Crossgates Church Audio Podcast

Sunday Morning Message - "Authority & The Lord’s Supper" In this message from July 5, Pastor Kyle Reno continues our journey through 1 Corinthians in chapter 11. In this powerful passage, Paul reminds us that our worship should reflect the heart of Christ through humility, unity, and reverence. Paul challenges believers to honor God in the way we live together as the body of Christ and gives the c...

Sunday Morning Message - "For the Glory of God" In this message from June 28, Pastor Ben is in chapter 10 focusing on the dangerous territory of spiritual compromise and the impossibility of sitting at both the Lord's table and the table of demons. Drawing from Israel's past failures and Paul's direct warning to the Corinthian church, we examined how Christian freedom is not about doing what we ha...

Sunday Morning Message - "Win! Running the Race and Fighting the Fight" In this message from June 21, Pastor Kyle is in 1 Corinthians chapter 9 drawing focus on how life was intended to have a bigger mission than personal success or earthly accomplishments. Through Paul's example, we discovered that true fulfillment comes when we embrace our part in God's story - living to see others won into the...

Sunday Morning Worship - "Don't Become a Stumbling Block!" In this message from June 14, Pastor Kyle focuses on the tension between Christian liberty and Christian love, using Paul's teaching about food sacrificed to idols as a framework. While the Corinthian believers were technically correct that idols have no real power, their knowledge was causing them to overlook something far more important—...

Sunday Morning Message - "Marriage & Singleness" In this message from June 7, Pastor Kyle continues in 1 Corinthians 7:17-37 and how our identity in Christ transcends our circumstances, relationships, and situations in life. Paul addresses believers in various life situations—circumcised and uncircumcised, slave and free, married and single—with a unifying message: God has placed you exactly where...

Sunday Morning Message - "Instructions for Marriage" In this message from May 31, Pastor Ben Boyd continues our series in 1 Corinthians in Chapter 7 where Paul addresses questions from the Corinthian church about marriage and singleness in a culture filled with sexual immorality. He affirms both marriage and singleness as good, while providing clear instructions for protecting marriages and mainta...

Sunday Morning Message - "Delightfully Different" In this message from May 24, Pastor Kyle explores Paul's urgent call for believers to live according to their true identity in Christ, addressing how we handle disputes with fellow believers, maintain our witness before the world, and honor God with our bodies. Paul reminds us that too much is at stake—our personal holiness, our witness, and the re...

Sunday Morning Message - "Lessons I’ve Learned about My Freedom in Jesus" In this message from May 17, Pastor David explores the sobering account of a believer in Corinth who had fallen into serious sexual sin, and how the church's failure to lovingly confront him was actually enabling his destruction. Through this passage, we examined six essential lessons about spiritual vigilance, authentic Chr...

Sunday Morning Message - "God Sees You, Hears You, and Is Using You this Mother's Day" In this special Mother’s Day message, Pastor Kyle encourages mothers and all women by reminding them that God sees, hears, helps, uses, and delights in them. From Hagar’s encounter with “the God who sees,” to Hannah’s desperate prayers, it shows that God is attentive to a mother’s tears, prayers, and sacrifices....

Sunday Morning Message - "Paul’s Relationship to the Church" In this message from May 3, Pastor Kyle Reno challenges us from 1 Corinthians 4 to shift our focus from human approval to faithful stewardship before God, reminding us that every believer has been entrusted with the message and ministry of Jesus. Rather than striving for recognition or trusting our own evaluation, we are called to live w...

Sunday Morning Message - "Become" In this message from April 26, Teaching Pastor David Jett focuses on the final key word in our three-part series: BECOME. After examining how we are BROKEN by sin and must BELIEVE in Christ, we discovered that the Christian life is fundamentally about maturing and becoming who we already are in Jesus. This isn't about religion or self-improvement—it's about awaken...

Sunday Morning Message - "Believe" In this message from April 19, Pastor Kyle explores the essential components of every believer's spiritual story and how we can articulate the transformative work Christ has done in our lives. We examine how every resurrection story begins with an awareness of our brokenness, moves to a moment of belief in Jesus Christ, and results in becoming a new creation. Thi...

Sunday Morning Message - "Broken" In this message from April 12, Executive Pastor Ben Boyd kicks off our mini-series called, "My Resurrection Story". The series is centered around how God has taken what was broken, dead, and buried and resurrects it to purpose, power, and hope!

