Crossgates Church Audio Podcast

Sunday Morning Message - "Are You Thirsty for God?" In this message from October 11, Pastor David is in Nehemiah 8, where the impossible had already been accomplished through the rebuilding of Jerusalem's walls in just 52 days, and now the people faced a critical question: would they press further into God? Using the ten gates of Jerusalem as a framework, Pastor David walks us through the believer...

Sunday Morning Message - "Staying in the Work" In this message from October 4, Pastor Kyle is in Nehemiah 6 where we see the three distinct waves of attack the enemy launched against Nehemiah as he neared the completion of the wall around Jerusalem. Each attack came in a different form — a deceptive invitation, a public smear campaign, and a corrupted voice from within — yet each had the same goal...

Sunday Morning Message - "The Enemy Within" In this message from September 27, Pastor Ben Boyd continues our Revival Ready series in Nehemiah 5, where the people of God found themselves threatened not by an outside enemy but by selfishness, greed, and injustice operating within their own community. While the walls of Jerusalem were going up, the hearts of some of God's people were coming down. Thi...

Sunday Morning Message - "Faith, Opposition, and the Fight for God's Work" In this message from September 20, Pastor Kyle is in Chapter 4 of Nehemiah where the unavoidable reality that when God's people get serious about doing His work, opposition will follow. Pastor Kyle walked us through the resistance Nehemiah and the people of Jerusalem faced as they rebuilt the wall — ridicule, intimidation,...

Sunday Morning Message - "Finding Your Place in the Rebuilding Work" In this message from September 13, Pastor Kyle focuses on the remarkable picture of God's people finding their place and their people in the rebuilding of Jerusalem's wall. Every family, every individual, knew who was working next to them and showed up to do their part. This passage challenges us to ask ourselves the same questio...

Sunday Morning Message - "Rising Up to Build" In this message from September 6, Pastor Kyle is back in Nehemiah 2:17-20 spending more time about what it means for us to be revival ready. Just as Nehemiah called the people of God to stop living acclimated to the ruins around them and rise up to rebuild, we are being called to open our eyes to the true condition of our lives, our families, our city,...

Sunday Morning Message - "Bold Moves" In this message from August 23, Pastor Kyle continues our Nehemiah series with a message from Nehemiah 2 titled, “Bold Moves.” After praying boldly in Chapter 1, Nehemiah takes a bold step of faith when God opens the door for him to approach the king, share his burden, and ask for permission to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the broken walls. Nehemiah doesn’t...

Sunday Morning Message - "Broken Heart and Bold Prayers" In this message from August 16, Pastor Kyle kicks off a brand-new series through the book of Nehemiah with a powerful message titled “Broken Heart and Bold Prayers.” In Nehemiah 1, we see Nehemiah receive heartbreaking news about the condition of Jerusalem and God’s people—the walls were broken down and the people were living in disgrace. Hi...

Sunday Morning Message - "Made to Multiply" In this message from August 9, Pastor Kyle celebrates what God has been doing in our church and casts vision for who He is calling us to become. As we continue helping people find hope, we’re focusing on becoming disciples who multiply—Jesus followers, Spirit-led believers, prayer warriors, family builders, and kingdom multipliers. Together, we’re being...

Sunday Morning Message - "Final Charge: Standing Firm in Faith & Strength" In this message from August 2, Pastor Kyle walks through Paul's final charge to the Corinthian church — five commands packed into two verses that serve as a blueprint for Christian living. The charge calls believers to be watchful, stand firm, act with courage and maturity, be strong, and do everything in love. This guide w...

Sunday Morning Message - "Spiritual Gifts - Part 3" In this message from July 26, Pastor Kyle continues our 1 Corinthians series in chapter 14 addressing the proper understanding and operation of spiritual gifts—specifically tongues and prophecy—within the gathered church. It clarifies that while the gift of tongues serves as a personal, supernatural prayer language intended to build up the indivi...

Sunday Morning Message - "Spiritual Gifts - Part 2" In this message from July 19, Pastor David Jett continues our journey through 1 Corinthians, focusing on the timeless message of chapter 13—the Bible’s great chapter on love. In a world that often defines love by feelings or circumstances, Paul reminds us that true, Christlike love is patient, kind, selfless, enduring, and the foundation of every...

