The Crossing Church Sermons

Today we celebrate a special day in the life of a local church - the affirmation and installation of a new pastor/elder to join our elder team. What is an elder? What do they do? How does this help the local church thrive and accomplish the mission Jesus has given us?

The early church regularly shared in communion as a way to constantly remember the person and work of Christ on their behalf. How can we experience the same devotion in 2019?

What did it mean for the early church to be devoted to fellowship? And what does it mean for us today? How can we best live that out in the life of our church and missional communities.

As we continue our Vision Series, how are we devoted to scripture individually, through teaching, and in everything we do as the church?

In Acts 2 we see the early church coming together in devotion to the Lord and all he called them to. Continuing in the Vision Series, we consider how we might also be devoted. This week specifically, devotion to prayer.

Everyone loves a good origin story. What about the church? Where did we come from and how does that make the church distinct from any other group or organization today? And how does that set us up to carry out of mission today?

Considering the inevitability of suffering in this life, how can we walk through suffering and experience God's best for us without redefining God, making God less than He is, or failing to trust Him and His wisdom.

God speaks to Job's cries for answers, but he doesn't actually answer the cries. Rather, God reminds us of the truth that frees us from having to know the answers. He gives truth that strengthens our grip as we hold on to hope.

Suffering is a reality in everyone's life. How we understand and view our suffering determines if we suffer and keep our faith in God or if suffering causes us to run from God and not trust Him. See this unfold more and more in the story of Job and the story of the Bible.

As we begin our journey through Job, we see the characters in this story introduced as well as the tension as Satan questions the motivation of Job, and all of God's people - Do we Serve the Lord for nothing? Or for His protection and blessing? By God's grace, we are on a journey to more and more be able to say Yes!

Song of Songs warns us to not awaken love until the appropriate time. When a man and woman are married, they finally get to enjoy this gift. We are also warned of foxes attempting to ruin the vineyard. What are we doing to protect our marriages from them?

A song of wisdom. A song of love. This overview of the greatest song of all time gives us guidance and insight into the often neglected sexuality of humanity according to God.

For our last week in Ecclesiastes we look at the hope we have in every season of life, including through Gods judgement.

Considering the bleakness of our approaching death and the frustrations of life on earth, how should we then live? See and savor and enjoy God's grace in everyday gifts of food, drink, family, work, and life. Not a suggestion by God, but commanded by God and possible because God enables what He commands His people to do.

When confronted with the futility of life and the inevitability of death, how do we then live with wisdom? When even wisdom is limited. What truths about God emerge even as someone is being raw and honest about the difficulty of life under the sun? This Sunday we walk through an overview of the book of Ecclesiastes.

Text: 1 Thessalonians 5:12-14, 23-24 Considering the work the church has been called to we see the need for honor, responsibility, and ultimately trusting in the faithfulness of God. Vincent and his wife Casey planted The Circle Church in Alexandria, LA. They are "A Multi-ethnic, gospel-centered, and socially engaged church that exists to reach the city, to make disciples, and to multiply."

Reference: Luke 5:27-32 A call too discipleship is a call to do life with those in the wild. The wild is a symbol for the darkness that Jesus calls us out of when He comes into our life. As disciples of Jesus, we cannot be content with ministry in comfortable spaces; but live in obedience to the call of following Christ. In this message, we will develop a deeper understanding of our call to the WI...

Good friends are rare and wonderful. Check out this dive into Proverbs to learn of true friendship and a true friend. A Friend who is closer than a brother.

God has a design for mankind, and that includes womanhood. Proverbs offers much on the practical things of life. How a woman lives in the day-to-day is the focus for this sermon, but, as always, it must come back to Jesus.

Work is an often overlooked topic in the local church. What does God intend for our work? How does His wisdom and the gospel help us overcome the broken and insufficient views of work in our culture? How can the work He has done for us in Jesus help us work better?

Without wisdom we are fools, but more dangerous are those who think they are wise apart from Christ. We consider what Proverbs says about the unwise as we look to Christ who is the imbodiment of Wisdom.

God has created us for life in Him. Our best life is knowing this and living this out. This is also called the wise life. What then is wisdom? And how do we get it so that we can experience our best life?

Regardless of religious affiliation many would consider Jesus to be one of the greatest men to ever live. His teaching and his following is certainly remarkable with any honest objective observation. However, being a good man wasn’t enough to save sinner. He must be God. In his resurrection he demonstrates he alone is worthy of our worship. Look to him and know he is God. Happy Easter!

The Scriptures clearly reveal that Jesus was truly human. Why does that matter? Many reasons, but this morning we focus on two. For our justification - Jesus had to be a man to provide access to God we don't deserve. For our sanctification - Jesus had to be a man to provide power to live a life for God's good pleasure. Join us in Philippians 2:1-13 as we see these realities.

For our final question, we examine the reality of the pagan roots of Christian holidays and other things we celebrate and work to understand how we agree to disagree with other believers while celebrating Christ in all of life and engage our culture with the gospel.