The Crossing Church Sermons

Because of our bondage to sin, Satan and death we need to be redeemed. Because of our inherent sin nature that leads to our sinfulness, we need to be forgiven. What has Christ done to make all of that possible and our new reality? 

God has chosen His people before the foundation of the world, adopted them into His family, and lavished His grace on them in love, according to His will and good pleasure for the praise of His name. Let your mind be blown and your heart rejoice!

Learning to Lament, Rejoice, and be Thankful during an Icepocalypse or other trying circumstances of life. 

God has blessed us with EVERY spiritual blessing in and through Christ Jesus. Our response is to bless and praise Him.

Paul greets the church in Ephesus with his standard greeting of Grace and Peace but in that we find the depths and beauty of a gospel that comes to us from God and goes with us for life and joy.

We begin our year long plus journey through one of Paul's two most significant letters - to the faithful saints in Christ Jesus in Ephesus. 

Join us as we walk through Philippians 2:5-11 and see how Jesus in His flesh humbled himself in order to be exalted above all.

Join us as we walk through John 1:1-3, 14 and see how Christmas celebrates the eternal creative Word becoming flesh in order to save us from our sins.

During Christmas we celebrate the appearance of God's grace in the flesh in Jesus and the work of His gospel, and how that grace continues to instruct us as we wait for His grace to appear again when Jesus returns to establish the Eternal state. 

One of the most controversial issues facing the church today is the question - who can lead the local church in the role of elder or pastor? The evidence of Scripture going back to creation and the New Testament, church history and the relative recent explosion of egalitarianism helps us be a church that is joyfully and contentedly embrace a position that is complementarian. While also helping all...

In the New Testament Local church God ordained that elders (plural) would be appointed to help lead God's people. Biblically qualified men who would lead as servants of Jesus and His people for the spread of the gospel and the glory of God. 

From the story of Moses leading the Israelites from Egypt, we see a picture of the weight of solo leadership and how God provides a better way forward - shared leadership. 

Joining God's people who for thousands of years have followed a weekly rhythm of gathering together to worship, we do the same in order to encourage one another, spur each other on to love and good works, and reach our community with the gospel.  

Through Jesus we become new creations in Christ that can be described in part as: being adopted into the Family of God as dearly loved sons and daughters, becoming servants of King Jesus because He came to serve us and give His life as a ransom for us, and being those sent by the Father and Son with the message of the gospel of Jesus. We are a family or servant hearted sent ones. As a church, we l...

Making Disciples happens in communities where we can be known fully, shaped by one another, and sent to go and make more disciples of Jesus.

How do we make Disciples of Jesus? We have to be a people who genuinely and continually believe the gospel and share that with others. We have to see all relationships through the lens of the gospel. And we have to personally experience gospel transformation.

As we seek to make disciples of Jesus everywhere, what are we actually trying to make? What is a disciple of Jesus? What are we aiming for?

As we obey Jesus and seek to make disciples everywhere, how is disciple making a part of this big story God is writing for His people and all peoples?

The early church and all churches are devoted to living out the reality of life in Christ. Seen in his demonstration of love as shown through His sacrificial substitutionary death for us on the cross as pictured each week in communion - the breaking of bread.

The early church and all churches are devoted to the fellowship of the body of Christ. A genuine sharing of life together. How can we practically experience that for us today?

The early church and all churches are a people of the Word. How do we live out a devotion to God's Word in the life of our church today?

The early church was marked by being devoted to prayer. God's people have always connected to Him through prayer and it marks all churches in all seasons of their life.

Jesus came to give us life with Him, a life of abiding and enjoying Him. This is always true for all believers at all times.

God reveals Himself to us as a Father. How does this affect how we relate to Him and how we function as fathers.