Crossroads - Weekend Messages

Belief and trust are very different things… We can believe a chair is capable of holding us, but until we actually sit in it and prove it, we’re not actually trusting what we say is true. And trust is hard! We encounter so many beautiful and painful things in life, and so often life gives us reasons not to trust the words of others. Jesus is not only the most trustworthy person we’ll ever meet, he...

Our lives are never a straight course, are they? There’s twists and turns and obstacles we have to navigate all the time, and what makes it even harder is when we feel alone in the midst of it all. Sometimes we feel alone even in the presence of other people because no one can ever fully understand what we’re experiencing. But one of the beautiful things about Jesus, is he’s fully present with us...

We are always being formed into an image of some kind. Sometimes we mold ourselves into our own image of who we think we should be. Other times we form ourselves to whatever image we think others expect of us or find pleasing. As followers of Jesus, our worship takes shape in being conformed to his image and transformed in how we think about everything. And a life of worship to Jesus is the most f...

If you’ve followed Jesus for a while or spent any time around church, you’ve heard the word “worship” tossed around a lot...But worship is far more than something we do on a Sunday morning - it’s a life-encompassing, world-altering reality. This weekend, join us as we learn how a sense of wonder transforms everything we’ve ever known or experienced.

Because God doesn’t change, we know he’s good - all the time. But sometimes the circumstances of our lives are not good. Life can be really painful! When life gets messy, we need to redirect our focus to Jesus and what He’s doing because the messiest moments of our lives are some of God’s favorite spaces in which to create something absolutely beautiful. When we trust Jesus, we can face our presen...

Hammers, power tools, explosives -- construction sites can be super dangerous places, especially during demolition phases, unless you’re specially trained to navigate worksites. The crazy thing is, so often when God moves into our lives, it feels like he turns our hearts into a construction site, where he’s totally rebuilding everything. And sometimes it hurts. But God’s salvation plan for us alwa...

Whatever has the most power over us to affect our happiness and contentment in life is often what we’re most likely to end up in bondage to - it’s what we love, not what we hate, that we serve. One of the most beautiful things about following Jesus is he sets us free from everything else we find ourselves in service to, and the way we choose to live into the freedom he gives us is one of our great...

We all want to make an impact in this world, but we all bring our own baggage to every interaction we have. When we try to raise children or help others, it can feel impossible when we start to realize many of us haven’t received the help we’ve needed from our own families. What’s amazing is God wants to train us up by teaching us consequential thinking. And when we let God teach us, we open ourse...

Here’s a phrase that will change your life: “We're in the middle chapters.” No matter what’s happening in our lives, we all need to be reminded sometimes that the story isn't finished. We haven’t seen the final chapters of our lives yet because God’s work is not yet done! And the circumstances that seem the most impossible to us are exactly the places God loves to make something beautiful happen....

So often, we want the benefits of our long-term goals...but we give into short-term appetites instead. We try to satisfy ourselves with things that bring instant gratification, and we give up too easily on what we’re really hoping for. But as we follow Jesus, the hard work we put in in the middle of our stories is the launchpad for the joy God promises us in the end. Join us this Sunday as we lear...

Nobody wants a boring life - we all want to be part of something extraordinary. And we’ll do almost anything to scratch that itch sometimes: travel, chase business ventures, try extreme sports - sometimes we even pursue things that can hurt us...but ultimately our longing for adventure, for something more, is God-given. Jesus invites each of us to a life of purpose and mission, and he’s even given...

How do we really experience peace when so often it seems like the whole world is falling apart? When we’re filled with longing for things to change in our circumstances or relationships, how do we find contentment? If you’ve looked everywhere for peace and security and it still seems out of reach, don’t miss this week’s message! Join us as we learn from the Apostle Peter how to unlock the peace we...

