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Josh opens the scriptures to teach us why and how to know Jesus.  We were made for this and it's the only real place to find life.  Search for him in the scriptures, turn from all the things that draw us away and receive his love by faith through his grace.  And then look around and see how you can pray for others around you to experience this same grace.  

Naomi shares with us what the Lord has been doing in her life lately, drawing her into a deeper relationship with the Jesus through intentional pursuit of Him in the scriptures, in relationships and in practices designed to give us life.  This is the life meant for every follower and Naomi gives us some practical ways to abide in this life. 

Jesus came to serve, and by his Spirit we can serve others.  When we spend time in the word and presence of Jesus our heart is changed to reflect his heart for those around us.  Like Martha, we can be changed to serve from a place of encounter, rather than from a sense of duty.  This type of serving brings life rather than draining it.  Listen to Lena's teaching or serving as way into the rest Jesus promises and learn how to serve like Jesus served. 

Jesus gave us a promise that when he returned to heaven he would send us a Helper; the Holy Spirit. This is the same spirit that empowered his miraculous works on earth.  Walking by his Spirit means we can know and experience all the promises Jesus gave us.  Ashley opens the scriptures to point us to those promises and encrourages us to lived based on those truths.  

Jesus told his followers to be believe and be baptized.  Joe teaches from the scriptures that to see the kingdom of heaven and walk in the power of the spirit we have to know and participate in the gift of Baptism in water and spirit and to know and give thanks for the baptism for Gods wrath against sin that Jesus took on our behalf, sparing us a baptism we could never bare.     If you've been listening to our podcast or responded to the Gospel some else but haven't been baptized, please reach out so we can talk to you about this important aspect of your walk with Jesus.  We'd love to help you do this or connect you with another body of believers in your area who can help you go further in your faith. 

Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to his believers that they would do what they saw Jesus do and even greater things (among other reasons).  Part of that, the scriptures say, is signs and wonders, healings, casting out demons, are meant to be an experience we participate in as we walk by the spirit.  Jonny shows us in the word and with personal testimony that God is still in the business of healing and delivering in order to reveal the power and grace of Jesus in the life of believers and to those who will believe the Gospel. 

In the final week of our Becoming a Disciple Series, Lena teaching us what it looks like to put the things we've been learning over these past 8 weeks into practice.  Jesus promises us that we will have wells of life coming from the Holy Spirit that's been given to us. 

We have been given a victorious life in Jesus victory on the cross.  Many of us walk around in life feeling the power of enemy in our life and forget the power we have.  Knowing and practicing the disciplines found in the scriptures enables and empowers us to walk the way Jesus calls us to, as kings in His kingdom.  Danielle unlocks some tools and teaching for us to walk this life out.  

In week 6 of Becoming a disciples, Rick opens the scriptures to remind us of the importance of being joined to a body.  God designed our own body to work together with all it's parts to accomplish the work he has made for us.  Paul reminds the Corinthian church that every part is vital and every part is different, but any part that's not functioning in health and freedom isn't fulfilling it's potential and purpose. 

In our Series on Becoming a Disciple, Jonny takes us through what repentance in action looks. Repentance isn't and idea but an action word and requires us to turn to God, confess and move ahead in step with him.  

In Week 3 of Becoming a Disciple, Josh Carabin shares the biblical call and his own experience to pursue and cultivate a life of intimacy with Jesus.  Maybe you're experience with Jesus isn't close right now, but it can be.  Jesus showed us what it was like to take time to be with his father, his life came from this.  We are meant to pursue a life like that and if we don't have it now, there are practical and powerful changes and choices we can make to get there.  

Week 2 of Becoming a Disciple Lena opens the scriptures to show us Jesus calling all disciples to himself.  There is no other place to go to find the life Jesus promises except to Jesus himself.  Everyone who comes to Jesus is welcomed into his presence and sent out full of the life he gives us when we see him.  

