The Crossing Church Sermons

The local church is made up of healthy church members who pursue Jesus and engage on God's mission

God has given the local church elders and deacons who exist to help serve and lead the local church to engage and stay engaged on God's mission to make disciples among all people.

Gathering as one body on the Lord's Day helps us together see our hearts and minds drawn upward to help fuel the inward and outward aspects of being a disciple of Jesus

Sunday gatherings focus our hearts upward. Missional Communities help focus our hearts outward. DNA groups help focus our hearts inward to see Jesus continually change us.

We have been given a new identity in Jesus through His gospel and we seek to live out the reality of these new identities in structures that are called missional communities.

What is the church supposed to do with to accomplish their God-given vision? Make Disciples of Jesus who make disciples of Jesus. More than any other mission we could be about - this is the one Jesus has given us.

Why do we Exist as a church? So that all people can find their ultimate joy in Christ alone in all of life.

We have such a desire, sometimes good, to fix people and their brokenness. But only God can fix what is truly broken in people. We have a role to play, but it's never one that is harsh or judgmental or critically sinful. Jesus can help us stay in our lane and let God do the work only He can do.

Listen in as James helps us to see how we can live a life of humility and grace enjoying being a friend of God

In some of his harshest words, James warns us of how our hearts tend to stray and how God comes after us with a fiery jealous passion for our affections.

Man cannot tame the tongue. But God can, and as we mature spiritually, He does! And this is life giving to others in the church and outside of the church

The tongue is untamable and therefore if anyone wants to be a teacher of the Word, they must take heed. But this applies to more than pastors and elders, but all of us. Is it hopeless? Never! Because what man can't tame, God can!

Real Faith in Jesus shows up in real sacrifice and real risk taking. Real Faith in Jesus is for the rich and powerful and for the lowly and overlooked. Real faith shows up in real actions taken for others.

Genuine saving faith will show up in genuine works or the faith is not genuine and neither is the salvation

Religion is not always a bad thing if it's an authentic expression of a gospel changed heart. Some ways this will show up is in a controlled tongue, caring for the poor and needy, and moral purity.

A disciple or follower of Jesus repents of sin, humbly submits to God's Word, obeys the Word and experiences salvation, freedom and blessing.

God's Word creates a people who do not react in human anger which does not accomplish God's righteousness, but instead are humble, patient, quick to listen, slow to speak and become angry.

James helps us to see another perspective on trials that can lead to us experiencing great joy. That in our trials, our Father is at work in us to give us endurance and maturity that is only possible as we walk through those trials.