Bible Thoughts
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Trusting God With Our Money
On Sunday at CrossWay Church we talked about trusting God with our money. It was the second week in our three-week series “The Almighty’s Dollar.” The words “trust” and “faith” are very closely related. To have faith in God is to trust Him: to trust Him with our souls, our families, our health… and our Continue reading
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Jesus’ Jamaica Project
Today during the Bible story at the Training Station Preschool, Ms. Grace was telling the kids how Jesus taught His disciples that He was going away to prepare a place for them. When she asked if any of the kids knew where that place was, one little guy who’s three or four said, “Jamaica!” Continue reading
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Loving God With Our Money
At CrossWay on Sunday we began a three-week series about money, called The Almighty’s Dollar. Everyone’s favorite topic to hear about in church, right? Actually, money does have great spiritual significance. Jesus talked about it a lot. The gist of His teaching about it is that what you do with your money reveals where your Continue reading
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Jesus Broke My Schedule
“How many loaves do you have?” That’s what Jesus asked His disciples when they wanted to know how they were supposed to follow up on His suggestion that they feed 4,000 families. (See Mark 8:1-10.) Obviously they didn’t have enough food to feed what amounted to a small city. They must have felt a little Continue reading
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Midway Praise
Last night at CrossWay Church we had our first Midway Praise. It’s something we’re just starting to do every three months. We had 20 people come out for some celebration, music, and focused prayer (and a short devotional, which is Christianese for sermonette). It was great! We started with four songs, then spent about 15 Continue reading
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The Comfort of the Vine
Yesterday at CrossWay was the second week in a two-part series in the Book of Jonah. We read Jonah 3:1-4:11 in which God teaches us an important truth that the prophet Jonah had trouble accepting: Souls are more important than our comfort. Jonah didn’t give a rip about the 120,000 people in the city of Continue reading
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God’s Immeasurable Power At Work Within Us
This morning I was reading the apostle Paul’s prayer for the church in Ephesus, when I noticed something I hadn’t caught before. In Ephesians 3:20, he writes: “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us….” That line Continue reading
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Jonah & CrossWay Membership Class
At CrossWay yesterday we started a new series and also began our first membership class. The series is a two-parter about the Book of Jonah. Yesterday we read the first two chapters and a couple verses from chapter 3. The subject was repentance, which essentially is making a U-turn. At some point we’re all traveling Continue reading
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Preschool Theology
It’s amazing how kids get it. We have so much to learn from them. This morning when Ms. Grace was teaching the Bible story at the Training Station, she asked them what a miracle is. One little girl raised her hand and said, “Something only God can do.” That floored me. Adults write huge volumes Continue reading
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Celebrate & Serve: Goals & Strategy
This past Sunday was the third part of the Celebrate & Serve series at CrossWay. We talked about our goals and our strategies for achieving them. Yesterday I wrote about our five core values: Community, Reverence, Outreach, Service, and Spiritual Growth. For each one of these values, we have a goal for 2010–and only one, Continue reading
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