Week one of our series on becoming a disciple of Jesus.  Joe takes us through the great commission and sets the ground work for us moving together with the people we're with, to places he calls us with a posture of worship as we walk in to the reality that all authority has been given to Jesus and he's promised to be with us as we walk out this call to be a disciple.  Matthew 28:16-20

Jonny Campbell sharing a word about seeing God in all the hard things that leads us to faith and hope that whatever comes next, we know he will be with us and has gone ahead to prepare the way.  

We are meant to live in an intimate relationship with God and with one another, but so many things try to cause us to hide in shame and fear.  Danielle exhorts us to come out of the shadows and be real with one another and God.  Even though the risk of embarrassment or rejection is real, the life we gain from living lives of freedom far out weigh the risk, leading to a life of sharing one another's burdens.  

Jesus said the Kingdom of heaven was like a treasure.  Find out how he has revealed this hidden treasure to us in order to make us a treasure to our Father and open the door to a life lived in the full inheritance of the Kingdom of Heaven.  Message by Joe Cook from Matthew 13:44-46 and Colossians 1.

Todd Pulsifer giving a teaching on what God will use this year to get his hands back on the church.  Calling us to get in the word, pray and have real fellowship.  

Danielle takes us through some of the wisdom in Proverbs to seek wisdom.  We see the value of walking life out together with wise council found in the scriptures, empowered by the Holy Spirit and looking to those more mature in their christian walk than we are. 

Jesus calls all who are weary to come to him and rest, he doesn't say he'll come to us with rest.  Steve Wilkins teaching on the counter intuitive truth that we have to take action to find rest. He show us that God's design is actually for us to start our day with rest, not wait until we are too tired to find it.  

Communion is a vital part and great gift of the christian life.  Scott takes a deep look at some of the fullness of the gift, much beyond a religious activity, the is real spiritual power in the connection we have with Christ and communion is a vital part o unlocking that power. 

Jon Campbell giving us a solid run through of Psalm 23 reminding us that where ever we find ourselves in life, Jesus will give us the faith to know he's there with us, leading us on to greater degrees of glory in him.  

Sometimes we have to spiritually fight for one another or side by side to advance the truth of the Gospel in our lives and in the world, but it's a fight worth taking on.  Danielle encourages the church in how to do that, based on the truth of the scriptures and the Spirit within us. 

Danielle encouraging the church in the truth that the life of Christ is meant to be lived out together and only fully experienced when we learn how to love, support and carry one another. 

God, from the beginning, gave us the ability to choose.  We have the same choice everyday whether we will believe and trust what he has said and what he's saying for today.  Leigh-Anne gives us some scriptural truths to help us keep our minds set on Christ and live in the truth.

Jesus said he would give us the keys to the Kingdom and the gates of Hades would not prevail against the church.  His expectation is that we would use these keys to set people free from the lies the world has served put to them that there is anything that can compare or come close to satisfying then need we have to know God, receive Jesus and live by the Spirit.

Ethan shares his new and ever growing relationship with the Holy Spirit, and how the revelation of Holy Spirit as friend has changed practical ways he lives his life and relates to to his kids.  

What in the world are we doing... Rick challenging the church to look at who we are and what God has for us to be doing in the world.  A look at our need to be in the church and active together to see the fullness of God's plans in the world.  

Part 3 of the discussion on loneliness in the church.  Joe talks about knowing the one you belong to - Jesus. Knowing what you belong to - The Church. And how do you know you belong.

A tag team effort from Jonny Campbell and Lena Murphy, talking about the reality of the new covenant and what it means to live in that together.  Jonny set it up with little background of God's plans with the old covenant and what the new covenant looks like and Lena knocks it down the what that means for us to live connected to God and each other because of that new and better covenant. 

Jesus designed us for friendship and gave us the way to experience deep and real communion with him and others, create community, have camaraderie and walk out our calling together.  In this second week addressing loneliness in the church, Joe talks about Jesus calling up the disciple to live this out in John 15.  A group discussion follows the teaching with input from the congregation on experiences and solutions to loneliness and building real friendships in the church. 

