CrossWalk - Cross Culture Church RDU

Pastor Ronnie Bell brings this week's message on "The Standard Of God's Righteousness"

Who is God? In some respects, that’s a question we can never answer because we can never fully know everything there is to know about God. On the other hand God has invited us to know Him in a personal way. This week, Pastor Clay looks to the first 8 verses  of Isaiah Chapter 6 where we learn three distinctive ways that our God is like no other which helps us understand how we are to respond to Him.

Who is man? The world seems to say the answer to that question is found within ourselves. Self-actualization and self-absorption are the ways to finding one’s self. The Bible, however, has a very different answer to the question.  Today Pastor Clay is taking us to Psalm 8 where we'll discover the answer to "who is man" is not by knowing ourselves, but by knowing the One who created us.

What is your source for truth? There are plenty of truth claims in the world today so how are you to know which are true and which aren’t? Today Pastor Clay is taking us to Chapter 2 of the book of Colossians to see what we need to do in order to be ready for an enemy that wants to play mind games.

We’re embarking on a new series entitled, The Truth Project. This teaching series is designed to coincide with an in-home study of the same name from that our Life Groups are participating in together. In today’s culture the lines between reality and illusion are becoming increasingly blurred. As followers of Jesus it's crucial that we understand what we believe and why we believe it's true. There are all kinds of truth claims out there. Knowing what is true helps us to discern what is real and what isn't.

Solomon was a man who knew a thing of two about life. You might say he’d been around the block once or twice. After experiencing pretty much everything that life had to offer Solomon came to understand what life is really all about and where we find what makes a life worth living. This week, Pastor Clay takes us to Ecclesiastes Chapter 12 to discover the real purpose of our days of labor.

Today, Pastor Clay takes us back to Acts chapter 17 verses 16-34 for part two of the message we started last week.  The Apostle Paul’s example of how to be a part of transforming our world wraps up the "Transformer's - More Than Meets The Eye" series.

So why are we still here? The world we live in clearly shows the signs of the sin-curse, but God desires to transform this world and He wants to use us to do it. Today, Pastor Clay takes us to Acts chapter 17 verses 16-34 we find the Apostle Paul’s example of how to be a part of transforming our world.

Question, what is the church? Is it bricks and mortar with stained glass windows and a steeple on top? Is is simply  a gathering place where we worship God? Is it having your name on a role? Clearly God desires something better for His church and this week, Pastor Clay is taking us to Acts 2:41-47 to show us a different picture of the church.

We’re in the middle of a series from the book of Acts entitled, ‘Transformers – More than meets the eye’ and today Pastor Clay is taking us to Acts chapter 5 and the fascinating story of God’s judgment of Ananias and Sapphira. They were active members of the church in Jerusalem. They were probably well liked, some would even say they were generous, but Ananias and Sapphira had a secret that they thought no one knew about. They learned the hard way that there are no secrets that can be kept from God. And today we're going to learn that our character counts.