Journey Church Shepherdsville

Speaker: David Church: Journey Christian Church Location: Shepherdsville, Kentucky Series: Built Primary Scriptures: Romans 12:1–5, James 1:22 Additional Reference: Ephesians 4 Episode Overview In this message from the Built series, David explores what happens after we identify and remove the things holding us back spiritually. Using the analogy of framing a house, he explains why spiritual growth...

Built — Week 3: What Needs to Come Down? We’re all building something—our lives, families, relationships, faith, and future. But sometimes building something new requires tearing something old down first. In Week 3 of the Built series, we explore the spiritual demolition that sometimes has to happen before God can rebuild our lives around Jesus. In This Episode 01. Sometimes construction starts wi...

We're all building something. Whether it's a family, career, relationships, reputation, habits, finances, or a life of faith, our everyday decisions are shaping who we become. But there's an important question we often fail to ask: Who drew the plans? In this message, we explore what it means to intentionally build our lives around the teachings and example of Jesus rather than allowing culture, c...

Underneath It All: What Is Your Life Built On? We all spend a lot of time thinking about the visible parts of our lives—our careers, families, homes, accomplishments, relationships, and reputations. But the most important part of a house is the part nobody sees: the foundation. And the same is true of our lives. 1. We're All Building Something You may not consider yourself a builder, but every dec...

Newton’s Third Law & Our Lives Every action creates a reaction. The same principle we see in the physical world can help us understand something about our relationships, choices, habits, and spiritual lives. Cause & Effect Our actions and choices create consequences. The words we speak, the attitudes we carry, and the habits we develop all create some type of movement around us. Reaping &a...

What do you do when the weight you’re carrying feels too heavy to move on your own? In this powerful message from Shepherdsville, Kentucky , we continue looking at Newton’s Laws of Motion and what they can teach us about faith, life, relationships, and following Jesus. Newton’s Second Law tells us that the heavier an object is, the more force it takes to move it. The same can be true in our lives....

Episode Notes: It’s Time to Move Big Idea We are all moving in some direction. The question isn't whether we're moving—it's what is moving us and where are we going? Using Newton's First Law of Motion as a picture for our spiritual lives, this message explores the danger of inertia: the longer we remain in the same condition, the harder it can become to change. Through the story of Jesus healing t...

Following Jesus When Doing the Right Thing Is Hard What happens when following Jesus makes life harder instead of easier? In the final message of our Beatitudes series , we look at Jesus' challenging words in Matthew 5:10–12: “Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” None of us enjoys opposition, criticism, inconvenience, or suffering. Bu...

Blessed Are the Peacemakers | The Beatitudes Series | Journey Church What does it really mean to be a peacemaker? In this episode, we continue our Beatitudes series by exploring one of Jesus' most challenging teachings: "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God." While our culture often defines peace as simply avoiding conflict, Jesus points us toward something much dee...

What does Jesus really mean when He says, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God" ? In this powerful message from Shepherdsville, Kentucky, we continue our journey through the Beatitudes by exploring one of Jesus' most challenging and hope-filled promises. A pure heart isn't about perfection - it's about having an undivided heart that is fully surrendered to God. If you've ever stru...

BEATITUDES 06 | Journey Church Shepherdsville, KY What does it really mean to be merciful? In this message from Journey Church in Shepherdsville, Kentucky , we continue our Beatitudes series by exploring one of Jesus' most challenging teachings: "Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy." (Matthew 5:7) It's easy to want justice when someone hurts us. It's much harder to extend mercy....

What does Jesus really mean when He says, "Blessed are the poor in spirit" ? In a culture that celebrates self-reliance, success, and independence, Jesus opens the Sermon on the Mount with a statement that seems completely upside down. In this episode, we explore one of the most foundational teachings of Christianity and discover why recognizing our need for God is actually the beginning of true b...

Hungry for Righteousness: Fixing Our Eyes on Jesus Guest preacher David Williams opens by celebrating America’s 250 years and honoring service members, then shares church announcements: sign up on the app; student camp July 12–15 with payment help available; Jiffy 2 Camp (grades 1–3) July 19–22 and Junior 2 Camp July 19–24 at White Mills via White Mills registration; Prime Timers meet July 8; wome...

