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Midweek refocus from Pastor Justin:Notice what Jesus did not say. He did not say He came to “wait” for the lost. He did ...
05/28/2026

Midweek refocus from Pastor Justin:
Notice what Jesus did not say. He did not say He came to “wait” for the lost. He did not say He came to “welcome” the lost ... as if He simply opened a door and hoped someone would walk through. He said He came to “seek.”

Seeking is active. Seeking is costly. Seeking means you leave the comfortable place and go into the uncomfortable one. It means you cross the street, enter the conversation, sit at the table with the wrong kind of people in the wrong kind of places. This is what Jesus did. And it cost Him everything.

He sought us when we were not looking for Him. He pursued us when we were running from Him. He came all the way down ... from the glory of heaven into the mess of this world ... and He did not stop until He found us. At a cross. At full cost. With arms wide open.

That is the gospel. We were lost, and He came seeking. So here is the question that should convict us: Who around you is still lost ... and are you seeking them?

Not waiting for them to find their way to church. Not hoping they figure it out. Seeking. Knowing their name. Entering their life. Praying for them by name. Being the presence of Jesus in their everyday world. You were the one He left everything to find. Now go after yours.

Midweek refocus from Pastor Justin:Jesus had everything. All the glory of heaven. The worship of angels. The fullness of...
05/20/2026

Midweek refocus from Pastor Justin:
Jesus had everything. All the glory of heaven. The worship of angels. The fullness of joy in the presence of the Father. He lacked nothing, needed nothing, owed nothing.
And He gave it all up. For you and for me.

He didn’t give from His surplus. He gave from His substance. He stepped out of heaven and into a barn. He traded a throne for a cross. He became poor ... completely, utterly poor ... so that we could become rich in the only ways that last forever: forgiven, adopted, loved, and held.

This is the gospel. And this is the reason Christians give. Not out of guilt. Not out of obligation. But because we have been so lavishly given to... that generosity becomes the most natural response in the world.

We don’t give to earn His favor. We already have it ... fully, freely, forever ... in Christ. We give because we finally understand what it cost Him to give to us.

In light of God’s generosity towards us, what would it look like today to hold something loosely that you’ve been gripping tightly ... your time, your money, your comfort ... in response to what Christ has freely given you?

Midweek refocus from Pastor Justin:Paul wrote these words from prison. Not from a stage, not from a season of comfort .....
05/06/2026

Midweek refocus from Pastor Justin:
Paul wrote these words from prison. Not from a stage, not from a season of comfort ... but from a cell. And yet he called the church to fix their minds on what is excellent and praiseworthy. That tells us something important: excellence isn’t a luxury for easy times. It’s a posture of the heart that says, God is worth my best, in every season.

When we pursue what is true, good, and beautiful, we reflect the character of the God who made us. Excellence in worship, in work, in parenting, in service ... it all flows from minds and hearts anchored in Him.

So this week, let us bring our best to whatever God has placed in our hands. Not for applause. Not for recognition. For an audience of One ... who sees, who delights, and who is worthy of every ounce of effort we have to offer.

FUKUOKA MISSIONS UPDATE: Wintersburg is sending a short-term missions team to Fukuoka, Japan this summer under the leade...
05/05/2026

FUKUOKA MISSIONS UPDATE: Wintersburg is sending a short-term missions team to Fukuoka, Japan this summer under the leadership of missionaries Samuel Kan and his wife Airi Suzuki. Our team will support their Utmost Ministry’s Kids Gospel Camp ministry in reaching unchurched children ages 4–16 by preparing VBS-style programming and English lessons. We may also be asked to serve in other ways at the request, with specific roles discerned as the team prepares in the time leading up to the trip. 

Japan remains one of the least-reached nations, and this trip is an opportunity to serve faithfully, learn cross-culturally, and participate in what God is already doing through local ministry partners.

🇯🇵 Become a sender by praying for this team and financially supporting their efforts! If you want to give on church center, you can select to support the Fukuoka missions team in the drop down menu 🇯🇵

This week we had the privilege to hear the word from Pastor David Larry! Let’s remember to be a church that is intention...
04/27/2026

This week we had the privilege to hear the word from Pastor David Larry! Let’s remember to be a church that is intentional with each generation.

Midweek refocus from Pastor Justin:Devotion is a strong word. It’s not casual. It’s not convenient. It’s costly, intenti...
04/15/2026

Midweek refocus from Pastor Justin:
Devotion is a strong word. It’s not casual. It’s not convenient. It’s costly, intentional, and consistent. The early church didn’t just attend community ... no, they devoted themselves to it. They anchored their lives in shared truth, shared meals, and shared prayer. Why? Because they understood something we often forget: we don’t grow in isolation. We grow in communion.

In a world that celebrates independence, the gospel calls us into interdependence. Real community is where faith is strengthened, burdens are carried, and Christ is made visible through His people.

So don’t settle for surface-level connection. Lean in. Show up. Open your life. This is the Wintersburg way. Because when the church lives like this, it becomes a living picture of Jesus ... full of grace, truth, and transforming power. You and I were not meant to follow Jesus alone.

Midweek refocus from Pastor Justin:I used to think “walking by faith” meant being spiritually mystical ... like closing ...
04/08/2026

Midweek refocus from Pastor Justin:
I used to think “walking by faith” meant being spiritually mystical ... like closing my eyes during worship, feeling God’s presence, having supernatural peace. But then life punched me in the gut, and I realized faith has nothing to do with feeling spiritual.

Paul wrote these words while his body was literally breaking down. He had some unnamed aflliction, beatings, shipwrecks. His sight showed him failure ... churches splitting, friends betraying, prison walls. But faith? Faith remembered a risen Christ on the Damasus road.

That’s the thing about sight ... it’s a terrible judge of reality. Sight says your prodigal isn’t coming home. Sight says the diagnosis is final. Sight says you’re too old, too you, too broken, too ordinary to matter. Sight counts the bank balance and panices. Sight watches the news and despairs. But faith knows something sight doesn’t. Faith remembers that graves open. The seas part. The widows’ oil doesn’t rn out.

Faith isn’t pretending things are fine ... it’s knowing that what we see is temporary, but what we can’t see is eternal. And so today, your sight might be showing you impossibility. Good! That’s exactly where faith does its best work.

Easter at Wintersburg!
04/06/2026

Easter at Wintersburg!

This is the most terrifying sentence ever spoken. Not because of who said it ... but because of why it was true.Jesus, t...
04/01/2026

This is the most terrifying sentence ever spoken. Not because of who said it ... but because of why it was true.

Jesus, the eternal Son who had never known a single moment apart from the Father’s love, was forsaken. Not because he was weak. Not because he had failed. But because we had ... and someone had to bear the full, unfiltered weight of that separation.

The cross is not primarily about Roman nails or borrowed grave clothes. It is about the Son of God drinking the cup of divine abandonment to its very dregs ... so that you would never have to. Every time you lie awake fearing that God has turned his face from you, remember: he already did turn his face. He turned it on his own Son. In your place.

The darkness of Good Friday is not the silence of an absent God. It is the loudest proof of his love the world has ever heard.

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