Journey Community Church - La Mesa, CA

Moving from Stress to Joy when it comes to money and finances. Series Summary: Dealing with “chedda” can be stressful. A quick search for slang terms for money results in 80 different words. “Greens,” “benjamins,” “cash,” “bank,” “quan,” — call it what you want — we have a huge fascination with money. Struggling with desires for more of it, sources of it, and secrets to handling it are all a part...

To live without financial stress, there are “secrets” we need to uncover and implement. Series Summary: Dealing with “chedda” can be stressful. A quick search for slang terms for money results in 80 different words. “Greens,” “benjamins,” “cash,” “bank,” “quan,” — call it what you want — we have a huge fascination with money. Struggling with desires for more of it, sources of it, and secrets to ha...

Real life is found when God is my source. Series Summary: Dealing with “chedda” can be stressful. A quick search for slang terms for money results in 80 different words. “Greens,” “benjamins,” “cash,” “bank,” “quan,” — call it what you want — we have a huge fascination with money. Struggling with desires for more of it, sources of it, and secrets to handling it are all a part of the life of a Chri...

To live "De-Stressed" we need to slay the "More Monster" through the power of Jesus. Series Summary: Dealing with “chedda” can be stressful. A quick search for slang terms for money results in 80 different words. “Greens,” “benjamins,” “cash,” “bank,” “quan,” — call it what you want — we have a huge fascination with money. Struggling with desires for more of it, sources of it, and secrets to handl...

Message Summary: There is a reason, a mission, a purpose that God has put you on earth. Series Summary: Have you ever felt stuck, disappointed with this thing we call life? Some of us may have even thrown in the towel on setting new year’s resolutions and goals. Instead of tinkering with what we think would enhance ourselves, we have the option of heeding the words of Jesus and following him down...

We need transformation, a complete metamorphosis, and God is actually the one who invites us and does the work as we move into His presence. Series Summary: Have you ever felt stuck, disappointed with this thing we call life? Some of us may have even thrown in the towel on setting new year’s resolutions and goals. Instead of tinkering with what we think would enhance ourselves, we have the option...

We can get unstuck and learn to fly, living the life that Jesus modeled for us as His disciples. Series Summary: Have you ever felt stuck, disappointed with this thing we call life? Some of us may have even thrown in the towel on setting new year’s resolutions and goals. Instead of tinkering with what we think would enhance ourselves, we have the option of heeding the words of Jesus and following...

Message Summary: Our pathway of discipleship begins with this thing called church. Series Summary: Have you ever felt stuck, disappointed with this thing we call life? Some of us may have even thrown in the towel on setting new year’s resolutions and goals. Instead of tinkering with what we think would enhance ourselves, we have the option of heeding the words of Jesus and following him down the p...

With a new and fresh perspective we can step into this New Year with amazing follow through despite failure.

Series Summary: “There is a time for everything under the sun.” The Bible holds truth about the reality of seasons in life, each having a different and essential purpose in our lives. How interesting that we refer to it as the Christmas Season. Seasons in life — Not all of them are alike, not all of them are easy, and Winter can be a tough one. It’s dark and it’s cold. And with the busyness of Chr...

Message Summary: We all experience seasons of winter in our lives. It’s no accident that Christmas takes place in the winter. God was at work quietly and deeply, waiting for just the right time for Christmas. Even then, after the birth of Jesus, there seemed to be a time of waiting when God was at work deepening. While we experience suffering in the waiting, we are being invited and prepared for M...

God is at work behind the scenes in seasons of life that seem to be dormant. Message Summary: Christmas comes in a season, a time when things are dormant. In fact, the story of Christmas takes place at a time when the nation of Israel had experienced 400 years of winter. Winter continues as Joseph and Mary are forced to flee into Egypt and then Jesus lives 33 years in obscurity. But winter does no...

Message Summary: In Genesis 15, God promises Abram that he will have more descendants than stars in the sky. But nothing happens – Abram and his wife don’t have children. So, Sarai takes matters into her own hands and has Abram sleep with her maidservant, Hagar. Hagar gets pregnant and Sarai mistreats her. Hagar runs away, and encounters an angel of the Lord in the wilderness. The Lord calls Hagar...

Message Summary: Acts 9:1-­22 tells the story of Saul persecuting the Lord’s disciples. On the road to Damascus, Saul was blinded by God. God gave Ananias a vision of going to Saul and placing hands on him and restoring his vision. Ananias shared his fears with God and then followed God’s invitation to help Saul. Saul, who became Paul, went on to write half of the New Testament of the Bible and ha...

Message Summary: Ephesians 2:11-22 explores how God brought peace and reconciliation, to both Jew and Gentile, through what Jesus did on the cross. Through this passage, we contemplate what it was like to be excluded, appreciate what Jesus did for us by being and bringing peace, and participate in the work of reconciliation as part of God’s family. (Reconciliation = to bring together, the process...

Message Summary: As we attempt to get our heads around a bigger and better vision of life and death, we consider four truths that are essential. The life that comes next is all about God’s presence and life in God’s presence is better. Our bodies are destined for resurrection; God cares about our bodies. There is a judgment to come and it is good news. In the end there will be a new beginning and...

Message Summary: The goals of this message in our series exploring heaven, hell and life after life, are to answer your questions and to help you talk to your friends in a way that helps you to make connections for them. The two questions discussed in this message are: • Are there many ways to get to heaven? • Does everyone go to heaven? Series Summary: "What’s Next?” In a diverse world, one of th...

Dr. Mary Neal — a surgeon and best selling author — shares about her own near death experience. Message Central Thought: How you understand death is directly related to how you understand life.

Message Summary: In our culture, we try to ignore death but we simply can’t ignore it. God invites us into a new eternal kind of life that is free from the fear of death. This freedom is also called the assurance of salvation, which is based on the person Jesus, the promises of God, experiencing forgiveness and the presence of God through the Holy Spirit. Series Summary: "What’s Next?” In a divers...

Message Summary: The question of the afterlife is actually a very practical and relevant question. We will all face death. What we need is real, solid, confident hope and that’s exactly what God offers us. The shape of hope is better than just a “better place”. It looks like Jesus. It is shaped like eternal life that is about quality, a person and the overthrowing of death. This all leaves us with...

Message Summary: We all want to live the best life for ourselves and our families. God is pulling for us, longing for us to live our best lives. This weekend we talked about three adjustments we need to make in order to do so: living MY best life, realizing it is something I receive from God and understanding it is bigger than this life. Series Summary: Who doesn’t want to live their BEST life? It...

Message Summary: Getting off the destructive cycles in our lives. Series Summary: Who doesn’t want to live their BEST life? It’s a super popular hashtag — usually attached to a photo of us lying on a beach or hanging out with people we love. The trick is, how do we really know how to live our BEST life? More commonly, we live our #prettygoodlife. Maybe our whole culture is wrong about what our #be...

Message Summary: Living my best life means embracing my vocation as an Imago Dei being: to Win. As we look back into the creation story we learn that God created us to extend and take back His rule through Jesus. This was our original script. But after the fall, we chose to live the wrong scripts. We can end up looking to the g gods of mammon and disordered romance/sexual desire and the scripts th...

Message Summary: In 2 Chronicles we see Jehoshaphat as an example of unmitigated success in the midst of hostile, confusing difficult times. We learn here that I live my best life only when I get rid of my gods and go for God! What does it mean to get rid of my little g gods? It’s a question of which god we seek, because we all seek. When we #LMBL with God, He solidifies my life. I practice “holdi...