Bob Schwahn | Lead Pastor | October 27, 2024 Reflection Questions: 1. What are the consequences of doing our “good” deeds for the approval of people? 2. What are the rewards of doing our “good” deeds in secret? 3. How did Jesus model a life of seeking only the approval of His Father in heaven? 4. What is a tangible way you could practice the discip…

Bob Schwahn | Lead Pastor | October 20, 2024 Reflection Questions: 1. How can money have the power to deceive us? What some ways you have been deceived by money? 2. How can money become a rival “god” in our life? 3. What barriers do you need to overcome to grow in your generosity toward the Kingdom? 4. Have you experienced joy and freedom and conte…

Bob Schwahn | Lead Pastor | October 13, 2024 Reflection Questions: 1. What evidence do you see that we live in a culture of contempt? How does it affect you personally? 2. How could a person seek to limit their exposure to the culture of contempt? 3. How have you observed contempt for others in your heart? Who do you see is an enemy in your life? W…

Jim Keena | Guest Speaker | October 6, 2024 Reflection Questions: 1. How did your parents resolve conflicts between you and your siblings? What's the best advice you've received for dealing with anger? 2. Matthew 5:21-26 is the first of what has been called the "Six Antitheses." It is a series of statements in Matthew 5:21-48, where Jesus contrasts…

Bob Schwahn | Lead Pastor | September 29, 2024 Reflection Questions: 1. What does it mean to say that Jesus was “opposed to religion?” How would you define “religion”? 2. Religion tends to focus on what we do more than why we do it. Why is it so important to Jesus that we do the right things for the right reasons? What can happen when we don’t focu…

Bob Schwahn | Lead Pastor | September 22, 2024 Reflection Questions: 1. What evidence do you see in our culture that followers of Jesus are have not been the salt and light he tells us we are? 2. How do you need to grow in becoming salt and light in the areas of the culture where Jesus has you right now? 3. On a scale of 1-10, how comfortable are y…

Bob Schwahn | Lead Pastor | September 15, 2024 Reflection Questions: 1. Read Matthew 5:1-11… How do you define the “#blessed” life? How does our culture define the “#blessed” life? How do these contrast the blessed life that Jesus describes? How have you seen the culture around you shape your thoughts of what a blessed life looks like. 2. Which of …

a different way: to make a difference the Church needs to be different | September 8, 2024 Bob Schwahn | Lead Pastor Reflection Questions: 1. Read the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) What are some things that Jesus says that are counter to how our culture thinks? 2. What are some things that are challenging for you to hear? How do His words chall…

Brian Priebe | Executive Pastor | September 1, 2024 Reflection Questions: 1. Read Galatians 5:22-23 & Colossians 3:12-15. 2. Which one or two of the fruits of the Spirit listed in these two passages would you say you do the best job living out in your day to day life? 3. Which one or two of the fruits of the Spirit listed in these two passages woul…

Vern Streeter | Guest Speaker | August 25, 2024 9am Reflection Questions: 1. Got a good bear story? 2. What does it mean to you to wrestle with God? 3. Vern said lately he feels that “…forgiveness is the greatest thing about God.” What, these days, is the greatest thing about God for you? (Why is forgiveness such a huge deal?) 4. What are your thou…

Vern Streeter | Guest Speaker | August 18, 2024 11am Reflection Questions: 1. When did you first learn about “Jonah and the Whale” and how has your understanding of the story changed over the years? 2. Reflect about your struggles with the lack of justice in the world. 3. How is Jonah Christ-like and how is he unlike Christ? 4. Talk about your posi…

Logan Holloman | Next Gen Pastor | August 11, 2024 View or Download our full sermon notes here: https://journeybozeman.com/sermons/notes/2024.08.11.pdf Reflection Questions: 1. What comes to mind when you hear redemption? Any examples whether through personal experience or from culture? (movies, literature, etc) 2. Where in your life are you waitin…

Logan Holloman | Next Gen Pastor | August 4, 2024 View or Download our full sermon notes here: https://journeybozeman.com/sermons/notes/2024.08.04.pdf Reflection Questions: 1. Can you recall a time when you saw God’s power at work in your life? Since that time have you ever doubted God’s care for you? 2. We often discredit ourselves from God’s work…

