THE CROSSING BLOG
Sunday Gathering 01.07.2018
The purpose of this blog post is to help The Crossing church engage and prepare our hearts to worship King Jesus. We will highlight the Scripture that will be preached as well as the songs we will sing during our Sunday Gathering.
Here are a three simple ways you can prepare your heart:
1) Read through and meditate on the text that will be preached that Sunday with your family and/or friends.
2) Sing, listen or read through some of the song lyrics that we will sing together and ask God to grow and strengthen our faith and understanding of Him through them.
3) Pray for God to reveal Himself to you and the The Crossing church in powerful ways!
Worship through the Word:
Worship through Singing:
Sunday Gathering 12.31.2017
The purpose of this blog post is to help The Crossing church engage and prepare our hearts to worship King Jesus. We will highlight the Scripture that will be preached as well as the songs we will sing during our Sunday Gathering.
Here are a three simple ways you can prepare your heart:
1) Read through and meditate on the text that will be preached that Sunday with your family and/or friends.
2) Sing, listen or read through some of the song lyrics that we will sing together and ask God to grow and strengthen our faith and understanding of Him through them.
3) Pray for God to reveal Himself to you and the The Crossing church in powerful ways!
Worship through the Word:
Worship through Singing:
Sunday Gathering - Christmas Eve at 4:30pm
The purpose of this blog post is to help The Crossing church engage and prepare our hearts to worship King Jesus. We will highlight the Scripture that will be preached as well as the songs we will sing during our Sunday Gathering.
Here are a three simple ways you can prepare your heart:
1) Read through and meditate on the text that will be preached that Sunday with your family and/or friends.
2) Sing, listen or read through some of the song lyrics that we will sing together and ask God to grow and strengthen our faith and understanding of Him through them.
3) Pray for God to reveal Himself to you and the The Crossing church in powerful ways!
Worship through the Word:
Worship through Singing:
Sunday Gathering - Advent 3 - 12.17.2017
The purpose of this blog post is to help The Crossing church engage and prepare our hearts to worship King Jesus. We will highlight the Scripture that will be preached as well as the songs we will sing during our Sunday Gathering.
Here are a three simple ways you can prepare your heart:
1) Read through and meditate on the text that will be preached that Sunday with your family and/or friends.
2) Sing, listen or read through some of the song lyrics that we will sing together and ask God to grow and strengthen our faith and understanding of Him through them.
3) Pray for God to reveal Himself to you and the The Crossing church in powerful ways!
Worship through the Word:
Worship through Singing:
O Day of Peace
Angels We Have Heard on High
What Glory Now Our Eyes Have Seen
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Sunday Gathering - Advent 2 - 12.10.2017
The purpose of this blog post is to help The Crossing church engage and prepare our hearts to worship King Jesus. We will highlight the Scripture that will be preached as well as the songs we will sing during our Sunday Gathering.
Here are a three simple ways you can prepare your heart:
1) Read through and meditate on the text that will be preached that Sunday with your family and/or friends.
2) Sing, listen or read through some of the song lyrics that we will sing together and ask God to grow and strengthen our faith and understanding of Him through them.
3) Pray for God to reveal Himself to you and the The Crossing church in powerful ways!
Worship through the Word:
Worship through Singing:
O Day of Peace
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Come Thou Long Expected Jesus
All Glory Be To Christ
Sunday Gathering - Advent 1 - 12.03.2017
The purpose of this blog post is to help The Crossing church engage and prepare our hearts to worship King Jesus. We will highlight the Scripture that will be preached as well as the songs we will sing during our Sunday Gathering.
Here are a three simple ways you can prepare your heart:
1) Read through and meditate on the text that will be preached that Sunday with your family and/or friends.
2) Sing, listen or read through some of the song lyrics that we will sing together and ask God to grow and strengthen our faith and understanding of Him through them.
3) Pray for God to reveal Himself to you and the The Crossing church in powerful ways!
Worship through the Word:
Luke 1:26-38 & Matthew 1:18-25
Worship through Singing:
What Child is This
When Love Came Down
O Come All Ye Faithful
O Come O Come Emmanuel
Sunday Gathering 11.26.2017
The purpose of this blog post is to help The Crossing church engage and prepare our hearts to worship King Jesus. We will highlight the Scripture that will be preached as well as the songs we will sing during our Sunday Gathering.
Here are a three simple ways you can prepare your heart:
1) Read through and meditate on the text that will be preached that Sunday with your family and/or friends.
2) Sing, listen or read through some of the song lyrics that we will sing together and ask God to grow and strengthen our faith and understanding of Him through them.
3) Pray for God to reveal Himself to you and the The Crossing church in powerful ways!
Worship through the Word:
Worship through Singing:
Sunday Gathering 11.19.2017
The purpose of this blog post is to help The Crossing church engage and prepare our hearts to worship King Jesus. We will highlight the Scripture that will be preached as well as the songs we will sing during our Sunday Gathering.
