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Hosea tells the story of God’s covenant love–love that is stronger than any sin, more persistent than any betrayal, and more faithful than any failure.
For Jesus, the topic of money is a discipleship issue because what we treasure most is what we grow to trust most.
As we learn to hunger physically, something else powerful happens: our lives become aligned with God’s priorities. That’s why the practice of fasting is so important.
Through the Lord’s Prayer, we find forgiveness as freedom. Its focus is to bring transformation and deliverance of the heart.
The motivation and intention of your giving is what matters to Jesus—he invites you to move from me-centric giving to God-centric giving.
You were intentionally created by God to advance his kingdom. That’s why you need to know your gifts, passions, and story.
Jesus says his way is different from the value system of this world. As his followers, we are called to reject rebellion, reaction, and retaliation against those who persecute us.
Every follower of Jesus is challenged by Jesus’ words on marriage and divorce, and we ought to commit ourselves to God’s design when it comes to marriage: a covenant union of Jesus-like love that is established by God to reflect his image and fulfill his purposes as male and female.
PLEASE NOTE: This week’s talk explores verses from the Sermon on the Mount dealing with divorce and immorality, so parental guidance is recommended.
Jesus’ vision of sexuality + power of the Holy Spirit + our cooperation = a transformed heart
PLEASE NOTE: This week’s talk explores verses from the Sermon on the Mount dealing with lust and adultery, so parental guidance is recommended.
Jesus calls us to embrace a kingdom ethic that values every human life as sacred. And the truest way of right living is not just outward obedience; it’s wholeness of the human heart.
The world is an enemy of the soul because it normalizes and champions ways of life that are contrary to God’s design.
The devil’s end goal is death because there is no truth in him. Jesus calls us to identify lies and encounter truth.
Unbelief is belief in a lie. Followers of Jesus are called to identify any lies we are believing and to encounter the truth of Jesus.
Enemies of the soul work overtime—and all the time—against the work of the Holy Spirit within us. And because we live from the ideas that we believe, we must identify the lies we have come to believe.
You were made to have kingdom impact—that truth sits at the heart of Jesus’ teachings about his followers being salt and light.
Jesus calls his followers to have the mind of a peacemaker while expecting the potential of persecution along the way. We can see conflict as an opportunity to glorify God, serve others, and spiritually grow.
When our hearts are satisfied in the righteousness of God, our lives overflow with the mercy of God.
Disciples of Jesus live with a holy longing for right relationships with God and others.
If you want to fully experience the Kingdom of God, you have to get low. Dependency on God is essential for followers of Jesus.
CrossPoint is a community helping people trust and fully follow Jesus. We respond to Jesus' call to be with him and to be sent out into the places where God wants us for the sake of his kingdom.
Encountering all of Jesus will transform all of you. An encounter with Jesus is deeply transformative—breaking down barriers, offering true fulfillment, reorienting our worship, and empowering us to share our faith courageously with others.
The fruit of genuine forgiveness is genuine love. When we encounter Jesus—without resisting God’s presence and his grace—we encounter total forgiveness.
As we discover in John 5v1-16, it is never too late for Jesus to make you whole. What is true about encounters with Jesus in the Bible is still true for us today.
Fear and doubt fade in the presence of Jesus. When was the last time you were aware Jesus was with you?
Jesus is loving, gentle, and inviting—even if it feels like your faith is small, you can encounter Jesus right where you are.
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What happens when you encounter Jesus? He interrupts your agenda, he humbles you, he transforms you, and he redefines your life’s purpose.
Depending on Jesus’ love—just like a child—is how we follow him and step into the kingdom of God.
If you’ve truly encountered Jesus, your life can never remain the same—it’s a life-altering and life-shifting experience, as a guy named Zacchaeus discovered.
Followers of Jesus seek to make peace with everyone at every opportunity. Extending an invitation to a peacemaker conversation involves humility, acknowledging reflection, and making the ask.
God calls followers of Jesus to navigate relational tension wisely as they make every effort to work for peace—and as they choose to not settle for false peace.
Peacemaking doesn’t involve judge. Instead, it means comes alongside, readily admitting our own failures and “beams,” bringing grace and truth into the relationship.
God’s people are those who make and create peace. When we make peace like Jesus did for us, we have evidence that we are filled with the Holy Spirit and that we are children of God.
Followers of Jesus are called to make other followers of Jesus—disciples are called to make other disciples. And this priority extends to our entire church: making disciples and developing leaders who take the call of Jesus seriously.
We have been given the power of the Holy Spirit to live out our purposes as followers of Jesus—to be witnesses of Jesus—for the sake of our cities, our regions, our countries, and to the nations.
Followers of Jesus are called to be like Jesus, which includes serving one another as we become people of love. We actively demonstrate self-sacrificial love by serving the people around us—and by serving those who are part of our community.
Generosity is personally transformational and communally impactful—it grows our trust in Jesus and aligns our hearts with his.
The context for following Jesus was relationship with Jesus and with others, the course for following Jesus was experiences with him and with others, and the content for following Jesus was God’s truth lived out.
We want to be people empowered by the Holy Spirit as he redeems, sanctifies, and heals our whole being, preparing us for effective gospel ministry in the world.
Scripture reveals the wisdom of God about himself and the way God designed the world to work, and it invites us into the journey of character transformation so that we live well in the world as God intends.