Salvation is one of those things we talk about all the time but almost never understand fully...and we wonder, does it even really matter if we can’t explain it? The thing is, how we’re saved spiritually has enormous implications for every single area of our lives. We all need to be saved, not just for eternal life, but from the messes we get ourselves in every day. Jesus wants to offer us hope in...

Something about understanding gives us a sense of control...if we could just understand why things happen in our lives, we might be able to dictate the outcome of our circumstances. But even with the access we have to information, the harsh reality is, not only are there tons of things we’ll never understand in life, we were never really in control to begin with. Join us this Sunday for the next m...

Our lives are full of plot twists, circumstances or people that totally catch us off guard - sometimes in the best ways, and sometimes in ways we really dislike. The Bible’s got a major plot twist too: the fact that God’s people, Israel, rejected Jesus as their Savior is truly unexpected and disturbing. But the Apostle Paul’s encouragement to the church in Rome thousands of years ago is just as po...

Every spring, all the world is reborn from the cold of winter, and the seasons mimic the way God designed our lives to work too. We all experience seasons of suffering that feel like “death” in our lives...God ’s story of redemption for the world didn’t end with Jesus’ death - but with his resurrection! With Jesus, the places in our lives that feel like the dead of winter right now are "compost" -...

Life feels like a battle sometimes. There’s some really hard things that happen to us and around us that make keeping our head up feel almost impossible sometimes. When you feel like you’ve been totally defeated and knocked down by life, there is a hope available to you that will give you what you need to come out on top no matter what’s going on...because God’s love is stronger than everything. A...

A core part of being human is asking questions...because life has a way of raising deep questions within all of us. Things happen that are challenging for us to wrap our minds around or see purpose in - our understanding is limited. Sometimes we feel like asking questions of God means we don’t have faith. In reality, God isn’t scared of our questions. He invites our questions because they’re oppor...

Few expressions are more comforting than the phrase, “It’s all good.” What a great thought, right? The only problem is, so often our life circumstances show us an alternate reality -- that everything is definitely not good. One of the beautiful things about Jesus, though, is he flips all our normal human logic on its head. Although his plans are usually different from ours, they are infinitely bet...

Doubt -- we don’t like to talk about it. But like it or not, life can throw our faith into confusion. Maybe it’s overwhelming grief at the loss of a loved one, the seeming discrepancies between science and the Bible or hurt at the hands of the church...Whatever it is, whenever we don’t know what God is doing in our lives, it’s hard. But there’s a beautiful secret to doubt -- it can actually be the...

All of life is a competition for our attention, and one of our biggest struggles is keeping our eyes fixed on the goal...or even knowing what our end goal or purpose in life is sometimes! When we lose sight of the greater purpose in life, it’s so easy for too many things to become big in our heads and occupy more and more of our time and energy. We all need to get a pulse on our perspective from t...

They say the pain of losing $20 is more severe than the joy of having it in your pocket. All of us know what it feels like to lose something and how sweet it is to recover what was once lost. When it came to relationships, Jesus prioritized recovering and restoring what was once lost. Join us as we look closely at the purpose of separation and the joy of restoration as we study the parable of the...

“Family” means something different to each of us, depending on what kind of family we were born into. Whatever our stories are, when we start following Jesus, he doesn’t save us for isolation - he saves us for adoption into his family. And the unique and beautiful thing about Jesus’s family is it’s the redemption and fulfillment of all our other family experiences - the good and the bad. Join us S...

We live in a world that’s highly spiritual - but not religious. And everybody has a “spirituality” that’s all their own...so who’s got it right? Or is everyone right? What’s crazy (and counter-cultural) is there actually is a “right answer” about spirituality, and it’s also the key to finding the fresh start we all long for. No matter what you’re facing right now, God is inviting you into a fresh...

Our culture believes if you can change your mind, you can change your life - and in some ways it’s true, right? Everything we do, every relationship we form, every choice we make starts with how we think. What we focus on can leave us feeling either full of joy or totally empty and drained. But changing how we think about things is way harder than just changing our minds about something...and it’s...