Church at the Cross : Sunday Messages

Scripture: Romans 1:16-17 The book of Romans answers the deepest questions we have as humans -- who do we belong to and why are we here? If we truly grasp and believe the message of Romans we will personally know God, have an assurance of heaven, and understand the gospel. This fourth sermon covers what the righteousness of God is and why it's good news to us.   Notes: + Righteousness of God: Some...

Scripture: Romans 1:7-17 The book of Romans answers the deepest questions we have as humans -- who do we belong to and why are we here? If we truly grasp and believe the message of Romans we will personally know God, have an assurance of heaven, and understand the gospel. This third sermon looks at the cultural shift away from Christianity and how we need a deeper faith, not a new one.   Notes: Th...

The book of Romans answers the deepest questions we have as humans -- who do we belong to and why are we here? If we truly grasp and believe the message of Romans we will personally know God, have an assurance of heaven, and understand the gospel. This second sermon looks at what the gospel is.    SERMON TEXT:  Romans 1:1-6 SERMON NOTES:  +The Gospel has always been the plan of God + The Gospel is...

This Sunday, Pastor JR Vassar began our new series in Romans. The book of Romans answers the deepest questions we have as humans -- who do we belong to and why are we here? If we truly grasp and believe the message of Romans we will personally know God, have an assurance of heaven, and understand the gospel. This first sermon looks at the life and testimony of Paul, the writer of Romans. SERMON TE...

Sermon Text: Leviticus 19:1-2, 9-10, 18 + Intentionally create margin for generosity + Establish a sustained response to the poor  • Sustained • Strategic • Personal

Matthew 2:1-18 "Because here's something else that's weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshiping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship—be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan...

Sermon Text: Luke 1:5- 25, 55-66   God uses unlikely but available people to bring about his purposes .    God's plans always involve a time of waiting.    All our lives are to bear witness to Jesus.     

Sermon Text: Matthew 5:1-12 Identity of the Disciples Mission of the Disciples The Cost and Motivation of Discipleship

Sermon Text: Matthew 5:1-12. "Rather than the good life being defined in predominantly moral terms (i.e., seeking virtue, shunning vice, and conforming to a divinely given "way"), now the good life is often defined by a pursuit of a feeling, which is won by the accumulation of all the things you would find if one were to weld together ideal versions of a job résumé, dating profile, and Christmas l...

This is the ninth message in our series, "The Beatitudes: Jesus' Invitation To The Good Life." Pastor JR shares with us what being a real peacemaker is. Sermon Text: Matthew 5:10-12 The Certainty of Persecution The Cause of Persecution   The Forms of Persecution   The Response to Persecution  

This is the eighth message in our series, "The Beatitudes: Jesus' Invitation To The Good Life." Pastor JR shares with us what being a real peacemaker is.   Sermon Text: Matthew 5:1-9 Sermon Notes:  God is a Peace-Making God God's children are peacemaking people Rest in the Peace you have with God Don't Settle for Counterfeit Peace Prepare to have your attempts at peace rejected Spread Peace by Spr...

Matthew 5:8 What is it? For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person." (Mark 7:21-23) Who shall ascend the hill of the LORD? And who shall stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure...

This is the sixth message in our series, "The Beatitudes: Jesus' Invitation To The Good Life." Pastor JR shares with us what mercy is, how do we learn it, and what is the promise.  Sermon Text: Matthew 5:1-7 Sermon Notes:  What Is Mercy? How Do We Learn Mercy?    "Like nothing else could ever do, the gospel instills in me a heart for the downcast, the poverty-stricken, and those in need of physica...

This is the fifth message in our series, "The Beatitudes: Jesus' Invitation To The Good Life." Pastor JR shares with us how to pursue righteousness. Sermon Text: Matthew 5:1-6 Sermon Notes:  Legal Righteousness Moral Righteousness - You evaluate everything in your life by how it affects your pursuit of righteousness - You embrace everything that promotes righteousness Social Righteousness You embr...

This is the fourth message in our series, "The Beatitudes: Jesus' Invitation To The Good Life." JR shares with us how meekness is the key to the Kingdom of God, why we should desire meekness, and how to cultivate it.  Sermon Text: Matthew 5:1-5.  Keep your eyes on the eternal Keep your eyes on Jesus 

This is the third message in our series, "The Beatitudes: Jesus' Invitation To The Good Life."  Sermon Text: Matthew 5:4 + Those who mourn over the sin and brokenness in them.  + Those who mourn over the sin and brokenness around them.  + Those who mourn over the sin and brokenness inflicted on them.     + He comforts us with Pardon .  "Suppose for a moment that in a flash of insight you discovere...

  This is the second message in our series, "The Beatitudes: Jesus' Invitation To The Good Life." This sermon covers what the Kingdom of God looks like and why being poor in spirit is foundational to living in his kingdom.   If you feel like you are not enough for Jesus, you are ready for Jesus  You never graduate from poverty of spirit The poor in spirit never feel superior to anyone 

Sermon Text: Matthew 5:1-12. "At length they gradually deviated into a taste for those luxuries which stimulate to vice; porticos, and baths, and the elegancies of the table; and this, from their inexperience, they termed politeness, whilst, in reality, it constituted a part of their slavery." ― Tacitus, The Agricola and The Germania.  "Jesus did not die at the hands of muggers, rapists, or thugs....

Jude 17-21 Sermon Notes: "The Ring of Sauron is only one of the various mythical treatments of the placing of one's life, or power, in some external object, which is thus exposed to capture or destruction with disastrous results to oneself." J.R.R. Tolkien Keep yourselves in the Love of God Building Yourselves up in your most holy faith Praying in the Holy Spirit Waiting for the Mercy of Jesus CHA...

Ephesians 3:14-19   Sermon Notes: Paul's (and Scripture's) great concern is our interior life.       "The sad reality is that most of us will not go forward until the pain of staying where we are in unbearable." Pete Scazzero Notes:  In Scripture In silence and solitude In Community    CHALLENGE:  5 times a week in the word and prayer 4 times a month in corporate worship 3 times a month in your li...

Renewed Passion for Discipleship This is the last message in our sermon series, "Songs of Renewal." Minister to Young Adults and Alpha Director, Casey Schutza, challenges us to make faithful  disciples in every generation. Psalm 78 + What is our greatest temptation?  + What is our greatest gift?  + What hope do we have for the future?