Captivate Podcast

This weekend we leaned into a subject that we often feel but don’t always have the words to express… The PRESSURE of every day life. 

Have you been feeling any pressure in life lately? From work, to bills, to chores, to kids, to fitness and health, to family, to drama with people, to our past, to our future… Life can be heavy. And yet even when we’re giving life all we got, it’s easy to feel like we’re falling behind and not keeping up with the people or world around us. 

And all of that leads to… PRESSURE. But what if the life God has for us isn’t built on pressure at all?

This Sunday we unpacked how the Gospel doesn’t just change our eternity, it begins to change what we carry right now. Unlike the world, God offers a kind of peace that isn’t dependent on circumstances, performance, or how well we hold everything together. The peace of God is a deeper and steadier kind of peace that meets us right where we are, and helps us carry the things that often feel like they’re crushing us. 

The peace of God relieves us from the pressure that’s not from God. Tune into this week’s message called, “Peace From The Pressure.” 

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Every Sunday 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 Sunday 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, & 5pm (PST).

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Life runs on scoreboards. Followers, funding, fitness, career wins—we measure everything. From childhood we’re taught the same lesson: produce, perform, prove yourself. If your score is high enough, you matter. If not… try harder.

But what if the gospel completely shatters that system?

This Sunday we were in Romans 4 and the story of Abraham—a man who had more spiritual accomplishments than almost anyone in history. If anyone could boast before God, it was him. Yet Scripture says something shocking: “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

Not earned. Not achieved. Credited.

Paul shows us that our standing with God doesn’t come from our performance, but from faith in what Jesus has done. Salvation isn’t a wage God owes—it’s a gift God gives.

If you’re tired of trying to measure up, come hear the good news: in the gospel, the scorekeeping ends—and we discover the only boast that can actually save. Tune into this week’s message titled, “The End of Boasting”.

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

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Every Sunday 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 Sunday 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, & 5pm (PST).

Connect to Captivate! - https://shorturl.at/nKxQu

Download the Captivate App to Stay Connected! - https://shorturl.at/5PfXP

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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This week we jumped into Romans 3 in our series, “A New Humanity.”

Paul, in chapter 3, gives us what some Bible scholars call the most important sentence in the Bible. It is the foundation of The Gospel, as it shows us where it all starts. Paul will encourage us to first “Look” at the human condition, to see how broken we really are on our own strength. He does this to help us “Lean” on, not our works, but Jesus’ works. 

Do you ever lean or rely on the wrong thing? Sometimes in life we fall, get lost, or become confused or distraught. But often this happens simply because we chose to rely on the wrong source of strength in the first place. Strength is only as good as its source, and when we choose to rely on the wrong things in life, for life, we fall. 

Paul encourages us to look for a more reliable source for strength in our life, and thereby shows us how to lean on the Lord in a new way and powerful way. We unpacked this in this week’s message called, “Look and Lean.”

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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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Watch More Messages: youtube.com/@CaptivateChurch/videos

Every Sunday 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 Sunday 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, & 5pm (PST).

Connect to Captivate! - https://shorturl.at/nKxQu

Download the Captivate App to Stay Connected! - https://shorturl.at/5PfXP

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://shorturl.at/93CHS

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Good news or bad news—what do you want first?

Most of us want the good news first… but what if we can’t truly receive the good news until we’re honest about the bad?

This week we continue our study through Romans in our new series, “A New Humanity” as we dive into Romans 2. We will be talking about a difficult, but freeing truth: religion can’t save you.

We can know the Bible, go to church, avoid the “big sins,” and still miss God entirely. Romans 1 talks about those people out there, but Romans 2 turns the mirror on church people—the moral, the religious, the well-behaved. The ones who look fine on the outside, but are just as broken on the inside.

This message isn’t about trying harder – It’s about finally being honest. About realizing God’s kindness isn’t approval, it’s an invitation. If you’re tired of pretending, tired of performing, or tired of feeling like you’re “almost” okay with God, this message is for you.

Jesus didn’t come to improve religious people, but to rescue sinners. Tune into this week’s message titled, “Religion Can’t Save”.

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

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Watch More Messages: youtube.com/@CaptivateChurch/videos

Every Sunday 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 Sunday 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, & 5pm (PST).

Connect to Captivate! - https://shorturl.at/nKxQu

Download the Captivate App to Stay Connected! - https://shorturl.at/5PfXP

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://shorturl.at/93CHS

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No matter where you are in life, thriving or struggling, addicted to drugs or religion, too confident in yourself or not confident enough in who Jesus has made you to be… The Gospel makes you new. 

In fact, here is what the depths of the Gospel give us as a New Humanity… 

1. A New Footing with God - “We are Justified”

2. A New Family with God - “We are Adopted”

3. A New Future with God - “We are Empowered”

Becoming new through faith is a beautiful thing, but in the first three chapters of Romans, Paul describes the broken state of “Old Humanity.” Old Humanity does not live justified, but condemned, does not value family but radical individualism, and does not have a future with God but only focuses on the here and now. 

Paul makes a case to not live like the Romans do. He writes this letter to help believers live in Rome without becoming “of Rome.” I believe as he writes to them, he is writing to us, to help us live in the world but not become “of the world.”

This week we unpacked this in a message called, “Rome: A Home Away From Home.”

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

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Need prayer? Please let us know! - https://captivatesd.churchcenter.com/people/forms/597023

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Watch More Messages: youtube.com/@CaptivateChurch/videos

Every Sunday 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 Sunday 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, & 5pm (PST).

Connect to Captivate! - https://shorturl.at/nKxQu

Download the Captivate App to Stay Connected! - https://shorturl.at/5PfXP

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://shorturl.at/93CHS

Get plugged in!

Next Steps - captivatesd.com/next-steps

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/giving 

Need prayer? Please let us know! - https://captivatesd.churchcenter.com/people/forms/597023

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