Communicating with Justin Killillay

When hard things happen, we look for someone or something to blame, and when we can’t find a reason, we hide. In John 9, Jesus meets a man everyone only knew as the blind beggar, and he sees him before he ever addresses his situation. Whether you’re carrying something heavy or just visiting for the first time, you don’t have to clean it up or figure it out before Jesus comes close.

If Jesus didn't rise from the dead, Paul says our faith is useless — and we're the ones most to be pitied.

Week one of Asking For A Friend looks at the historical case for the resurrection: early eyewitness testimony, details no one would invent, and people who died rather than take it back.

If it's true, it changes everything.

1 Corinthians 15:1-8, 12-19

The people closest to us shape who we're becoming — often without us noticing. This week, we're talking honestly about friendship, influence, and what it actually looks like to be around people who bring out your best. Whatever you believe, there's something here for you. Come see what we found in Hebrews 10.

Ever try to really change and end up right back where you started? Even Paul admitted, “What I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do” (Romans 7:15).

In Week 1 of InsideOut, we look at Romans 7-8 to find out why willpower alone doesn’t last and what actually does.

Jesus produces lasting change in you from the inside out.

Ever try to get through something entirely on your own and just end up making a bigger mess of it?James ends his letter here, refusing to let trouble, sickness, sin, or wandering stay hidden. Closing out a summer series in James with a look at what it means to live a faith that’s personal, but never private.

The biggest threat to experiencing God’s presence isn’t a crisis — it’s the ordinary Tuesday when nothing feels significant and God feels far. Through Elijah’s story in 1 Kings 19, Justin makes the case that God doesn’t just show up in the storms; He whispers in the quiet, and He wants to meet with us there every single day.

Where is God when the hurt is loud and the answers aren’t coming? Justin walks through John 11 — the death of Lazarus and the raw grief of Mary and Martha — to show that Jesus moves toward us in our sorrow, even when His timing doesn’t make sense. The absence of an answer is not the absence of purpose.

When life gets hard, the loudest lie we believe is that nobody else understands what we’re going through — and that God has gone quiet. Through the story of Gideon, Justin unpacks why perceived loneliness is often a decision, and how our greatest obstacles are actually invitations into a deeper experience of God’s presence. The strength was never the point — God was.

Before we can understand God’s promise to never leave us, we have to understand how we were made. In this session, Justin traces the roots of loneliness all the way back to Genesis, where God — who exists in perfect community within Himself — creates humanity in His own image and declares that isolation is not good. If we don’t know how we were created, we won’t know what we’re missing.

We all do it. We size up a room, drift toward certain people, and quietly decide who’s worth our time. It feels normal. It might even feel harmless.

But what if favoritism isn’t just a social habit — what if it’s actually a statement about someone’s worth?This week we’re in James 2:1-13, and James has some pointed words for anyone who’s ever played favorites — which is all of us.

Mercy sees the value in others that favoritism steals.

I serve as the High School Pastor at Decatur City Church in Decatur, GA — part of the North Point Ministries family. Want to connect or follow along with the series? Links below.

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