Have you ever thought about how your formative experiences with your parents affect how you relate to God in the here and now? This Sunday, we’ll think deeply about that question. We’ll explore a prominent model for how parenting shapes our way of relating to those around us, including God – then compare that model to […]

Did you know that many early Christians believed that there are two angels within each of us?  Do you know who those angels are and what they’re up to?  Do you know how to harness their power for good?  Join us on Sunday as we study an ancient book called “The Shepherd of Hermas” that circulated widely […]

Bring your Mom to church on Sunday so we can honor and celebrate her!  As part of that celebration, we’ll study the story of an early Christian woman who lived so heroically, she was celebrated in a book that circulated widely in early Christian churches – a book called “The Acts of Paul and Thecla.”  This is […]

For centuries, theologians knew there was once a book called “The Gospel of Thomas” that was lost in antiquity.  Then in 1945, two Egyptian farmers accidentally unearthed a jar containing 13 leather bound books, one of which contained the complete manuscript of Thomas!  It was a stunning discovery.  What should we make of this Gospel […]

Did you know that there’s an Old Testament book that appears in the Bible of half the world’s Christians that was written by someone named Jesus?  (Not the Jesus we know, but a great teacher who shared the same name and lived 200 years before our Jesus.)  This Sunday we’ll study that ancient book, taking special note […]

There’s a book that’s part of the Bible used by 50 million Ethiopian Orthodox Christians that isn’t in our Bible.  It’s a book that greatly influenced the New Testament and is often referenced by the early Church Fathers.  And it has a powerful, practical message for us today.  Yet you’ve probably never heard of it.  […]

LifeJourney begins a series unlike any before at LifeJourney. For the next six weeks, we’re going to explore “Lost Books of the Bible.” Each week we’ll take a different disputed book, learn its history, see what it has to say, then judge for ourselves whether God is speaking to us through it. This Sunday we […]

There’s nothing worse than feeling hopelessness.  There’s nothing more wonderful than feeling hope.  Sunday we’ll explore the power of hope to renew us . . . and the world around us.

The Easter miracle was not meant to be a one-time occurrence.  The same power that raised Jesus from the dead was replicated in the lives of Jesus’ original disciples – and can still be replicated in us.  This Sunday we’ll explore what the original disciples did to access resurrection power in their everyday lives – and how […]

This Sunday – Palm Sunday – marks the beginning of Holy Week!  You may be tempted to think, “So what?  I already know the story.”  No you don’t.  You may think you do because you’ve heard it a million times.  But what if all this time there has been a REALLY IMPORTANT aspect to the story of Jesus’ […]

Any stress in your life?  One of the most important practical questions we face is how to manage stress.  So what did Jesus do?  This Sunday we’ll look at Jesus’ amazing stress management “technique,” as we continue our sermon series called “The Beauty Of Christ – Living In Me.”  Join us on Sunday and find some relief!

On Sunday, we resume our sermon series called “The Beauty of Christ – Living in Me” by looking at one of Jesus’ most puzzling parables – a story he tells about wine.  We’ll take the parable apart piece by piece and, in the process, learn revolutionary, life-changing truth.