Here are a three simple ways you can prepare your heart:
1) Read through and meditate on the text that will be preached that Sunday with your family and/or friends.
2) Sing, listen or read through some of the song lyrics that we will sing together and ask God to grow and strengthen our faith and understanding of Him through them.
3) Pray for God to reveal Himself to you and the The Crossing church in powerful ways!
Worship through the Word:
Worship through Singing:
The Church’s One Foundation
Abide With Me
‘Tis So Sweet
Come Behold the Wondrous Mystery
Be Thou My Vision
Sunday Gathering 11.12.2017
The purpose of this blog post is to help The Crossing church engage and prepare our hearts to worship King Jesus. We will highlight the Scripture that will be preached as well as the songs we will sing during our Sunday Gathering.
Here are a three simple ways you can prepare your heart:
1) Read through and meditate on the text that will be preached that Sunday with your family and/or friends.
2) Sing, listen or read through some of the song lyrics that we will sing together and ask God to grow and strengthen our faith and understanding of Him through them.
3) Pray for God to reveal Himself to you and the The Crossing church in powerful ways!
Worship through the Word:
Worship through Singing:
Come Thou Fount
Grace Alone
There is a Fountain
He Will Hold Me Fast
Crown Him
Sunday Gathering 11.05.2017
The purpose of this blog post is to help The Crossing church engage and prepare our hearts to worship King Jesus. We will highlight the Scripture that will be preached as well as the songs we will sing during our Sunday Gathering.
Here are a three simple ways you can prepare your heart:
1) Read through and meditate on the text that will be preached that Sunday with your family and/or friends.
2) Sing, listen or read through some of the song lyrics that we will sing together and ask God to grow and strengthen our faith and understanding of Him through them.
3) Pray for God to reveal Himself to you and the The Crossing church in powerful ways!
Worship through the Word:
Worship through Singing:
Sunday Gathering 10.15.2017
The purpose of this blog post is to help The Crossing church engage and prepare our hearts to worship King Jesus. We will highlight the Scripture that will be preached as well as the songs we will sing during our Sunday Gathering.
Here are a three simple ways you can prepare your heart:
1) Read through and meditate on the text that will be preached that Sunday with your family and/or friends.
2) Sing, listen or read through some of the song lyrics that we will sing together and ask God to grow and strengthen our faith and understanding of Him through them.
3) Pray for God to reveal Himself to you and the The Crossing church in powerful ways!
Worship through the Word:
Ephesians 2:1-10 – Sola Gratia
Worship through Singing:
I Will Glory In My Redeemer
Sunday Gathering 10.08.2017
The purpose of this blog post is to help The Crossing church engage and prepare our hearts to worship King Jesus. We will highlight the Scripture that will be preached as well as the songs we will sing during our Sunday Gathering.
Here are a three simple ways you can prepare your heart:
1) Read through and meditate on the text that will be preached that Sunday with your family and/or friends.
2) Sing, listen or read through some of the song lyrics that we will sing together and ask God to grow and strengthen our faith and understanding of Him through them.
3) Pray for God to reveal Himself to you and the The Crossing church in powerful ways!
Worship through the Word:
Worship through Singing:
In Christ Alone
Sunday Gathering 09.24.2017
The purpose of this blog post is to help The Crossing church engage and prepare our hearts to worship King Jesus. We will highlight the Scripture that will be preached as well as the songs we will sing during our Sunday Gathering.
Here are a three simple ways you can prepare your heart:
1) Read through and meditate on the text that will be preached that Sunday with your family and/or friends.
2) Sing, listen or read through some of the song lyrics that we will sing together and ask God to grow and strengthen our faith and understanding of Him through them.
3) Pray for God to reveal Himself to you and the The Crossing church in powerful ways!
Worship through the Word:
Worship through Singing:
The Church’s One Foundation
Psalm 62
‘Tis So Sweet
He Will Hold Me Fast
Jesus I My Cross Have Taken
Sunday Gathering 09.17.2017
The purpose of this blog post is to help The Crossing church engage and prepare our hearts to worship King Jesus. We will highlight the Scripture that will be preached as well as the songs we will sing during our Sunday Gathering.
Here are a three simple ways you can prepare your heart:
1) Read through and meditate on the text that will be preached that Sunday with your family and/or friends.
2) Sing, listen or read through some of the song lyrics that we will sing together and ask God to grow and strengthen our faith and understanding of Him through them.
3) Pray for God to reveal Himself to you and the The Crossing church in powerful ways!
Worship through the Word:
Worship through Singing:
Christ the Sure and Steady Anchor
Crown Him
Rock of Ages
Be Thou My Vision
Grace That is Greater
Sunday Gathering 09.03.2017
The purpose of this blog post is to help The Crossing church engage and prepare our hearts to worship King Jesus. We will highlight the Scripture that will be preached as well as the songs we will sing during our Sunday Gathering.