Responding to an article on the epidemic of loneliness in the church and the world, Joe teaches on what a Godly community is meant to look like and how we can live it out together, then facilitates a discussion with the church to tackle some of the causes and solutions in our own congregations. The book quoted is Jesus: A Theography - Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola.

Scott MacLeod teaches that when we walk by the Spirit, we live in proper order - spirit, soul, body -  and no longer live from a place of being disjoined from God.  The more we live empowers by the spirit the less we find ourselves tolerating small sins in our life witch lead to spiritual death. Prophetic song at at the end by Lena Murphy. 

Jesus meets two people on the road, reveals himself to them and sets the spread of the Gospel in motion.  Theirs eye's were open and they knew him.  This freedom and empowering by the Holy Spirit caused them to run toward God and what he was doing, as opposed to Adam and Eve's response when their eyes were open, they ran in fear.  We hope the Holy Spirit will open eyes and cause people to run toward what he wants to do in their life. 

God gives us good gifts, the first is faith to believe his good news about Jesus, then more faith to believe all the other good things about him and promises he's made to us.   Ashley looks at the stories of faith in the scriptures where people chose to believe God, rather that their feelings or circumstances and how that brings glory to God.  She then invites us to do the same, lay down things in our lives and choose to follow God's plan. 

Every encounter with God has significances.  Some times it takes a while before we see the fruit grow from it or the promise be answered from an encounter, but something always happens from an encounter with God.  Here Joe looks at the encounter Hannah has in 1 Samuel 1 and shows the immediate and long term effects of one woman willing to go the Lord.

Leigh-Anne is learning to walk in a place of rest with the Lord.  She shares the struggles and victories in discovering the beauty of the rest Jesus purchased for us at the cross.  All kinds of things keep us from resting in Jesus but these insights will lead you into a deeper reality of being in the arms of your loving father. Final Song: Lean Back (Ft. Dion Davis), Capital City Music.  Kingdom Come (Live) 2018.

Joe Cook takes us through the Zacchaeus story, the story that introduced him to Jesus.  But here he looks at the chapter before we meet Zacchaeus. As Jesus makes his way into Jericho, he tells stories and does miracles that set up the encounter of Jesus and Zacchaeus.   Joe encourage us to take a minute and look back and think about the times and place Jesus may have been "setting us up" in order to draw us to himself.  

Ashely B shows a couple stories in the scriptures where people had the opportunity to choose to God's word and plan or choose their own situation and feelings in life. She highlights the results of choosing God's reality over our perceived reality: God's way is always higher and better.  Then Burns gives us some real life examples of this in her own life over the past year while on her Ashfield Farms adventure in Ottawa, where the Lord stretched and grew her, giving her tools to overcome the challenges of real life difficult by choose God's reality and promises over her own situations and feelings.  

Trouble is coming, Jesus warned us.  But he also taught us and empowered us by the word and by the spirit how to get through the troubles.  Some people problems, some see solutions.  Apostolic people move the kingdom of heaven forward by perpetually pursuing God's perspective and proceeding with his solutions to difficulty circumstances.  This begins with how we speak, our heart and actions will follow the truth we proclaim and the world around us is changed by it. 

Paul ends his letter to the Colossians by identifying and testifying to the work some of his friends had been doing.  These were the real life people living out the power of the Holy Spirit.  God is still mightily at work in the church and today we have the opportunity to proclaim the realities of God is doing in the lives of people at Journey Church.  Like Paul encouraged the Colossians to read this letter to all the people in the church and share it with the neighbouring churches, we hope these stories of God at work is encouragement to you whether you're part of Journey Church or part of another local gathering.  Be Blessed. Colossians 4:7-18

As an Apostolic people we are called to be sent ones into the culture around, bring the good news and creating a culture that glorifies God.  Everywhere God's people go, we should be bring the influence of heaven into the situations around us.  The by the power and grace of God, filled with the Holy Spirit and living out the foundations laid by Jesus, heaven invades earth bringing life, freedom and drawing us closer to the original mandate given to mankind to fill the earth and have dominion over it.