When we follow Jesus, we are given a new identity—we are called to proclaim God's praises and we are called to live differently from the culture around us.
When you live a life of invitation, you help others take a step toward encountering Jesus. Every Christian can invite others to come, see, and experience Jesus.
Who’s your “one more” that has yet to know Jesus? The greatest obstacle to reaching one more might just be that we are not thinking about the people that God has strategically placed us beside for spiritual purposes.
God’s Word can change your life. Scripture has the power to form you into the image of Jesus, as you intake his Word, because God is actively present in his word.
When you approach the Scriptures formationally, the inner posture of your being can become a listener to the voice of God through the Scriptures.
Learning to read the Bible well and living its truth are essential habits that allow God to form us into the image of Jesus.
Understanding the meta-story of the Bible helps us to interpret Scripture wisely, and it helps us understand how much God loves us and wants us to be in his presence.
There is a connection between authority and trust. The more we understand why Scripture is trustworthy, the more readily we can recognize its authority in our lives.
We come to the Scriptures with hearts that are open, attentive, yielded, and obedient. We aren’t focused primarily on knowing more about the Bible, but becoming more like Jesus.
We can trust the word of God, because Jesus did. And we don’t just read the Bible—we “Eat This Book.”
Recollection, participation, and anticipation—all are important as we gather for communion.
Jesus’ birth shows that God’s love is the greatest love of all. How will you choose to respond?
Authentic joy comes from being with Jesus. And being with Jesus causes us to respond in joyful worship and mission.
Our hope is wrapped up in the gift of Jesus. When our hope is fixed on Jesus, it embraces future expectations, trust, and active waiting.
As people sent to take all of Jesus to all of the world, we must be a people of peace, we must be a people filled and empowered by the Holy Spirit, and we must be a people who share the message of the gospel.
As God’s people, we’re called to play our part in the Bible story. That truth rests at the heart of our Advent Initiative: the call to pray, serve, and give.
As we examine our mission as a local church, dive deeper into CrossPoint’s core values of presence and transformation.
It’s important to talk about our vision as a local church because vision keeps us focused and protects us from drifting, it pulls us toward God-sized goals, and it compels us to take faith-filled risks.
The secret of contentment is being God-dependent, and if we can learn to be God-dependent, we can have the power through him to endure any circumstance we might face.
A life committed to the Jesus way intentionally advocates for unity, rejoices because of Jesus, interacts with everyone with graciousness, and finds peace from anxiety through prayer.
Philippians 2 reveals three truths about Jesus: (1) As God, Jesus emptied himself. (2) As man, Jesus humbled himself. (3) God has exalted Jesus as Lord of all.
Joy is found when we have unity around Jesus and his mission. How can each of us specifically contribute to building and protecting that unity?
Is Jesus your life? When Christ is your life, your perspective changes and your conduct changes. You’ll see suffering as a gift. And you’ll see death actually as a reward.
When we remember our identity in Christ and the mission he has given us as his followers, we will grow in love for one another and for the world around us.
Proverbs 31 contains wisdom from a woman and truths about being a woman of virtue, but this powerful passage of Scripture reveals important principles that are relevant to everyone.
We can find wisdom in things that are small and simple—even animals that God created. Seriously. Discover what Proverbs 30 reveals about this surprising truth.
"God, make me a person of truth and make me content"—these two requests from Proverbs 30 address both our spiritual and physical needs, and they are powerful prayers we can make in our own lives.
How can followers of Jesus live in a way that we cannot tolerate the sin in us or around us yet never oppose it with pride, superiority, or arrogance? It comes through knowing that God is God, and following his design.
Envy leads to discontentment, anger, malice—it’s a downhill spiral. A life built around gratitude is essential for handling the envy we face.
Wise people value who they are becoming over the wealth and material things they have. Discover four truths from Proverbs 22 about how to be wise with wealth.
Once we say something, we can’t take it back—what’s said is said. That actually gives our words power that can produce either death or life. The fruit of our lips reveal the content of our hearts.
What are some marks of a true friend? It’s someone who is constant, is honest, gives wise counsel, shows respect, and loves like Jesus.
Psalm 73 leads us through a journey of orientation, disorientation, and reorientation. And if you find yourself wrestling with doubt, help is here—encountering Jesus changes everything.
Facing anxious right now? Psalm 55 reveals the importance of noticing our anxiety, naming our anxiety to God, surrendering what is not ours to carry, and putting our trust in God.
When we feel hopeless, we can encounter hope in the person of Jesus and the character of God. Even in our darkest times, we can go to God with the fullness of all our emotions and all of our pain.
If you’re experiencing loneliness, remember that God through his Spirit is actively inviting you to find strength and refuge in his presence.
God has spoken to us through Jesus Christ, and Jesus becomes present to us through the Holy Spirit. Discerning the voice of the Spirit comes through training and spending time with God.
God gives us spiritual gifts—grace gifts given by the Holy Spirit to all people who follow Jesus, for growth and maturity of the people of God.
It takes a lifetime to learn to walk by the Spirit—we learn how to cooperate with the Holy Spirit. And as we trust the Spirit, God produces lasting fruit in our lives.
How much of yourself does God have? How much of yourself have you entrusted to the Holy Spirit? God wants us to live in the power and presence of the Holy Spirit. We’re to live in his presence every moment of every day.
The work of the Holy Spirit in our ongoing discipleship to Jesus can be described through such words as illumination, empowerment, and sanctification.