Here are a three simple ways you can prepare your heart:
1) Read through and meditate on the text that will be preached that Sunday with your family and/or friends.
2) Sing, listen or read through some of the song lyrics that we will sing together and ask God to grow and strengthen our faith and understanding of Him through them.
3) Pray for God to reveal Himself to you and the The Crossing church in powerful ways!
Worship through the Word:
Worship through Singing:
Sermon Discussion John 8:12-30
Here’s a few sermon discussion questions to help our church love God by applying his word to our lives. Feel free to use these questions for personal reflection, alongside your family, within a smaller discipleship/journey group, or even within the context of your Life Group. If you missed Sunday’s sermon from John 8:12-30 you can view it online here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeQQ7rhEWSk&t=9s
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Sunday Gathering 08.27.2017 (check out textual criticism link!)
The purpose of this blog post is to help The Crossing church engage and prepare our hearts to worship King Jesus. We will highlight the Scripture that will be preached as well as the songs we will sing during our Sunday Gathering.
Here are a three simple ways you can prepare your heart:
1) Read through and meditate on the text that will be preached that Sunday with your family and/or friends.
2) Sing, listen or read through some of the song lyrics that we will sing together and ask God to grow and strengthen our faith and understanding of Him through them.
3) Pray for God to reveal Himself to you and the The Crossing church in powerful ways!
Worship through the Word:
Many of our English translations of the New Testament mention (or have a footnote) that John 7:53-8:11 is not in the earliest manuscripts. Because of this, we won’t be preaching through John 7:53-8:11. However, we do believe this is a story that most likely happened during Jesus’ ministry. There is much to say about this area of scholarship called ‘textual criticism’ and why we can trust our bibles. Pastor Aaron will briefly explain our reasons why we won’t be preaching this spurious text at our Sunday Gathering. If you would like to learn more, you can listen/read this message on this particular text and topic of textual criticism.
Worship through Singing:
Sermon Discussion Questions John 7:25-52
There was a lot of rich stuff that was highlighted in this recent sermon. Let’s try and focus on few things in the hope that they will have a great impact on us.
TPQ:
Have you ever experienced intense thirst? What was the situation? How good was the water once you drank it?
Read John 7:25-36
Describe the people around Jesus at this festival.
What things do they understand about Jesus? What things do they misunderstand about him?
Which people are hostile toward Jesus? Which people are interested in Jesus?
Read John 7:37-39
We’ll spend most of our time here.
Aaron mentioned that it is very common for people to try and “drink” from things that won’t satisfy. What are some of these common “drinks” that our culture sips from?
He also highlighted that Christians are not immune to this. We often times trade out the Holy Spirit as the third member of the Trinity for someone or something else, in the statement “Father, Son, and _______” what are some common things that Christians use to fill in the blank?
Break up into groups of 3-4 people that you feel comfortable with. First, read some Scriptures to each other that Jesus probably had in mind when he said this.
Read Isaiah 12:3, 58:11; Jeremiah 2:12-13, 31:12; Ezekiel 34:26; Psalm 36:7-9, 84:5-7, 107:35
Now in humility and honesty, talk to each other about the ways that your thirst has been satisfied by the Spirit of Christ in your life.
Speak honestly about the struggles in your life that are made worse by trying to sip from different “drinks.”
Who are the people that you can be a source of living water to in your life and what would that look like?
Pray for each other.
If there’s time after this, come back together as a group to finish the text.
Read John 7:45-46
If you are feeling down or condemned because you see the areas in your life where you’ve “sipped from different drinks,” take courage in a couple things.
- When Jesus invites people to come drink, who does he specifically invite?
- Answer: anyone. This includes even the people who were conspiring to kill him that day. He invites everyone from the curious onlookers to his vitriolic enemies. He is inviting you.
- May be worth mentioning that the verb tense in the Greek communicates “come and keep coming to me” and “drink and keep drinking from me,” so this is not a one time act at salvation, but the continual invitation to the believer as well.
- What was the response of the officers who went to arrest Jesus?
- “No one ever spoke like this man!”
- If you are feeling troubled, don’t let that push you away from Jesus, but toward him. Go to the one who can arrest you with his words. Go to the one who has waters springing up to eternal life (John 4:14), go to the one who has the words of eternal life (compare Peter’s words in John 6:68).
Sunday Gathering 08.20.2017
The purpose of this blog post is to help The Crossing church engage and prepare our hearts to worship King Jesus. We will highlight the Scripture that will be preached as well as the songs we will sing during our Sunday Gathering.
Here are a three simple ways you can prepare your heart:
1) Read through and meditate on the text that will be preached that Sunday with your family and/or friends.
2) Sing, listen or read through some of the song lyrics that we will sing together and ask God to grow and strengthen our faith and understanding of Him through them.
3) Pray for God to reveal Himself to you and the The Crossing church in powerful ways!
Worship through the Word:
Worship through Singing: