The Journey Home: U – Turn

The Journey Home: U – Turn

In this week’s message from The Journey Home series, Pastor Ryan digs into one of the most misunderstood words in the Christian faith — repentance. It’s not just feeling bad when you get caught, and it’s definitely not trying harder through willpower and self-improvement. True biblical repentance, or metanoia in the Greek, means a complete 180-degree shift in how you see everything — God, yourself, and the world around you. And here’s the part that changes everything: you can’t do it on your own. Through the parable of the Prodigal Son and passages from Mark, Acts, Romans, and Ephesians, Pastor Ryan walks us through how the Holy Spirit convicts us, the Father’s kindness draws us, and Christ’s work on the cross makes it all possible. The U-turn was never yours to make alone — and that’s the whole point of the gospel.

The Journey Home: Dead End

Just like carbon monoxide — odorless, colorless, and silently deadly — sin causes damage you don’t see coming until it’s too late. In this message, Pastor Ryan walks through five real consequences of sin straight from Scripture: it separates us from God, it enslaves us in patterns we can’t break on our own, it places us under God’s righteous wrath, it leaves us spiritually dead — unable to fix ourselves no matter how hard we try — and perhaps most dangerously, it deceives usinto thinking none of this applies to us at all. The good news? There’s only one solution that actually deals with sin at its root. His name is Jesus — and that’s exactly where we’re headed next week.

The Journey Home: Wrong Way

Life is a highway — but what happens when we’re heading the wrong way? In this message we tackle one of the most misunderstood topics in the Christian faith — sin. Using the hilarious scene from Planes, Trains & Automobiles, it paints a picture of how sin blinds us to the fact that we’re going the wrong direction — and how we often don’t even realize it until years later. You’ll discover what the Bible really means by sin — it’s far more than just a list of rules. It includes our attitudes, our desires, and even the good things we fail to do. We’ll trace sin all the way back to its origin — from Satan’s rebellion in heaven to Adam and Eve in the Garden — and explain why every one of us is affected by it today. Whether you’ve felt beaten down by guilt or you think you’re “good enough” on your own — this message is for you.

The God Of Life

We spend a lot of time and money trying to hold onto life — but have you ever stopped to ask where life actually comes from? This Mother’s Day, we trace the thread of life through the pages of Scripture: from the moment God breathed life into the first human being, to the holy calling of motherhood, to the eternal life Jesus makes available to every one of us.

Called To Serve: Faith Thru Action

Two out of three Americans say they believe in Jesus. But belief without action isn’t saving faith — James calls it dead. In this final message of our Called to Serve series, we walk through James 2:14–26 and ask the honest question: if someone followed your calendar and your checkbook for the last year, would they find evidence of a living faith? James doesn’t ask what you believe about the poor. He asks what you did the last time you saw one. This message is a challenge — not to condemn, but to wake us up. Because we serve a God who raises dead things to life, and He wants more for you than a faith that never moves.