Journey Community Church - La Mesa, CA

Big Idea: Contrary to the popular belief that our bodies are an impediment, a decorative accessory or vehicles of pleasure, our bodies are the visible expression of the irreplaceable, unrepeatable invisible person, inseparable from who we are. Series Summary: It seems like there’s never been more controversy and confusion regarding our bodies. Maybe what’s missing is an understanding of God’s visi...

Big Idea: Contrary to the popular belief that our bodies are an impediment, a decorative accessory or vehicles of pleasure, our bodies are the visible expression of the irreplaceable, unrepeatable invisible person, inseparable from who we are.

Guest Speaker, Christopher West — the world’s most widely recognized teacher of the Theology of the Body. He presents this profoundly beautiful and life-changing vision of human life, love, and sexuality in a way that people from any background can understand.

Big Idea: When we choose to live directed by God’s vision for our lives, we will flourish! Series Summary: It seems like there’s never been more controversy and confusion regarding our bodies. Maybe what’s missing is an understanding of God’s vision for who we are and what we’re meant for, revealed through the creation and design of our bodies. Our bodies are not just biological, but spiritual and...

Intro: Living into the Vision God Has For Our Lives (Creation of the human person and relationship to God as it develops in Genesis 1-3) Big Idea: When we choose to live directed by God’s vision for our lives, we will flourish!

Showing up means that my life is a stewardship of my time, talents and treasure.

Ed Noble with Margie Brewer, Missionary in Swaziland. Virtual is not enough. If you really want to succeed, your part will mean physically showing up!

How do you succeed? How do you get ahead? Sometimes we forget one of the most obvious and most powerful keys to life is just showing up! But what do we show up to? Work, school, family, friends… We’ve convinced ourselves that we can be in multiple places at the same time while we “multi-task,” but in reality we spread ourselves so thin, our soul often takes a hit. But God will meet us and bless us...

In Acts 4:31 it says, “After they (the earliest followers of Christ) prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken.” Perhaps you are partial to the room staying still, particularly in So Cal. Nevertheless, what followed this particular shaking was the emergence of a new kind of community that loved each other and the world around them to new levels. Their community grew in health, miracles...

Message Summary: The power of real actual love is to bring us into the person God has called us to be, into our dream, our vision, our calling. Series Summary: Movies have a way of communicating unlike any other art form. In them, we find powerful stories of the human experience—an experience marked by intersection with the divine. Whether filmmakers know it or not, God’s fingerprints can be found...

Message Summary: When God shows up, we must refuse fear and make ourselves vulnerable. When God reveals Himself to us, we must be willing to put out the effort to unpack it, allow it to change us and to ask some tough questions. Series Summary: Movies have a way of communicating unlike any other art form. In them, we find powerful stories of the human experience—an experience marked by intersectio...

Message Summary: Hacksaw Ridge is a picture of someone living out “kingdom values” in a winsome and generous way and willing to pay a price to do so. Series Summary: Movies have a way of communicating unlike any other art form. In them, we find powerful stories of the human experience—an experience marked by intersection with the divine. Whether filmmakers know it or not, God’s fingerprints can be...

Message Summary: God works and speaks and leads us to realities in our lives that are the MOST real, most true, that are core to who we really are……and the things that heal and eventually transform us. Series Summary: Movies have a way of communicating unlike any other art form. In them, we find powerful stories of the human experience—an experience marked by intersection with the divine. Whether...

Message Summary: Lostness, found-ness, peoples’ value and a powerful picture of God’s relentless—if sometimes unseen—pursuit of what He loves. Series Summary: Movies have a way of communicating unlike any other art form. In them, we find powerful stories of the human experience—an experience marked by intersection with the divine. Whether filmmakers know it or not, God’s fingerprints can be found...

Message Summary: Nobody is hidden to God and if we want to get with His program, we’ll bring light to what’s hidden. Series Summary: Movies have a way of communicating unlike any other art form. In them, we find powerful stories of the human experience—an experience marked by intersection with the divine. Whether filmmakers know it or not, God’s fingerprints can be found all over their stories. We...

Message Summary: Because of Jesus’ death and resurrection, we can be done with uselessness. Series Summary: A single event that happened 2,000 years ago changed history forever. But not just history, it changes us. It’s a story that still resonates in our hearts. One through which God calls us to Himself. A story of resurrection, reconciliation and redemption. What was accomplished as Jesus rose E...

Message Summary: Jesus invites us to live beyond disconnection, past the very human experience of alienation and loneliness. Series Summary: A single event that happened 2,000 years ago changed history forever. But not just history, it changes us. It’s a story that still resonates in our hearts. One through which God calls us to Himself. A story of resurrection, reconciliation and redemption. What...