Crossroads - Weekend Messages

One of the best parts of life is the relationships we have. God created each of us to be hard-wired for relationships. Humans, like God Himself, are relational at the essence of our being. And there is much to learn from the people in our lives. Sometimes we see bright shining examples of how we want to be. Other times, we see how we don’t want to act. In either situation, God’s desire is that we...

Everyone loves a good story and the Gospel of Jesus is the greatest story ever told! As we continue in the Uncharted series, today we will see how Paul and Silas move forward with their mission of bringing the message of Jesus to varying people groups. Though they press on with this Godsent assignment, we learn that the people in each city have a different response to their efforts. Regardless of...

The Bible says that “A man’s heart plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps.” (Proverbs 16:9). This is one of the challenging parts of the human condition. God expects us to make our own plans. It is a gift that God has given us. But we need to remember that God has His own plans as well. And God’s will is better and higher than others. The apostle Paul learned this in Acts 16. His plan was t...

People often disagree. Do you agree? Because we all have different ideas and opinions about what matters we will often find points of disagreement even with people we love. In Acts 15, we find several examples of key leaders in the early church arguing and discussing what they consider to be the most necessary things, but what we find at the very end is that Jesus is the most necessary thing and H...

We have a tendency to believe that when God calls us to something, everything will be easy. But that is rarely the case. God’s ultimate goal in our lives is not just ease and comfort. Instead, God wants us to grow, mature, and bear much fruit. And oftentimes, it is through conflict and struggle that God’s work is accomplished. This weekend at Crossroads, we will see this as Paul and Barnabas conti...

It is truly amazing to think about the church of Jesus Christ. In every nation, in every language, in every generation, there are people worshiping Jesus. The people of God surpass every human boundary. But what is even more amazing is to see how God took the message of Jesus from Israel and brought it around the world. It took courageous men and women, who were filled with the Holy Spirit, to sim...

Jesus said that this parable is the key to unlocking all the other parables. Simply put, it’s all about the condition of your heart! The heart of every issue is an issue of your heart. Mark 4 will help us keep our hearts ready!

There are soooooooo many things to adjust to and learn as we begin our new life in Christ. This series is about “ESSENTIALS”…that which is absolutely necessary; extremely important… Nothing …ABSOLUTELY NOTHING is more essential than what the Amplified Bible calls your “vital union” with Christ. John uses the metaphor of a vine and branches to give us a picture that communicates what our relationsh...

Jesus is always extending an invitation for us to trust Him in greater ways. Whether it’s with our relationships, our finances, work, health, or family needs, His call of trustful surrender remains the same. The passage we will be unpacking today reveals how Jesus used a young Simon Peter’s hesitant yes, to change Simon’s life in unexpected ways. When we see the power and love of Jesus displayed i...

The idea of God the Father for many of us comes with many emotions. For some, the idea of God being a father brings feelings of warmth, safety, and support, while for others, feelings of vulnerability and neglect. When we take time and consider the character of God the Father in the scriptures, we find a more accurate image, one of kindness, forethought, and forgiveness. Let’s glean from and be co...

Essentially, life is experiencing the blessings of God. Life itself is one such blessing. If you have a pulse, you have been blessed by God. Unfortunately, we often don’t take the time to notice or rejoice in these blessings. But God has not blessed us so we can just enjoy life. God amplifies our enjoyment of life by encouraging us to bless others with the blessings that we have received. How incr...

The goal of life should be to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. That was how the scholars who wrote the famous Westminster Confession explained it. That might sound impossible. It is impossible with only human strength and ingenuity. But God doesn’t expect us to do it on our own. God equips each one of us for the life He calls us to. As we open our summer series called Essentials, Pastor Daniel w...

How do we draw near to a God whose very name means "God with us"? Though He is always close, we often feel miles apart. It's not about physical proximity, but about deepening our spiritual connection with Him. The Bible lays out exactly what it takes to grow closer to the God we want to know personally. Join us this weekend to explore the transformative power of God’s love and find new heights of...

There is nothing that followers of Jesus like to discuss less than persecution. For those of us in the West, that’s because we value comfort and security, and because we have never experienced governmental attacks and destruction like what we see in the Bible. But we are a minority. Across the globe, many of our brothers and sisters in Christ are experiencing brutal persecution, even as we read th...

One beautiful thing about the body of Christ is that we are diverse! Each and every one of us have grown up with different worldviews, perspectives, and concepts that impact who we are as individuals and how we view our circumstances. Though we all have differing perspectives of what we believe is normal, today’s message will show us that if we aren’t viewing things through the lens of Christ, it...

Acts chapter 10 is a monumental moment in the life of the church. God is pushing Jewish believers to reach out to the Gentiles. He takes a good old Jewish boy, Peter, and places him in the family room of a Roman officer. The exhortation from the Lord is to not consider someone common whom He has cleansed. We see very clearly that God doesn’t play favorites. He has an open invitation to all who wil...

There was something undeniable about the early church. People who knew the apostles and the early followers of Jesus saw that their lives were different. And not just a little bit different either! Their lives were unique displays of God’s presence and power. We see normal and average people, like you or I, involved in displays of transformation and power that could only be the handiwork of God. A...

Every follower of Jesus has a ‘conversion’ story. It’s the story of how they met Jesus and what Jesus did in their life. In this weekend’s study in Acts 9, we will see possibly the most famous of all conversion stories–the Apostle Paul on the Damascus road. When Saul of Tarsus meets Jesus, literally everything changes. And by Paul’s life and ministry, the world has been extraordinarily impacted.

God works in mysterious ways. That is not only a pithy phrase. It is a biblical reality. We are continually reminded that God’s thoughts are higher than our thoughts and that God’s ways are better than our ways. Now imagine if you were Philip, the great evangelist of the early church, and the Spirit invited you to leave a revival in Samaria to head out on a desert road. Would you protest? Would yo...

There is absolutely no one like Jesus. In every aspect of character, Jesus stands alone. Only Jesus is Lord, Savior, Messiah, King of kings, and Lord of lords. Only Jesus is Emmanuel (God with us) and the Prince of Peace. And only Jesus can offer humanity the Unique Assurance it craves to live lives to the full. As we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus this Resurrection Sunday, we will look at th...

Two thousand years ago, when Jesus entered into Jerusalem riding on a humble donkey, everything was about to change. Something was about to happen that would radically transform literally everything. Looking back on that fateful day, we now commemorate it as Palm Sunday and the beginning of Holy Week. This Easter season at Crossroads is going to be special as we reflect on the Unique Assurance of...

As we bring our study in the first section of the book of Acts to a close, we focus our attention on three very different people. Each person is unique and in a unique situation. No one is the same. Yet, for each person, God has a plan. What we will learn from this powerful section of Scripture is that God is always working. Not only in the good and beautiful things but also in the horrible situat...

In our lives, we often want to have things all figured out, and we can even take this mindset into our relationship with God. We want God to work in ways that we can expect and understand. Stephen’s speech is a reminder that God has never really fit into the box that people create, and the story of Israel proves it. Reflecting on that story is an opportunity for us to think about our own expectati...

The role prayer played in the early church and the role it plays today.

We have a tendency to believe that when God is at work, everything will be easy. We expect smooth sailing when God is in charge. But expectations can ruin relationships. The Bible is full of accounts where God is definitely at work, but rather than things being easy, they can be downright messy and confusing. Acts 5 is a perfect example of this. With all that God is doing inside the early church,...