Sunday Morning Message - "Spiritual Gifts - Part 1" In this message from July 12, Pastor Kyle continues our walk through 1 Corinthians exploring chapters 12–14, where Paul reminds us that every believer has been uniquely gifted by God to serve the body of Christ. He teaches that while our gifts may be different, they all work together to strengthen the church, and that love must always be the foun...

Sunday Morning Message - "Authority & The Lord’s Supper" In this message from July 5, Pastor Kyle Reno continues our journey through 1 Corinthians in chapter 11. In this powerful passage, Paul reminds us that our worship should reflect the heart of Christ through humility, unity, and reverence. Paul challenges believers to honor God in the way we live together as the body of Christ and gives the c...

Sunday Morning Message - "For the Glory of God" In this message from June 28, Pastor Ben is in chapter 10 focusing on the dangerous territory of spiritual compromise and the impossibility of sitting at both the Lord's table and the table of demons. Drawing from Israel's past failures and Paul's direct warning to the Corinthian church, we examined how Christian freedom is not about doing what we ha...

Sunday Morning Message - "Win! Running the Race and Fighting the Fight" In this message from June 21, Pastor Kyle is in 1 Corinthians chapter 9 drawing focus on how life was intended to have a bigger mission than personal success or earthly accomplishments. Through Paul's example, we discovered that true fulfillment comes when we embrace our part in God's story - living to see others won into the...

Sunday Morning Worship - "Don't Become a Stumbling Block!" In this message from June 14, Pastor Kyle focuses on the tension between Christian liberty and Christian love, using Paul's teaching about food sacrificed to idols as a framework. While the Corinthian believers were technically correct that idols have no real power, their knowledge was causing them to overlook something far more important—...

Sunday Morning Message - "Marriage & Singleness" In this message from June 7, Pastor Kyle continues in 1 Corinthians 7:17-37 and how our identity in Christ transcends our circumstances, relationships, and situations in life. Paul addresses believers in various life situations—circumcised and uncircumcised, slave and free, married and single—with a unifying message: God has placed you exactly where...

Sunday Morning Message - "Instructions for Marriage" In this message from May 31, Pastor Ben Boyd continues our series in 1 Corinthians in Chapter 7 where Paul addresses questions from the Corinthian church about marriage and singleness in a culture filled with sexual immorality. He affirms both marriage and singleness as good, while providing clear instructions for protecting marriages and mainta...

Sunday Morning Message - "Delightfully Different" In this message from May 24, Pastor Kyle explores Paul's urgent call for believers to live according to their true identity in Christ, addressing how we handle disputes with fellow believers, maintain our witness before the world, and honor God with our bodies. Paul reminds us that too much is at stake—our personal holiness, our witness, and the re...

Sunday Morning Message - "Lessons I’ve Learned about My Freedom in Jesus" In this message from May 17, Pastor David explores the sobering account of a believer in Corinth who had fallen into serious sexual sin, and how the church's failure to lovingly confront him was actually enabling his destruction. Through this passage, we examined six essential lessons about spiritual vigilance, authentic Chr...

Sunday Morning Message - "God Sees You, Hears You, and Is Using You this Mother's Day" In this special Mother’s Day message, Pastor Kyle encourages mothers and all women by reminding them that God sees, hears, helps, uses, and delights in them. From Hagar’s encounter with “the God who sees,” to Hannah’s desperate prayers, it shows that God is attentive to a mother’s tears, prayers, and sacrifices....

Sunday Morning Message - "Paul’s Relationship to the Church" In this message from May 3, Pastor Kyle Reno challenges us from 1 Corinthians 4 to shift our focus from human approval to faithful stewardship before God, reminding us that every believer has been entrusted with the message and ministry of Jesus. Rather than striving for recognition or trusting our own evaluation, we are called to live w...

Sunday Morning Message - "Become" In this message from April 26, Teaching Pastor David Jett focuses on the final key word in our three-part series: BECOME. After examining how we are BROKEN by sin and must BELIEVE in Christ, we discovered that the Christian life is fundamentally about maturing and becoming who we already are in Jesus. This isn't about religion or self-improvement—it's about awaken...

Sunday Morning Message - "Believe" In this message from April 19, Pastor Kyle explores the essential components of every believer's spiritual story and how we can articulate the transformative work Christ has done in our lives. We examine how every resurrection story begins with an awareness of our brokenness, moves to a moment of belief in Jesus Christ, and results in becoming a new creation. Thi...