Crossroads Church Aspen Podcast: Recent Episodes
Crossroads Church of Aspen
This week Steve introduced our new winter series talking about what healthy church is and how our five building blocks for healthy church will help guide us.
This week Steve taught about the outworking of loving God and ourselves into loving others and that we carry out the Great Commission through the Great Commandment.
This week Steve taught on how to love ourselves and how that is intimately integrated into loving God and others.
This week Steve introduced the 3 dimensions of wholeness, upward, inward and outward that can be found in the great commission and focused on how do we love God.
This week Brent Phillips Pastor of Sandbox Church Houston, Tx. spoke on discipleship and the role that we all play in the function of church.
This week Brent Phillips Pastor of Sandbox Church Houston, Tx. spoke on the simple and powerful message of the Great Commission as it is the complete foundation of discipleship.
This week Steve talked about how easy it is to get off track and experience mission drift and the importance of re-focusing and re-purposing to make sure we are aligned with Jesus’ call for our life.
This week Steve talked about what it means to walk by the Spirit and live free from the law and sin.
This week Steve talked about the Holy Spirit’s role in re-purposing our lives to be part of the greatest building project ever.
This week Steve talked about the all-important issue of stirring our hunger for God and that we cannot live for Jesus unless we are living with Jesus.
Chris Henderson (Next Generation Pastor) Spoke on knowing your why in life and how the your why will affect your what.
This week Steve taught out of Romans 12 three necessary things for us to defeat the giant of independence that is keeping us and our culture in deadly bondage.
This week Steve taught from John 15 and how to grow from Pop-prayer into Abiding Prayer with Jesus and the Father.
This week Steve begins our new fall series about getting deeply involved with God and people and introduces two key things we have to know about being a good Faith Friend to others.
This week Steve talked about how hard it is to believe that God has our best interest at heart and how powerful the Gospel is to transform our body from territory of self to temple of the Holy Spirit.
This week Steve addressed this question and if it is even relevant today for our current culture and what it looks like to share our faith and be a faith friend.
This week Steve talked about one of the key barriers that keeps us out of the party God has called us into with the children of God.
This week Derek Brown introduced us to the thought that, Christ-followers are actually secret superheroes with superhuman capacities.
This week Steve wraps up the Job series with a look at what true wealth ands prosperity is and how we are to pursue it.
This week Steve taught out of Job 3, one of the darkest chapters in the Bible, about key faith questions needed for emotional healing.
This week Steve taught about the biblical principles for healing that the church and believers should be walking in. Our health is an integral part of what it means to prosper. It is not everything, but our Father in heaven has given us resources we have often neglected.
This week Steve talked about how we are to become a faith friend that helps prepare others to encounter the Lord and the move of the Spirit in their lives.
This week Steve talked about some of the lessons from Job about how to journey through a suffering season and how to journey alongside others as a good faith friend.
This week Steve taught about the importance of learning to live from a biblical spiritual warfare worldview and how to embrace the protection and power gained for us by Jesus.
This week Steve discussed some of the big God questions that are raised in the first two chapters of Job and what we are to learn about faith and our trust in God.
This week Steve continued the Job series exploring how Job was so confident in his standing before God and how that was key in his perseverance through intense trials and how he came through with greater faith and greater favor.
This week Jim Daly President of Focus on the Family spoke on brokenness and the power of God to overcome any obstacle in our lives.
This week Steve kicked off a new series and did an introduction to the book of Job and explored some big questions like; Were we made to prosper and How can we be right with God?
This week Steve addressed the prodigal problem we have in attending Church, but not being part of the Father’s household.
This week Brian looked at the Lord as our shepherd, and how we can do greater things than even Jesus did with the help of the Holy Spirit.
This week Steve talked about what it means to be a Friday and Sunday Christian and how to learn to pray for power.
This week Steve looked at the importance of faith leading feelings and that God does not coddle His children He calls them to great faith.
This week Steve dealt with the epidemic joy problem that is sweeping our culture and many within the Church. Is it ok not to be joyful as a follower of Jesus?
This week Steve talked about how to pray that we and others would learn to be a unifying and purifying influence upon the church family, the body of Christ.
This week Steve talked about how to pray so we can grow in our knowledge of God’s Will, Ways and Works.
This week Steve talked about the Posture, Purpose and Perspective we are to have in prayer if we are going to grow in our talking with God.
This week Steve taught about what it means to truly believe and live the new life Christ came to give us!
