Venture Church

10/03/2026

🎉 TOMORROW’S THE DAY! 🙌

Come join us for Sunday School at 10 AM & Worship and the Word at 11 AM!
Let’s gather, worship, and expect God to do something amazing! ❤️‍🔥
Bring a friend & come ready for a great morning!

See you there! ⛪️✨

10/01/2026

So let me make sure I understand this correctly.

You will not publicly condemn immorality. You will not confront sin.

You will not challenge a culture that increasingly celebrates what Scripture calls us to repent of.

But let a brother or sister in Christ shine a little biblical light into the darkness, and suddenly you discover your gift of discernment.

Interesting!

The culture can parade rebellion in broad daylight, package it as progress, market it as enlightenment, and demand applause, and somehow that earns your silence.

But let a Christian say, This is wrong, this is destructive, and this contradicts Scripture, and suddenly you become deeply concerned about judgment, tone, compassion, unity, and whether somebody might be offended.

Apparently sin gets diplomatic immunity while conviction gets prosecuted!

That's a fascinating version of Christianity.

You embrace the culture without reservation, excuse its excesses, repeat its talking points, absorb its vocabulary, defend its values, and then turn around and criticize the churches that dare to remain different from it.

The Church was never called to become the chaplain of the culture. It was called to be salt and light.

Salt that has lost its distinctiveness is useless, and light that refuses to expose darkness is merely decoration.

Biblical Christianity is, by definition, countercultural.

The prophets were countercultural. John the Baptist was countercultural. The apostles were countercultural.

Jesus Christ confronted hypocrisy, immorality, greed, unbelief, corruption, and religious pretense without consulting a focus group first.

Yet somehow modern Christianity has decided that the greatest sin is making sinners uncomfortable.

Something is out of order!

When Christians become more offended by the exposure of sin than by sin itself, something is out of order.

When believers rush to defend the culture but have no reservations about attacking the Church for refusing to imitate it, something is out of order.

When darkness receives our tolerance, but light receives our criticism, something is seriously out of order.

And please spare me the selective outrage!

If your compassion only appears when biblical conviction is spoken, but mysteriously disappears while lives, families, marriages, churches, and souls are being destroyed, that may not be compassion at all.

It may simply be compromise wearing a dressed up like a Christian.

Love does not require silence. Grace does not require denial.

Mercy does not require pretending that destructive behavior is harmless.

And truth does not suddenly become hatred because somebody does not like hearing it.

Christians should absolutely speak with humility.

We should speak with love and compassion.

We should examine ourselves first.

We should never delight in another person's failure.

But none of that requires us to become mute!

The same Bible that commands us to love people also commands us to speak truth.

So if you can enthusiastically embrace a culture that contradicts Scripture but become furious at Christians who refuse to surrender biblical conviction, perhaps the problem is not that the Church has become too judgmental.

Perhaps the Church has become too biblical for your comfort.

And in the immortal words of Ricky Ricardo: "You got some splaining to do."

~Pastor James R. East

09/30/2026

📖 Word Wednesday is tonight! 🙌

Come join us at 7 PM for Bible study and classes for all ages! There’s a place for everyone.

Bring somebody, invite somebody, and let’s grow together in God’s Word! ✨

09/29/2026

💃🙌 And then David danced! 🙌💃

Sometimes when you think about all God has done, you can’t help but praise Him! David danced before the Lord with all his heart—and we should never be ashamed to worship, rejoice, and give God our praise! ❤️

Let your praise be loud, your joy be genuine, and your worship be wholehearted! 🙌🔥

09/28/2026

What a great Word from God through Pastor East yesterday! 🙌❤️ We are so thankful for the message and the reminder to keep our hearts and minds focused on Him. What a blessing! ✝️

09/25/2026

As long as you keep seeing people as the problem, you will keep fighting symptoms while the real source remains untouched.

People may offend you, oppose you, betray you, criticize you, wound you, and even deliberately work against you, but Scripture reminds us that our ultimate struggle is not merely flesh and blood. There is often something deeper operating beneath what can be seen on the surface.

Ephesians 6:12 declares that we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, powers, and spiritual forces of wickedness.

That means spiritual warfare demands spiritual discernment.

If Satan can convince you that every battle is merely about another person, he can keep you angry at people while distracting you from the real battlefield. He will have you attacking personalities instead of confronting principalities, nursing offenses instead of guarding your spirit, and destroying relationships while congratulating yourself for winning arguments.

YOU CANNOT DEFEAT A SPIRITUAL ENEMY WITH A CARNAL STRATEGY!

Discernment recognizes that people are not always the source. Sometimes they are wounded. Sometimes deceived. Sometimes manipulated. Sometimes operating from bitterness, pride, fear, or unresolved pain. And sometimes the enemy simply exploits human weakness to create division.

So stop wasting spiritual am******on shooting at people.

Pray harder than you retaliate. Discern deeper than you assume. Forgive faster than you accuse. Speak truth without becoming hateful. Stand firm without becoming bitter.

Because as long as you identify people as the ultimate problem, you may spend your entire life fighting the wrong enemy.

