The Crossing Church Sermons

Why does church membership matter Biblically and Contextually? What are we asking our members to agree to in our covenant? Part 1 of our member's covenant - the authority of Scripture in our lives and our desire and committment to grow as followers of Jesus.

As we begin our yearly series being reminded of who we are and what God has called us to, we begin by being reminded of the call, hope, and joy of being sent by Jesus to make disciples of Jesus in all nations. We also believe that this takes a level of commitment and intentionality best expressed and practiced by covenantal membership in a local church. Join us this fall as we walk through our mem...

In the final chapters of Daniel see the reality of the battle we play a part of in the spiritual realm, the reality of God's sovereignty over all creation, and the promised resurrected future and hope He has guaranteed for His people. Because of these realities - let's join in the fight trusting the Lord and living bold lives of hope and joy.

How do we respond to our good, kind, holy, and rightouess God when confronted with the reality of our sins? Even more importantly, how does He respond to us? See these truths from the lives of God's people in exile 2500 years ago in Daniel 9.

In the second vision of God to Daniel we see the next 400 years of world and regional rulers as well as the prediction of one who would bring great but limited suffering to God's people. How do we respond to the suffering ordained for our lives?

As we look at the first chapter of apocolyptic literature we must consider it's purpose before considering it's meaning. Then we can see how great and how good our God is no matter what may come. Daniel 7 gives a look into the end of this world and into eternity.

Daniel is faithful because God is faithful. Looking into the famous story of Daniel in the den of lions we see a wonderful reminder of all Christ has accomplished for his people.

Under the rule of a foolish man, the great Kingdom of Babylon has its downfall. How can we learn from the "writing on the wall," and how can we be encouraged by God's sovreignty in it all?

The Lord humbles the great Nubuchadnezzar and restores him to his throne. This king who once only sang his own praise now sings the prasies of the Most High. In this sermon we take a look at how this came to be, and how it applies to us.

Idol worshipers are destroyed by fire, but the worshipers of the One True God are delivered from and refined by fire. However, the faithful are only faithful because of the faithfulness of the Lord.

We take a look into the first chapter and see God is faithful to his people, and that frees us to be faithful to him. Uncompromising in integrity we can also be a blessing to the culture.

As we begin the journey through the book of Daniel it is imparative we take time to understand the historical and literary context. Then we can determine the central truth and live in light of God's Word.

Jesus spends time with his disciples speaking of future events - the destruction of the temple and His return. Through all of this see God's providential rule over everything and our response to hope in Him and be diligent in our following Him.

Who is your Messiah? Your Savior? Is it the one and only Christ? Or someone or something else? Considering who He is and what He has done - working throughout creation and history to gather a people to display His glory to and display His glory through then our only response is like the widow - give our all to Him.

Jesus answered the honest genuine question of a lawyer by revealing the most important command of God - to love Him with all we are and to love others. It seems so simple, yet we struggle. Our only hope to do this well is the gospel - to know and be filled by God's love first and then share His love with others.

In this attempt by the Saducees to expose and embarass Jesus, he responds with Divine authority to not only give insight into the eternal state but to reveal the reality of the resurrection and that not even death can conquer God's relationship with us and His promises to us. This provides a fearless freedom to us to be abounding in God's work knowing our labors are not in vain.

We are to render to Caesar's what is alrady his, and render to God what is his. Looking into the encounter that brought about this significant historical thought will shed some light onto how we are to view our loyalty to America and ultimately to the Kingdom of God.

Mom's are a gift to us from our gracious Father in Heaven. Therefore we honor them just becasue they are mom. How also do we encourage them to overcome fear, anxiety and regrets and help them to see they have a greater identity than just being mom.

We seek to estabilsh our own kingdoms by taking what is not ours and ignoring truth. Still, God is gracious. We are more dependent than we realize. In this Parable of the Tenants Jesus teaches us about our sinful desires being met by the love and grace of God. We see it in God’s patience towards us, his pursuit of us, and his provision for us.

Jesus has the authority as the Son of God to curse and crush fruitless religion and show us what fruitful life in Him looks like - a life of Faith, Prayer, and Forgiveness.

Jesus' mission is complete as He willingly and lovingly lays down his life for sinful humanity and is buried. The text shows us the access we now have to God through Christ and his death immediatly changes the life of an unlikely convert. The death of Christ proclaimed has been changing lives ever since and will continue to do so as we are sent and as we proclaim.

As Jesus moves from trial to the cross, he endures some extreme suffering for the sins of His people. But in the suffering that is joy and victory and hope. In the suffering there is someone who not only suffers for us, but suffers with us.

Jesus the innoncent guiltless one is condemned so we the guilty go free and never sit under the condemenation of God again. What does it look like to live a life free from condemnation?