This week Dan Dangler (Young Life Area Director) talked about perspective in our faith. How perspective shapes and forms our faith. By looking at the Palm Sunday story through different perspectives, our very own perspectives are challenged. Can we live with the perspective that our life, gifts, talents, and resources are to be used to bring God glory? It’s all in the perspective.
This week Steve talked about the intensity and focus of our prayer and what is our ASK?
This week Steve finished teaching through the Lord’s Prayer and how we handle the temptations that come from within and the temptations that come from the outside.
This week Chris Henderson (Next Generation Pastor) spoke about how our prayer life should be a conversation, that is based on the belief and faith that God is strong enough, big enough and powerful enough to lead our lives.
This week Steve talked about how the need to be happy today has consumed us over the need for God’s forgiveness which has created a therapeutic gospel.
This week Steve talked about how anxiety is misplaced dependence and consumerism is a misplaced communion.
This week Steve discuss how to understand authority and make decisions in line with the will of God.
This week Steve talked about how the Gospel transforms us from an orphan to a child of the Father and that radically impacts our prayer.
This week Steve talked about the importance of learning to trust our heavenly Father with our real needs and desires and loves. What we desire and love is truly who we are.
This week Steve talked about the importance of our private prayer backing up our public prayer and life. Are we being honest with God in our prayer life?
This week Brent Phillips closed out our 2019 G3 conference. Community is a buzzword but where is real, authentic community. Surveys suggest that most American’s are lonely. Why is that? And what is the solution to this epidemic?
Crossroad Church Aspen G3 Gathering
Saturday Night Session February 2, 2019
Panel Discussion Crossroads Core Community Values
Crossroad Church Aspen G3 Gathering
Saturday Morning Session February 2, 2019
PJ Smyth speaking on Community and Power.
Acts 6:1-7
Crossroad Church Aspen G3 Gathering
Friday Night Session February 1, 2019
PJ Smyth speaking on Community and Power.
Luke 7:36-50
This week Steve started a new series and talked about the amazing truth that God desires to communicate with us and for us to enjoy being in His presence. For many of us, we have not learned “how” nor have we experienced these blessings.
This week Steve talked about how Saving Faith, Sanctifying Faith, and Empowering Faith all work together to build healthy community and how we pursue them.
This week Steve talked about the importance of pursuing God’s design for sex through the power of the Gospel for the cleansing and healing of our fractured identities, marriages, and communities.
This week Steve talked about the importance of developing the right attitude toward church and how it is an intimate part of experiencing community
This week Steve talked about how the Gospel integrates our Past, Present and Future with Faith, Love and Hope so we can be whole selves rather than a committee of selves and give encouragement to others.
This week Steve finished the four-week series, How Do We Love One Another? by talking about what it looks like to live in loving community with one another rather than continue in our independence and isolation.
This week Steve talked about the two main barriers that keep us from loving ourselves and keep us from loving our neighbor. They also are the main barriers that keep us from receiving God’s love.
This week Steve talked about four key areas in our lives that are major indicators of how we are loving God and obeying the great commandment.
This week Steve talked about the two primary ways that people pursue fulfillment by either religious duty or self-discovery and that Christianity is something altogether different where we actually experience the love of the Father.
This week Clint Phillips unpacked the toolkit of God, revealing the different ways that God works in and through His people.
This week Chris Henderson Next Generation Pastor shared about the journey of identity and the discovery we each need to have of Christ being our core identity.
Ephesians 4:14-21
Galatians 2:20
This week Steve summarized the 8 values of biblical community and discussed how spiritual maturity works.
This week Steve talked about the importance of living from purpose and having a mission and that busyness is betrayal of the mission Christ has given His Church.
This Sunday Steve talked about how we can move from a shaken identity to a secure identity from an apathetic holiness to an awakened holiness and from a faithLESS ministry to a faithFULL ministry.
This week Steve talked about how we are to respond when someone sins against us and how we are to respond when we sin against someone. Without learning to live unoffendable by the Gospel we cannot build healthy community.
This week Steve talked about the importance of being willing to be accountable so we can grow in friendship and community. We cannot break the bondage of darkness and isolation without living accountable lives.
This Week Dan Dangler talked about the importance of understanding the power that community has when it is fueled with a mission. Community under the Gospel is beautiful, powerful and nothing can stop it. That’s how Jesus set it up.
A Community with A Mission.
(Mark 2:1-12)
Community is a powerful force.
