Jesus Culture Sacramento Message of the Week

The Lord is passionate about our growth and maturity. Pastor Banning Liebscher shares how God’s desire for our lives is that we would be conformed into the image of His Son. If we are passionate about looking like Jesus, we therefore must be passionate about growth and daily moving towards maturity. Out of His goodness and love, God’s heart for us is to grow. As we begin to understand His heart, situations and seasons we are in make more sense in the context of growth. Listen and learn to be encouraged when the opportunity arises to walk out what you actually believe.

We are made in the image of a Father who values celebration! Just like we see in the story of the prodigal son, the act of celebration is part of His character. It is incredibly powerful, not only for the person being celebrated but for those who are choosing to celebrate. This week at JC Sacramento we are continuing our series, The Church I See. Listen in as Pastor Zack Curry reminds us that we are all called to love and celebrate one another. This message will challenge you to celebrate!

This Sunday our friend, Efrem Smith of Bayside Midtown Sacramento, shared a powerful message on what we, as the collective church, are called to. In a broken world, we are each called to rise up and share the power of His reconciliation. No matter your circumstances, you are called to rise up and demonstrate His love, truth, hope and peace to the world. This is a timely message that you won’t want to miss! Pastor Efrem Smith is an internationally recognized leader who consults on issues of multi-ethnicity, leadership and community development. Pastor Smith is the former president and CEO of World Impact, an urban mission, church planting and leadership-development organization. He is the current co-lead Pastor of Bayside Church, Midtown and the author of several books. P.S. Efrem’s latest book, Killing Us Softly, is available now and we know you’ll love it.

The church is a family, not a business. How you see something determines how you interact with it; and we are all called to engage in the church community. When Jesus said that He came to earth to serve, He also called us to live as He did. Throughout His life He not only taught on the importance of servanthood but displayed it in every area of His life. This week at JC Sacramento we are continuing our series, The Church I See. Listen in as Pastor Banning Liebscher reminds us that we are all called to serve, just like we would contribute at a family gathering. This message will challenge you to take a closer look at how you are viewing yourself and the church!

We are not called to have a casual relationship with Scripture; we are called to submit to Scripture as the final authority in our lives. For many, the word submit feels like a restrictive term but in reality, God calls us to submit so that we can experience freedom. The foundation you build your life upon matters and the truth of Scripture is the only solid foundation. This week at JC Sacramento we are continuing our series, The Church I See. Listen in as Pastor Banning Liebscher reminds us of the guard rails we all need to have in our lives: His Word. This message will give you a fresh perspective on what living a life of freedom with Him can truly look like!

We, as the collective Church, are living in the greatest harvest in human history. What our world might see as chaos, dysfunction, pain and hopelessness, Jesus see’s as a ripe harvest. Honestly, we have all probably looked at the headlines and felt defeated. However, we are the solution! Listen as our good friend and guest speaker, Andy Byrd encourages us to move towards others in adoptive love while saying, “I may not be the cause of your pain, but I will be apart of your redemptive future.” This is one that you won’t want to miss.

The Christian life is one where we should consistently see impossible things bow at the knee to Jesus. Throughout His time here on earth, Jesus’ life boldly revealed that our God is a God of miracles! He also made clear that we, the collective Church, were to continue this pursuit of radical faith throughout our own lives. This week at JC Sacramento we are continuing our series, The Church I See. Listen in as Pastor Banning Liebscher takes us through one of our core values as a community: faith. This message will leave you feeling challenged to take up this mantle of radical faith in your own life and community!

This past Sunday, our very own SeaJay Liebscher, gave a powerful word on authenticity. Living an authentic life is, first and foremost, rooted in the Word. This is because apart from the Word, we cannot truly know ourselves. The reality many of us live in is unspoken comparisons. Our filter of life is not always seen through who God has created us to be, but rather, in constant comparison. Listen and be encouraged as SeaJay unpacks the truth of living an authentic life and being who God has created you to be.

God’s heart for His church is a unified, generational church. The call on each of our lives is deeply tied to each generation being connected and standing together. Listen to this message by Pastor Banning Liebscher as he takes us through what it means to not just connect our generations, but learn to value and honor each other. Whether you are a part of the Baby Boomer, Gen X, Millennial or Gen Z generation, let’s be a people who are humble and say, “I will move towards you even if you don’t move towards me”.

Inside all of us is an ember of hope that ignites our faith. The only way we can move in faith is by being connected to hope in our lives. When you look at your future, your finances, or your relationships do you have a confident expectation of health and goodness in those areas? If we are honest, many of us look at the future with dread, worry, or confusion. There is a war over hope in our lives! Listen in as Pastor Banning Liebscher encourages us to anchor our hope back into God. God is always faithful!

On this week’s episode, Banning continues “The Church I See” series with a message on being radically generous. His message reminded us how generous our Father is! We have the example of Jesus to look to as we carry out our mission here on earth. Jesus came to perfectly represent and reveal the Father to the world, and we are called to do the exact same thing. The key to living a blessed life is by being radically generous and stewarding what God has given us well. Ultimately, our lives should reflect the Father’s heart so that when people encounter us they encounter Him!

This week at JC Sacramento, we’re starting a brand new series with Pastor Banning Liebscher called, The Church I See. We, the church, are called to advance the Kingdom and we can only accomplish that by walking in the apostolic and prophetic gifting through teaching, equipping and engaging the church family. Carrying the apostolic and prophetic means that we know whose we are and where we are going! Listen in as Banning kicks off the series by reminding us of our path collectively, as the church, and what that means for you personally. Join us over the next few weeks as we dive into the beauty of the church and what it is called to. You won’t want to miss this first week of the series, The Church I See!

This week at JC Sacramento, we celebrate our fourth anniversary as a church with a very special guest and dear friend, Kris Vallotton. Kris is the Senior Associate Leader of Bethel Church in Redding, California and co-founder of Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry (BSSM). Kris travels internationally to train and equip people to successfully fulfill their divine purpose. He’s a bestselling author, having written more than a dozen books and training manuals to help prepare believers for life in the kingdom. He also has a diverse background in business, counseling, consulting, pastoring and teaching, which gives him unique leadership insights and perspectives. Listen as Kris shares a powerfully prophetic message on what this next season holds for all of us and what could be stopping us from getting to the promised land. You won’t want to miss this message as he speaks into our church family and all that God has for us in the coming years!

This week at JC Sacramento, our very own Zack Curry tackles the topic of offense. Zack is the Executive Pastor at JC Sacramento and carries a powerful life message that will challenge you to begin living and loving more like Jesus. Throughout the New Testament, we see that in even the most painful of situations, Jesus remained unoffended and devoted to the Father. Offense often leads to the death of our calling by distracting us from our destinies; it is a lack of devotion and miss-stewardship. Listen in as Zack talks through how we are all called to live according to the Kingdom, even in the midst of a society that often celebrates offense. This is a timely message that you won’t want to miss!

As we continue our Summer of Jesus series here at JC Sacramento, Banning Liebscher talks through one of the main characteristics that Jesus displayed during His time here on earth: discipleship. In Jesus’ Great Commision to us all, He calls us to live as He lives. His value for individuals was apparent in the way that He consistently poured Himself into the twelve disciples. We’ve learned that here is a level of maturity that can only happen within community; you can teach thousands but you cannot disciple more than a handful. Living that lifestyle of discipleship is as simple as sharing your life with others. Listen as Banning reminds us that the greatest investment you will ever make is in people. This message will challenge you to ask the Lord who you are investing in, and who is investing in you.