Crossing Community Church

When we pray who are we praying to? Many of us begin our prayers by saying, "Our heavenly Father." Do we really think of what that means. This week Pastor Tim shares how adopting his own two children teaches us about the great, unmatchable love God has for you and I that makes Him a great Father -- one that we can pray to with confidence.

This week we began a new sermon series focusing on the prayer life of the Apostle Paul. We focused on the four major themes of his prayers and compared our prayer life to them. How similar or different are the things we pray for to what Paul prayed for?

"Have I not told you" -- a phrase God used as He reminded Joshua to be courageous and put away all doubt or fear. Time and again, God has promised His abiding presence with us in any and all circumstances!

"Thy Word is a lamp unto my . . . voting choices." Our lives should match up with the principles of God's Word. We should think, speak, act -- and vote in accordance with God's standards. This week we take a look at a few of the principles we can use to guide us as we decide how to cast our votes.

There is no perfect political candidate. There's only Jesus.

Final words are important. They are rarely impromptu or random. Instead they are intentional and have great purpose. What were the final words of the risen Savior? Surely they must have been important. This week our sermon explores Christ's final words and their importance to His followers.

What if we changed the end of some of our most beloved stories? What if Snow White was never kissed by the prince? What if Jesus never rose from the dead? Jesus triumphed over death when everyone thought the story was over. Praise God it wasn't! Overcoming death means our faith in God is not in vain!

He was one man on a donkey riding into a city for a religious celebration. What was it about that day that makes it worthy of remembering over 2000 years later? It was the willing arrival of Jesus not to celebrate the Passover lamb . . to to become the Passover Lamb!

In the parable of the Rich Fool Christ challenges the greedy heart to consider that riches on Earth can't compare to riches in Heaven.

Our guest speaker today was Ari Hauben of Chosen People Ministries. The sermon begins with a video of Ari's story of finding the Messiah in Jesus. He tells his story of how the message of atonement took on new meaning when he learned that Jesus was "The Lamb of God" that took away the sins of the world -- that Jesus was "The" Passover Lamb of annual Passover celebration.