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At Summit Crossing Community Church, we exist to Know the Gospel, Connect in Gospel relationships, and Live out the Gospel in the world. A vital part our ministry is teaching the word of God. Our podcast feed will give you access to a variety of scripture passages and topics to study.
Dave Baker | The Bible doesn’t gloss over the reality of suffering and grief. Instead, it teaches us how to lament honestly while entrusting ourselves to God. How would Jesus have sung this psalm of lament, and what would that change for us?
Bill Magsig | “Jesus said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.’ And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit.’” (John 20:21-22)
Bill Magsig | The resurrected Jesus has immeasurable power to transform us – in our doubts, our sin, our sorrow, and our isolation.
Bill Magsig | The crucifixion of Jesus is the centerpiece of a cosmically grand story, the vastness of which has big implications for our lives.
Bill Magsig | The greatest political and religious powers of Jesus’ day conspired to destroy him. But he conquered them by God’s power as he embraced the weakness of the cross for us.
Bill Magsig | Citizenship in Jesus’ Kingdom includes protecting the unborn. But it also includes extending grace, love, and support to those who’ve had abortions or are considering having one.
Bill Magsig | Citizenship in Jesus’ Kingdom transforms the ways we relate to others because the King has already transformed our hearts.
Joey Thompson | Jesus’ kingdom is not just a future, heavenly kingdom. He reigns as king right here and now. How far does his reign extend, and how does it impact us?
Bill Magsig | As he stood before Pilate, Jesus appeared powerless and Pilate appeared in charge. But the opposite was really true. Since Jesus is totally in control, we have nothing to fear.
Dave Baker | While Jesus faithfully stands strong under pressure, Peter faithlessly buckles under pressure. How can we remain confident in God’s grace toward us when we feel especially guilty and ashamed over our sin?
Bill Magsig | Jesus’ High Priestly prayer shows how our fire to know him and make him known grows from seeing his glory through prayer.
Bill Magsig |“I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.” (John 16:7)
Bill Magsig | Jesus graciously offers himself to us in authentic friendship and sends us out to love others in his name. He says that as we go, the world will hate us because of him, yet we never go alone - he’s always with us.
Bill Magsig | Pastor Bill Magsig concludes this Vision Series by highlighting our fifth main area of emphasis for 2022: Neighborhoods to Nations Initiatives.
Bill Magsig | Pastor Bill Magsig shares about three of our five key areas of emphasis for 2022: Family Ministries, Missional Communities, and Equipping Ministry.
Bill Magsig | Pastor Bill Magsig walks us through looking back at God’s grace toward us in 2021 and looking forward to what we pray for God to do in 2022.
Bill Magsig | Pastor Bill Magsig walks us through looking back at God’s grace toward us in 2021 and looking forward to what we pray for God to do in 2022.
Dave Baker | Christmas is all about the love of God. Jesus came to rescue us so that we could fully experience and enjoy God’s unfathomable love for us forever.
Bill Magsig | The arrival of peace with God is the arrival of our joy in God. Because we have peace with God through Jesus, we don’t have to look to other people or circumstances to be our functional savior.
Bill Magsig | And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!” (Luke 2:13–14)
Bill Magsig | “I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.”
Bill Magsig | As Jesus prepared the disciples for his departure, he promised to send them “another Helper,” the Holy Spirit. Who is the Holy Spirit, and what is his mission in our lives? Jesus’ answers to those questions go beyond what many of us expect.
Bill Magsig | “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me… Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.”
Dave Baker | How does Jesus call us to represent him in the world today? What do the glory of God and the power of the cross look like in our everyday lives? In his last few hours before going to the cross, Jesus gave vital instructions to the disciples as he prepared them for his departure.
Bill Magsig | Jesus, the eternal King of glory, tied a towel around his waist, poured water into a basin, and began to wash his disciples’ feet.
Bill Magsig | When we find the weightiness of the glory of God in the gospel of Jesus, we’re freed to serve others and steward resources rather than looking to them to ultimately satisfy us.
