Crossing Community Church

Paul writes that we are stewards or managers for God. This week we explore what it means to manage something for God. What are the things God has given to us to manage and what does it look like to manage something for Him? You might be surprised at some of the things God asks us to manage for His Kingdom.

Twice Paul mentions being an Ambassador of God. What should that look like in our everyday life? This week Pastor Tim shows us how we are citizens of a different Kingdom and gives us two ways to live as His ambassador.

Our lives are supposed to give God glory. To most of us that sounds like an intimidating task! This week, Pastor Tim gives us four ways to help us understand how to better live for God's glory.

Based on Greg Koukl's book, "The Story of Reality", Pastor Tim talked about five words that can help us understand how and why things happen the way they do in our world -- God, Man, Jesus, Cross, Resurrection. Koukl believes these five words "capture the meaning of our humanity and of all human history from beginning to end." We hope you will agree after listening to Past...

Our purpose statement at Crossing is, "To be and make committed followers of Christ." But to do that and know if you are succeeding one needs to know what a committed follower of Jesus looks like. This week Pastor Tim offers 7 suggestions that might help us become 'committed followers of Christ.'

David Nelson, Founder and President of Crossing Cultures International (CCI), provided a great update on the ministry of CCI as they continue to equip and train pastors around the world. This week David uses Philippians 1:27-30 to encourage us to live a life worthy of the Gospel.

When we talk about giving, finances, tithes and stewardship in our churches there are a lot of things that could be said. This week, one of our church Elders, John Ashton, said some great things about this subject! Does God 'need' me to give Him money or does He enjoy working with me when I give to Him like a father does with his son? John gives us some great things to consider in the ar...

Ephesians 4 is pretty clear about the expectations of every Christian: to be equipped for the work of service. This week we talk about the necessity of being equipped and it's impact on our daily life.

How do we reconcile the Creator of the universe being sent to serve the creation? Yet that is what Jesus did. As His disciples we too are to follow his example of service. This week we talk about how opportunities to serve others never revolves around our calendars, our preferences or our comfort zone and how service is a huge means of transformation into the image of Christ.

From the earliest chapters of Genesis we see God sending people to facilitate His plans and purposes. Abram, Moses, Gideon, Isaiah --- Jesus! Then in John 20:21 Jesus sends you and I. Being sent is essential to being a disciple of Jesus. NOTE: The scripture reference in the sermon is not correct. It should be Mark 5.

Jarred Cain, our Youth Director here at Crossing, was in the pulpit to preach for the first time this week. He did a great job of challenging us to consider our daily life and sacrifice in light of God's all encompassing glory and greatness!

This week, Michael Breece bring a message about the grace that God freely gives to the believer on a day to day basis. This is a challenge to do more with the grace of God than to just thank Him for our salvation. Listen in as we discuss what we do with grace after we become a child of God.

This week, Todd Domke shares about what it means to be set apart for the work of God. 2 Corinthians 5:17 says, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” To be set apart (or sanctified) is to live as a new creation. As believers, we should act different than we were before we were believers. It’s a process. Each day, we should be growing to become...

This week we look at 2 Corinthians for our insight on the nature of the local church. Paul begins the letter and closes it with the theme of comfort -- especially how we receive comfort from other Christians. But we can't receive comfort or give it if we are not involved in our local churches. So consider this: we don't come to church just for ourselves. We come to church for others. Oth...

Many become confused about the standing before God on those days when nothings seems to go right -- when we have wandered from the instruction of the Lord and obedience to Him. At those times what we believe about God's promises to us and our standing before Him is critical. If we don't believe rightly it's so easy to be defeated. This week, Scott Brubaker does an excellent job of c...

In our second study of grace & eternal security Scott Brubaker does a great review of the biblical basis for our assurance.

This week Scott Brubaker, one of our church Elders, begins a three part study of grace and eternal security. Our eternal security, that assurance that NOTHING can take away our salvation, should be reason for great encouragement in difficult and bitter days. In this study, Scott sets the stage for next week's biblical review and the third week's comparison of salvation and sanctification...

Like many churches the beginnings of the church in Philippi was small -- and unlikely! It consisted of a Roman soldier and his family and a Jewish woman and her family -- not a likely pairing! But from this dubious gathering grew a church that Paul praised. The book of Philippians has much to teach us about unity!

Every year since 2010 Crossing has hosted Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) as they train students to share the gospel with children. This year 130 students lived on our campus for ten days. They do training for three days then do Bible Clubs throughout the greater Philly area. This year they held over 30 Bible Clubs and shared the Gospel with nearly 1100 children. This podcast is an overview of t...

John 4 begins with the conversation Jesus had with the woman at the well then moves into Jesus talking about the farming principles of sowing and reaping. What's the connection? Perhaps the connection is that process of raising a crop has many similarities to evangelism and seeing people come to faith in Christ.

It is always a special time when we can recognize a new Elder here at Crossing Community Church. John Ashton, our newest Elder, received a charge from Scott Brubaker, one of our current Elders, then John spoke. We closed the service with a time of prayer by our Elder Council for John, his family and his service in our church family.

How would you define a healthy church? By it's programs? By the building or the budget? What does the Bible say about what makes a church healthy? This week we look at several passages in the epistles to see what a healthy church looks like and consider a few of those factors as we look at Crossing to see how we are doing.

Paul compared the church to the body. Peter wrote of the church as a building with a foundation, a cornerstone and 'living stones'. Even Jesus spoke of 'building' His church. These metaphors for the church provide keen insight into how the church should function, but even greater insight into who leads the church!

There are areas of life that God has not given us explicit instructions on. These areas are often referred to as 'christian liberty.' How can we know when it is appropriate or inappropriate to participate in these questionable issues? The best rule of thumb: we are not to live to please ourselves.

The typical responses to dealing with other Christians in our church who are in sin seem to boil down to three scenarios: Go & confront; go and ignore; and finally the thing it seems we do the most -- just avoid the person. Avoidance in relationships kills relationships. Christ calls us to love even when it is awkward. We are called to step into that awkwardness!