You will never defeat the source while you are obsessed with the symptom.

Know the difference. Fight the right battle.

And remember: your brother is not your enemy. Your sister is not your enemy. Flesh and blood are not your ultimate enemy.

Recognize the source, guard your spirit, and fight spiritually.

~Pastor James R. East

09/23/2026

📖 MIDWEEK AT VENTURE! 🙌

Join us tonight at 7 PM for Bible study and classes for ALL ages!

Come grow in the Word, connect with our church family, and bring someone with you! We’d love to see you tonight!

Venture Church • 7 PM

09/21/2026

Pastor Breydon DELIVERED yesterday! What a powerful word! 🙌

A reminder that it’s okay to stand up for what you believe in and boldly live out your faith. We don’t have to blend in with the world—we’re called to stand firm, walk in truth, and let our light shine. 💪✨

Thank you, Pastor Breydon, for allowing God to use you to speak life and encouragement!

09/20/2026

True Christianity is unmistakable, undeniable, uncompromising, unflinching, and unashamed.

It does not merely wear a cross. It carries one.

Jesus said, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.” Matthew 16:24.

It does not simply quote Scripture. It submits to Scripture.

“Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.” James 1:22.

The Bible does not bend to culture. Culture must answer to the Word of God.

“The word of our God stands forever.” Isaiah 40:8.

Real Christianity does not ask, How close can I get to sin without crossing the line?

It asks, How close can I walk with Jesus?

“Whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.” 1 Corinthians 10:31.

If your convictions change every time culture changes, then culture is discipling you more than Scripture is.

“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” Romans 12:2.

If following Jesus never confronts your pride, appetites, habits, relationships, language, entertainment, priorities, finances, or flesh, then you are not experiencing biblical discipleship.

“Those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.” Galatians 5:24.

Jesus did not die to make us comfortable in sin. He died to deliver us from it.

“He Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness.” 1 Peter 2:24.

The Gospel does not renovate the old man. It buries him.

“We were buried with Him through baptism into death.” Romans 6:4.

The Gospel does not decorate your old life. It gives you a new one.

“If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.” 2 Corinthians 5:17.

True Christianity loves without lying.

“Speaking the truth in love.” Ephesians 4:15.

It gives grace without redefining sin.

“For the grace of God that brings salvation… teaches us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly.” Titus 2:11–12.

Biblical grace does not give you permission to remain unchanged. Grace teaches you how to live changed.

True Christianity extends mercy without abandoning holiness.

“Be holy, for I am holy.” 1 Peter 1:16.

It speaks truth without becoming hateful. It stands without becoming arrogant. It loves without becoming spineless.

“Stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong. Let all that you do be done with love.” 1 Corinthians 16:13–14.

The early Church had no celebrity machinery!

No social-media following. No political machine. No carefully engineered brand.

But they had the Holy Ghost.

They had the Word. They had prayer. They had holiness. They had apostolic doctrine. They had conviction. They had power.

And they were not ashamed of the name of JESUS!

“You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you.” Acts 1:8.

“They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues.” Acts 2:4.

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation.” Romans 1:16.

And their enemies had to admit what happened.

“These who have turned the world upside down have come here too.” Acts 17:6.

We do not need a Christianity that fits comfortably into the world.

We need a Church that turns the world upside down.

We do not need weaker convictions. We need deeper consecration.

We do not need less doctrine. We need more obedience.

We do not need less holiness. We need more of God.

We do not need to make Christianity more acceptable to the world.

We need to make certain our Christianity is acceptable to God.

“Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God.” Romans 12:1.

Christianity that costs nothing, changes nothing, confronts nothing, crucifies nothing, sacrifices nothing, and stands for nothing bears very little resemblance to the Christianity Jesus taught.

“Whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.” Luke 14:27.

True Christianity still has a cross!

It still has repentance. It still has baptism in the name of Jesus Christ. It still has the promise of the Holy Ghost. Acts 2:38–39.

It still has apostolic doctrine. Acts 2:42.

It still has holiness. Hebrews 12:14.

It still has separation from the world. 2 Corinthians 6:17.

It still has power. Acts 1:8.

It still has conviction. Jude 3.

And it still has a name above every name. JESUS CHRIST!

“At the name of Jesus every knee should bow… and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.” Philippians 2:10–11.

Jesus Christ has not changed. His Word has not changed. His Gospel has not changed.

And biblical Christianity does not need to be reinvented for the twenty-first century. It needs to be lived.

It is still unapologetically, unmistakably, and completely about Jesus Christ!

“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” Hebrews 13:8.

~Pastor James R. East~

09/18/2026

••We are STILL accepting donations••

Contact Kayci Valdez for drop-off or pickup!

IT’S ALMOST GARAGE SALE TIME!

Our annual Venture Church Garage Sale is coming up October 10th, and we’re looking for donations! 🎉

Have items you’d like to donate? We can coordinate pickups or drop-offs to make it easy!

Your donations go to the many ministries of Venture Church, and are tax deductible. Thank you for your generosity!