Journey Community Church - La Mesa, CA

Message Summary: Jesus died intentionally to recover our full humanity: to enable us to live our best life. The great irony is, that this starts with letting go of my whole life. We live in a culture of panic, afraid of missing out on the best life. In Mark, Jesus called the crowd together for a moment of clarity around this pursuit. We start moving toward our best life by understanding that we mu...

Message Summary: God’s plan and purpose for each of us is fruitfulness and increase. But sometimes we have to fight for breakthrough in order to get there. How? We learn to declare the kingdom of God over our lives. We show up in community and learn to allow others to pray over us. We learn rest and to allow God to battle for us as we worship. In prayer and worship we give our world back to God. W...

We all have moments of feeling surrounded by heaviness and things that weigh us down. But when we see the reality of the glory of God surrounding us we face our problems with calm confidence. Eye opening seems to happen as we pray and specifically as someone else prays for us. Breakthrough follows with what you needed and more. Surrounded Series: Most of us have figured out that WE NEED GOD. And i...

Mark Oestreicher — Journey regular and founder of The Youth Cartel Aspirational Faith: The Beauty of Knowing Less and Wanting More Message Summary: There is a story in Mark about a man who asks Jesus to heal his son. In that conversation, the man cries out to Jesus, “I believe, help my unbelief!” In the paradox of having both doubt and belief, we find an invitation to bring our whole selves to Jes...

Message Summary: As human persons we experience many temptations. But there are at least three temptations of spirit: the temptations to pretend, despair and to judge our own value and worth by our performance. In 1 John 1 we see that life is all about connection with God who is light. So how do flawed, darkness-infected people experience connection with light? John goes on to tell us that the way...

Message Central Thought: The ability to really consistently enjoy life is only possible in the context of a trusting relationship with God. John Lynch is a national speaker with the Truefaced team and co-writer of The Cure and TrueFaced the book. In addition to speaking nationally with the Truefaced team since 1997, John has authored On My Worst Day and co-authored a number of books and resources...

Message Central Thought: We all experience depression and pain during our lives. God shows up to care for us in the midst of these moments. Karrie Garcia is a speaker, life coach, wife, mother of three, and advocate for misfits who is passionate about proclaiming the freedom that can come from a life surrendered to Christ. Through facing drug addiction, the suicide of her mother, and the breakdown...

Jesus is inviting us to rise up away from our sickness and sin and walk in freedom. Archie Robinson — Pastor, New Birth Kingdom Covenant Archie R. Robinson, born in Texas, moved to San Diego, CA at the age of 18 and has been in ministry for over 40 years. He is the Father of New Birth Christian Fellowship now known as New Birth Kingdom Covenant Fellowship which was founded and established on Augus...

Message Summary: The movie gives us a picture or an allegory of a “celebration of humanity” through a new kind of humanity made possible by Jesus. We often design a world that traps us in a life that is less than the one God envisions for us. We need a new vision. If we want to move toward humanity 2.0, we must be aware and healed of the hole in our souls. The temptation to go back to the old way...

Message Summary: We succumb to greed when we “ultimatize” the wrong things in life. The actual “good life” is accessed as we get insight into Jesus’ teaching and this movie actually depicts a life that displays the opposite of His teaching. We learn that our “theology” determines our deepest sense of identity and determines the rails our lives run on. As we gain wisdom, we know what’s truly valuab...

Message Summary: Auggie Pittman is anything but ordinary, especially because of the way he looks. In our current culture, we focus on the seen rather than on the unseen. But what if we saw ourselves, and others, from a soul-depth perspective? God created us in love and to be seen. A community of Christ followers can demonstrate grace and empathy as we learn to truly see each other. Series: Movies...

Message Summary: The story of Winston Churchill parallels that of the Biblical Esther. Both were raised up by God to take their people through crucial moments. As we move through our own dark hours, we need to realize that our self-talk can weaken or strengthen us. We must also realize that as we keep moving, our faith will increase because God will show up. We come to know that God can repurpose...