The work of the Holy Spirit is vital to the Christian life. That’s why it’s essential that we know how he works and what he does.
The Holy Spirit is God—a full member of the Trinity, coequal, coeternal, of the same divine essence, yet distinct. Numerous Scriptures refer to his deity and his personality.
There’s no other way to live the Christian life and there’s no other way to be the church than having the fullness of the Spirit of God in us.
The story of Easter tells us that when your loss, your fear, or your doubt—or any other crisis in your life—collides with the resurrected Jesus, they are transformed to joy, peace, and trust because Jesus is alive.
Your story is not the gospel—the gospel is Jesus’ story. But your story and the stories you share demonstrate the power of the gospel to change and transform lives.
God is at work around us before we even show up to the scene. Our part is to identify where God is working in the world and then join him.
Followers of Jesus are called to act justly, to love faithfulness, and to walk humbly with God. That lifestyle includes real-life demonstrations of hospitality to the people around us.
Sharing the gospel grows us and we can all grow in our ability to share the gospel. In our cultural moment, helping people understand the gospel happens best through relationships.
Followers of Jesus are citizens of God’s kingdom before we are citizens of any particular country on earth, and that makes us strangers, exiles, aliens—it makes us a bit peculiar.
We all base our lives on some kind of gospel—some form of good news. Counterfeit gospels never lead to life. But Jesus points us to the true, life-giving gospel message.
Followers of Jesus are living proof of the transforming power of Jesus, and we are called to share the message of good news—the gospel—with the people God has placed in our lives.
Humility is strength. Pride is weakness. Our culture celebrates pride, but humility is the entry point and the culmination of following Jesus.
Forgiveness is something we must freely give to others, but it requires a supernatural work of God in our lives. Authentic forgiveness moves toward reconciliation and the ideal from God called love.
What we allow into our lives matters, and what our lives produce matters. It’s beneficial to take time and reflect on the condition of your heart, using Proverbs 4v20-27 as your guide.
Parents are called to teach their children the truth and wisdom of God. Discover 10 principles for how to raise your children—or how to invest in the children and grandchildren in your life.
How do we train for wisdom? How do we grow in wisdom? Proverbs 3 reveals how wisdom can emerge in your life and develop in your life.
If you want to know where you can find wisdom for this life, it begins with God and it leads to Jesus, the one who offers redemption and makes a way for us to now live in wisdom.
Hear from Pastor Andrew about the framework for processing what God has done and is doing right now in his life. This is a beneficial set of ideas to help you live more intentionally in the coming year, too.
We must regularly reflect on our lives to discover what God wants to teach us about ourselves and how we can live wisely. Discover 10 lessons God has been teaching, reminding, and reinforcing Pastor Andrew over the past few years.
The story of Mary is a story of worship and a wholehearted commitment to the plan of God, and she helps us to understand why Jesus is the Christmas miracle.
Christmas whispers this: “Jesus has come to us.” Through Jesus, God has demonstrated his love for you. That is the heart of the Christmas story. But each of us must decide if we will accept or reject Jesus, the light.
When we examine the Christmas story, we can learn from Joseph because of his heart posture toward God. Like Joseph, our hearts must also be open to receive God’s love, expressed through Jesus.
God is working to make all things right one day, even when it feels like God is absent or involved in our life situations—Jesus is our ultimate rescue plan.
We all need Jesus because all of us sin, and sin wreaks havoc on everything God called "good." That truth rests at the heart of Advent and Christmas.
Generosity will change your life. Discover two truths and three ways of living as the generous people God calls us to be.
In our culture, generosity is an act of rebellion. And God doesn’t want us to just practice generosity; God wants us to become generous people.
Through true hospitality, we open our hearts and homes so people can receive the love of Jesus through us. Hospitality is expressing the love of God through tangible actions.
It takes intentionality and purpose to cultivate unity among followers of Jesus. We can discover some specific steps from some of Jesus’ earliest followers.
Can you be in community with people who disagree with you? Yes, because it’s how Jesus treated each of us. Handling conflict well is a key marker in the growth and maturation process of a community.
Jesus-modeled discipleship is a balance of relationships, experiences, and truth. Jesus invites us to encounter the power of community as we trust and fully follow him.
How well do we love one another? What does it look like to be a distinctly Christian community?
We are fundamentally created to be in community, and Jesus modeled what it looks like to foster an intentional, diverse, and purposeful community.
Becoming like Jesus is possible but not inevitable. Far too many of us believe three lies about transformation, leading to a faulty view of spiritual growth.
Because of Jesus and what he’s done, the greatest value in life is knowing him. So, what does it mean to be with Jesus—to be a person who’s pursuing his presence?
As followers of Jesus, our belief begins in the gospel, the good news of Jesus. Belief is fact, belief is trust, and belief is obedience.
If you really want to be a person who takes God at his word and lives by it, then Jesus must be the object of your attention and your affection.
Following Jesus will cost you something. We see this truth through a group of people listed in Hebrews 11. But when we give up our lives, we find real life.
Faith trusts God with the outcome. Anyone can come to God in faith, perfection is not a prerequisite to faith, and God can use anyone who places faith in him for his redemptive purposes. To have faith in God is to trust in God’s character.
Moses helps us understand how to cultivate an enduring faith, a faith that will last even when everything around us is attempting to form us in a different way.
