Crossing Community Church

2022 Bible Conference Session 2 -- Joy in Humility We are pleased to welcome Pastor Ron Schmidt to our church for our annual Bible Conference. This year's theme is Joy from the book of Philippians. In Session 2, Pastor Ron teaches how humility is an essential ingredient for us to experience joy in our lives. 

Colin Earle shared today about his spiritual journey from being an atheist, proud of his accomplishments, devoted to power, materialism and pleasure to becoming a devoted follower of Christ. The journey from atheism to Christianity took many years beginning in Canada, going through Australia and ending in Arizona and all along the way God had strategically placed people who were instrumental in he...

"Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” In Matthew 6:19-24, Jesus continues his teaching about how to live as citizens of the kingdom of God. This week Pastor Steve looks at three areas that reveal the heart: our values, perspective, and devotion.

This week, Pastor Tim addressed the next two topics in the Sermon on the Mount, seeking the approval of others over God's approval and the absolute importance of forgiving others in our life. 

In a world fractured by divisions, death, sickness, politics and war where do we put our trust and what is that important? Psalm 2 teaches us all where our trust should ultimately lie and that is in King Jesus. 

Today Pastor Tim preached part two of his sermon covering the Lord's Prayer and explains how the prayer that Jesus taught the disciples is a template for how we can pray to Him everyday of our lives. 

Charlene learned about God, the Ten Commandments and sin at any early age. Luckily, she also learned about the grace of God and the forgiveness found in a relationship with Jesus early in life as well. Her faith in Christ took away the insecurity and fear she was experiencing. Jesus gave her security. That lasted until her college years when, as happens to many, she found herself far from the fait...

Pastor Tim leads us through Matthew 6:5-13 today. This passage deals with the motives of prayer and the means of prayer -- the why and the how. Spoiler alert! The why of prayer is because we are in relationship with our Heavenly Father, a Father who knows our needs and is able to meet them. When we come to Him rightly, we come to Him in need. But as we study the Lord's Prayer further, we also...

In Matthew 6:1-4 Jesus begins to address the motives for our actions -- why we do what we do and what we hope to gain. He tells the disciples that doing anything for the praise of men is pointless but doing things to please God results in rewards in heaven. Pastor Tim addresses what causes us to want the praise of men more than the praise of God as well as the concerns many have with seeking rewar...

Today, our newest Elder, Kevin Reilly, shares about the power of "the Word" -- as the Son of God who reveals the Father to us and spoke creation into being as well as the written Word of God that refreshes us and cleanses us in our daily life. 

Love your enemies. Pray for those who persecute you. To those who first Jesus say this, such things were mind boggling. That meant they were expected to love Gentiles, tax collectors and their Roman oppressors. For us in 2022, we don't have the same caliber enemies here in the USA, but we do have plenty of people that we don't like or find hard to love and based on Jesus' teaching o...

Jesus opens our text today by reciting Old Testament laws that the Pharisees had perverted for their own good. In only a way that Jesus could do, in five verses He challenges all the rights we cling to and when we look at His teaching later in the Gospel of Luke, Jesus affirms we have to set aside our rights to follow Him, "If anyone wishes to come after Me, he will deny himself," (Luke...

As Jesus keeps pulling down the man-made righteousness of the Pharisees, he comes to the issue of honesty. After attacking the loopholes used to excuse their dishonesty, he goes straight to the point - just say what you mean and do -- let your yes mean yes, and your no mean no. Pastor Tim speaks about how this applies in the local church, specifically how we esteem being nice over being honest. 

This week Pastor Tim speaks from Matthew 11:28-30 where Jesus calls the weak and heavy laden to come to him for rest. If we look through the gospels, we find that Jesus repeatedly is calling out to those who are forgotten, isolated, ostracized and invisible, those who are invisible in plain sight.  Pastor Tim encourages us to continue to see these same people in our daily lives and extend the love...

Changes are commonplace. Some are welcomed. Some are not. But it's not uncommon for us to make plans and for God to interrupt and change them. And when He does, God always infuses those changes with His purpose! Trust God despite the interruptions. Keep your faith in Him no matter what happens!

Do you wish it was Christmas every day of the year? Tonight, Dr. Michael Breece suggests that the appeal of Christmas is the wonder of it all. But he explores the wonder of Christmas not from our perspective as we usually do, but from the perspective of the angels who are so involved in the Christmas story. Finally, Dr. Breece concludes that for most people the wonder of Christmas fades -- the dec...

Teaching from Isaiah 9:6, Nathan speaks about the anticipation of the child Messiah referenced in the verse and asks us to consider whether we have as much anticipation for the return of Christ as we do for the things of this world. 

The Bible is full of names of people that we know little about, but they are spoken of as important in the work of the Gospel. Their name is probably only mentioned once, but the fact that they are mentioned means they must have played an important role in the ministry at that time. All of us have people that have been important to our spiritual life and probably will never get little recognition...

Christmas is that odd time of year when people who never think about Jesus all year long, sing about Him for an entire month! This Sunday, Pastor Tim strongly encourages us to redeem the opportunities that Christmas brings for spiritual discussions and especially for invitations to Christmas related events. But ultimately, this sermon is a challenge to those of us who call ourselves followers of C...

Today, Kevin Reilly shared his story of how he grew to understand who Jesus was and that the claims he made were true and intended to change his life. 

While adultery is wrong, Jesus doesn't allow us to consider our lust as an innocent activity. Instead he places the blame for adultery on the heart that allows lust to run go unchecked. 

Christ's challenge to the disciples about how they worshiped and what constituted right and holy worship that was acceptable to God still stands as a challenge to us today. Being right with each other before God requires a 'contrite and broken' heart which is the very thing God wants from us. 

Naomi describes her upbringing in a Christian home as being one where Jesus was like a celebrity -- someone you know a lot about but don't know personally. She had learned confusing things about God that left her doubting her salvation and spirituality. But there came a time when she was confronted with her need to dive into God and make Him a friend more than a distant celebrity. That change...

Today is our annual Members Meeting and to coincide with that meeting, Pastor Tim highlighted several areas of growth in our church and how we've seen God at work. It was an encouraging service that gave us a great overview of God's work in our midst over the past year. 

This week marks the month long campaign to bring attention to the persecution that much of the global church endures. Pastor Tim used Acts 4 to speak about how the Apostles suffered persecution and what we can learn from that.