Category: Blog

Year’s End Prayer

The Valley of Vision, a collection of puritan prayers, is one of my favorite devotional reads. As I reflect back on 2010, with it’s highs and lows, I am incredibly grateful for the grace and goodness of God needfor every situation, every obstacle, every day, every moment. And a prayer I found in V.O.V. entitled…
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Christmas Eve Night of Worship

If you live in the Raleigh area and you don’t have plans for Christmas Eve, you need to make sure you’re at Journey Church for an amazing night of worship called “Take the World, But Give Me Jesus.”  It’s gonna be such a great night of worship as we focus on, sing to, celebrate, and…
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The Sleepy Town Christmas Sessions

Well, it’s here. “The Sleepy Town Christmas Sessions.” My humble little unrefined Christmas EP. It’s free here at joshvia.bandcamp.com. This little project was birthed right here in our living room in the sleepy little town of Rolesville, NC in basically one weekend. My wife, Tasha, has encouraged me to do this for quite a while…
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First Love

Would it bother you if I told you that I didn’t love my wife, … but I did at least care about whether she was truthful?  Or what if I told you that I didn’t love her, but I did at least care that she was diligent with her work as a mother and a…
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A Heart to Know You

It’s one very simple verse, but it’s packed full of meaning and profound truth. “I will give them a heart to know Me, for I am the Lord; and they will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with their whole heart.”  Jeremiah 24:7 Over and over…
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