Blessed Are the Meek: Strength Under Control Continuing the Beatitudes series, the message centers on Matthew 5:5, “Blessed are the meek,” challenging the common view that meekness means weakness. Using the Greek idea of a war horse trained for battle, meekness is defined as strength under control, contrasting with a culture that rewards outrage and constant self-defense. Proverbs 16:32 is cited t...

Blessed Are Those Who Mourn: Finding God’s Comfort on Father’s Day On Father’s Day, Jeremy honors dads, grandfathers, mentors, coaches, and teachers who show up, while acknowledging the day can be painful for those grieving absent, distant, or deceased fathers. Teaching from Matthew 5:4 (“Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted”), he contrasts a culture of distraction with Jesus’ i...

Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit: Where the Kingdom Begins Jeremy launches a summer series on Jesus’ Beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount. He explains that blessing is often mistaken for visible success or circumstantial happiness, but Jesus describes an inward kingdom transformation focused on posture, not behavior. Teaching “Blessed are the poor in spirit,” he defines it as recognizing dependen...

Awakening the Next Generation: What Are We Passing On? Guest speaker JonnyMac shares a simple family pancake recipe to illustrate how naturally people pass down habits and traditions, then asks what is being passed to the next generation—especially faith. Citing Judges 2:10, he warns that a generation can grow up not knowing the Lord if families and churches go on autopilot and delegate responsibi...

The Prodigal Son Explained: Two Lost Sons and the Father’s Grace (Luke 15) Jeremy introduces Jesus’ parable in Luke 15 as a familiar story often reduced to a rebellious runaway, arguing it is really about two lost sons and what the Father is like. With tax collectors and sinners alongside Pharisees, Jesus tells of a younger son who demands his inheritance, leaves, squanders everything, and reaches...

Memorial Day Message: Doing Good Through Service, Sacrifice, and the Upside-Down Kingdom of Jesus On Memorial Day weekend, the church holds one combined service and announces a post-service cookout fundraiser to help kids and students attend summer camps, emphasizing donations and that money should never be an obstacle to participation. The message explains Memorial Day as honoring those who sacri...

Resilient Joy in a Fragile Life In this sermon Jeremy argues that beneath pursuits of comfort, success, and entertainment, people are ultimately seeking joy, especially amid life’s heaviness of loss, anxiety, betrayal, grief, and uncertainty. He distinguishes happiness (circumstance-based) from biblical joy that can coexist with sorrow, citing James 1 and emphasizing joy is not denial or fake posi...

Mother’s Day at Journey: Breaking the Cycle with Abigail’s Wisdom In the message, Jeremy contrasts Jesus’ “golden rule” with the instinct to repay harm, describing how “hurt people hurt people” and revenge spreads. Using 1 Samuel 25, he recounts David’s overreaction to Nabal’s insult and Abigail’s intervention that prevents bloodshed, urging listeners to find and be “Abigails” who bring peace, bre...

Justie’s Journey: Adoption, Malawi Missions, and Seeing God’s Goodness Justie introduces herself and her husband Nathan, reflects on starting Journey church with Jeremy, and shares how God led their family from a comfortable life into full-time missions. About eight or nine years ago they began adopting, which took them to Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world, where they faced poverty...

From Journey Church to Malawi: Faith, Adoption, and Building a Medical Mission Justie Wingfeld returns to Journey Church, reflecting on starting the church with Jeremy, raising their eight children there, and receiving support through difficult seasons. She updates the congregation on their Malawi mission, including a medical compound with outpatient, pediatric, and staff housing facilities and pr...

Choosing the Source That Fills You: Jesus and the Woman at the Well The speaker shares church updates, including next week’s service featuring Nathan leading worship and Nathan and Justie sharing, encourages prayer for children’s director Penny after her father’s death, and highlights a lobby prayer wall and a new prayer room for personal prayer. In week two of a series on “being human,” the messa...

When Being Human Feels Heavy: Fragility, Faith, and Jesus Saving Peter Jeremy welcomes newcomers, highlights upcoming church activities and giving options, and introduces a new series on what it means to be human. He explains “human” as “dirt man,” emphasizing both human creativity and human fragility, and describes how adulthood and life pressures expose limits, anxiety, disappointment, and the t...