Welcome to the very first episode of Turning Point's Deeply Rooted podcast, a midweek check-in to help our church family stay anchored to what God is doing in and through this community.

Pastor Josh sits down with Jaiyla, who preached her first Sunday sermon at Turning Point on October 25 about "Worshiping With All of Your Life". Jaiyla shares her journey from growing up in church to saying yes to Jesus for herself at 13, the painful season that followed a move to Spokane, and how community, a recovery group, mentors who'd walked the same road, and the simple habit of reading one verse a day led her toward freedom in Christ. She and Pastor Josh also talk about why women in the church need safe places to talk about pornography addiction, why a worship leader is learning to practice solitude and silence, and how Brother Lawrence found God's presence in a noisy kitchen. The episode closes with Jaiyla praying over our scattered church.

Content note: This episode includes honest discussion of sexual abuse, an abusive relationship, and pornography addiction. Listener discretion is advised for younger listeners.

John 4:1-9

John 4:15-26

John 4:3-43

Point 1: Jesus is seeking you.

John 4:66 Jacob’s well was there; and Jesus, tired from the long walk, sat wearily beside the well about noontime.

Point 2: Shame isolates us from relationship with others.

7 Soon a Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Please give me a drink.” 8 He was alone at the time because his disciples had gone into the village to buy some food. 9 The woman was surprised, for Jews refuse to have anything to do with Samaritans. She said to Jesus, “You are a Jew, and I am a Samaritan woman. Why are you asking me for a drink?”
15 “Please, sir,” the woman said, “give me this water! Then I’ll never be thirsty again, and I won’t have to come here to get water.”
16 “Go and get your husband,” Jesus told her. 17 “I don’t have a husband,” the woman replied. Jesus said, “You’re right! You don’t have a husband—18 for you have had five husbands, and you aren’t even married to the man you’re living with now. You certainly spoke the truth!”
19 “Sir,” the woman said, “you must be a prophet. 20 So tell me, why is it that you Jews insist that Jerusalem is the only place of worship, while we Samaritans claim it is here at Mount Gerizim, where our ancestors worshiped?”

Point 3. You Are Fully Redeemed—Called All the Way In

God’s forgiveness is complete. You are not beyond His grace, and you are not the exception to His redeeming power. You are fully welcomed in.

Point 4. Your identity is no longer in shame but the redemption work of Christ.

Are you living in your redeemed identity or are you holding on to an area of shame?
Boldness—“free confidence,” grounded on the consciousness that our sins have been forgiven.
Hebrews 10:19-25
19 And so, dear brothers and sisters, we can boldly enter heaven’s Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus. 20 By his death, Jesus opened a new and life-giving way through the curtain into the Most Holy Place. 21 And since we have a great High Priest who rules over God’s house, 22 let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him. For our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Christ’s blood to make us clean, and our bodies have been washed with pure water. 24 Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. 25 And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.
Paroxysmos=To motivate
Parakaleō- Encourage one another
Hebrews 3:13 “But encourage one another every day, as long as it is still called “today,” so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.” but encouraging each other, and by so much more as you see the day drawing near. It is not the work of the minister alone to exhort, but the brothers, and the sisters, too, should exhort one another and seek to stir each other up in the faith and fear of God.-Charles Spurgeon
Who could you connect with this week?Are you living in your redeemed identity or are you holding on to an area of shame?

10/4/26 - All the Way In: Week 2 -One Thing I Know- Pastor Levi Hinshaw

Point 1. What name are you answering to?
Scripture: John 9
-Right away we see the disciples were focused on the outward situation of the blind man. They were concerned about why he was blind and what caused the blindness.

What Jesus rejects in this moment is the instant assumption that suffering meant someone is to blame.
-Jesus is addressing that what matters is the power of God can be revealed through the miracle that is about to take place.

