Crossing Community Church

Our lives are supposed to give God glory. To most of us that sounds like an intimidating task! This week, Pastor Tim gives us four ways to help us understand how to better live for God's glory.

Based on Greg Koukl's book, "The Story of Reality", Pastor Tim talked about five words that can help us understand how and why things happen the way they do in our world -- God, Man, Jesus, Cross, Resurrection. Koukl believes these five words "capture the meaning of our humanity and of all human history from beginning to end." We hope you will agree after listening to Pastor Tim's sermon.

Our purpose statement at Crossing is, "To be and make committed followers of Christ." But to do that and know if you are succeeding one needs to know what a committed follower of Jesus looks like. This week Pastor Tim offers 7 suggestions that might help us become 'committed followers of Christ.'

David Nelson, Founder and President of Crossing Cultures International (CCI), provided a great update on the ministry of CCI as they continue to equip and train pastors around the world. This week David uses Philippians 1:27-30 to encourage us to live a life worthy of the Gospel.

When we talk about giving, finances, tithes and stewardship in our churches there are a lot of things that could be said. This week, one of our church Elders, John Ashton, said some great things about this subject! Does God 'need' me to give Him money or does He enjoy working with me when I give to Him like a father does with his son? John gives us some great things to consider in the area of giving our resources back to God. Enjoy!

Ephesians 4 is pretty clear about the expectations of every Christian: to be equipped for the work of service. This week we talk about the necessity of being equipped and it's impact on our daily life.

How do we reconcile the Creator of the universe being sent to serve the creation? Yet that is what Jesus did. As His disciples we too are to follow his example of service. This week we talk about how opportunities to serve others never revolves around our calendars, our preferences or our comfort zone and how service is a huge means of transformation into the image of Christ.

From the earliest chapters of Genesis we see God sending people to facilitate His plans and purposes. Abram, Moses, Gideon, Isaiah --- Jesus! Then in John 20:21 Jesus sends you and I. Being sent is essential to being a disciple of Jesus. NOTE: The scripture reference in the sermon is not correct. It should be Mark 5.

Jarred Cain, our Youth Director here at Crossing, was in the pulpit to preach for the first time this week. He did a great job of challenging us to consider our daily life and sacrifice in light of God's all encompassing glory and greatness!