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“Pressed, But Not Crushed”

Under Pressure | Week One | Crossroads Church

Ever feel like life is coming at you from every direction? Work. Finances. Family. Relationships. Expectations. And just when you think you've caught your breath, something else gets added to the pile.

What do you do when the pressure of life starts feeling like more than you can handle?

In Week One of our new series, Under Pressure, Pastor Randy takes us into 2 Corinthians 4, where the Apostle Paul reminds us that we can be pressed on every side without being crushed.

Discover how pressure can affect our decisions, our perspective, and even our faith—and why God's answer isn't always to remove the pressure, but to strengthen us as we walk through it.

Through practical biblical teaching and the example of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, we'll explore what it really means to surrender our struggles, depend on God's strength, and stop carrying life's burdens alone.

The pressure may be real. But so is the presence of God.

Under Pressure — Week One: Pressed, But Not Crushed
Pastor Randy — Crossroads Church | Lebanon, Tennessee

HeadSpace — Week Three | Crossroads Church

What do you do when the battle in your mind won't let up? When fear, anxiety, and negative thoughts seem louder than the truth you know?

In the final week of HeadSpace, Pastor Randy returns to the story of Elijah and explores what happens when our thoughts begin shaping how we see ourselves, our circumstances, and even God.

Through Scripture, practical insights, and some powerful tools for everyday life, we'll discover how to recognize unhealthy thought patterns, replace lies with God's truth, and begin changing the conversations happening inside our heads.

Because you may not be able to control every thought that enters your mind, but you can choose which ones get to stay.

HeadSpace | Week Three
Pastor Randy — Crossroads Church | Lebanon, Tennessee

HeadSpace — Week Two: The Battle Before the Battle

Some battles aren’t won by trying harder. They’re won by learning to recognize the lies we’ve believed and replacing them with truth.

In Week Two of HeadSpace, Pastor Randy looks at the story of David and Goliath—and an unlikely soldier who kept fighting a war long after it was over—to show how easily our thoughts can hold us captive. The giants we face may be real, but they don’t have to control the story.

What have you believed for so long that you’ve stopped asking whether it’s actually true?

It’s time to challenge the lies, pick up the right weapons, and stop fighting battles God never intended you to fight alone.

HeadSpace — Week One: Think About What You Think About

When Your Thoughts Start Running Your Life

How does someone go from standing on a mountain watching God do something incredible to sitting alone in a cave convinced everything is falling apart?

Ask Elijah.

In Week One of HeadSpace, Pastor Randy looks at how quickly one thought can become fear, fear can become isolation, and before long, our thoughts can take us places we never intended to go.

The truth is, you don’t have to believe everything you think.

Through Elijah’s story and the practical challenge of Scripture, we’ll learn to pay attention to what’s happening inside our heads, identify the thoughts that don’t belong, and replace them with the truth of God.

You may not control every thought that enters your mind, but you don’t have to let every thought control your life.

It’s time to think about what you think about.

Sometimes the biggest roadblocks in life aren’t circumstances—they’re relationships.

We’ve all experienced relationships that get strained, stuck, or complicated. And when they do, our natural response is often to focus on what the other person needs to change. But what if God wants to begin somewhere much closer to home?

In this message, Pastor Randy talks about what happens when a relationship hits a roadblock, why our response matters, and how following Jesus changes the way we handle conflict, hurt, and difficult people.

You may not be able to change the other person—but with God’s help, you can decide who you’ll become in the middle of it.

What do you do when it isn’t just that the plan failed—but the dream died?

In the story of Naomi, life didn’t turn out anything like she expected. She experienced loss, disappointment, and heartache, yet God was still working in ways she couldn’t see.

In this message, Pastor Randy looks at what it means to trust God when the story changes and reminds us that you don’t have to understand the chapter you’re in to trust the Author who is writing it.

Failure happens.

Sometimes life knocks us down. Sometimes we make the decision, say the words, or create the mess ourselves. But failure doesn’t have to become our identity—and it doesn’t have to be the end of our story.

In this message, Pastor Randy looks at the life of the Apostle Paul and five choices that can help us move forward when we fall: accept that failure is part of the journey, choose hope, let others help us, surrender control to Jesus, and learn to see our failures from God’s perspective.

Because the question isn’t whether we’ll ever fall. The question is what we do after we fall.

By God’s grace, we can get back up—and fail forward.

Some tiredness can be fixed with a good night’s sleep. But what happens when the exhaustion goes deeper than that?

You can keep showing up, getting things done, taking care of everyone else, and even smiling your way through Sunday—while something inside you is running on empty.

In this message, Pastor Randy talks about soul fatigue: the weariness that settles into your heart when life gets heavy, your spirit gets drained, and you realize you’re not living with the strength and freedom God intended for you.

If you’ve been saying, “I’m just tired,” maybe what you really need isn’t more sleep.

Maybe your body doesn’t need a break as much as your soul needs Jesus.

Every one of us will face sooner or later—disappointment. When life doesn't go the way we planned, where is God, and what is He doing? I believe you'll discover that even in our hardest seasons, God is still at work, shaping us, drawing us closer to Himself, and reminding us that we were never meant to walk through life alone.

Thanks for joining us as Pastor Randy dives into how disappointment is a tool for God to shape our lives in ways we could never imagine.

Carry On
Chasing What Matters Most

Every morning life hands us a backpack. Before the day is over, it's filled with work, responsibilities, relationships, deadlines, unexpected problems, and countless demands competing for our attention. It's no wonder so many of us are exhausted. But what if the problem isn't that we're carrying too much... what if we're carrying the wrong things first?

In this practical and deeply personal message, Pastor Randy opens Matthew 6:33 to show that Jesus never promised a burden-free life, but He did promise a better way to carry it. Discover how putting God's Kingdom first transforms every other priority, why we often carry burdens God never intended us to bear, and how God's fresh mercies give us a new opportunity every single day to chase what matters most.

What are you carrying... and what is God inviting you to put down?