Crossing Community Church

Paul opens 1 Corinthians 13 by deconstructing all the things the Corinthian church considered as important and valuable, establishing that nothing compares to love and that only love gives eternal value to the demonstration of faith in our lives and the church. 

Pastor Tim returned from his sabbatical today with a report of his studies in the book of Job and how God used that in his life while he was away from us. 

From the drama of the birth of Jesus Christ we find Mary, Joseph and Jesus encountering a righteous man by the name of Simeon. It is here that we see the song of salvation sung by Simeon upon encountering the Christ child. Simeon's song teaches us many things about the salvation that Jesus Christ brings. One of those things is that we are to worship Christ because of the salvation that He bri...

Music. Food. Presents. Decorations. Of all the things we do that make Christmas "Christmas," there is one - like no other - that has the power to remind Christians why we celebrate!

Peace is a strange word and reality for a time that seems so unpeaceful. The noise of everyday life especially during the holiday's can seem overwhelming, drowning out the true peace of the season that is brought by our Savior Christ the Lord. In Luke 2 we read of this peace. A peace that cuts through the noise of life. A peace purchased by Jesus, a peace that is brought between God and man....

From Mary's visit to Elizabeth and her song, known as The Magnificat, we see what God is doing in the world through her son. And we can have the same confidence Mary had -- that because God promised salvation, it's already accomplished!

"What Did Mary Know?" From the angel's short announcement of Mary's miraculous pregnancy, great things are revealed about the identity of this baby boy to be conceived in her womb: He is the Savior, the Son of God, and the King everlasting!

Gratitude leads us to prayer as we express our thanks to God, so what can we learn about prayer from the Apostle Paul in Colossians 4? In verses 2-6, we see the spirit, substance, and sanctifying power of prayer!

In Colossians 3 the Colossian church was encouraged and exhorted to both understand and live in their new identity found in Christ alone. Paul's encouragement to them and to us is to put sin to death in our lives and put on the new life that is found in Christ. We were once lost sinners but because of Christ we now can walk and abound in thanksgiving because He has brought us life. We now as...

Off the heels of chapter 1 the Colossians are encouraged to walk and abound in thanksgiving as so are we. The Colossian church was dealing issues of heresy and boredom of God's grace and who He is for them. What we study here in chapter 2 is that Paul encourages the Colossians and the readers of today to grow in intimacy with their Savior, to find Him sufficient for all their needs and to fin...

Christians, more than anyone else, should be a people defined by thanksgiving. But how can we cultivate that spirit of gratitude? In Colossians 1, the Apostle Paul models three things we can do so we don't slip back into ingratitude or grow bored with God's grace.

Jude's epistle resonates deeply with a missional life. It is a letter about contending for the faith. Contending is missional as we will see. Jude's fight is against the false teachers of his day but it is also a challenge to develop a sound theology. Specifically a sound theology that fuels our worship and our mission!

 In Ruth 4, Naomi's story comes full circle. God takes her from emptiness to fullness, loss to gain, and bitterness to joy as he redeems her through the actions of another -- which is how he redeems us too!

The problem with the future is that we don't know where it's taking us. It's a natural reaction of humans to fear the unknown, but the unknown is a certainty of life. How do we face the uncertainty of our future? What do we do with our fears? Ruth gives us an example to follow in her humility. 

Chapter 2 of Ruth introduces us to Boaz, who seemingly is a good man who exhibits care and generosity towards Ruth as she gleans in his fields. But he is much more than a good man, he's a kinsman, an important relative to Naomi and ultimately the hero of the story. But in chapter 2 we read three times about Ruth finding favor with Boaz. "Finding favor" is an important concept that e...

Ruth chapter 1 sets the stage for the rest of the book. We learn about the family, the famine, Moab, the daughters-in-law and Naomi's return to Bethlehem. In all that, Pastor Tim challenged us to watch and learn from Naomi's husband, Elimelech's example -- do I trust God in a famine or do disobey Him and seek refuge in Moab? 

This week we begin a new sermon series from the book of Ruth. As an introduction, Pastor Tim discusses the context of the book as well as two of the major themes -- redemption and God's providence. Where have you seen God at work in your life? What can we learn from His past faithfulness that we can remind ourselves in our current life circumstances? 

Our guest speaker today is Dr. Todd Williams, president of Cairn University. He taught from Colossians 2:6-8 about the need for vigilance and diligence in our spiritual walk. He encouraged us to never allow things of the world to overtake all that Jesus has already done on our behalf.

We are pleased to have Todd Domke, one of our church elders, teaching today. He spoke from the events and experiences of the last year of his life and how God was been at work drawing Ephesians and Paul's writing about spiritual armor. 

Throughout the story of David's life, he has had seasons of great faith and other's of faithlessness. In our study this week, David shows why he is the "man after God's own heart" when he chooses to celebrate and honor Saul upon his death instead of recount his misdeeds through years. David's example should be a challenge to any of us as we consider how our hearts rea...

Midway through chapter 30 David finds himself alone. Far from his family, his nation, his people -- his God. As those who have been most loyal to him grumble against him and threaten to stone him, David hits rock bottom. Feeling totally isolated, he seeks God and finds him waiting to help. 

In our study of 1 Samuel this week, we come to the story of Saul seeking out a medium to learn what to do about the gathering army of the Philistines. What we learn from Saul is the strong motivating force of fear to do the things we know are wrong!

In 1 Samuel 26 & 27 we see two sides of David. One that is inspired by faith. Another that appears to be void of any faith. Today in our study of the life of David, Pastor Tim challenges us to consider two points.  #1. In our daily walk with the Lord and being sanctified into His likeness, there are days, even seasons of when we are not growing and perhaps even in rebellion. But no matter what...

Life is often more messy then we like to admit. We have lapses in our faith to Christ and when life's messy parts begin to overwhelm us we are tempted to make bad decisions. We often try to work out our messy lives in our own strength, in our own power, and try to control things that are out of our control. In 1 Samuel 25 we learn a simple but difficult truth and it is what David was challeng...

Sola Scriptura: Youth Sunday During Paul's final moments he pens a letter to Timothy with an urgent conviction about the sufficiency of the Scriptures. During their day there was much suffering, death, persecution, defection, errors in belief about right teaching and errors in behavior and Paul's answer was Scripture alone. This is still the case today and the answer is still Scripture A...