Church at the Cross : Sunday Messages

Scripture: Matthew 20:1-16 Key Takeaways:   + God is radically generous and free with His grace   Psalm 145:8-9 Micah 7:18   + Everyone is equal in the Kingdom of God   Ephesians 1:3 1 Peter 5:1-2   + It is never too late to come into the Kingdom of God   Psalm 92:12-15

Scripture: Matthew 18:21-35 Key Takeaways: + Forgiveness is a lifetime pursuit + Forgiveness is the cancellation of a debt -        Forgiveness doesn't mean removing healthy boundaries -        Forgiveness does not exempt us from justice + Forgiveness must be experienced -        Luke 7:36-50 + Experienced forgiveness allows us to extend forgiveness   "Forgiveness is granted before it is felt." –...

Scripture: Matthew 13:44-46 Key Takeaways:  — Finding — Assessing — Selling — Rejoicing — Buying + Jesus is the one thing worth losing all things just to have + This is how we become a Christian — Jesus is not your Savior unless He is your Treasure "How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to lose… You drove them from me, you who are the true, t...

Scripture: Matthew 13:31-33 Key Takeaways:  + The Kingdom of God is humble in its start and unstoppable in its spread. Acts 6:7 Acts 12:24 Acts 19:20 + A Global Dimension    Ezekiel 17:22-24 Matthew 24:14 + A Societal Dimension  "I call myself a cultural Christian. I'm not a believer, but there is a distinction between believing in something and being steeped in the culture of it." – Richard Dawki...

Scripture: Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 Key Takeaways:   + Two Destinies   + One Day + Listen and Live + Patience and Persuasion 1 Peter 3:14-16

Scripture: Matthew 13:1-23 Key Takeaways:   + The Seed explained   "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." – Thomas Edison + The Soil explained The Path Rocky Ground Thorns + For me to live is ______ and to die is ______ The Good Soil

Scripture: Genesis 11:1–9 Key Takeaways: Genesis 9:1 + Pride seeks to construct a life apart from God -        Do I consistently spend time seeking God in his word and in prayer? -        Do I often spontaneously voice to God my admiration of Him, gratitude to Him, and need for Him? -        Do I often lose arguments with God? -        Do I pray and seek wisdom in God's word and from God's people...

Scripture: Genesis 8:20–9:17 Key Takeaways: + God will not let evil prevail + God saves by grace -        1 Peter 3:20–21 + God honors faith -        Hebrews 11:7 + God has another Day of Judgment coming -        Matthew 24:36–44

Scripture: Genesis 7:11-8:19 Key Takeaways: Genesis 1:31 Genesis 3:15 + God's judgement is severe Genesis 7:11-23 -        a. It's devastating Genesis 7:21-22 -        b. All encompassing + God's character is consistent -        a. In His standard Genesis 7:16 -        b. In His grace Genesis 8:1 + God's salvation is sufficient Genesis 7:17 -        a. It overcomes death -        b. It sustains in...

Scripture: Genesis 6-7:5 Key Takeaways: Isaiah 46:8-11 Malachi 3:6 Psalm 18:30 + God grieves/regrets = A providential, heartfelt response resulting in a planned course of action + 2 Truths of God's Grief The Seriousness of Sin  ·        The Justice of God + Big Question – W hy is Noah spared?  

Scripture: Genesis 4:1-16 Key Takeaways: + The Nature of Worship True Religion vs Transactional Ritual Hebrews 11:4 1 John 3:11-13 + The Nature of Sin + The Nature of God Hebrews 12:24

Scripture: Acts 1:1-11 Key Takeaways: + Lifted up to a Place of Honor John 17:4–5 Philippians 2:5–11 "Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy." – C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity + Lifted up to a Place of Intercession Hebrews 7:22–26 1 John 2:1–2 Luke 22:31–34 + Lifted up to a Place of Authority Ephesians 1:19–22 Matthew 28:18–...

Scripture: John 12:20-33 Key Takeaways: + By his death, Jesus opens up heaven to the world. + By his death, Jesus shows us how to truly live. Galatians 6:14 + The world no longer tells me how to live and the world no longer tells me if I'm truly living.