Faith trusts God against all odds. Sarah received the promise of God with the laughter of impossibility, but God demonstrated his power to do the impossible in and through her.
As we see through the life of Abraham, faith-in-action requires obedience to God, waits on God, and withholds nothing from God.
Noah is commended in Scripture as a man of faith who took God at his word and lived by it. God used Noah’s faith to work his plan of redemption in the world. And in the face of cultural pushback, God can use your obedience, too, for his redemptive purposes.
God chose for Enoch to not experience death; he simply walked into the eternal presence of God. Before that even took place, Enoch was approved as one who pleased God.
We see faith in the life of Abel, from the Old Testament. Faith produces the kind of character in a person that will always give their best to God.
Faith is the demonstration of belief through action in God and his word for what is not yet seen. Faith takes God at his word and lives by it.
The new life in Christ is the key to seeing the Gospel effectively going out into the world. While there’s maybe not a lot of interpretation at the end of Colossians, there’s a lot of things to put into practice with this text.
We’re called to live every relationship—including marital, parental, and socioeconomic—for the sake and honor of Jesus and from our new identity he’s given us.
We can live out a new way of life as God’s new humanity, and this weekend’s passage points us toward the truth about both sins of desire and sins of disunity.
We’re all pursuing something, and the apostle Paul offers wisdom into what to pursue with our life, how we are to pursue it, and why we should pursue it.
Living our best life in Christ results in true freedom, but we first must understand (1) that God’s acceptance of you is not contingent on what you do and (2) that this free life is living as Jesus would if Jesus were you.
We become like Jesus and do the things he did when we apprentice to him and walk with him, because life is best lived in Christ.
If Christ is in you, you know the call on your life, you begin to mature, you live with a lasting encouragement, and you won’t be deceived by seemingly reasonable arguments.
What do you believe to be true about Jesus? That question resounds through the generations. It was relevant for the earliest Christians, and it remains pertinent to our lives today.
Paul’s prayer life was constant, contagious, intercessory, and humble. If we really understand and apply these priorities, too, it will radically change our prayer lives.
When the good news of Jesus is at work in your life, what is it producing? Genuine gospel produces faith, love, and hope.
Because Jesus proved his power over death, he has the power to resurrect what is dead in your life. What is dead in your life that needs resurrection?
We can choose to deny Jesus and follow self, or we can choose to deny self and follow Jesus. That essential, unavoidable decision is illuminated on Palm Sunday.
God wants to transform us, and one of the ways he does that is through service. Discover three reasons why being a servant like Jesus really matters.
The practice of repentance is a practice of priority for the follower of Jesus. When we wander, we can return to the Lord. Repentance is both confession and right actions.
Because of who God is, our suffering can be meaningful. God can redeem our suffering and give it purpose.
We can’t follow Jesus alone. God uses community to transform us, shape us, and form us.
This true story of Jesus has forever shaped human history: God’s kingdom has arrived in Jesus, and through Jesus the whole world would be redeemed, and we have the opportunity to be united with God.
Discipleship to Jesus isn’t accidental. It takes intention. It takes faith. It takes trust. It takes a turning from your way of life to his way of life.
True joy is found in living like Jesus. Our joy can be made complete as we live in a way that reflects the life of Jesus.
While it may seem that joy has been elusive or snatched away from us, there is a joy that’s available to us that no one can take away. Where is lasting joy found? It’s found in the person of Jesus.
God’s never-ending reign assures us our grief will be healed. Just because you move on from a loss doesn’t mean you’ve healed from a loss. God is good enough to give purpose to your pain, your grief, your loss.
Hope in our grief grows out of the truth that we rehearse. Through lamenting, we pour out our heart and we are anchored in the truth of who God is.
It’s through yielding our grief that we journey toward healing from grief. We must surrender our grief to God if we’re going to grieve well, because when we make that choice, it’s a mark of trust.
How do we walk through struggle? Articulate your struggle, questions, and doubts to God. Bring other trusted of followers of Jesus into the struggle with you. Cling to Jesus.
Good grief articulates the sorrow you experience. Healthy lament needs to be put to words—we must name our grief.
Tears are not a sign of weakness or unbelief. Tears are a release valve for your pain. If you’re in grief, cry out to God, and let other people help.
As followers of Jesus, we are called to participate in generational discipleship—leading kids and teens toward Jesus. What step can you take to make a spiritual investment in the next generation?
Jesus came to proclaim a season of God’s abundant grace, and God still extends his grace to you and me today. Are you in need of the healer today?
If Jesus is our Savior, he is also our sanctifier. God wants to transform us into what we have already been declared to be in Christ—it’s the work of sanctification that he is doing.
Keeping our eyes on Jesus is the point of Advent, yet it seems so hard in this season to do that. We can find hope in the truth that Jesus is our Savior.
One day when God sets everything back to right, we will no longer struggle with competing identities. We will be people of God’s possession. Period.
Pastor Andrew Wilson recently talked with Rick Stein about the importance of peacemaking and reconciliation. We believe the Spirit of God is at work in our church, and may we seek forgiveness as we have been forgiven with the help of Jesus.
God, where are you at work around us and in the people around us? Where can we partner with you in your mission?
We need to walk through five key stages in the process of reconciliation. And don’t underestimate the power of the Holy Spirit as you practice forgiveness and repentance along the way.
When we reconcile, we intentionally live out the good news of Jesus. Through reconciliation, we step into loving others the way Christ has loved us.
