A clear sermon on how control promises peace, but produces anxiety.
Journey Church Calgary opens The Myth of Control by naming a familiar urge to manage outcomes, relationships, timing, and even how others are seen in the hope of finding peace.

Journey Church
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Warm sermons for practical Christian formation.
Journey Church Calgary is a church sermon feed built around Bible teaching, worshipful response, and applied discipleship. Recent messages move from Exodus and Easter to anxiety, control, Sabbath, forgiveness, and the presence of God in ordinary life.
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Journey Church Calgary is a sermon podcast rooted in Christian teaching. The feed carries the feel of a gathered church service, with messages that move from welcome and scripture reading into explanation, application, prayer, and worshipful response. Its center of gravity is pastoral rather than academic. Recent episodes spend significant time in Exodus, where Pastor Jess DiSabatino treats the tabernacle, Sabbath, the Ten Commandments, and the presence of God as living material for discipleship. These messages do not rush past the strange or detailed parts of the text. They translate them into questions about community, holiness, worship, obedience, and how people actually live. Pastor Dave DiSabatino brings a similarly direct approach to Good Friday and to The Myth of Control. In those episodes, emotional honesty becomes part of the teaching itself. Anxiety, avoidance, people-pleasing, insecurity, pain, and abandonment are named plainly, then placed inside a Christian account of trust, surrender, forgiveness, and the shepherding care of God. The sermons can be tender. They can also become sober when discussing the cross, suffering, sacrifice, and sin. The show’s ordinary-life illustrations help keep the teaching grounded. Fabric stores, old cars, annual meetings, tacos, daylight saving time, Bible reading plans, and family rhythms sit beside Exodus, Matthew, Acts, and Easter proclamation. That mix gives the podcast its texture. It is not trying to sound like a polished studio theology program. It sounds like church teaching designed for people in the room and people listening later, with room for humor, hesitation, repetition, and direct invitation. The resurrection remains a clear anchor, especially in the Easter episode, where Christian faith is presented through prophecy, witness, death, and resurrection. Good Friday is handled with gravity, focusing on Jesus’ pain, forgiveness, abandonment, and the meaning of the cross. The Exodus series gives the feed a longer teaching arc, connecting Israel’s rescue to the presence of God among his people. The result is a sermon feed for listeners who want practical Christian formation without losing the biblical storyline. It is warm, local, emotionally aware, and consistently aimed at helping people know Jesus, get healthy, and share life in faith.
Made for: Best suited to Christians and church-curious listeners who want accessible sermon teaching with scripture, personal application, and pastoral care. It especially fits those drawn to messages about anxiety, surrender, biblical community, Easter faith, and the presence of God.
What sets it apart: Journey Church Calgary stands out through its blend of relaxed room-aware storytelling and sustained biblical arcs, especially through Exodus and Holy Week. The sermons connect emotional health and everyday pressure to concrete passages rather than treating them as separate spiritual categories.
Journey Church is located in North West Calgary and is led by Pastors Jessica & David DiSabatino
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Biblical teaching meets everyday pressure through sermons that connect scripture with prayer, money, healing, anxiety, and the desire for control.
Journey Church Calgary turns biblical passages into live, application-minded sermons with congregational warmth. Messages from Pastor Ethan Muir, Pastor Jess DiSabatino, and Pastor Dave DiSabatino move between close reading and ordinary pressures, using humor, personal…
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A clear sermon on how control promises peace, but produces anxiety.
Journey Church Calgary opens The Myth of Control by naming a familiar urge to manage outcomes, relationships, timing, and even how others are seen in the hope of finding peace.
A Good Friday sermon that names pain plainly and keeps its hope anchored in the cross.
Journey Church Calgary's Good Friday message keeps its attention on the cross as a place where pain, forgiveness, and abandonment can be spoken out loud.
A presence-centered sermon that connects Exodus, Jesus, Pentecost, and daily faith.