That’s why we need to define what Community … Christian Community is. Community under the Gospel is beautiful, powerful and nothing can stop it. That’s how Jesus set it up.
A Community
Mark 2:3 — Some men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them.
This group knew one another. That means they had moved beyond the guarded responses and into Community. They were vulnerable and honest with one another on a deep level.
With a Mission
Mark 2:4 “Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was lying on.”
They know that the only way their friend is going to experience LIFE is to meet Jesus.
Moved through adversity
Mark 2:4 “Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was lying on.”
How does “the crowd” block our way to Jesus, to even seeing or considering Jesus? How does “the crowd” block our way of getting our friends to the feet of Jesus?
and witnessed God move
5When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”
11“I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.”
12He got up, took his mat and walked out in full view of them all. This amazed everyone and they praised God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this!”
Isn’t that what we want? Don’t we want to be in situations that we get to see God move? Don’t we all want to see God transform lives?
So…who is your community? What is your mission? Be prepared for adversity and expect that God will move.
This week Steve talked about the importance of being teachable for a healthy community to grow. There are many lessons from John 6 we can learn from both the crowd and the disciples about being teachable.
This week Steve talked about the importance of vulnerability and that nothing hidden can be healed unless the Gospel sparks vulnerability which leads to freedom and true community.
Exposing One of the Greatest Killers of True Community
(Hebrews 4:12-16, 10:24-25)
8 Community Values:
Biblical
Humble
Vulnerable
Teachable
Accountable
Unoffendable
Faith-FULL
Missional
These all together define true community as modeled and taught in the scriptures. There is an order of maturing from biblical to missional. We are on this journey and working at getting these values taught and modeled within all of our groups that meet. Please “commit” to one of our community offerings! True transformation and spiritual growth cannot happen without this commitment – and it is a commitment. Nowhere in the Bible does it ever to allude to the possibility that someone can be a follower of Jesus who just attends a once a week church service – Church is not what we attend, it is who we are!!
Read Hebrews 4:12-16; 10:24-24:
12 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 13 And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account. 14 Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. 15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. 16 Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
10:24-25
24 And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, 25 not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
The lack of vulnerability is one of the greatest killers of a true community because it fosters lies and isolation and a fake relationship with God
(Heb 4:12-16, 10:24-25)
Vulnerability: definition
Susceptible
Weakness
Defenselessness
Helplessness
Openness
Exposure
Liability
Without adequate protection
Extremely susceptible
Physically or psychologically weak
Open to attack
Secrets kill, they are eventually exposed
Secrets put us in bondage to shame and guilt – they control us – they make us do things we would never think of doing before –
Secrets relationally isolate us
Deal with our relational silos today and the problem of bringing two people together with hidden unhealed secrets
Vulnerability sparked by the Gospel of Jesus Christ strengthens community because it breaks the bondage of lies and isolation and instills confidence in our relationship with God
(Hebrews 4:12-16; 10:24-25)
4:13, we are all naked-exposed before God and “laid bare” before Him – this word is unique in the NT and means “to bend back the neck like in wrestling” in others words sooner or later in all our wrestling with God we are pinned to the mat and everything exposed and held in account before Him – isn’t this the very essence of vulnerability? It is a recognition we no longer are going to wrestle with God and try and hide from Him, hide our stuff from Him and others. Call people to stop their wrestling with God, they’re doubting Jesus’ uniqueness and sufficiency, their disappointment with God, their bitterness and anger and turn to the throne of grace.
4:7, the main lesson we should learn from those who were in the wilderness is that if we hear His voice we should not harden our hearts – this is hiding from God, this is isolating from God and His people, this is unbelief and it will keep us from rest and the way to rest which is the Gospel of Jesus.
This week Steve talked about the second core value of community – humility. It is the key to God’s grace and favor in our personal lives and it is the main building block of a healthy unified community.
This week Steve began the new series, Better Together and talked about what Biblical comm-unity is and why we cannot define community until we understand why we long for community.
Today Dan Bosko shares about his journey of listening to the nudges of God these past few years and how it has led him to a whole new career path!