“The right question, according to Jesus, was “What is God doing in this situation and how can I get on board with it?” Now that is a much better question! In fact, it is the best possible question in the face of the brokenness and impossibility of the human situation.” - Ruth Haley Barton
-Jesus is looking for partnership, not perfection..
-He wants obedience from the blind man, in the form of going and washing in the pool.
-Have you been obedient to Jesus? Is there something he is telling you to go do?
-To them, his name was "the beggar," or "the blind man." That's the name he'd been answering to his whole life.

-What a radical change that he went through. From being seen as a beggar to someone who they couldn’t even recognize.
-Before this man ever believed in Jesus, Jesus already knew his full story. And here in verse eight we see even his neighbors, who lived in proximity to him and spent their life around him, didn’t even know who he was.
-So here he is in the beginning, being seen for his sin and humanity, to now being someone through the power of Jesus that isn’t even recognizable by people who would see him regularly.
-The blind man addresses Jesus as a man. Not God. Not Holy. Not Savior, but man. Keep this in the back of your mind.
-This is really step one in the journey of him being fully transformed.

Pt.2 / Your one thing
-They were so focused on the rules that they missed the miracle.
-Their initial and instant response was “why was he doing this, and how” not, recognizing the miracle that just took place in front of them.
-Here is the second step the man takes towards Jesus being his savior. He says “I think that he must be a prophet.”
-When he shares this, he is essentially saying that Jesus is a direct representative or messenger from God.
-The third progression of the man seeing Jesus differently!

Pt.3 Has he found you?
-The fourth time the blind man now sees and declares Jesus as Lord.
-Jesus putting mud on the mans eyes, and having him go and wash off was only part of the healing. It may have healed him physically. Giving him sight, but there was more that Jesus wanted to do for him, and for you!
-V 41. There is something that we can not miss.. Jesus is talking to the pharisees here, the religious elite and he says this.“if you were blind, you wouldn’t be guilty,” Jesus replied, “but you remain guilty because you claim you can see”.
-We have to admit our weakness!
-Your story is worth telling!
-All the way from the beginning to where you are now. Jesus is working and doing miracles in your life that others are waiting to hear about. As you tell them, there will be naysayers like the pharisees in this story. But don’t let that stop you from sharing the good news!
Dwight Moody said this, and I think it speaks directly to our situation: Real true faith is man's weakness leaning on God's strength.
1. I want you to recognize the name you have been answering to.
Maybe it's a nickname, a label, or a lie someone told you a long time ago. Bring it to Jesus.
He knows your whole story.
2. What is your one thing, and who are you going to tell?
Maybe Jesus took away an addiction. Maybe he met you in a hospital room. Or maybe it's quieter than that. You used to feel alone, and now you know you're not. Your one thing doesn't have to be big and dramatic. It just has to be true.
3.Has he found you?
Jesus went looking for this man, and he's looking for you too. Have you declared him as Lord?

Follow along in Mark chapter 5

Who God Has Always Been

God is one in relationship.
Nobody ignores the Trinity. We tend to pick a favorite. Today: who God has always been, and how we actually see him.

I. Where This Confession Came From

Jewish monotheists who recited the Shema (Deuteronomy 6:4) were the last people on earth who would divide God up. Then came the resurrection, and Thomas handed Jesus the unshareable name: my Lord and my God (John 20:28).
John 14:8 (NIV) Philip said, "Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us."
John 14:9–10 (NIV) Jesus answered: "Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work."

II. Who God Has Always Been

One God, three persons. The Spirit is the eternal bond of love between the Father and the Son. If God were solitary, love would be something God started doing rather than something God is.
Romans 5:5 (NIV) And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
1 John 4:8 (NIV) Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 John 4:16 (NIV) And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
God did not make you because he was lonely. His love for you is not a mood.