Bill Magsig | While Pharisees plot and Judas grumbles, Mary lavishly pours out her love to Jesus. Rather than panic about external enemies, the gospel calls us in to worship and rest in Jesus.
Bill Magsig | When intense suffering hits we can find ourselves asking, “If God really loves me, why is my life like this?” The account of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead reveals a lot about God’s love for us in our suffering.
Bill Magsig | We hate the idea of not being completely independent. But as gospel people, the way of life is the way of glad submission to Jesus and his Scriptures. While we were still in rebellion against him, Jesus went to the cross to rescue us.
Bill Magsig | “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.” (John 10:11)
Bill Magsig | In John 9, Jesus heals physical blindness and reveals spiritual blindness. Just like he can give physical sight, only he can open our spiritual eyes.
Dave Baker | How should Christians process others walking away from the faith? In John chapter 8, John shows us several things about true and false belief. Jesus says that those whom the Son sets free will continue to follow him, and will ultimately never see death.
Bill Magsig | Christians are resident foreigners in this world. Our true home, our true country, is yet to come: a perfect, eternal city built by God himself. To endure in the faith, we must embrace our identity as resident foreigners and live in hope of the world to come.
Bill Magsig | The author of Hebrews tells us that holiness and endurance go hand in hand. What does it look like to run the race of gospel faith and obedience?
Bill Magsig | The Bible says that Jesus provides a kind of sabbath rest for his weary people. Before sabbath rest is ever a day to observe, it’s a principle to believe.
Bill Magsig | Kicking off a new series on Enduring Faith in an Exhausted Culture, Pastor Bill Magsig shows us how unceasing prayer helps realign our hearts and minds around God’s heart and leads to endurance.
Bill Magsig | As we face the inevitable storms of life, Jesus is with us - unworried, in control, and for us.
Dave Baker | How does the Gospel of Jesus address our daily anxieties? Jesus speaks life-giving encouragement to His people in Matthew chapter 6.
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Dave Baker | Dave Baker shares an overview of the Sermon on the Mount, calling us to rest in the Gospel of the Kingdom where the Father’s grace changes us from the inside out.
Bill Magsig | His first sermon as Pastor for Preaching and Vision at Summit Crossing Limestone, Pastor Bill Magsig encourages us to rest fully in God’s perfect love and goodness toward us in Jesus.
Joey Thompson | As we prepare to welcome our new Pastor for Preaching and Vision, Bill Magsig, elder Joey Thompson calls us through the Scriptures to pray for Bill, his family, and his gospel ministry.
Dave Baker | Jesus cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’”
Joey Thompson | What is that we need to be saved? What does it look like to call others to repentance compassionately? Jesus graciously speaks to these things leading up to the Feast of the Booths.
Dave Baker | Jesus drove crowds away with hard truths on His path to redeem them with his blood.
Joey Thompson | Jesus teaches us how and why we should seek Him. The good gifts he offers are far better than those we often seek from Him.
Joey Thompson | Jesus teaches us how and why we should seek Him. The good gifts he offers are far better than those we often seek from Him.
Paul Whaley | “When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were frightened. But he said to them, “It is I; do not be afraid.” Then they were glad to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going.”
Dave Baker | The miraculous feeding of the five thousand is a powerful picture of the Gospel and a display of Jesus’s glory. Through the response of the crowd, John cautions us about a surprising way to miss the real Jesus.
Joey Thompson | Faith in Jesus is not blind or unthinking. Jesus defends himself to the religious leaders by heaping up credible witnesses who all testify that He’s the Savior-King that God promised. He’s a perfect Advocate for all who trust in Him.
Dave Baker | Jesus makes staggering claims about who He is and what He does. But is it reasonable to believe Him? And what kind of heart posture fits with faith, or fights against it?
Joey Thompson | Jesus’s third miraculous sign in John’s Gospel shows us our desperate spiritual need and Jesus’s abundant grace.
