What makes the church unique?  How is the church set apart from other ways/places we seek community?

The church is a unique community that is intricately and intimately interconnected to Jesus Christ and together we are being transformed through God’s redemptive work for us, in us, and through us.

God is at Work – Go ahead and rest. John 15:1-11 God will work through us to bring the Good News to the World around us. The Good News that we have not been abandoned. The Good News God has worked for us through Christ. The Good News that God is working IN us to bear fruit and bring Him Glory. John 15:8 – By this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. It is as we remain connected to Christ and learn to ABIDE in him that our lives produce the fruit of that relationship and so prove to others our relationship with God through Christ.

Psalm 103

Bless the LORD, O you his angels, you mighty ones who do his word, obeying the voice of his word!

Tell God what you appreciate about Him

Tell others your story for God’s Glory

As we think about the Greatness of God we will be drawn to a place of responding to Him with worship-filled praise. • Songs that are an overflow of our relationship with God - PERSONALLY PRAISING with Him with His mighty acts of Loving salvation • Songs that unite with others in a great chorus of CORPORATE AFFIRMATION of His Greatness • Songs that PUBLICLY PROCLAIM His greatness to the world around us • Songs that are true and aligned with the truth God has expressed in His word • Songs that are sung authentically and honestly as an expressive demonstration of praise How can you turn your interactions with God into praise this week? What can you do to prepare yourself for our public gathering of worship as God’s body here at CrossPoint? Who around you needs to hear about the Greatness of God?

Guest Speaker Pastor Jerry Erickson. "Responding to God's Greatness: Repentance." The text is Psalm 51.

Ascribe to the LORD, O heavenly beings (mighty ones)

Ascribe to the LORD, O families of the peoples

Ascribe to the LORD glory and strength!

In Psalm 103 alone we find that various English translations use different descriptive words to describe the Love of God: 

Steadfast (ESV)

Faithful (CSB)

Abounding (NIV)

Unfailing (NLT)

The words used intend to point us to the love of God that is UNCHANGING, UNCAUSED, UNDESERVED and which is INCOMPREHENSIBLE

Steadfast = firmly fixed; immovable; not subject to change

"Our Father in Heaven, we (your children) are often troubled, hearing within us at once the affirmations of faith and the accusations of conscience. We are sure that there is in us nothing that could attract the love of One as holy and just as You are. Yet You have declared Your unchanging love for us in Christ Jesus. If nothing in us can win Your love, nothing in the universe can prevent You from loving us. Your love is uncaused and undeserved. You alone are the reason for the love with which we are loved. Help us to believe in the intensity, the eternity of the love that has found us. Then love will cast out fear and our troubled hearts will be at peace, trusting not in what we are but in what You have declared Yourself to be. AMEN."

-Prayer adapted from A.W. Tozer the Knowledge of the Holy

The past year and a half has seen our lives turned upside down. From strained relationships, grief over missed life events, to feelings of loss of control, anxiety, and depression, we've all faced unexpected life situations.

We are so excited to bring in four trained counselors who specialize in grief, loss, trauma, and mental health to help guide us, and encourage us to support others, as we move forward and find a place of healing.

Psalm 147: 1 "Praise the LORD! for it is good to sing praises to our God."

Psalm 147:3 "He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds."

Psalm 147:5 "Great is our LORD, and abundant in power: his understanding is beyond measure."

One of the most confounding truths about the greatness of God is that this One who is KING, who is greater than our ability to wrap our minds around, makes Himself accessible to us. 

His greatness makes Him seem so distant and unreachable - but He is only a call away from any of us. Great is the Lord - Greatly to be praised  - his greatness is unsearchable… yet He has given you direct access to Him.  No matter what meeting I am in - there is a call that I will take. God is never too busy with important mighty works that He will not take your call.