We reconcile out of love for Jesus and for one another—and we do so voluntarily and because we’ve been loved by God.
Reconciliation is possible because we now have an identity that’s been transformed by Jesus. When we pursue reconciliation, we’re living out the good news of Jesus that we say we’ve received.
We deepen in our relationship with Jesus when we grow more fully in our apprenticeship to him.
Real communication with God will produce stability and grow your character. It does more than just make you feel close to God—it transforms you and births the likeness of Christ in you.
A deeper walk with God comes from seeking God and loving God with everything you have and are—your heart, will, affections, desires, dreams, everything about you.
We live in a world filled with loneliness. But through Jesus, God becomes our friend. And you can be friends with God because you are the object of his love.
If you want to deepen your relationship with God, it’s going to take an incredible amount of honesty. God seeks relationship with those who are honest and who will speak truth about themselves.
God wants to know you way more than you could ever desire to know him. So how do we know God and build a life-transforming relationship with Jesus?
We didn’t physically witness with our eyes Jesus’ death and resurrection, yet we are called to be his witnesses. Consider what that looks like for us in this week’s message.
Active membership is an invitation to commit to participate in the local church family where God has called you. It means participation in a family, and we’re a microcosm of the universal family of God.
We come to experience God’s grace through communion and baptism. As God’s new covenant family—the church—we participate in communion and baptism on a regular basis.
Every breath we breathe is an act of worship. As followers of Jesus, all of what we do is an act of worship to God. Hear from Pastor Andrew in this special version of the message he delivered during our Sunday gatherings this weekend.
As we follow Jesus, we can be confident that God is up to something in our lives. And as we finish our series from 1 John, we examine four certainties that give confidence to our faith.
What is the way to having real life? What is the way to faith? These two questions rest at the heart of the Scripture we examine during this weekend’s talk.
How we define love matters, and God has created us to love him and to love others. Let us let God’s love radically change and transform us, and let us love one another well.
The stage is set for us to show the world what real love looks like. May we be a church that loves with sacrifice, not selfishness; may we be known by how we give up for each other, and not just put up with each other.
Living in sin is incompatible with abiding in Christ. We won’t reach some level of perfection before Jesus comes back. But our attitude toward sin ought to be one of disgust—when we mess up, it ought to bother us because that’s not like Christ.
Salvation is not earned through endurance, but endurance is a mark and sign of those who follow Jesus. Is Jesus still the one you know who can save you, redeem you, restore you, or are you looking to other sources for hope?
We’re called to love like Jesus loves, but our love gets misguided, misdirected at times. You can have a real relationship with God, but there’s something that can break that union apart, John warns: a love for the world.
If you’re growing in obeying God’s commands, if you’re growing as a person of love, and if you’re learning to walk in your new identity in Jesus—that is all evidence that you’re trusting and fully following Jesus.
If we take God seriously, we’ll also take sin seriously. And the reality of our sin should sober us and move us more deeply toward God’s grace through Jesus.
What does it look like to follow the way of Jesus? How do we identify truth in our world? What does it mean to remain in God’s love?
Join us as Pastor Andrew Wilson wraps up the podcast that has accompanied our “Wise & Ancient Love” series.
Covenant love is faithful, unconditional, sacrificial, and hopeful. If you commit to loving each other with this kind of covenant love, you’ll leak hope into the world.
Acknowledge the best in each other, cultivate an ongoing passion for one another, and delight in the oneness of identity for the rest of your life. That’s how you cultivate lifelong love for your spouse.
Join us as Pastor Andrew Wilson tackles questions from the congregation and topics we didn’t have time to cover during this weekend’s talk in our “Wise & Ancient Love” series.
We all do things that contribute to conflict in relationships. But as followers of Jesus, in our relationships we’re called to get right, not to be right—especially in our marriages.
Join us as Pastor Andrew Wilson tackles questions from the congregation and topics we didn’t have time to cover during this weekend’s talk in our “Wise & Ancient Love” series.
God created sex, and he called it good. Sex is the mutual self-giving of an intimate relationship. That was God’s design for a husband and a wife—a partnership, a union.
The marriage relationship should be so committed, so unified, so intimate that the only way you could describe it is as “one flesh.” Discover more about the purpose of marriage in this week’s message.
Join us as Pastor Andrew Wilson tackles questions from the congregation and topics we didn’t have time to cover during this weekend’s talk in our “Wise & Ancient Love” series.
One bad date can be forgotten, even if it’s a little annoying. But poor dating can cost you pieces of your spiritual, physical, and emotional substance. What does healthy intentional dating look like?
Join us as Pastor Andrew Wilson tackles questions from the congregation and topics we didn’t have time to cover during this weekend’s talk in our “Wise & Ancient Love” series.
We’ve lost the art of romance in our culture. Too many relationships are built on consumption, not commitment. What does it look like to experience a life-giving way to date?
Join us as Pastor Andrew Wilson tackles questions from the congregation and topics we didn’t have time to cover during this weekend’s talk in our “Wise & Ancient Love” series.
The faith community has gone awkwardly silent about love and sex and marriage, but God talked about these topics, so we need to talk about them, too.
Easter screams hope because Jesus really is alive, because Jesus’ resurrection is at the heart of the gospel—what we call the good news.
