The Journey Church in Summerville, South Carolina exists to create disciple-makers of Jesus Christ. Messages from Lead Pastor Chris Fowler, as well as other teachers and guests, are published weekly. We also publish video versions and other resources at JourneyChurchSC.org.
What does it mean to be truly undivided in our faith? James chapter 1 opens with a challenge that cuts right to the heart of how we live as followers of Christ. Drawing on the famous words of Jesus in Matthew 12:25 about a house divided, we are invited to examine whether our faith is whole or fractured. The passage walks us through three interwoven threads that James returns to again and again: trials in the Christian life, wisdom from God, and true riches. Trials, James tells us, are not accidents or punishments but divinely appointed opportunities to produce steadfastness in us, a resilience that moves us toward being perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. This Greek word, teleon, carries the weight of both moral holiness and genuine maturity. The goal is not just to survive our trials but to be made whole through them. There is something deeply counterintuitive here, and yet profoundly true: the testing of our faith, when met with joy rooted in theological confidence rather than forced optimism, actually forms us into the people God intends us to be. If we find ourselves eager to understand what it looks like to be genuinely undivided rather than double-minded, this is a message worth sitting with carefully.
11 Oct 2026
God's Sovereign Ways
What does it look like when even the most faithful among us lose our footing? In closing out the books of 1 and 2 Samuel, we land on a story that is both sobering and deeply hopeful. King David, the man after God's own heart, the warrior who once faced a giant armed with nothing but a sling and unwavering trust in God, finds himself doing something that seems small on the surface but reveals a serious shift in his soul. He orders a census of his fighting men. Not because the law demanded it, but because he wanted to know what he could count on. What he could count. And in that moment, we see one of the most relatable spiritual traps we all fall into: trading trust in God for confidence in what we can measure, control, and hold in our hands. The lesson here is not just about David. It is about us. Yesterday's faith does not automatically carry over into today's trust. New pressures, new temptations, and new seasons of life have a way of quietly pulling us away from the posture of dependence on God and into a posture of self-reliance. The good news woven through 2 Samuel 24 is that drifting is not the end of the story. Conviction, repentance, and the mercy of God are available to every one of us, right now, in whatever area of life we have quietly stopped trusting Him.
4 Oct 2026
A Kings Grief and THE KING's Grace
What does it look like when a king returns in grief rather than triumph? In 2 Samuel 19, we find ourselves in the aftermath of a victory that feels anything but victorious. Absalom is dead, the rebellion is crushed, and David is back on his throne -- yet the celebration is swallowed up by a father's anguish. This message invites us to sit with the tension between legitimate grief and disordered grief, between mourning what was lost and recognizing what God has preserved. We see how our closest relationships can blind us to sin, and how fixating on the one thing God did not spare can cause us to miss the countless ways his providence has surrounded us. There is a sobering warning here for all of us: our grief can be real and still be consuming in ways that dishonor those who stood faithfully beside us. And yet the story does not leave us in that tension. It calls us, as it called David, to rise while still hurting, to put one foot in front of the other, and to trust that faithfulness sometimes simply means getting up.
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