Easter Sunday Morning Message: "The Reality of the Resurrection" In this Easter message from April 5, Pastor Kyle continues our series through 1 Corinthians with a message from 1 Corinthians 15:20-28. This Easter message confronts us with a profound truth: the resurrection of Jesus Christ is not just a spiritual concept but a historical fact that demands our response. Drawing from 1 Corinthians 15...

Sunday Morning Message - "Every Person Has a Part" In this message from March 29, Pastor Kyle continues our series through 1 Corinthians with a message from 1 Corinthians 3:5–23. We are reminded that it’s not about personalities or platforms—it’s about God, the One who gives the growth. Discover what it means to build your life on the foundation of Jesus Christ and how every part of your life matt...

Sunday Morning Message - "Maturity Matters" In this message from March 22, Pastor Kyle confronts what it means to move from spiritual immaturity to maturity, leaving behind division, jealousy, and comparison to grow into the life God has for us. This is a powerful call to examine our hearts, refocus our faith on Jesus, and take the next step in becoming who God created us to be. 

Sunday Morning Message - "The Wisdom of God" In this message from March 15, Pastor Kyle explores Paul's dramatic shift in ministry strategy—from trying to connect with people through eloquent wisdom to simply preaching "Jesus Christ and him crucified" in the power of the Holy Spirit. We learned that the cross only makes sense when you're saved, and that real ministry begins when we decide to know...

Sunday Morning Message - "The Dangers of Division" In this message from March 8, we continue our series through 1 Corinthians with a timely and challenging message out of 1 Corinthians 1:10–17 and 3:1–4. In a culture—and even a church world—where division comes easily, we’ll be reminded that allowing anyone or anything to divide our loyalty simply doesn’t make sense in Christ. The enemy loves to u...

Sunday Morning Message - "Here We Go!" In this message from March 1, Pastor Kyle launches a brand-new, fun and faith-building series through the book of 1 Corinthians. We’ll kick things off in 1 Corinthians 1:1–9 in a message called, "Here We Go!", discovering how God calls ordinary people into an extraordinary story of grace, purpose, and unity. Whether you’ve studied this letter before or it’s b...

Sunday Morning Message - "Fellowship & Discipleship" In this message from February 22, Pastor Kyle concludes our Made to Pray series with a powerful message from Luke 11 titled, "Fellowship & Discipleship". Over the past several weeks, we’ve been learning the approaches Jesus gave us in the Lord’s Prayer—and this week we’ll finish strong by discovering how prayer draws us deeper into fellowship wi...

Sunday Morning Message - "When Heaven Breaks In" In this message from February 15, Guest Pastor Austin Davis shares a powerful message titled “When Heaven Breaks In,” reminding us that God’s Kingdom becomes visible on earth when ordinary people abide with Jesus and carry His presence into everyday life. Teaching from Acts 3, he encouraged us to recognize that through the Holy Spirit, believers are...

Sunday Morning Message - "Stewardship" In this message from February 8, Pastor Kyle continues our series Made to Pray exploring the fourth approach to prayer found in Luke 11:2-3, where Jesus teaches us to pray "Give us each day our daily bread." This isn't just about physical provision—it's about declaring our complete dependence on God for everything in our lives. Prayerful stewardship acknowled...

Sunday Morning Message - "Partnership" In this message from February 1, Pastor Kyle focuses on the third approach to prayer found in the Lord's Prayer: PARTNERSHIP. We learn that our prayers actually play a part in the advancing of God's kingdom here on earth. The kingdom of God is the rule, reign, and authority of God, which is true over all things right now but not yet fully revealed. When Jesus...

Sunday Morning Message: "Listening & Doing" In this message from January 25, Pastor Ben Boyd confronts us with a challenging truth from James 1:22-25: it's not enough to simply hear God's word—we must become doers of it. The teaching draws us into the uncomfortable reality that we can be captivated by biblical truth without being changed by it. Like looking in a mirror and immediately forgetting w...

Sunday Morning Message - "Worship" In this message from Janaury 18, Pastor Kyle focuses on how the Lord's Prayer teaches us to approach God in worship, declaring "hallowed be your name." We learn that prayer and praise are deeply connected, and that worshipping God in our daily prayer time transforms both us and our circumstances. This approach reminds us of who God is, what He has done, and prepa...