Spend a few minutes reflecting on the second criminal who was crucified next to Jesus—and consider how Jesus says "yes"
You can’t discuss Palm Sunday without discussing the dynamics of power. We love power. We desire power. And power is one of the things that we have to work on as followers of Jesus. So, how do you handle power?
Every follower of Jesus has stories of unanswered prayers. So, why the wait? Are there good reasons that we can understand for why God doesn’t answer every prayer?
We can approach God in simple, trusting confidence—that’s praying in the Spirit. And if you’re not motivated to pray, the Spirit of God can actually motivate you to pray.
God calls followers of Jesus to intercede in prayer. When we intercede for others, we’re shifting from our needs to the needs and concerns of others. It is selfless, self-giving prayer.
Why should we listen to God in prayer? How does God speak to us in prayer? And what is our attitude as we listen to God in prayer?
What are some common barriers to a robust prayer life? And how does The Lord’s Prayer help us engage in conversation with God?
How does Jesus respond to our fears, anxieties, and apprehensions? And what does it look like to live as a witness for Jesus? Hear from Pastor Andrew and a panel of people from CrossPoint as they consider how to share the message of Jesus with the world around us.
People on mission bear witness about the reality of the Kingdom of God. What does that look like? And what is our mission?
God initiates transformation in our lives, but we must cooperate in order to be transformed. So, what does that look like? How does it happen?
Everyone is being formed by something or someone. Who are you being shaped into? Who or what is forming you?
We cultivate a relationship with God through sustained presence with him by remaining in Jesus.
Jesus wants a relationship with you. Each of us must respond to that simple yet profound truth.
What does it mean to be a disciple of Jesus, and what does the process of discipleship look like as we head into 2021?
We each truly long for peace, but lasting peace only comes through Jesus—the one who himself is lasting peace.
The gift of Christmas is the gift of Jesus, who is eternal in nature and is forever our present Father.
When we declare that Jesus is our mighty God, we affirm his transcendence and his power and how he is the victorious one.
On this first Sunday of Advent, we examine Isaiah 9 and its declaration that Jesus is our Wonderful Counselor—exactly what does that mean for our lives today?
Jesus wants to save us from being lukewarm because he loves us. Jesus wants to wake us up from our self-reliance, and he wants his grace to change us.
Why can Jesus be trusted? The letter to the Christians in Philadelphia provides three powerful reasons.
Jesus’ words to his followers in Sardis remind us that there is spiritual danger in legalism and dualism, but there is spiritual power through obedience, prayer, and worship.
Jesus criticized the church in Thyatira's willingness to tolerate immoral practices and teachings. Instead, he calls his followers to lovingly correct and to point people toward him.
A compartmentalized life leads to a comprised life. But Jesus calls us to live differently.
What are God’s purposes in our suffering? What are God’s promises? And what is God’s power?
The church's mission is to make disciples of Jesus, and God disciples people through relationships: with Jesus and with others. In the context of relationships and community, truth becomes alive and meaningful.
Is it possible to hold deep convictions while simultaneously embracing those in your community who reject your deep convictions? See what the New Testament reveals for those of us who follow Jesus.
Jesus’ vision for community was intentional, diverse, and purposeful. We all desire community because it is how we are hardwired, yet too often we settle for pseudo-community instead of a Jesus community. We are called to cultivate, live, and follow Christ in a Jesus-community.
God designed us for community. Yet we struggle in our culture with this reality. What is the solution to our problem? We must be open to how God hardwired us.
Because of the Resurrection of Jesus, we have freedom FROM the world and freedom FOR the world.
The Gospel of Mark identifies four groups of people who witnessed the crucifixion of Jesus. Each group offers us a unique perspective on this crucial moment for followers of Jesus—and for all of humanity.
Communion is significant historically, theologically, spiritually, and practically. Through communion, we remember and receive the gift that is Jesus.
Jesus has promised to return, so stay woke! As the end nears with each passing day, suffering is coming for the church—but we also can find strength in the promise that Jesus is coming back. Faithful obedience through it all is the disciple’s call.
What is the most important thing that God asks of us? Jesus points us to the greatness of God and then commands us to love Him with everything we are, every single part of our life. We have both a great privilege and a great responsibility to express our love for God in obedience by making disciples of all nations.
When Jesus answered a question about whether to pay a specific tax to the Roman government, he was guiding all of his followers to reject political simplicity, reject political disengagement, and reject politics as our ultimate devotion.
God's power is the dynamic behind prayer's unlimited power. There is no circumstance, no trial, no situation for which prayer is not THE most effective resource we could possible draw upon.
Discover the 8 words that describe a model disciple of Jesus, with a man named Bartimaeus as our example for this week's talk.
What does it mean to be truly great? How does Jesus' definition of greatness differ from our culture's definition?
Jesus calls us to build essential community, and we believe that kind of community happens when people gather with the purpose of following Jesus, practicing his way together as family.
What does it look like to get after a vision of community that's committed to being transformed together by the presence of Jesus?
The most important question each of us must answer was posed by Jesus himself: "Who do you say that I am?" Our answer affects everything in our lives
Do you believe God can sustain you through your current season of life? Discover what it looks like to live a life filled with audacious faith in God.
How has your character grown during the COVID-19 pandemic? How can God use suffering to develop more Christlike character in your life? Join Pastor Andrew and his friend Dr. Scott Burns for a discussion-style message focused on what it looks like to grow as disciples of Jesus and as people with resilient faith.