This week Steve concluded the series in Romans with a look at Roman 12 and how the Gospel transforms our view of our body, the Church and community. A Vision for Community
The Only Solution for Loneliness and Isolation
Romans 12
“Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world.” – Mother Teresa
The Gospel (the mercies of God) transforms how we think about our life and body Romans 12:1-2
There is no community without unity
God’s design for us to be in community with Him
We all desire to know God’s will for our life
Renewing our mind – learning to think differently about my life and body, the Church and community – we cannot experience the good, acceptable and perfect will of God unless we are learning to think as God wants us to think about our bodies
V3-8
The Gospel (the mercies of God) transforms how we think about Church
Romans 12:3-8
There is no community without a commitment to the Body
God’s design is for us to be in community with each other
Unity and diversity are both essential and valued
V9-21
The Gospel (the mercies of God) transforms how we think about community
Romans 12:9-21
God’s design is for His community to be a force for good – overcoming evil in the world
The unity of the community inside the Body determines the impact outside in the surrounding community and world
In Christian community God desires us to be His family where the joys of one become the joys of all and the pains of one become the pains of all – this can only happen as transparency and vulnerability are modeled within the community
The best way to get rid of an enemy is to make him a friend!
This week guest teacher Jack Deere teaches on discipleship and the defining elements of discipleship.
“Loving others and teaching them to love what we love.”
This week Steve talked about what it means to be “more than conquerors” and how to stay in the love of God.
Gospel-Centered: Staying in the Love of God
(Romans 8:35-39)
We are to learn to live a Gospel-centered life where the love of God in Christ Jesus consumes and compels us to be victors through all of life’s struggles in our service to God.
When we live with a peace-time mentality rather than a war-time mentality we minimalize God’s love and sacrifice
John 16:33 – “In the world you will have tribulation, but take heart, I have overcome the world.”
1 John 5:4 –5 – “For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory (same grk word form as Rm 8:37) that has overcome the world – our faith. “
The love of God is His total working for our salvation through His Son Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection – it is the Gospel Good News! His love is sure and firm, but what about our love for God – how does that factor into our ability to joyfully walk through life’s hardest issues with a victory mentality?
The only way to be victorious in life is to stay in the love of God through Jesus Christ.
This is how to stay Gospel-Centered in the love of God:
Religion ——————— GOSPEL———————– Irreligion
(Relationship)
Legalistic———————GOSPEL————————Relativistic
(Obedience)
Certainty———————GOSPEL————————Uncertainty
(Trust)
Conditional——————GOSPEL————————Unconditional
(we need to earn it) (Love) (doesn’t matter what I do)
This week Steve talked about the importance of having a firm Gospel foundation to stand upon in the midst of life’s trials, traumas, and temptations.
Romans 8:28-30
We must know that we are called according to His purpose:
Foreknew: God knows me and desires to be known Himself.
Predestined: He loves us and has an eternal plan for us.
Called: God called us to Himself and, by faith, we responded to Jesus as our Lord and Savior.
Justified: God, through Jesus, cleansed us of all our sin and made us right before Him – free from sin, shame, and condemnation. We responded by embracing the Gospel truth over our life as our identity.
Glorified: God sanctified us and set us apart from the world and will completely confrom us to the image of Jesus. We responded by faith in learning to walk in obedience to His Word and the Holy Spirit.
This process is the overall working of good by God in our life. This is the rock solid foundation that life with Jesus is to be built upon.
Many of us have been taught these truths, but we have not learned how to build our life upon this solid foundation so that when the storms of life rage, we can hold tight and make sense of life.
These last two questions are behind every lie of the enemy and every temptation and struggle in the chaos of life.
Romand 8:31-34
If God is for us who can be against us?
The dangerous lie that shatters lives: God is not for me.
Who shall bring any charge-condemnation against God’s elect?
The second great lie that shatters lives: I can’t be good enough to be right with God, and the opposite lie – I am a good enough person.
This week Steve dealt with the big issue of God’s goodness for us in a suffering world and how we can be assured that “it will all work out ok.”?
This week Steve looked at Romans 8:16-17 and what it means to suffer with Jesus so we can be glorified with Jesus. How we view suffering radically impacts our life of faith and expectation.
How to Win the Battle of the Mind: This week Steve taught on Romans 8:5-11 and how to win the battle of the mind by looking at the primary way we can learn to have victory in our spiritual life.
This week Steve talked about the power of the blessing of reconciliation and how that Gospel blessing should radically impact how we relate to each other and how it should spur on healthy friendship, fellowship and community.
TAKE AWAY FROM SUNDAY’S MESSAGE:
KEY VERSES: Romans 1:16 – 2:4
This week Steve continued in the new series The Glorious Counter Culture Gospel and went through the main themes found in the book of Romans which includes some tough territory like the question “What are we saved from?” Talking about salvation is meaningless if we are not clear on what we need salvation from.
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