Journey Church :: Raleigh, Nc

The primary way God reveals himself and his truth to us today is through the Bible. Because these words are from God, we can give it the rightful authority to guide our lives. Do you believe that it has the right to command your beliefs and actions?

At the beginning of creation, Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, ushering in sin and death to all. But thanks to the sacrifice of the second person of the Trinity - the Son - the way was provided to come back to God through faith in Jesus Christ.

As we read the pages of the Bible we discover over and over again that God is good. He is involved in the details of our individual lives. When we grasp these foundational beliefs, we are able to walk through each day with joy, hope and great confidence.

The journey of faith begins with our belief in God. Like the Israelites of the Old Testament and the early Christians of the New Testament, we too are called to make a personal declaration. Do we believe in the one true God?

As we kick off our new Believe series, Pastor Jimmy sets up the expectations of this 30-week series. The singular goal at the end of this series is for each of us to be more like Jesus. As we surrender to Him, He will call us and convict us. He will conform and transform us. He will continue to chip away everything that does not look like Jesus.

Disciple-making, gospel saturation in this world, is the essential task of the church. A decision to follow Jesus is a commitment to accept and embrace the personal responsibility of helping others be disciples who make disciples.

Jesus founded the Church to accomplish a mission, but He was concerned that the Church would become fractured and divided. Disciples of Jesus must vigilantly guard against secondary purposes, principles, and practices. Unity is essential to victory.

The Church is a place where everybody gets to play; where everyone has a role. As a disciple, you have a personal responsibility because you have been individually gifted. Are you living and operating in your gifting?

To be the church that Jesus built, we must recapture His heart for the Church as a movement and to do that we must embraced the power He has given to each of us through the Holy Spirit.

To confess that "Jesus is Lord" is an incredibly powerful and meaningful statement. In this message, we take a look at how this impacts our identity, purpose and mission.

What does it look like when Jesus is removed from the Church? The removal of Jesus from the faith results in the rise of religion and the church becomes an institution where the focus is on being a 'good Christian' instead of a disciple of Jesus.

In John 15 Jesus uses the imagery of a vine and fruit to illustrate how living a life surrendered to Jesus, in turn, produces fruit in our lives as His disciples. Apart from Him, we life selfish lives, not making more disciples, as Jesus commanded us to do.

One of the boldest "I Am" statements that Jesus makes about himself is that He is, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." We can't be good enough to get to God or earn salvation. It is only through the blood that Jesus shed on the cross for us that we have that opportunity.

The resurrection of Jesus Christ separates Christianity from all other religions. All other religions can point to a founding father and even point to his grave, but we can point to an empty tomb and say, our Founder is alive. Because of the resurrection, we have life to the fullest now. Real purpose. A new identity and mission and a promised future.

In John 10, Jesus uses the imagery of a sheep and a shepherd to illustrate how He is the great protector and provider for His followers. Following Jesus doesn’t guarantee that your life will be perfect or pain free, but the best place you can be is at the feet of the Good Shepherd.

Our world was and still is spiritually dark. Jesus saw the darkness of the world and He came to overcome the darkness. He has called us out of the darkness and into light through a relationship with the Father. We then get to take that same light back into a dark world to share it with others.

In this message Pastor Jimmy will be looking at the Scriptures that express that Jesus is enough for all of us, and that we can find complete satisfaction in him.

In this message we will be examining Jesus's statement of, “Before Abraham was, I am”, which can translate to, “I am who I am”. He wasn’t making a claim to age or stature, but to his deity and what that means.

Jesus orchestrates the before, after, and everything in between in our lives. When we are hit with tragedy and difficulties in life, he wants us to believe, trust, and worship him no matter the situation. Because even in those troubling times, he is with us.

As we exercise faith and prayer, God ultimately wants us to trust Him. And when we are in desperate times needing a desperate miracle, we should pursue the miracle maker more than the miracle.