New Session begins May 6th!

Come join us as new groups begin on May 6th! Check out the group offerings!
Don’t worry, we will still be there on April 29th.
Come early for snacks and coffee and then large group starts at 7. Let’s pack the Icon Theatre!!!

We need YOU!!!

Wanted: broken but beautiful people to share a mini-story about their lives. Have you come to C the J and found some help in dealing with what you are going through? Share it with us! We would love to have your story be a part of our story, and it can be anonymous [...]

Chew on This

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
–Bernard Bailey

Transformation Power

from Diane’s Teaching on Tuesday April 8th, 2008.
What would we need the Holy Spirit for?
I recently read this cute story about a Grandpa and his grandson- and it goes like this:

“ Whatcha doing Grandpa?” the little boy asked.
“ Cleaning this old lamp”, Grandpa replied as he looked at the lamp closely and then reached for [...]

Chew on This

Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.
–Joseph Sugarman

Choice

contributed by: Shelley …  A Celebrate the Journey leader
Sometimes the opportunity is staring us in the face. Sometimes we go out of our ways to get to it. Some of us can shrug it off, some of us sweat trying to avoid it.
For some it is chocolate, for some booze, for some men, for some [...]

Chew on This

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
–Helen Keller

Step Four

Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Step 4 is the most intimidating of all of the steps. We have stopped our behavior, turned it over to God, and now you want us to go back and look at our lives and write down every thing we ever did wrong? What? [...]

Being reborn

Baptism is available at Celebrate the Journey.

Chew on This

Praying is no easy matter. It demands a relationship in which you allow someone other than yourself to enter into the very center of your person, to see there what you would rather leave in darkness, and to touch there what you would rather leave untouched.
–Henri Nouwen