We continue to pray through the Lord's Prayer by acknowledging God's name as something holy and beautiful and incomparable.
Join Pastor Andrew as he begins a series of podcasts that flow from the Lord's Prayer. Today he engages us in a prayer centered on God as our Father and how the injustices in our world break God's heart, including the act of hatred and injustice against George Floyd.
God is able to keep you from stumbling. God has all the resources to keep you resilient. No one is promised a perfect life, but God can keep your life from falling apart.
We become what we set our minds on, so are we seeking Christ with all that we have? Join Pastor Andrew for his observations and a prayer from Colossians 3, focusing on what it means to set our minds on things above instead of on earthly things.
A resilient life and an abundant life is possible if we allow Jesus to build his character within us. Discover what can we learn about perseverance and faithfulness from the life of Jeremiah in the Old Testament.
When we look at people, the posture of looking invites us to truly, genuinely listen to what they say. Those who follow Jesus are called to treat others with respect, and we can learn from his example as a listener.
The COVID-19 crisis has changed the dynamics of many relationships in our lives. We as followers of Jesus can love well as we move forward into the next season, as things begin to reopen and we begin to regather with others.
What can we learn about parenting during a shelter-in-place season? Join Andrew and Anna Wilson for the third and final part of their discussion about parenting during the current pandemic.
What are some essential characteristics that we want to see in our family? Join Andrew and Anna Wilson for the second part of their discussion about parenting during the current pandemic.
What's the main point of parenting? What's our role as parents in the process of discipling our kids to become followers of Jesus? Join Pastor Andrew and his wife, Anna, for the first part of their discussion.
God uses underdogs—people who find themselves on the margins—to accomplish his plans. This truth gives us hope that we can be used for our good and for God's glory as we trust and fully follow Jesus. Discover what can we learn about resilience and discipleship from the life of Esther in the Old Testament.
One of the fruits of God's Spirit is joy, but experiencing joy can be difficult during the kind of challenging season that many of us are facing right now. Join Pastor Andrew as he takes time today to pray a prayer of joy over us.
Spend time today praying with Pastor Andrew about injustice, hatred, and racism in our world. We must stand against and pray against these things because they grieve the heart of God and for the way God calls people to treat one another.
Continue this week's prayer journey with Pastor Andrew as he prays for the CrossPoint community based on Colossians 1.
Join Pastor Andrew as he takes a prayer walk. (Seriously.) He'll lead us through a time of prayer: for our city and valley, for those who are spiritually lost, for all of us who are struggling in this season of life or who feel like God is far away.
God wants to build inside of us the kind of resolve that often comes through the testing, the winds, and the storms of life, as we see through the life of Daniel.
Spend a few minutes with Pastor Andrew celebrating moms and the other significant women in our lives and women who've gone before us. Whether you view Mother's Day as time of joy and celebration or a time of mourning and hurt, we are with you and for you.
Even in a spiritual dry season or a challenging time of life, how do we continue drawing closer to Jesus and becoming more like him? Join Pastor Andrew for the final part of his conversation with his friend Uriah, as they discuss spiritual growth.
Experience reading or hearing the Bible for yourself. Explore the lives of Christians from previous generations. These and other habits can help you arrange your life around Jesus and help you become more like Jesus. Join the continued conversation between Pastor Andrew and his friend Uriah about the "Rule of Life" and intentional spirituality.
Find answers for effective strategies to foster and develop greater relationship with Jesus during this conversation between Pastor Andrew and his longtime friend Uriah.
Pastor Andrew talks with his friend Uriah about the "Rule of Life," and they discuss how we can continue to intentionally engage in spiritual development during this time of separation and isolation.
When we look at the life of Ruth from the Old Testament, we see a resilient person who embodied inner loyalty and the heart of a servant.
Life is made up of relationships, especially for followers of Jesus. But engaging in community is hard, and too many of us travel the wide path of loneliness in life. Join Pastor Andrew as he offers some final thoughts on the "Rule of Life" with a focus on the necessity of engaging in community.
We can still be part of what God is doing around us, even while we're not okay. In the midst of a grieving season, God can redeem the moment and redeem our hearts. Join Pastor Andrew for the final part of his conversation with his friend David, who works with people in Southeast Asia as an international worker.
When grieving, it's important to name your losses and be honest about your reasons for grief. As we move from self-talk to God-talk, we can embrace this season as a way of cultivating the way of Jesus in our lives. Join Pastor Andrew as he continues his conversation with his friend David, who works with people in Southeast Asia as an international worker.
We are all experiencing grief at some level during the COVID-19 pandemic. Why can it be so difficult for many of us to process grief well? Join Pastor Andrew for a poignant conversation on this topic with his friend David, who works with people in Southeast Asia as an international worked.
As our world wrestles with grief over the things we've lost during the COVID-19 pandemic, Psalms 42 and 43 help us discover how we can move from self-talk to God-talk and experience the hope that only God can give.
What would it look like if every one of us intentionally performed an act of kindness or generosity each day? We can choose to be kind to others because Jesus has been kind to us.
Scaling back our consumption of news, information, and technology is a freeing experience that is actually a culturally subversive aspect of the Rule of Life.
On the Sabbath, we stop our work and rest, and we join with other followers of Christ to worship. Those habits help us follow the Rule of Life and develop a rhythm of living that helps reorient our lives around being with Jesus.
We are relational beings, and we can each choose to reach out to another person—another individual with whom we have a deep, intimate friendship during this challenging time.