*Message Podcast only. Video messages are not available for this series* Message Summary: Black Panther is more than a super hero movie. It explores the tension of what “serving God” and redemptive activity in our world looks like for us as Christ followers. There are three impulses historically that have been the response of the people of the CHURCH to a culture: to completely separate ourselves,...

Message Summary: In the book of 1 Samuel, we see the people of Israel losing a battle and losing the ark of the covenant (which was a place God chose to be present) to the Philistines. There was a “no glory” word spoken over them and their land. Journey was raised up to stand up to the “no glory” word spoken over San Diego. Our mission is to help ordinary people disconnected from God access the de...

Message Summary: We are all about helping ordinary people disconnected from God to access the depth of life “with God” through Jesus Christ. In every great endeavor, at every critical moment, there were people who have to try something big, difficult and even crazy. This is true of those who have participated in the life of Journey these past 25 years. We are currently in the midst of I Live the J...

Message Summary: God changes peoples’ lives as they connect with Him. He has great authority, power and love to do so. God also changes lives by bringing people to Himself through this thing called “the church.” He is already working in your story to bring about change. As we choose faith/trust in God, God’s activity in our lives is activated. 25 series: Join us as we celebrate and commemorate 25...

Message Summary: There are four mega themes that run through the Bible: God, God saves, sacrifice and faith. God reveals Himself in the Bible as the Lord. What does the Lord do? He saves. He is the hero of my story. How does He save? He saves through sacrifices, that all point to the ultimate sacrifice: Jesus. Our response is faith or trust in the work of the hero. This faith is marked by baptism....

Message Summary: God invites us to bring our questions and He promises to show up for us as we sincerely seek Him. But we also have to be aware that sometimes we can take a wrong turn and forget that reasoning, questioning, and research have limits. We can’t answer every question but we can move forward when we release our fears that the Bible needs us to defend it, when we discern the difference...

Message Summary: There are a few ways to become stronger interpreters of the Bible. The starting place is thinking about reading the Bible like a conversation that is guided by questions. It’s helpful to change our question to “God what does this say about you?” rather than “What is this saying to me?” Realizing that the New Testament writers use the Old Testament as a launching pad to help bring...

Message Summary: There are plenty of people getting weird from getting into the Bible. However there are ways to be into the Bible and still avoid being weird. Weirdos ignore context. Weirdos forget what the Bible is. Weirdos petrify the scripture. So we stick with Jesus, we dive in to the Bible and know that God has given us what we need to understand it. Living Biblically Series What would it lo...

Message Summary: We all have picked up some distorted pictures of God and need to be intentional about sorting through them. When we read the Bible, we need to read it carefully, in community and through the lens of Jesus. We can read with the Jesus lens by becoming aware of three plot spoilers as we read: Jesus is the denouement, Jesus is the ultimate and final revelation of God and the point of...

Message Summary: We clearly need something that can help us to navigate life. Jesus was clear that we could find what we need in the Bible. The Bible is about God’s calling and dealings with Israel. But the story is bigger than them and has everything to do with what God was doing for all humanity. It is a place for all to meet God and it is actually beneficial to us. If we want to actually profit...

There are three questions that Easter brings up: “Just who is this guy?”, “What’s this got to do with me?”, and “Now what do I do?” Jesus was asked who He was repeatedly during the trials He experienced leading up to His crucifixion. His answer was, “The Son of God.” He authenticated His claims with the power of the resurrection that has been made available to us. This establishes Him as the Lord...

Message Summary: Jesus gave notice to the Sadducees and Pharisees that they kingdom of God they were waiting for had already arrived. But somehow they missed it. In spite of all the commotion that surrounds Jesus as He enters Jerusalem, He stays present to what’s happening in God’s kingdom. He invites us to open our eyes to His kingdom and refuse to let past wounds or future worry get in the way o...

Message Summary: Often on our journey with Jesus, we find we need to adjust our course and move toward Him with Him. We will be distracted by gifts and need to return to the healer who is the only one who can truly satisfy. We go back when we realize God gives us stuff so He can give us Himself and when we understand and pray, “God, be my all encompassing one thing.” Field Notes Series: Whatever t...