III. How We See God: The Trinity Compass

Not a personality test. A mirror. All three are true. They go wrong only when left alone.
Creator
Jesus
Holy Spirit
Revealed in
Creation
Cross and empty tomb
Pentecost
Instinct
Explanation
Decision
Liberation
Concerns
Compassion, justice, wisdom
Commitment, truth, evangelism
Gifts, power, grace
Goal:

To understand

To stand firm
To be moved
Engages:
Your head
Your hands
Your heart
Matthew 3:13–17 (NASB 2020)
Matthew 22:37–38 (NIV)

The person of the Trinity you neglect is usually the one you most need this year.

IV. The Dark Side: When We Take Control

The arrows point outward, past the boundary. Every distortion begins with something true about God that we love, and then reaches past the edge of it to make God predictable, useful, and ours.

Syncretism
I assemble God instead of letting him define himself
Jesus
Dogmatism
Truth becomes something I possess rather than stand under
The Spirit
Emotionalism
I treat the Spirit as something I can produce
Genesis 3:1–5 (NIV)

Acts 8:18 (NIV)

V. Why Any of This Matters

Two restorations:
Relationship: you were not forgiven and left on the porch, you were adopted inside.
Image: in Jesus we see the true human being we were always meant to be.
2 Corinthians 5:18–19 (NIV)
2 Corinthians 3:18 (NIV)
Colossians 1:15 (NIV)
If you only ever see one third of him, you will only ever become one third of what he is remaking you into.

The Invitation

One practice this week! Say it over dinner, over your child at bedtime, in the car before the hard meeting, at the end of a day you did not handle well:
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
You were not merely rescued. You were brought all the way in.
2 Corinthians 13:14 (NIV) May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

Questions to Carry Home

Which of the three is your home when things get hard: study, service, or experience?
Which one have you not visited in years?
Where are you most tempted to make God manageable?

Follow along as Pastor Melissa Reads in 2nd Kings 18 & 19

Whose Faith Are You Living On?

Introduction

Last week we watched Jehu do everything God told him to do without ever giving God his heart. This week the story moves south into Judah, and it begins with a seven year old boy on a throne.
If you have ever known someone who seemed rock solid for twenty years and then walked away from all of it in about eighteen months, this passage gives us some great insight. And if you have ever wondered whether the faith you are living on is actually yours, this story helps us to look into the mirror of our own lives.
2 Kings 12:2 NIV
Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord all the years Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

Part One: The Background

2 Kings 9:27 NIV
When Ahaziah king of Judah saw what had happened, he fled up the road to Beth Haggan. Jehu chased him, shouting, “Kill him too!” They wounded him in his chariot on the way up to Gur near Ibleam, but he escaped to Megiddo and died there.
2 Kings 11:1 NIV
When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to destroy the whole royal family.
2 Kings 11:2 NIV
But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Jehoram and sister of Ahaziah, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the royal princes, who were about to be murdered. She put him and his nurse in a bedroom to hide him from Athaliah; so he was not killed.

Part Two: 2 Kings 12

2 Kings 12:1–2 NIV
In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba. Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord all the years Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
2 Kings 12:6 NIV
But by the twenty-third year of King Joash the priests still had not repaired the temple.
2 Kings 12:7 NIV
Therefore King Joash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the other priests and asked them, “Why aren’t you repairing the damage done to the temple? Take no more money from your treasurers, but hand it over for repairing the temple.”
2 Kings 12:15 NIV
They did not require an accounting from those to whom they gave the money to pay the workers, because they acted with complete honesty.
2 Chronicles 24:15 NIV
Now Jehoiada was old and full of years, and he died at the age of a hundred and thirty.
2 Chronicles 24:17 NIV
After the death of Jehoiada, the officials of Judah came and paid homage to the king, and he listened to them.
2 Chronicles 24:18–19 NIV
They abandoned the temple of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and worshiped Asherah poles and idols. Because of their guilt, God’s anger came on Judah and Jerusalem. Although the Lord sent prophets to the people to bring them back to him, and though they testified against them, they would not listen.
2 Chronicles 24:20 NIV
Then the Spirit of God came on Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood before the people and said, “This is what God says: ‘Why do you disobey the Lord’s commands? You will not prosper. Because you have forsaken the Lord, he has forsaken you.’ ”
2 Chronicles 24:21–22 NIV
But they plotted against him, and by order of the king they stoned him to death in the courtyard of the Lord’s temple. King Joash did not remember the kindness Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had shown him but killed his son, who said as he lay dying, “May the Lord see this and call you to account.”
2 Kings 12:2 NASB 2020
Jehoash did what was right in the sight of the Lord all his days that Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
Hebrews 7:23–24 NIV
Now there have been many of those priests, since death prevented them from continuing in office; but because Jesus lives forever, he has a permanent priesthood.
2 Chronicles 24:17 NIV
After the death of Jehoiada, the officials of Judah came and paid homage to the king, and he listened to them.