God cares about our physical bodies. When we care for ourselves physically, we honor the fact that we are temples of the Holy Spirit, who lives within us.
During times of crisis or anxiety or upheaval, it's easy to indulge in escapist behaviors. It is important that we find ways to limit our intake of things like alcohol, social media, television, sugar, staying up late, and so on.
Distress often smothers our courage in the middle of life’s challenges, but God offers hope even when we feel weighed down by hardship and troubles. Psalm 31 offers insight into how to pray for the strength we need to face whatever’s happening in our lives right now.
A relationship with God means we talk with him and listen to him on a regular basis. That's why pausing three to five times throughout the day to engage in prayer is a beneficial piece to the "Rule of Life."
Participating in silent prayer and Scripture meditation helps us engage in the rhythm of being with Jesus on a regular basis.
Explore how our "Rule of Life" can help us more intentionally arrange our lives around Jesus and his way.
Spend a few minutes each day hearing from CrossPoint Alliance Church. This podcast is designed to unify our church family and keep us together during these unprecedented moments.
Spend a few minutes each day hearing from CrossPoint Alliance Church. This podcast is designed to unify our church family and keep us together during these unprecedented moments.
Spend a few minutes each day hearing from CrossPoint Alliance Church. This podcast is designed to unify our church family and keep us together during these unprecedented moments.
Spend a few minutes each day hearing from CrossPoint Alliance Church. This podcast is designed to unify our church family and keep us together during these unprecedented moments.
Spend a few minutes each day hearing from CrossPoint Alliance Church. This podcast is designed to unify our church family and keep us together during these unprecedented moments.
Spend a few minutes each day hearing from CrossPoint Alliance Church. This podcast is designed to unify our church family and keep us together during these unprecedented moments.
Psalm 13 is a passage of Scripture that powerfully relates to our present reality: when so many people are in a time of deep distress and feel overwhelmed, like the weight of the world sits squarely on their shoulders.
Spend a few minutes each day hearing from CrossPoint Alliance Church. This podcast is designed to unify our church family and keep us together during these unprecedented moments.
Spend a few minutes each day hearing from CrossPoint Alliance Church. This podcast is designed to unify our church family and keep us together during these unprecedented moments.
Spend a few minutes each day hearing from CrossPoint Alliance Church. This podcast is designed to unify our church family and keep us together during these unprecedented moments.
Spend a few minutes each day hearing from CrossPoint Alliance Church. This podcast is designed to unify our church family and keep us together during these unprecedented moments.
Spend a few minutes each day hearing from CrossPoint Alliance Church. This podcast is designed to unify our church family and keep us together during these unprecedented moments.
Spend a few minutes each day hearing from CrossPoint Alliance Church. This podcast is designed to unify our church family and keep us together during these unprecedented moments.
Psalm 62 offers a pathway for considering how God has been faithful in our lives and how we can continue to choose to trust God in the middle of anxious, uncertain times.
Spend a few minutes each day hearing from CrossPoint Alliance Church. This podcast is designed to unify our church family and keep us together during these unprecedented moments.
Spend a few minutes each day hearing from CrossPoint Alliance Church. This podcast is designed to unify our church family and keep us together during these unprecedented moments.
Spend a few minutes each day hearing from CrossPoint Alliance Church. This podcast is designed to unify our church family and keep us together during these unprecedented moments.
Spend a few minutes each day hearing from CrossPoint Alliance Church. This podcast is designed to unify our church family and keep us together during these unprecedented moments.
Spend a few minutes each day hearing from CrossPoint Alliance Church. This podcast is designed to unify our church family and keep us together during these unprecedented moments.
Spend a few minutes each day hearing from CrossPoint Alliance Church. This podcast is designed to unify our church family and keep us together during these unprecedented moments.
How do we overcome anxiety? How do we grow as followers of Jesus in becoming a non-anxious presence in an anxious world? Jesus speaks to these questions in Matthew 6v25-34.
Amid all the chaos around us, Pastor Andrew Wilson brings 5 biblical practices to overcome fear in our current cultural moment. [NOTE: Audio only]
The remedy of a broken heart can only be found in trusting the person of Jesus to heal us from the inside-out. [NOTE: Audio only]
Everyone faces impossible situations. Our reactions to those difficulties uncover the object of our trust. Because Jesus meets us where we are, there is courage for every crisis. [NOTE: Audio only]
Many people saw Jesus, yet many people failed to see Jesus for who he really was. Far too many people in our world make that same mistake today. [NOTE: Audio only]
We practice the way of Jesus by intentionally becoming a people of presence, formation, and mission. When we arrange our lives as a community around these rhythms we will be a community who is helping people trust and fully follow Jesus. [NOTE: Audio only]
CrossPoint is a community helping people trust and fully follow Jesus. Discover more about the vision of our church. [NOTE: Audio only]
The mission of the people of God—the church—has never changed. Jesus presents to us his strategy to reach the world with the Good News of the Kingdom of God: make disciples.
Following Jesus is an invitation to be a people desperate for God, exercising faith, fighting comfort, and sacrificing self to fulfill God's intended plan for the world.
In this passage, the Gospel of Mark recalls Jesus' teaching through parables concerning Kingdom growth. God is faithful to do much through our little.
In this teaching we cover misjudgment, Jesus, forgiveness, and the eternal sin as we look at a hard saying of Jesus.