Joey Thompson | King Jesus has been raised from the dead, never to die again! Just like the women who sought him that resurrection morning, so now all who seek Him may find Him. Because He’s the risen Son of God, we gather to worship Him and scatter to make disciples. “And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Joey Thompson | In Matthew 21 we see the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. It is the coronation of the rightful and true king. Jesus is Lord and worthy of all praise!
Joey Thompson | John once again leads us to more deeply examine the idea of belief in Jesus, this time through the story of Jesus healing a critically ill boy from a long distance away. Jesus’s glory is on display. Come and see, and believe in Him.
Dave Baker |Jesus gives us new life and calls us into His own mission by the Spirit. Disciples of Jesus are missionaries; it’s in our new-birth DNA. Yet as missionaries of Jesus we still need to be discipled. Jesus calls his disciples further into his own joy as He calls them to “look, lift up your eyes and see that the fields are white for harvest.”
Dave Baker | Deliberately crossing every social barrier, Jesus provides a wellspring of living water to a woman who’s shocked that He would even speak to her. The Father is lovingly seeking worshipers from among those that many would least expect - even us. We were all outsiders to God, and yet Jesus came to welcome us into God’s family and satisfy our soul-thirst forever.
Dave Baker | Entering the Kingdom of God is not about knowing the right thing or doing the right thing! Instead it is about the saving and merciful work of our God.
Joey Thompson | Entering the Kingdom of God is not about knowing the right thing or doing the right thing! Instead it is about the saving and merciful work of our God.
Joey Thompson | Jesus displayed His unique authority as the Son of God by driving merchants and money-changers out of His Father’s house. When asked for a miraculous sign to prove his authority He answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up” - not the building, but “the temple of his body.”
Dave Baker | Jesus’s first miraculous sign in John’s Gospel is the turning of water into wine at a wedding feast. The miracle itself is astounding - but John shows us that it’s loaded with glorious truth about who Jesus is and what He ultimately came to do for us.
Dave Baker | What does it look like to believe in Jesus? The Apostle John paints a picture of it for us in the calling of the first disciples. As the news about Jesus spreads, people come and encounter Him for themselves, which changes their life and drives them to bring others to meet Him, too.
Joey Thompson | “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! ...I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son of God.” John the Baptist shows us what it looks like to faithfully bear witness about Jesus to others. It’s important that we know our audience and know ourselves, but most of all that we know Jesus.
Joey Thompson | “14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. 15 (John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’”) 16 For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.”
Dave Baker | John writes that Jesus of Nazareth is the eternal Word of God, God the Son, the uncreated Creator, the unstoppable Light of Life. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.... All things were made through him... In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
Dave Baker | Whatever other needs we face, our greatest need is to see the glory of Jesus and believe in Him. John says he wrote his account of Jesus’s ministry, death, and resurrection to display Jesus’s glory so that we would believe in Him - not just once, but continually - and have eternal life in His name.
Jamey Nettles | At Advent, we look back in reflection on Jesus’s birth and look ahead in anticipation of His return. Jesus took on humanity and was born at Bethlehem because “God so loved the world.” God’s love toward us is astonishing, both because the Gift He gave us was infinitely precious and because we as a fallen race are profoundly undeserving. Yet into our guilty world the hope of mankind has come to reconcile to God all who will believe.
Joey Thompson | At Advent, we look back in reflection on Jesus’s birth and look ahead in anticipation of His return. Jesus took on humanity and was born at Bethlehem because “God so loved the world.” God’s love toward us is astonishing, both because the Gift He gave us was infinitely precious and because we as a fallen race are profoundly undeserving. Yet into our guilty world the hope of mankind has come to reconcile to God all who will believe.
Dave Baker | Our vision is to see the kingdom and glory of God advance from the neighborhoods to the nations. And our mission is to make disciples who make disciples by knowing the Gospel, connecting in Gospel relationships, and living out the gospel in the world. This week we'll begin unpacking that mission to make disciples and understanding out identity as missionaries.
