Crossridge Women's Study

A look ahead at our upcoming study of James 3, and some final reflection on the beautiful truth of chapter 2.

A wrap up discussion from our time in James 1 and a look ahead at what we'll encounter in Chapter 2.

Teaching podcast from our James Study Intro night. Our vision and framework for this study, and a look forward at what we'll encounter in chapter 1.

A review of all we learned in Psalm 91, plus a guided walk through Psalm 92 before a look ahead to the finale...Book 5: Psalms 107-150!

A reflection on our time in Psalms 84 and 88, with a look ahead to the theme of Book 4: Psalms 90-106.

A look back on our time in Psalms 50 and 69 and forward to our study in Book 3: Psalms 73-89.

An overview of Book 1: Psalms 1-41. What is its theme? Who wrote these poems? What are the important stops along its progression? And how do we live in this part of the big story The Psalms are telling?

Why and how should we study biblical poetry? What are our hesitations with this genre and how is it designed to form our faith?

Teaching Podcast from Mark 15-16:8. Reflection Questions: 1) What is does the cross mean to me? Have you left it at "a symbol of Jesus dying for my sins?"  Or have you explored what it means for you that the temple curtain has be torn: that there now is a way into the Presence of God and actual communion/relationship with him? 2) How do your answers to Mark’s central questions change your life? Ho...

Teaching from Mark 13&14   Reflection Questions for the Week: 1) What is it that is distracting us from following Jesus into the kingdom these days? Are we distracted by the series of destructive events going on around us? This Pandemic offers so many different ways to be distracted right now:  fear, politics, disagreements with brothers/sisters over many aspects of it…Is it possible...

Teaching from our study of Mark 12.

A short podcast attempting to answer some of the questions we have after studying the difficult passages of Mark 9&10.

Reflection Questions from our Teaching Time: Do you want new eyes of faith that see through the emptiness of our world’s idea of power and greatness?  Are you willing to reject the world's metric of the good life and radically live like true greatness comes from putting others first, getting low, and laying down your life for others?  Will your life bravely declare that pain and suffering; even de...

At the midway point of our study through the gospel of Mark, we take a break from more information on how and what to study and spend a few minutes pondering and reflecting on this idea that Jesus is The One Who Satisfies.

Reflection Questions from the Teaching Time: 1)  Are you guilty of honoring God with your lips, of keeping your hands clean in some areas but deep inside know that your heart is far from him? Do you have deep love for God? 2) If you are his follower, if you are one here that considers yourself a disciple, What does it mean for you to feed his sheep?  Who are those he has entrusted to you?  How are...

Teaching Podcast for Study 2: Mark 1:16-3:35

Answering 6 questions that help form the Background Required Information(BRI) helpful in studying the book of Mark: 1) Who wrote it? 2) To whom was it written?  What questions does the book answer for the Original Reader? 3) When was it written? 4) Who was the Original Audience?  What questions does the book answer for them? 5) In what style was it written? 6) What is the reason written and thus,...