King's Cross Church (Moscow, ID)

The story of Samson is a challenging test, a riddle, a parable. Even as we examine the text, the text is examining us – it is testing and cross-examining our loyalties. Samson is not a tidy Sunday school story. He is a wild man, often driven by the Holy Spirit, sometimes driven by his lusts. And the questions require us to think carefully and apply them to ourselves.  The Text: “Samson went down t...

The message of the whole Bible is that God’s grace is greater than you can possibly imagine. It is an ocean that has no coasts, no bottom. His mercy endures forever. This story of the birth of Samson is one of the places we are reminded of this, and it reminds us of the grace of God because it points so clearly to the birth of His only Son, Jesus Christ. The Text: “And the children of Israel did e...

Building Christian community is one of the hardest things we are engaged in. The relative progress we have made in this venture is one of the greatest signs of God’s blessing. Only the Holy Spirit can knit people like us together. But it also requires great wisdom, constant vigilance, and addressing sin. Bitterness and envy are not little sins that can be ignored. They are cancers that destroy fam...

In the evangelical classic The Cross and the Switchblade , David Wilkerson tells the story of his ministry to a street gang and the dramatic conversion of Nicky Cruz, a knife-wielding teenage gang leader. About 20 years later Cruz himself wrote a book called The Magnificent Three in which he wrote, “Something has emerged in my walk with God that has become the most important element of my disciple...

As we enter the summer season, with all its God-given goodness, we would be wise to consider the unique temptations that accompany it. A wise man plans ahead and prepares. Planning is not just needed for Airbnb bookings and National Park passes. You also need to prepare your hearts and your families for the summer. You need to be “watchful” against the various temptations that you will encounter....

Because we live in a time where the dictionary has been ripped up and reassembled every few years and then weaponized against Christians, we live in a time that faces peculiar challenges. And this is overlaid on top of the usual temptations that have faced all people of all ages: animosity, envy, pride, and fear – frequently related to different nationalities, ethnicities, etc. But the Holy Spirit...

History is covenantal. This means that Christ is Lord of history, and this means that history is demonstrating the covenant faithfulness of God – that God keeps His promises. This also means that history is the story of God’s personal dealings with people, families, and nations based on how they respond to God. It is not an impersonal machine churning through time; it is the story of God’s dealing...

America is in the mess it is in because of our idols. The central shrine is the worship of the individual self. And like ancient Israel when the chickens come home to roost, we sometimes try to cry out to God for deliverance. But we have not yet actually turned away from our false gods, and so we are in a position where God has every right to say to us what He said to ancient Israel: “Ye have fors...

The story of history from the Garden of Eden on is the great war between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent: God vs. Evil. The story’s climax is the death and resurrection of Jesus, but all of history is revealing this story arc. And this chapter is no different. Here we have the sordid history of Gideon’s sons, and God’s providential superintendence even in the midst evil plots and...

By the grace of God, we have seen a genuine Christian community grow up in our midst over the years. We have wanted to be a Bible people, which means Christian liberty on issues like alcohol, and so we have not allowed the traditions of men to place any extra-biblical restrictions on us. God gave wine to gladden the heart of man (Ps. 104:15), God urges the purchase of strong drink with the tithe m...

This is a very famous story – Gideon’s brilliant victory over the Midianites, but it is also at the same time a story about God’s brilliant war against human pride. Scripture is clear that the fundamental tyranny is sin, and pride is the root sin. Israel turned away from God because of pride and became enslaved to the Midianites. As we have turned away from God in our American pride, we have incre...

Like many great leaders, Gideon does not finish as strong as he begins. He is still listed in Hebrews 11 as one of the great heroes of faith, but there is clearly a decline in faithfulness over the course of his life. The relative faithfulness of Gideon points to the perfect faithfulness of Christ and is a clear reminder and warning of the need to keep our eyes fixed on Him, to pursue holiness thr...

This nation was built by Protestant Christians – puritans and presbyterians who believed in the sovereignty of God. They believed that God was sovereign over the great movements of nations and civilizations because they believed He was exhaustively sovereign over every detail of the universe, preeminently the salvation of every man, woman, and child. Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefi...

This Palm Sunday message is really quite simple: the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem two thousand years ago that resulted in His crucifixion was the beginning of His enthronement and conquest of this world as it’s true King. This is the pattern of Christ’s conquest: death and resurrection. This is so God will get all the glory. The Text: “And there were certain Greeks among them that came...

Lord’s Day worship is the foundation for faithful Christian life. Everything else flows from this: obedience, courage, and wisdom. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Bowing down before your King is the beginning of true obedience. True courage is found in full submission to the Living God and learning to read the story He is telling. And the beginning of the story of Gideon models th...

King's Cross Church is a member congregation of the CREC in Moscow, ID. Visit our website at https://kingscrossmoscow.com . Follow us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/kingscrossmoscow .

All false religions require statism. Only Christianity offers true political freedom because Christianity actually reconciles men to God and gives them the gift of His Spirit which causes His peace to rule in them and writes God’s law on their hearts. Apart from that kind of regeneration and the strength of self-government, men will be ruled by the humanistic strength of iron fists and bureaucrati...

The Bible teaches that God decreed the history of the world before it began (Is. 46:9-10), Eph. 1:11). This plan is for the good of those who love Him (Rom. 8:28), and it is demonstrating God’s wisdom and power through the weak things of this world (1 Cor. 1-2). This is one of those stories that highlights the goodness of the sovereignty of God. Calvinists should be the happiest, bravest people in...

The song of Deborah is a song of jubilant praise for God’s deliverance of His people. God used men and women who were willing, but God is the One who fought for His people. And in this ancient song, we are reminded of an even greater victory won by the seed of the woman. The Text: “Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying…” King's Cross Church is a member congregatio...

God created men and women to reflect His glory in particular ways, but sin distorts that glory. And we tend to sin against one another in ways that reinforce cycles of shame and dishonor. But Christ came to break our cycles of sin, and Deborah is a judge who points us to the Church who calls men and women back to the glory of God. The Text: “And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight o...

The Bible is not a book of sweet and pious aphorisms. It is the truest book because it tells the truth about our vile sin, and it tells the truth about the only way out of the shameful pits we have dug for ourselves. Ehud is a glorious picture of the Lord Jesus: a little savior who points to our Great Savior. The Text: “And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD: and the LO...

Despite human rebellion, God is determined to raise up a warrior people – nations trained for battle against the world, the flesh, and the devil. In Christ, God has raised up the Great Judge of all the earth, who fights for us, and gives us His Spirit so that we may learn to fight evil like Him. The Text: “Now these are the nations which the Lord left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Isra...

The people of Israel during the era of the judges largely failed, and they failed because they refused to seek God with their whole heart. They did not destroy their idols and the pagan nations around them, so they would have mild success during the lives of strong leaders and then immediately fall back into their idolatry over and over again. But Christ has come to call His people to true repenta...

Judges opens with the death of Joshua, and Israel calling on the Lord. The book of Judges is all about the radical difference between the Lord being with you and the Lord not being with you: the difference between God being your king and having no king and doing whatever is right in your own eyes.  During the lifetime of Joshua, the Lord was with Israel and gave them victories over their enemies,...

In God’s world, words and names matter. Your words are either echoing God’s Word and naming in faith and taking dominion, or else they are defying God’s Word, naming in unbelief, fear, and setting up trouble for yourself and your children.  The tribes of Israel learned this the hard way. The lesson was clear: sin must be completely destroyed or it will eventually destroy you. The Text: “And the ho...