Jim Keena | Guest Speaker | July 28, 2024 View or Download our full sermon notes here: https://journeybozeman.com/sermons/notes/2024.07.28.pdf Reflection Questions: 1. In Joshua 1:1-9, God gives Joshua a great command. After reading verses 1-2, discuss the emotions and thoughts that Joshua might have experienced at that moment. 2. Joshua faced a pi…

Derry Long | Guest Speaker | July 21, 2024 View or Download our full sermon notes here: https://journeybozeman.com/sermons/notes/2024.07.21.pdf Reflection Questions: 1. What or who encourages you to keep on believing? 2. What sometimes discouraged you to keep on believing? 3. How does a person develop courage? 4. Who is a courageous person that you…

Bob Schwahn | Lead Pastor | July 14, 2024 View or Download our full sermon notes here: https://journeybozeman.com/sermons/notes/2024.07.14.pdf Reflection Questions: 1. Read John 5:39,46 — In what ways does the Old Testament point to Jesus? What are some examples that you can think of? How can this reality change the way we read and understand the O…

Logan Holloman | NexGen Pastor | July 7, 2024 “God loves us, and we have the opportunity to love others as he loves us, not in big things, but in small things in great love” — Mother Teresa, 1979 Nobel Peace Prize Speech 1 John 4:10 (NIV) This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins…

Bob Schwahn | Lead Pastor | June 30, 2024 1 Corinthians 7:26b-31 (NIV) I think that it is good for a man to remain as he is. Are you pledged to a woman? Do not seek to be released. Are you free from such a commitment? Do not look for a wife. But if you do marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry w…

Logan Holloman | Next Gen Pastor | June 23, 2024 John 15:1-5; 8 (NIV) “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, as I also…

Say the right thing in the right way at the right time. Brian Priebe | Executive Pastor | June 16, 2024 Matthew 12:34b-35 (NIV) For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. Matthew 15:18 (NIV) But the things that c…

"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less." - C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity Bob Schwahn | Lead Pastor | June 9, 2024 “Humility is the single greatest and most indispensable attribute of being a team player.” — Patrick Lencioni, The Ideal Team Player p. 157 1 Peter 5:5b-6 (NIV) Philippians 2:3-8 (NIV) Jesus modeled “c…

Bob Schwahn | Lead Pastor | June 2, 2024 Ephesians 4:31-32 Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, JUST AS in Christ God forgave you. Matthew 18:23-35 “Therefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle account…

Logan & Cayla Holloman | NextGen Pastor & Licensed Professional Counselor | May 26, 2024 What if our posture is the beginning of listening, understanding, and loving those around us? What’s my posture? Am I fully present or distracted? Am I loving or judging? Am I open or closed to being changed? Am I trying to fix or offer solutions? Am I uncomfor…

Bob Schwahn | Lead Pastor | May 19, 2024 Matthew 5:9 (NIV) Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. James 1:2-4 (NIV) Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you …

Bob Schwahn | Lead Pastor | May 12, 2024 1) We were designed for healthy relationships. 2) Healthy relationships matter to Jesus. 3) Healthy relationships matter to the mission of Jesus. “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, y…

Brian Priebe | Executive Pastor | May 5, 2024 Are you praying for things that only God can do? Mark 8:27-29a (NIV) Jesus and his disciples went on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked them, “Who do people say I am?” They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.” “But wha…

Jim Keena | Guest Speaker | April 28, 2024 A Follower of Jesus Unfollowed but Re-followed Jesus. The Backstory: One day, a man named Simon and some other fishermen had been fishing all night in the Sea of Galilee (Luke 5:5). They’d not caught anything, when Jesus gave an unsolicited fishing tip (Luke 5:4-5). After instructing them to cast their net…

Logan Holloman | NextGen Pastor | April 21, 2024 What comes to mind when you hear the title Lord? Luke 6:46 (NIV) “Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say? Why don’t I do what he says? 1 John 5:1-3 (NIV) Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. This …

Logan Holloman | NextGen Pastor | April 14, 2024 John 5:1-7 (NIV) Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the…

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Bob Schwahn | Lead Pastor | March 31, 2024 Acts 9:1-6 (NIV) Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusa…

