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Sunday Jul 18, 2021
Sunday Jul 18, 2021
Hello Journey Friends and Family,
Thank you for your prayers and grace as we closed our in-person worship services this past Sunday. I continue to be grateful for the staff’s ability to put out great online content in all areas of ministry. Unfortunately, we are not in a position to resume in-person worship services this Sunday. Although I was hopeful that we would be able to do so, it is has become clear that it would not be wise at this time. In addition to canceling all in-person worship gatherings this Sunday, we have also closed our offices and the staff are working from home. We have suspended all other gatherings that would take place physically at either Journey location. This would include but is not limited to small groups, student ministry, Bible Studies, Wednesday work crew, iServe, recovery ministry, and any other use of the facilities. Our pastors, staff, and volunteers are continuing to make diligent efforts to stay in touch with everyone who has been impacted so we can pray for them, care for them, and monitor their recovery. Although we can’t predict exactly when we will resume onsite worship services, our goal is to re-open as soon as it is safe to do so. The driving question we are asking when making these decisions is what is the wisest and the most loving thing to do for our community and our church family. Please join me in praying for two things: 1) a full recovery for all who are sick 2) that we will be back gathering together sooner than later. I continue to be grateful for the incredible staff God has blessed us with at Journey. Our staff has pivoted without complaint and has led with excellence every step of the way. I am grateful that in this unique season they continue to work toward making disciples of Jesus who Love God, Love People, and Serve the World. You can continue to check our website and social media for the latest updates. www.JourneyChristian.com I want to encourage you to join us online this Sunday as we continue our series titled “Awaken, how to revive your spiritual life”. Be safe and we’ll see you soon!
Pastor Dustin Aagaard Associate Lead Pastor
Sunday Jul 11, 2021
Sunday Jul 11, 2021
Today Pastor Dustin continues our message series called Awaken. This week's topic is sin. Sin separates us from God. Our sin can lead to shame, and our shame leads to us hiding. Our hiding is why God seems so distant. But the good news is: "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:8-9
Sunday Jul 04, 2021
Sunday Jul 04, 2021
Today Associate Lead Pastor Pastor Dustin Aagaard begins our new series called Awaken. Over this series, we will see how we can revive a spiritual life. No matter who you are, we all need a jumpstart to our spiritual lives from time to time.
Sunday Jun 27, 2021
Sunday Jun 27, 2021
Today, is the final message in this series called “Defining Moments” and we’re going to talk about the spiritual significance of funerals because one day you will die and your death will be a defining moment in your life and then your funeral will be a defining moment in the life of someone else.
Sunday Jun 20, 2021
Sunday Jun 20, 2021
Today Lead Pastor John Hampton will continue with our series called "Defining Moments". Today we are going to look at three unique contributions that a dad makes in a home: Devotion-Affirmation-Direction. If you’re real sharp, you’ll notice that the first letters of each of those words spell what? DAD.
Sunday Jun 13, 2021
Sunday Jun 13, 2021
Today Lead Pastor John Hampton will continue with our message series called Defining Moments. These are the moments that define us, direct us and distinguish as individuals, such as marriage, graduation, babies being born, becoming a parent, even the weekly communion moments. Today we look at Senior Moments.
Sunday Jun 06, 2021
Sunday Jun 06, 2021
Today we are going to look at the oldest human institution of all, marriage. We are going to specifically look at the spiritual significance of a marriage ceremony.
Sunday May 30, 2021
Sunday May 30, 2021
Today Family Pastor Christian Wilson will continue walking through our series called Defining Moments and looking at some of life’s most defining moments. We have covered many defining moments that you probably relate to like: rocking chair moments, mom moments, baptism moments, and communion moments.
And today we will tackle the conversation of graduation moments. Many of us have experienced a graduation in some form or another: whether that’s from Pre-K graduations, to middle school graduations, to high school graduations and some to university graduations.
Sunday May 23, 2021
Sunday May 23, 2021
Jesus knew how easily people forget, so in his wisdom, He established a visual aid to commemorate His sacrifice for sins that we call communion or the Lord’s Supper. Jesus intended that communion would be a physical expression of a spiritual reality. The purpose of a memorial is to leave a tangible symbol to represent a significant historical event and Jesus impending death on a cross for the sins of the world, followed by his resurrection is THE most significant defining moment ever.
Sunday May 16, 2021
Sunday May 16, 2021
Today, Associate Lead Pastor Dustin Aagaard continues our series, "Defining Moments." We look at THE defining moment in your journey of faith--your baptism.
Sunday May 09, 2021
Sunday May 09, 2021
Becoming a mom is certainly one of those defining moments in life--and today we want look at some of the great and not-so-great mom moments of the best known and most misunderstood mother in the Bible: Mary the mother of Jesus.
Sunday May 02, 2021
Sunday May 02, 2021
Today we are starting a new series called Defining Moments. Studies suggest that only 3% of life events are what would be considered highly memorable. The other 97% of life doesn’t make the cut and most of it just fades into the black hole of our subconscious. But the 3% that do make it are the moments that define us, direct us, and distinguish us as individuals. Having a baby, becoming a parent would definitely be a defining moment in life. Pastor John talks to us today about some of the realities of what sitting in the parenting chair means.