This sermon treats Exodus 27 as a claim about where God chooses to dwell with people, then moves steadily from the tabernacle to Jesus and Pentecost. Its center holds well: God's presence is close, not remote, and not limited to a select few.
A prayer-centered sermon that treats weakness as the place where faith becomes real.
The sermon starts with a plain admission of weakness and builds from there into a calm case for prayer, healing, and faith that does not quit when confidence is thin.
A plainspoken sermon on wealth, patience, and the pull of money.
This episode stays on James' line of thought about wealth, patience, and what should actually steer a life. It starts with an Allen Iverson basketball joke, moves to P.T.

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Pastor Dave opens week one of The Myth of Control with a blunt question about peace in a chaotic world.
The message centers on Good Friday.
This Easter Sunday sermon welcomes newcomers and regulars, emphasizes the importance of the resurrection as the core of Christian faith, and previews an upcoming series on finding peace in a chaotic world.
Journey Church Calgary wraps up its Exodus series by focusing on the tabernacle, God's presence, and what that means for believers today.
A pastor shares a personal story about a skunk spraying their car and how it affected their Bible and air conditioner, as an introduction to a sermon based on Exodus chapter 32.
A pastor encourages church members to attend an annual general meeting with tacos and discusses the upcoming sermon on Sabbath from Exodus 31.
A pastor introduces a sermon on the Ten Commandments, using humor and a cultural reference to highlight their importance.
A pastor encourages listeners to join a monthly Bible reading plan, emphasizing the importance of engaging with God's Word for spiritual growth.
A pastor delivers a lighthearted Sunday sermon at Journey Church Calgary, blending humor about sports and cultural events with spiritual encouragement.
A sermon at Journey Church Calgary continuing a series on Exodus, using the story of Harriet Tubman to illustrate perseverance in faith.
A sermon exploring why Christians emphasize Jesus, using the Passover story from Exodus.
A pastor introduces a new monthly Bible reading plan and continues a sermon series on the book of Exodus.
A sermon from Journey Church Calgary continuing a series on Exodus, addressing the experience of obeying God yet facing worsening circumstances.
A pastor welcomes attendees and encourages joining small groups for deeper spiritual formation.
A church sermon introducing a series on rescue from slavery to presence, with a call to prayer and fasting.
A pastor introduces a new year series on the Bible, emphasizing its interconnected story.
A sermon reflecting on the name of Jesus and the Christmas story from Luke chapter 2.
A pastor delivers a sermon reflecting on Jesus's birth and death during the week between Christmas and New Year.
A pastor delivers a sermon at Journey Church, discussing faith and promoting Vanguard College.
A pastor delivers a Sunday sermon at Journey Church, encouraging the congregation to deepen their faith through Bible study.
The pastor starts by admitting his own inadequacy and naming the lies that can drown out God’s voice.
Journey Church centers this message on James and the question of what really drives a life.
A pastor shares a message about the importance of children having personal encounters with the Holy Spirit, highlighting the church's investment in the next generation.
This episode is a church sermon encouraging congregants to gather together for worship and listen to God's message, with announcements about upcoming events and seating arrangements.
This sermon discusses how God's blessings come with responsibility, using Genesis 12-24 to explore how individuals and churches must align their hearts to avoid misusing divine favor.
Pastor Jess DiSabatino shares personal vacation reflections and announces plans for merging church services into one during the summer, encouraging congregation members to adjust schedules for better seating and community interaction.
A pastor shares his journey with the Holy Spirit, including stories from his time as a missionary in Africa.
A kids pastor introduces a church service, praising children for their memory verse performance and encouraging the congregation.
A Mother's Day sermon continuing a series on the Holy Spirit, covering spiritual warfare and the gift of tongues.
A pastor shares a personal story about her parents reading the Bible and encountering the Holy Spirit in Acts chapter 2.
This episode features pastors discussing how to approach and answer questions about faith and scripture in a church community that encourages inquiry.
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