Every time we learn something new, we’re faced with a decision: will we allow what we’ve learned to change us for the better? As we wrap up our crazy happy journey, we have choices to make and a will to exercise. Will we choose to walk in the Spirit and practice Jesus’ teachings in the Beatitudes? Will we let the Spirit bear his fruit in our lives? Let’s conclude our journey as a family of faith with decisions that reflect holy intentionality.

One of the most amazing things about Jesus’ teaching in the Beatitudes is that Jesus gives us a system of ethics that should define our lives...and it’s an ethic that’s completely different from how our world sees ethics. It’s the ethics of the kingdom of God! As we press further into the kingdom of heaven, the Spirit begins to grow beautiful fruit in our lives. When we live into Jesus’ kingdom, not only does it make a totally counter-cultural statement to our world, it transforms our lives from the inside out.

God’s got a plan for our lives...but God didn’t create us to be robots. He allows us all to make our own choices! And those choices carry powerful consequences –– good and not-so-good ones. How do we know the difference between good choices and better choices? How do we make the best choices? As we continue on our journey toward God’s definition of happiness, we all have some important choices to make.

Happiness is born from the inside-out...Most of us would embrace that sentiment, right? But more often than not, we live like we’re waiting for an outward change of circumstances to propel us into happiness, only to find that once we arrive at the desired destination, while we may like the new reality, we are still left unfulfilled. So we keep getting back on the hamster wheel. That’s why Jesus’ teachings about true satisfaction are so revolutionary! He taught that there’s a way our deepest longings can actually be satisfied––and that’s the secret to true joy that transcends all our circumstances.

Happiness is born from the inside-out...Most of us would embrace that sentiment, right? But more often than not, we live like we’re waiting for an outward change of circumstances to propel us into happiness, only to find that once we arrive at the desired destination, while we may like the new reality, we are still left unfulfilled. So we keep getting back on the hamster wheel. That’s why Jesus’ teachings about true satisfaction are so revolutionary! He taught that there’s a way our deepest longings can actually be satisfied––and that’s the secret to true joy that transcends all our circumstances.

Nobody wants to be unhappy––that would be crazy, right? In fact, inside all of us is a deep longing for something more. Something beyond ourselves. Something beautiful. And what’s even crazier is we may have been missing an important truth hidden in plain sight….In one of his most famous teachings, the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus speaks of the “blessed” person, which can also be translated “happy” person. But Jesus’ description of the happy person sounds crazy to our contemporary way of thinking––which is exactly why it will revolutionize your life.

Nobody wants to be unhappy––that would be crazy, right? In fact, inside all of us is a deep longing for something more. Something beyond ourselves. Something beautiful. And what’s even crazier is we may have been missing an important truth hidden in plain sight….In one of his most famous teachings, the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus speaks of the “blessed” person, which can also be translated as “happy” person. But Jesus’ description of the happy person sounds crazy to our contemporary way of thinking––which is exactly why it will revolutionize your life.

“Doesn’t God want me to be happy?” Virtually everyone has asked this question at some point. And the answer is...yes! But God’s plan for our fulfillment looks way different than anything we would expect. Join your Crossroads family for a journey through some of the most famous passages of Scripture––the Beatitudes and the fruit of the Spirit––for the key to unlocking God’s definition of true happiness, in our new series Crazy Happy!

We’re all looking for healing in one way or another, and at the tail end of a year like 2020 and the front end of a new year that (so far) feels no different, many of us feel confronted head-on with our own needs in a way we never have been before...What does Jesus say to us in this space? What will he do, and how might he surprise us? When Jesus decides to move in his people to restore them, he never does just one thing at a time. When God restores his people, he multi-tasks, restoring us from the inside out––a reality we’ll see in high-definition in Luke 17.