Captivate Podcast

Every Wednesday Night we will be diving deeper into specific chapters and verses throughout the bible. We created this service to provide a space to equip our church family with a deeper knowledge and understanding of scripture.

We invite you to join us on Wednesday Nights at Captivate Point Loma!

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Join us for service online or in person every Sunday at 8am, 9:30am, 11am, & 12:30pm (PST).

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In John 15, Jesus gives us one of his 7 "I am" statements found in the book of John with, "I am the Vine." What's unique about this statement is that Jesus also tells us who we are, "the branches." A branch's job is to bear fruit. We all want to bear fruit in life but our definition of fruit and God's definition of fruit is often very different. Because of that, God will often cut off the fruit we like to produce in us the fruit he likes. This Sunday we talked about how to bear fruit that pleases the Father in a message called "From Futile to Fruitful."

Join us for service online or in person every Sunday at 8am, 9:30am, 11am, & 12:30pm (PST).

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This is the Way!

Our series through the gospel of John does not say “A” way, but “The” Way. Why? Because Jesus only offers us one way to follow Him, one way to salvation, one way to the life that we dream about. We think we can pick and choose the parts we like and don’t like about following Jesus and still experience the life He promises. We create our own way, another way, “A” way, and then wonder why it doesn’t  work.

“The Way” is so counterintuitive to us that we are afraid to really accept it. It’s a paradox- a seemingly absurd or contradictory statement, but when tested proves true - “If you want to save your life, you have to lose it…If you want to be first, you have to be last…” To embrace “The Way” will feel like the death of joy, freedom, options, potential, and yet it’s the birth of real joy, freedom, and options. What Jesus asks, is simply what He has done. 

This week we saw the paradox lived out before us, as a woman makes a choice that everyone else thought, “what a waste!” While Jesus’ heart was moved, and what he deemed her act beautiful. She knew Jesus was The Way, and she responded accordingly.

Join us for service online or in person every Sunday at 8am, 9:30am, 11am, & 12:30pm (PST).

If you want to share how God is moving in your life through this ministry, please let us know at [email protected]!

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Lazarus' death was felt deeply by his friends and loved ones, and the interaction that Jesus has with Lazarus' sisters proves that they had resigned themselves to the fact that this was the end. But this miracle that Jesus performs displayed how even death itself could not stop His power.

This Sunday we unpacked this story in a message called, “Back to Life” with the hope that we would be encouraged not to give up on our prayers, but rather continue to come back to God even in the most dire of circumstances.

Join us for service online or in person every Sunday at 8am, 9:30am, 11am, & 12:30pm (PST).

If you want to share how God is moving in your life through this ministry, please let us know at [email protected]!

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Happy Father’s Day! This week we unpacked one of the most famous examples of a father's love as we looked at the story of the Prodigal Son. While so much attention is often placed on the lavishness and extravagance with which the lost son lived his life, part of what we learn is that God, our father, is equally lavish and extravagant in the way he shows his love for us. In this way it's actually the father who is the prodigal.

Join us for service online or in person every Sunday at 8am, 9:30am, 11am, & 12:30pm (PST).

If you want to share how God is moving in your life through this ministry, please let us know at [email protected]!

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Every Wednesday Night we will be diving deeper into specific chapters and verses throughout the bible. We created this service to provide a space to equip our church family with a deeper knowledge and understanding of scripture.

We invite you to join us on Wednesday Nights at Captivate Point Loma!

-----

Join us for service online or in person every Sunday at 8am, 9:30am, 11am, & 12:30pm (PST).

If you want to share how God is moving in your life through this ministry, please let us know at [email protected]!

Decided To Follow Jesus? Sign up to receive a copy of our “I Have Decided” booklets - https://bit.ly/3RFzfCB

Get plugged in!

