Crossing Community Church

This week, Michael Breece bring a message about the grace that God freely gives to the believer on a day to day basis. This is a challenge to do more with the grace of God than to just thank Him for our salvation. Listen in as we discuss what we do with grace after we become a child of God.

This week, Todd Domke shares about what it means to be set apart for the work of God. 2 Corinthians 5:17 says, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” To be set apart (or sanctified) is to live as a new creation. As believers, we should act different than we were before we were believers. It’s a process. Each day, we should be growing to become more and more like Christ.

This week we look at 2 Corinthians for our insight on the nature of the local church. Paul begins the letter and closes it with the theme of comfort -- especially how we receive comfort from other Christians. But we can't receive comfort or give it if we are not involved in our local churches. So consider this: we don't come to church just for ourselves. We come to church for others. Others need us to be there. Don't be lax in attendance and participation in your local church!

Many become confused about the standing before God on those days when nothings seems to go right -- when we have wandered from the instruction of the Lord and obedience to Him. At those times what we believe about God's promises to us and our standing before Him is critical. If we don't believe rightly it's so easy to be defeated. This week, Scott Brubaker does an excellent job of clearly pointing to the biblical foundation that all of us must stand on in hard times.

In our second study of grace & eternal security Scott Brubaker does a great review of the biblical basis for our assurance.

This week Scott Brubaker, one of our church Elders, begins a three part study of grace and eternal security. Our eternal security, that assurance that NOTHING can take away our salvation, should be reason for great encouragement in difficult and bitter days. In this study, Scott sets the stage for next week's biblical review and the third week's comparison of salvation and sanctification.

Like many churches the beginnings of the church in Philippi was small -- and unlikely! It consisted of a Roman soldier and his family and a Jewish woman and her family -- not a likely pairing! But from this dubious gathering grew a church that Paul praised. The book of Philippians has much to teach us about unity!

Every year since 2010 Crossing has hosted Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) as they train students to share the gospel with children. This year 130 students lived on our campus for ten days. They do training for three days then do Bible Clubs throughout the greater Philly area. This year they held over 30 Bible Clubs and shared the Gospel with nearly 1100 children. This podcast is an overview of the ministry + two testimonies and prayer time for their ministry.

John 4 begins with the conversation Jesus had with the woman at the well then moves into Jesus talking about the farming principles of sowing and reaping. What's the connection? Perhaps the connection is that process of raising a crop has many similarities to evangelism and seeing people come to faith in Christ.

It is always a special time when we can recognize a new Elder here at Crossing Community Church. John Ashton, our newest Elder, received a charge from Scott Brubaker, one of our current Elders, then John spoke. We closed the service with a time of prayer by our Elder Council for John, his family and his service in our church family.