Sunday Apr 25, 2021
Sunday Apr 25, 2021
Over the past two weeks we have been diving deep into the eighth chapter of Paul’s letter to the church at Rome. Many scholars, theologians and pastors have proclaimed this chapter the greatest chapter in the New Testament, if not in all the Bible. It contains some of the most cherished truths and powerful promises from God about our relationship with Him in Christ. We are going to wrap up today by looking another classic verse from Romans 8:37: We are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
Sunday Apr 18, 2021
Sunday Apr 18, 2021
Last weekend, we kicked off a new teaching series called, "Shift Your If" based on chapter 8 of the book of Romans. Today, we’re going to shift our focus from our "if only regrets" to our "what if possibilities". We’re going to move from talking about being forgiven by God to discussing living for God with power, courage and boldness. God did not save you just to keep you safe—he saved you to make you dangerous!
Sunday Apr 11, 2021
Sunday Apr 11, 2021
All of us have regrets. Some are benign and some are malignant; some are big, some are small--but we all have regrets that continually make us wonder “if only”. If only I hadn’t missed that; if only I would have said that; if only I hadn’t said that; if only I had been there; if only I just left that party earlier.
So you’ve got all these different kinds of regrets and the reality is our regrets are as unique as we are. The question is, how do we deal with them? The truth is, they have already been dealt with at the cross. There is no regret that God cannot redeem.
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Today, we come to the end of our 28-day journey through the book of Acts, and what better way to close out the series than with a Baptism Celebration! Pastor John not only looks at the last chapter of Acts, but we also get a glimpse of the rest of the story of Paul through his epistles.
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Today Pastor Christian leads us through Chapter 24 of the Book of Acts
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Today Pastor Dustin leads us through Chapter 23 of the Book of Acts.
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Today Jeff Hancock from International Justice Mission leads us through Chapter 21 of the Book of Acts.
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Today Pastor Jeremy leads us through Chapter 20 of the Book of Acts.
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Today Pastor Christian leads us through Chapter 19 of the Book of Acts.
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Today Pastor Harvey leads us through Chapter 17 of the Book of Acts.
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Today Pastor Christian leads us through Chapter 11 of the Book of Acts.
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Sunday Apr 04, 2021
Sunday Apr 04, 2021
Hope has a name and that name is Jesus. "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead…" It's not just any hope. It's not just an unspecified, generic hope of immortality. It is a living hope. What are you putting your hope in?
Sunday Mar 28, 2021
Sunday Mar 28, 2021
After looking the cross for three weeks, we are left asking: Ok, I understand the cross, but now what? What do we do after the cross? We lift up the name of Jesus and there is no better time than Easter to do just that. Go and share the good news with someone this week.
Sunday Mar 21, 2021
Sunday Mar 21, 2021
We're in a message series called Cross Examine. We’re taking the Sundays leading up to Easter Sunday to explore the why, the what, the who and the so what of Jesus’ cross. What we look at today is…Who? Who is the cross for? The short answer is You. The longer answer is this: Jesus died for you…all of you. The cross speaks to every dimension of your personhood and calls out the best version of you.
Sunday Mar 14, 2021
Sunday Mar 14, 2021
“The crucifixion didn’t become common in art until all who had seen a real one died off.” –C.S. Lewis
1. At the cross, our guilt is declared pardoned.
Confess your guilt and accept His pardon.
2. At the cross, Jesus’ blood gives us life.
Be shepherds of the church of God, which he [Jesus] bought with his own blood. (Acts 20:28)
Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. (Hebrews 9:22)
Through Jesus’ blood, you can have new life.
3. Through the cross, the grave is overthrown.
At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split and the tombs broke open. The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. They came out of the tombs after Jesus’ resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people. When the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that had happened, they were terrified, and exclaimed, “Surely he was the Son of God!” (Matthew 27:51-54)
“Death has been swallowed up in victory.” “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Corinthians 15:54-57)
And now, dear brothers and sisters, we want you to know what will happen to the believers who have died so you will not grieve like people who have no hope. (1 Thessalonians 4:13 NLT)
Because of the cross, we have hope.
4. At the cross, we see the measure of God’s love for us.
Cross = Love
No one can take my life from me. I sacrifice it voluntarily. For I have the authority to lay it down when I want to and also to take it up again. For this is what my Father has commanded. (John 10:18 NLT)
For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16)
5. The cross brings people to a decision.
God made him who knew no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. (2 Corinthians 5:21)
Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.” (Luke 23:42-43)
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. (1 Corinthians 1:18)
Sunday Mar 07, 2021
Sunday Mar 07, 2021
Today we begin a new series of messages titled Cross Examine. We’re going to take these next Sundays leading up to Easter Sunday to explore the why, the what, the who and the so what of Jesus cross. Today we start with the question, Why? Why does the death of a first century Jewish carpenter turned teacher still carry a power that has reached across centuries, continents, countries, cultures and colors—that seems to go beyond any one articulate explanation and beyond the boundaries of the church or even of explicit Christian faith?
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
Today, we come to the end of our 28-day journey through the book of Acts, and what better way to close out the series than with a Baptism Celebration! Pastor John not only looks at the last chapter of Acts, but we also get a glimpse of the rest of the story of Paul through his epistles.
Sunday Feb 21, 2021
Sunday Feb 21, 2021
Today Jeff Hancock from International Justice Mission leads us through Chapter 21 of the Book of Acts. Be sure to check back every day for this 28-day journey through all 28 Chapters!