Next Steps - captivatesd.com/nextsteps

Visit - captivatesd.com/visit

Communities - captivatesd.com/communities

If you would like to support Captivate financially you can give online through our website by clicking here captivatesd.com/give

Need prayer? Please let us know! - https://bit.ly/3PANKVn

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Why do bad things happen to good people? Why do bad things happen at all? How do we handle suffering in this world and in our daily lives? In light of all the bad and suffering, does God still work? Do miracles still happen?

This Sunday we dove into John chapter 9. Through one man’s encounter with Jesus, we see amidst our suffering God can use it and perhaps we are just a miracle waiting to happen. Watch the latest sermon titled, “Miracles”, in our series, “This Is The Way”.

Join us for service online or in person every Sunday at 8am, 9:30am, 11am, & 12:30pm (PST).

If you want to share how God is moving in your life through this ministry, please let us know at [email protected]!

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The first three Gospels in the New Testament, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, spend much time telling us WHAT Jesus did. But the book of John is preoccupied with something else. John will tell us over and over again WHO Jesus is. In fact, there are 7 famous "I am" statements in John about Jesus, and one of my very favorites is, "I am the Good Shepherd." 

In reality, Jesus is not the only shepherd we can follow. He's just the good one. What we all need to ask ourselves is, "Who's my shepherd?  What voice have I been following?" Sometimes we are fooled into thinking we are the god of our life, we are in control, and we are leading ourselves. But the Bible reveals that we are much more dependent, influenced, and in need than we would ever care to admit. This Sunday we learned the contrast between how the "Good Shepherd" leads us versus how the "World Shepherd" leads us in a message titled, “Who’s Your… Shepherd?”

Join us for service online or in person every Sunday at 8am, 9:30am, 11am, & 12:30pm (PST).

If you want to share how God is moving in your life through this ministry, please let us know at [email protected]!

Decided To Follow Jesus? Sign up to receive a copy of our “I Have Decided” booklets - https://bit.ly/3RFzfCB

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If you would like to support Captivate financially you can give online through our website by clicking here captivatesd.com/give

Need prayer? Please let us know! - https://bit.ly/3PANKVn

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Every Wednesday Night we will be diving deeper into specific chapters and verses throughout the bible. We created this service to provide a space to equip our church family with a deeper knowledge and understanding of scripture.

We invite you to join us on Wednesday Nights at Captivate Point Loma!

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Join us for service online or in person every Sunday at 8am, 9:30am, 11am, & 12:30pm (PST).

If you want to share how God is moving in your life through this ministry, please let us know at [email protected]!

Decided To Follow Jesus? Sign up to receive a copy of our “I Have Decided” booklets - https://bit.ly/3RFzfCB

Get plugged in!

Next Steps - captivatesd.com/nextsteps

Visit - captivatesd.com/visit

Communities - captivatesd.com/communities

If you would like to support Captivate financially you can give online through our website by clicking here captivatesd.com/give

Need prayer? Please let us know! - https://bit.ly/3PANKVn

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Throughout history civilizations have thrived upon the ability to secure the most precious resource for people - water.

Where good water supplies are, people flourish and prosperity follows. Where water is scarce and polluted, people grow sick and things decay. For most of us, we have access to as much clean and purified water as we want. We can turn on a tap, we have filters to deliver pure good tasting water... we can always have a bottle close by. Yet we don’t drink enough to actually satisfy our needs. The problem is not availability, it’s our own laziness, and false substitutes that are leaving us weak.

The same is true spiritually. Do you get chronically spiritually dehydrated? Does your soul thirst for something real? The good news is that, Jesus has come for thirsty people. Jesus came for those who know they have a deep soul thirst and nothing in this life can satisfy it. Jesus alone has the answer to what our souls thirst for and Jesus alone IS the answer. Check out this message titled, “Are You Thirsty?”

Join us for service online or in person every Sunday at 8am, 9:30am, 11am, & 12:30pm (PST).

If you want to share how God is moving in your life through this ministry, please let us know at [email protected]!

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If you would like to support Captivate financially you can give online through our website by clicking here captivatesd.com/give

Need prayer? Please let us know! - https://bit.ly/3PANKVn

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