Journey Church Shepherdsville

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...

After Easter: What Do You Do With the Empty Tomb? In the week after Easter and spring break, Jeremy welcomes attendees, highlights over a thousand people at last weekend’s packed Easter services, shares upcoming events and giving options, and then asks what happens “after the moment” of celebration. Using personal stories, he compares post-event letdowns to life after Easter and argues the resurre...

Easter at Journey: The Story from Genesis to the Empty Tomb In an Easter service at Journey, Jeremy welcomes attendees and online viewers, encourages newcomers to download the Journey app, and shares a church tradition of handing out Cadbury Eggs. He then traces the overarching biblical narrative—from creation’s original goodness, the fall and humanity’s shame and hiding, to God’s promises through...

Palm Sunday to the Garden: Walking Through Holy Week Before Easter Jeremy walks us through Holy Week, beginning with Palm Sunday’s “Hosanna” cries and Jesus entering Jerusalem on a donkey while weeping, highlighting the crowd’s misunderstanding of Jesus’ mission. On Monday Jesus overturns temple tables to confront exploitation; on Tuesday he challenges religious hypocrisy, teaches the greatest com...

Ephesians 5–6: Walk in Love, Live as Light, and Fight the Right Battle Jeremy shares church announcements about Palm Sunday kids singing, Easter service times (Thursday 7 PM with a glow-in-the-dark egg hunt, plus Sunday 8:30, 10, and 11:15), and a Thursday workday (10 AM–7 PM) to finish post-flood building cleanup and projects, urging people to invite friends because invitations are the main reaso...

Ephesians 4: Putting Off the Old, Putting On the New (Truth, Anger, Words & Forgiveness) + Easter Announcements Jeremy shares upcoming Easter plans, including a free citywide egg hunt in Shepherdsville with two hunts (11:00 and 1:00), 40,000 eggs, registration via Facebook/website, and volunteer needs, plus school egg hunts the following week and a March 26 workday to prepare the flood-recover...

Ephesians 4: Living Worthy, Protecting Unity, and Growing in Maturity Jeremy welcomes first-time guests, shares volunteer opportunities tied to a community egg hunt in Shepherdsville (including sorting donated candy, hiding about 40,000 eggs, and staffing church booths), additional elementary-school egg hunts, and Easter service plans at Journey due to construction at Bullitt Central, including a...

Ephesians 3: The Church Is God’s Plan - Step In, Not Out Journey Church shares announcements about a community-wide Easter egg hunt on March 21, candy donations, and an online merch store, then continues its Ephesians series in chapter 3. Jeremy recounts a Guatemala trip where Journey and Church of the Crossroads were recognized for five years of partnership in El La Paro, and shares stories that...

From Outsiders to One: The Ministry of Reconciliation (Ephesians 2) In this message at Journey during a series through Ephesians, JonnyMac invites the church to reflect on times they’ve felt like an outsider and connects that experience to an “us vs. them” culture. Teaching from Ephesians 2:11–18, he explains the historical divide between Jews and Gentiles, how a “Jesus plus” system of traditions...

Ephesians 2: From Death to Life — Remember Your Before Story (But God) In this message from Ephesians 2:1–3, the speaker urges the audience to open the Bible text and confront the reality of their “before story” apart from Jesus: being spiritually dead because of disobedience and sin. Using conversations with addiction recovery ministry leaders, he explains how recovery communities don’t debate th...

Understanding Ephesians: A Journey Through Identity and Faith In this episode, we transition from discussing new beginnings to embarking on a six-week series on the Book of Ephesians. We'll delve into each chapter week by week, exploring the historical context of Ephesus, a powerhouse of trade, intellectual ideas, and religious practices under the Roman Empire. Ephesians, written by the Apostle Pa...

Building Community and Faith Together: Journey's Seven Pillars Join us in this in-depth discussion about community, faith, and spiritual growth. Despite the cold and snowy weather, we're committed to bringing everyone together for a unique journey of personal and collective formation. Discover upcoming events and learn about our essential seven pillars that guide our spiritual journey: Knowing, Pr...

Embracing Pauses as Invitations for Reflection and Growth In this heartfelt message, Jeremy encourages viewers to see interruptions, such as inclement weather, as opportunities for reflection, rest, and deeper connection with family and faith. He draws parallels to biblical stories where God used moments of stillness to reveal profound truths and offers practical advice on how to use unexpected do...