Brandon Edwards | Worship & Creative Arts Pastor | March 29, 2024 1. Covenant is the only way to relate to God. Deuteronomy 29:2a, 9, 12-18 (NIV) Moses summoned all the Israelites and said to them: Carefully follow the terms of this covenant, so that you may prosper in everything you do. You are standing here in order to enter into a covenant with …

Brian Priebe | Executive Pastor | March 24, 2024 Philippians 3:4b-6 (NIV) “If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteou…

Bob Schwahn | Lead Pastor | March 17, 2024 Exodus 34:6-7 (NIV) And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; …” Romans 3:…

Bob Schwahn | Lead Pastor | March 10, 2024 Romans 1:17 (NIV) For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.” Romans 3:20 (NIV) Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the …

Jim Keena | Guest Speaker | March 3, 2024 The Charge: Romans 3:9 (NIV) What shall we conclude then? Do we have any advantage? Not at all! For we have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin. The Evidence: Romans 3:10-18 (NIV) As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who …

Logan Holloman | Next Gen Pastor | February 25, 2024 What’s on your “list”? Romans 2:17-24 (NIV) Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God; if you know his will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law; if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those who are …

Bob Schwahn | Lead Pastor | February 18, 2024 11am Romans 2:1-4 (NIV) You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things. Now we know that God’s judgment against those who do such things is based on truth. So wh…

Bob Schwahn | Lead Pastor | February 11, 2024 Matthew 19:3-5 (NIV) - 86% of LGBTQ people were raised in a faith community from the ages of 0 to 18. - 54% of LGBTQ people leave their religious community after the age of 18. - Only 21% left for theological considerations. - 96 percent of the study’s participants prayed that God would make them straig…

Bob Schwahn | Lead Pastor | February 4, 2024 “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” ― A.W. Tozer Exodus 34:5-7 Romans 1:18 Romans 1:24-32 God Gave Them Over… Romans 1: v.24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity… v.26 Because of this, God gave them ove…

Bob Schwahn | Lead Pastor | January 28, 2024 Mark 2:17 (NIV) Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” Romans 1:18-20 (NIV) The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wicked…

Book of Romans: Eager and Unashamed | January 21, 2024 Bob Schwahn | Lead Pastor “In our generation, the primary problem with evangelism isn’t that we’re doing it with bullhorns and low-grade bigotry; it’s that we’re not doing it at all.” — John Mark Comer, Practicing the Way (pg. 151) Romans 1:14-17 (NIV) I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Gree…

Book of Romans: Overview | January 14, 2024 Bob Schwahn | Lead Pastor Romans 1:16-17 (NIV) For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to las…

Jim Keena | Guest Speaker | January 7, 2024 How to find & fulfill your life’s purpose? “God’s redemptive promise was brought to Mary to grow in her, to be delivered through her, to change the world around her.” — Jack Hayford God’s Promise: Luke 1:26b-29 (NIV) God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be marr…

Light To The Darkness | December 31st, 2023 Bob Schwahn | Lead Pastor Matthew 4:19 "Come, follow me," Jesus said, "and I will send you out to fish for people." Matthew 5:14-16 "You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it giv…

Light in the Darkness | December 23-24, 2023 Bob Schwahn | Lead Pastor Isaiah 9:2 (NIV) The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned. John 8:12 (NIV) “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” John 1:9-11 (…

Brian Priebe | Executive Pastor | December 17, 2023 Genesis 12:2 (NIV) “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.” Genesis 12:10-13 (NIV) Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe. As he was about …

When Good Things Become God: Reputation | December 10, 2023 Bob Schwahn | Lead Pastor Proverbs 22:1 (NIV) A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold. Ecclesiastes 7:1 (NIV) A good name is better than fine perfume… 1 Timothy 3:7 (NIV) He must also have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he wi…

Bad Blood | December 3, 2023 Logan Holloman | Next Gen Pastor We all need relationships but no human relationship can be all we need Genesis 25:19-34 — Isaac, Jacob, Esau Genesis 27 — Defying God, deceiving, lying, running Genesis 28:10-20 — Aha! "God is here" Genesis 29:16-20 (NIV): Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older was Leah, and …

When Good Things Become God: Comfort and Security | November 26, 2023 Derry Long | Guest Speaker Philippians 4:10-13 (NIV) ‘I rejoice greatly in the Lord that at last you renewed your concern for me indeed, you were concerned, but you had no opportunity to show it. I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content in whate…