It our busy lives and broken world we often forfeit our peace for things that can't satisfy and don't give us assurance.  Danielle takes us through scripture to find us how and where to find real peace, encouraging us to find life giving rituals that lead us into fellowship with God and with other people.  

Paul has been building a foundation for the the Colossians for how to live in the spirit, now he gets practical. Paul gives instruction to the church for how to take this truth in to the two most important spheres of our live: our Family and our work.  Paul intention here is to show us how to create a culture where the kingdom of heaven reigns making space for God to work in our and then empowering us to take that truth into the world, as salt to a dying world.  Colossians 3:18-4:6

Jesus teaches us a number of ways to pray in the scriptures, Matt unpacks what it looks like to pray through something to see breakthrough, follow Jesus example and several other people in the scriptures who are persistent in prayer to see the Kingdom come.  If after listening to this podcast you find yourself in need of prayer, please reach out to us at Journey Church or find someone you know and trust to prayer with you.  You can get in touch through our websites at journeycb.ca.

In Colossians 3, Paul continues to build the foundations for the people to see and experience the life of Christ in their life.  After teaching them to life in Christ the way the first recieved him, by grace through faith, then to reject the lies that any religious activity or traditions of men will be useful in overcoming sin, he gives them the next building blocks to real life.  Seek Christ, kill the mindsets and practices that bring death and replace them by clothing themselves in Christ.  This pattern of life, empowered but the Holy Spirit, leads people to live and experience the life of Christ, filled to the brim and spill over to the world.

Paul writes to the Colossian church to relieve them of the burden false teachers have brought in, that Christ is not enough, he's only one part that leads to right relationship with God.  Paul reminds the church there is one Gospel and it is complete.   He encourages the church to be rooted and firm in this truth and to see old covenant religion for what it is, shadows of the reality Christ, and to denounce the futility of man made religion.  Colossians 2:6-23

God calls us to depend on him to advance the kingdom of God. As we protect and cultivate our relationship with God, he empowers us to go in name and realize his purposes of growing the kingdom . The way we go through life depends on knowing who he is. We only find out who we really are in light of who he really is.  God called and sent Moses based on who "I Am" not who Moses was.  Called calls Peter to lead the church based on the revelation of who Jesus is, not based on Peters ability.  This is the same for you and I, and we'll realize his purpose and identity in our lives and we spend time with Jesus. 

In Paul's letter to the Colossians, he paints the big picture of who Jesus is, and the all encompassing truth of the Gospel, calling the believers there as he calls us today to keep the big picture always in the front of our mind. Our suffering in this world - with the context of the Cross and Resurrection in plain view - lets us see the purpose of bringing the fullness of Christ to the world and realizing that the Hope of Glory is actually in us.  The truth of easter, death and resurrection, covering and reconciliation is meant to be the daily reality that we walk in, not just a special occasion we remember once a year. Colossians 1:15-2:5.

Psalm 119 tells us God's word is a light to path and a lamp to our feet.  It's meant to something that leads us to motion in the world, seeing and experience the presence of God to help us walk through life.  The word on its own, apart from the illuminating and empowering presence leads us to a life religious knowledge and observance rather than a life of freedom and experience.  

In a review of all the messages from the last two month - with themes like discipline, maturing, growing the body, etc. - Rick connects the dots that one theme that weaves these all together is Humility.  Humility on our behalf allows us to walk out these important teachings in a real practical way, before God and with one another. Christ humbling himself on our behalf has now open the curtain for us to become the Holy place where his spirit dwells in the world, no longer separated for only a select few to enter into but instead for each of us to carry Him out to the world