The Long Memory of God

Introduction
Last week we watched Elijah hand off his ministry to Elisha. Today we move ahead about twenty years in the story, to 2 Kings 9, and we meet a man named Jehu.
Here is what I want you to understand before we open the text. This chapter does not make much sense on its own. If you start reading at 2 Kings 9:1, you will find a young prophet pouring oil on an army officer's head and telling him to wipe out an entire royal family, and you will reasonably wonder where any of that came from and why God would be behind it.
Where We Are Going Today
So let me tell you the plan, and give you something to write down if you take notes.
The question this passage answers is this. What does it look like when God finally keeps a promise about justice, and what happens to the person he uses to keep it?
We are going to move in three steps.
First, the background. We have to go back roughly twenty years, to a piece of ground called Naboth's vineyard, and to a promise God made there that nobody was still waiting on.
Second, the text. We will walk through 2 Kings 9:1 to 13 in three short scenes. An assignment, a message with two halves, and a remarkable response.
Third, the outcome. We will look at how Jehu's life actually turned out, which is not the ending most of us would predict, and which is where this passage stops being ancient history and starts asking us questions.
And here is the sentence the whole message rests on, so let me give it to you now rather than at the end. God can use a person to accomplish his purposes without that person's heart ever belonging to him. Being useful to God and being right with God are not the same thing.

Part One: The Background 1 Kings 21

The Assignment, 2 Kings 9 vv. 1-3
2 Kings 9:1–3 NIV
The prophet Elisha summoned a man from the company of the prophets and said to him, “Tuck your cloak into your belt, take this flask of olive oil with you and go to Ramoth Gilead. When you get there, look for Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi. Go to him, get him away from his companions and take him into an inner room. Then take the flask and pour the oil on his head and declare, ‘This is what the Lord says: I anoint you king over Israel.’ Then open the door and run; don’t delay!”
The Message, 2 Kings 9 vv. 4-10
2 Kings 9:4–10 NIV
So the young prophet went to Ramoth Gilead. When he arrived, he found the army officers sitting together. “I have a message for you, commander,” he said. “For which of us?” asked Jehu. “For you, commander,” he replied. Jehu got up and went into the house. Then the prophet poured the oil on Jehu’s head and declared, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anoint you king over the Lord’s people Israel. You are to destroy the house of Ahab your master, and I will avenge the blood of my servants the prophets and the blood of all the Lord’s servants shed by Jezebel. The whole house of Ahab will perish. I will cut off from Ahab every last male in Israel—slave or free. I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat and like the house of Baasha son of Ahijah. As for Jezebel, dogs will devour her on the plot of ground at Jezreel, and no one will bury her.’ ” Then he opened the door and ran.
The Response, 2 Kings 9 vv. 11-13
2 Kings 9:11–13 NIV

Part Three: How Jehu Turned Out

2 Kings 10:30 NIV

2 Kings 10:31 NIV

Application

First: trust God's memory when nothing seems to be happening.
Second: do your part, and leave the outcome to God.
Third: find out where your obedience stops.