On The Journey

A BLOG FROM JOURNEY STAFF

  • June 5, 2023

    JourneyCares, a mission experience for our local community, has come and gone.  Read all about the difference made in our community! Click here!

  • May 30, 2023

    Questions. Questions. Questions. God’s got questions.


    From the very start of creation, when the brokenness, selfishness, sin of humanity was revealed, God had questions.


    Question #1. “Where are you?” (Genesis 3:9)....

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  • May 23, 2023

    A number of women from Journey recently went on a weekend mission trip to Appalachia to serve with one of our church’s mission partners, the Bland Ministry Center. Here are some of their reflections about their experiences they shared soon after they returned home...

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  • May 15, 2023

    How are you being fake? What hypocrisy do you want to let go of?


    In Journey Church’s “My Life’s a Mess” series, people who were a part of the in person service last Sunday placed in trash cans cards on which they’d written the hypocrisy they want to get rid of with God’s help. Here’s some of what they wrote...

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  • May 8, 2023

    What shame are you struggling with?  What shame do you want to let go of?

    In Journey Church’s “My Life’s a Mess” series, people who were a part of the in person service last Sunday placed in trash cans cards on which they’d written the shame they want to get rid of with God’s help.  Here’s some of what they wrote...

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  • May 1, 2023

    What bitterness do you struggle with?  What anger do you want to let go of?

     

    In Journey Church’s “My Life’s a Mess” series, people who were a part of the in person service last Sunday placed in trash cans cards on which they’d written the bitterness they want to overcome or the anger they want to get rid of with God’s help.  Here’s some of what they wrote...

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  • April 25, 2023

    What fears are you struggling with?  What fears do you want to let go of?

     

    In Journey Church’s “My Life’s a Mess” series, people who were a part of the in person service last Sunday placed in trash cans cards on which they’d written fears they want God to help them get rid of.  Here’s some of what they wrote ...

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  • April 18, 2023

    Sharing the love of Jesus.  Caring for people in need.  So many in our Journey family make this a reality time and again.

     

    The principal at Northside High School emailed this past week and said she had a family with children who were great students in elementary through high school, but the family was ... 

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  • April 11, 2023

    On previous Easter weekends my practice has been to read the gospel accounts of the resurrection of Jesus in various Bible versions. This year I decided to try something different. I decided to have the YouVersion Bible app read to me the descriptions of what happened...

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  • April 3, 2023

    Are you anxious about the future?  Francois de Fenelon, in seventeenth-century France, wrote: “The future is not yet yours; it may never be. Live in the present moment. Tomorrow’s grace is not given to you today. The present moment is the only place where you can touch the eternal realm.”

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  • March 28, 2023

    Holy Week begins on April 2 with Palm Sunday.  Palm Sunday celebrates Jesus’ arrival in Jerusalem on a donkey with his many followers shouting “Hosanna” and laying palm branches on his path.  This time of celebration is known as the Triumphal Entry!  Most in the crowd thought that Jesus was going to overturn their oppression by the Romans and end their suffering.  The crowd changed their minds about Jesus before the end of the week...

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  • March 20, 2023

    Here’s everything you ever wanted to know about the YouVersion Bible app!

    The YouVersion Bible app is free and makes it possible to view 73 English translations of the Bible!  There are currently 1,942 languages available!  If you ever want to try out another version of the Bible, you don’t have to buy a printed copy of the Bible.  You can just read it on the app! ...

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  • March 13, 2023

    Have you seen the movie Jesus Revolution? Seeking God is the best way to experience revival.  Sometimes a person will come across the message of Jesus, and they immediately know they have found the truth.  One of the characters in the movie, Greg Laurie, was in high school. He was having a really difficult time because his father had left the family and his mother was an alcoholic. He was... 

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  • March 6, 2023

    I watched Jesus Revolution at the movie theater.  What an awesome story from 50 years ago of how God worked in the heart of a traditional pastor to teach hippies about Jesus in California!

     

    The hippies were searching for love and peace.  They were searching in all the wrong places—mostly in sex, drugs, and rock and roll.  As a few hippies realized that they were in a dark place, they kept searching!  Thousands found Jesus, the Prince of Peace, and ...

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