Scripture: Genesis 3:7-24 Key Takeaways: + The Ruin "The effects of sin touch all of creation; no created thing is in principle untouched by the corrosive effects of the fall. Whether we look at societal structures such as the state of the family, or cultural pursuits such as art or technology, or bodily functions such as sexuality or eating, or anything at all within the wide scope of creation, w...

Scripture:  Genesis 3:1-7 Key Takeaways: + The Serpent -        Revelation 12:7–9 -        Ephesians 6:12 + The Scheme -        Ephesians 6:11 -        2 Corinthians 2:10–11 Questions God's Word Questions God's Truthfulness Questions God's Goodness Appeals to our Desires -        2 Corinthians 11:13–15 + The Sin -        2 Corinthians 11:2–3 -        John 8:44

Scripture: Genesis 2:18-25 Key Takeaways: + Marriage is a good gift from God. + Marriage is designed for companionship and partnership "…not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved." – Matthew Henry + Marriage is designed for permanence and exclus...

Scripture: Genesis 2:4-17 Key Takeaways: + Work is a good gift from God. "Let the Church remember this: that every maker and worker is called to serve God in his profession or trade—not outside it. The Apostles complained rightly when they said it was not meet they should leave the word of God and serve tables; their vocation was to preach the word. But the person whose vocation it is to prepare t...

Scripture: Genesis 2:1-3 Key Takeaways: Proverbs 26:15 + SHABBAT = Sabbath Isaiah 40:28  + God created this world and put us in for: -        His good pleasure -        His glory Exodus 20:8-10 + Sabbath Keeping: Principle vs Rule -        As Christ followers are we required to keep the Sabbath as a rule? Mark 2:23-28 Romans 14:1; 5-6 + Summary of work and rest: -        Work diligently as unto th...

Scripture: Genesis 1:26-31 Key Takeaways: + God made us male and female to bear his image -        Matthew 19:3-6 + Our bodies are a good gift from God and tell us who we are "This is hugely important. If the body is merely a vehicle or a costume for the real you, then it is the equivalent of property. But we know this can't really be the case. However much we might privilege the mind or soul over...

Scripture: Genesis 1:26-31 Key Takeaways: "The historian Tom Holland, a longtime secular progressive, recently wrote that despite his faith in God fading during his teen years, he now realizes his most fundamental instincts about life only makes sense as an inheritance from the Christian story. Holland's book, Dominion, is a journey through Western history to narrate how our culture's moral ideals...

Scripture: Genesis 1:26-31 Key Takeaways:  + Every human being possesses dignity as an image bearer of God "But human rights are just like Heaven, and, like God, it's just a fictional story that we've invented and spread around. It may be a very nice story. It may be a very attractive story. We want to believe it, but it's just a story. It's not a reality. It is not a biological reality. Just as j...

Scripture: Genesis 1:1-2:3 Key Takeaways: "Today as I read Genesis 1–2 my thoughts go to high school biology and physics. How does the biblical depiction of creation relate to the big bang theory and evolution? No doubt, Genesis 1–2 has bearing on our evaluation of these modern scientific accounts of cosmic and human origins. But a moment's thought will jar us into remembering that this comparison...

Scripture: Genesis 1:1 Key Takeaways: Psalm 33:6 Nehemiah 9:6 Revelation 4:11 + God Exists as the Eternal and Transcendent God             Aseity Hebrews 11:6 + God Exists as the Good and Personal God "There is a philosophical fissure between fundamental impersonalism or fundamental personalism. First of all, there is the difficulty of deriving ethical values from a nonpersonal source. If the univ...

Scripture: Psalm 23 Key Takeaways: + A Shepherd leads by provision, presence and protection Matthew 16:31-22 + We worship the Lord because He is a divine provider + We worship the Lord because of His divine presence "Dear Jesus, how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are right here." – Corrie Ten Boom, Hiding Place + We worship the Lord because of His divine protection + We are w...

Scripture: Psalm 133 Key Takeaways: + God is pleased when His people dwell in unity John 17:20-23 + Renewal happens when God's people dwell in unity Romans 12:16 Romans 13:8 Romans 14:3 Romans 15:7 Romans 15:14 Romans 16:16 1 Corinthians 16:20 2 Corinthians 13:12 1 Peter 5:14 + Jesus is seen when God's people dwell in unity