarding out hearts. Our heart is our responsibility, so in order to guard it effectively, we must know God’s intention for our heart, and how He instructs us to protect them. When we learn to guard our hearts, we feed our faith, and speak and give hope liberally to others.

How do we stay in a place of faith when we are surrounded by evil and darkness is increasing? Pastor Banning addresses the question we’ve all been asking, by reminding us that our first priority is to guard our hearts. The enemy comes to weigh our hearts down, but the more time we spend building our hearts up in the Word of God, and protecting what comes in, the stronger our faith will be!

There is always a temptation to settle for less than God’s best when we are worn out and tired, but in the midst of these seasons, there is also an invitation from God to press into His promises over our lives, circumstances, and communities. Pastor Banning challenges us to becomes prisoners of promise by not settling for what is, but instead, crying out for more of God, and refusing to settle for...

Our revelation of God as a Father, and our understanding of Jesus as a friend, is the key to being a believer that prays bold prayers. Pastor Banning Liebscher encourages us to live a life that refuses to settle for anything less than what Jesus died to give us. We are called to live a life of peace, abundance, love, and power, not one that adjusts to brokenness, or settles for compromise.

Danny Silk, President and Co-Founder of Loving on Purpose, talks about the power of culture and how we must intentionally create it, and export it to the world. We want to be a community that honors one another despite differences, stirs up faith, and shares testimonies of how God is moving. The greatest thing we can give people is our culture of bringing Heaven to Earth and the hope we have in Je...

God wants to be invited into every area of our lives, and He will often use desperate circumstances and situations to move us to a place of prayer. Pastor Banning reminds us that we have a choice in difficult circumstances to either turn towards God, or turn away from Him. If the cry of our hearts is to see revival in our lives, communities, and nations, then we must be a praying people in all cir...

We are all called by God to be someone and to do something. Leadership is taking ownership for that call. Pastor Banning reminds us that we have a call to look and be like Jesus, and to partner with God in seeing His plans and purposes established in the earth. Christianity is living a life fully engaged with God!

We are called to fight and contend for our blessings and promises. Pastor Paul Geerling, Senior Pastor of iSEE CHURCH in Brisbane, Australia, reminds us that we are called to prosper in famine and trial, because our lives are determined by the Lord, not fear. 

It is irrational to believe in the resurrection and live in compromise. Our response to Jesus’ death and resurrection must be allowing Him to forgive us for our past, sin, shame, unbelief, and compromise. Andy Byrd, co-founder of Youth With A Mission’s Fire and Fragrance, Circuit Riders, and co-leader of The Send, calls us to be wholehearted followers of Jesus by remembering His goodness and...

God on the move is the answer for personal and national revival. Pastor Banning Liebscher delivers a strengthening teaching on the practicals of revival- how we define it, and what we need in order to go where He is leading us and combat the chaos and confusion of the world.

There is power in recognizing that the Kingdom of God is alive inside of us, and that we are all called to be leaders. Pastor Francis Anfuso reminds us that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and we must be willing to tear down every stronghold and idol in our lives in order to finish well and experience revival in our personal lives.

If we want to disciple others in the ways of Jesus, we must steward and grow in tangible disciplines. Pastor Banning teaches us that the pursuit of people, gaining permission to speak into their lives, our presence, perspiration, and patience are all necessary facets of discipling others that we must do in order to help others.

Being a disciple of Jesus requires everything in our lives to be surrendered. Pastor Banning Liebscher reminds us that the ways of the world and the way of Jesus cannot coexist. Jesus asks us for everything, because He knows the reward in our lives will be far greater than anything the world could ever give us. Will you be a person that moves towards Jesus, even when the crowds go the other way?

Phil Manginelli, Lead Pastor of The Square Church in Smyrna, Georgia, gives meaning and direction to the heart behind being a disciple. Discipleship is Jesus’ simple invitation to follow Him. As we spend more time with Jesus, we innately become more like Him in what we do and how we look to the world.

Being a disciple is about following Jesus at all costs, even if it doesn’t make sense. Pastor Becky Johnson brings a convicting and powerful word about the importance of clinging to God, and how maturity in Christ is reflected when our actions line up with our words.

Disciples are those who are being transformed into the image of Christ. Pastor Banning challenges us to not live a stagnant, Christian life, but instead to always allow the wisdom and revelation of God to flow into our lives, and out of our lives to others. Are the works of God evident in our lives?

Pastor Banning reminds us that Jesus commands us to love others, because it will bear fruit that lasts in our lives, families, and communities. Investing in people means that we value what God values, and it’s important to ask God who He is calling us to intentionally pour our love, wisdom, and lives into in this season.

The children of Israel suffered when they disconnected from Moses. Pastor Banning speaks to the younger generation and encourages them to repent of the independent spirit, and turn to the older generation to receive the impartation of grace, council, and joy.