Joey Thompson | Our vision is to see the kingdom and glory of God advance from the neighborhoods to the nations. And our mission is to make disciples who make disciples by knowing the Gospel, connecting in Gospel relationships, and living out the gospel in the world. This week we'll begin unpacking that mission to make disciples and understanding out identity as servants.
Jamey Nettles | Our vision is to see the kingdom and glory of God advance from the neighborhoods to the nations. And our mission is to make disciples who make disciples by knowing the Gospel, connecting in Gospel relationships, and living out the gospel in the world. This week we'll begin unpacking that mission to make disciples and understanding out identity as family.
Joey Thompson | Our vision is to see the kingdom and glory of God advance from the neighborhoods to the nations. And our mission is to make disciples who make disciples by knowing the Gospel, connecting in Gospel relationships, and living out the gospel in the world. This week we'll begin unpacking that mission to make disciples by living out the Gospel.
Dave Baker | Our vision is to see the kingdom and glory of God advance from the neighborhoods to the nations. And our mission is to make disciples who make disciples by knowing the Gospel, connecting in Gospel relationships, and living out the gospel in the world. This week we'll begin unpacking that mission to make disciples by connecting in gospel relationships.
Joey Thompson | Our vision is to see the kingdom and glory of God advance from the neighborhoods to the nations. And our mission is to make disciples who make disciples by knowing the Gospel, connecting in Gospel relationships, and living out the gospel in the world. This week we'll begin unpacking that mission to make disciples by knowing the Gospel.
Jamey Nettles | We celebrate and give thanks to God for the ministry of Jamey Nettles, our Pastor for Preaching and Oversight. Jamey is a dear friend to us all who has faithfully served our church family and community since Summit Crossing Limestone was planted in 2013. In that time God has grown and deepened our Gospel community through Jamey's preaching, leadership, and friendship. So it is with both joy and sadness that he and the elders announce that God is leading him to begin a new chapter of life and ministry.
Dave Baker | “Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.” (Eph. 6:10-13)
Jamey Nettles | God's ultimate goal in all He does is to bring glory to Himself. This is good news for humanity because we are invited to find our deepest satisfaction in enjoying Him and making His glory known among the nations.
Jamey Nettles | God has given His people the greatest of all possible gifts: a loving, secure, personal relationship with Himself through Jesus Christ. We especially enjoy this relationship as we hear from God through His Word and talk to God in prayer. Why then do so many of us find prayer so difficult? God’s not angrily waiting for us to get our act together. He sympathizes with our weakness and lovingly invites us into a more joy-filled life of prayer.
Joey Thompson | On the seventh day God rested from His work and set apart a weekly day of rest for His people. The sabbath day pointed back to God’s glory in creation, but it also pointed forward to the new creation that was to come through Jesus. Jesus modeled intentional, weekly rest as an act of worship and faith in God, then he died and rose again to purchase our souls’ eternal rest in God. Jesus calls us to rest by faith in the Good News of the Gospel and to follow Him in weekly rhythms of good work and holy rest.
Jamey Nettles | On the seventh day God rested from His work and set apart a weekly day of rest for His people. The sabbath day pointed back to God’s glory in creation, but it also pointed forward to the new creation that was to come through Jesus. Jesus modeled intentional, weekly rest as an act of worship and faith in God, then he died and rose again to purchase our souls’ eternal rest in God. Jesus calls us to rest by faith in the Good News of the Gospel and to follow Him in weekly rhythms of good work and holy rest.
Jamey Nettles | What does it look like to follow Jesus at home in the everyday stuff of life? In Jesus our home lives are sacred, holy unto the Lord. Each of us - children and parents, single adults and married couples - has been graciously entrusted with a calling in our own homes that’s significant in God’s kingdom. The Spirit of Jesus is with us not just when we walk out our front doors to go on mission. He’s also with us in our dining rooms and dens, empowering us to be disciples who make disciples every day.
Jamey Nettles | Disciples of Jesus are made for community. We’ve been born again into God’s family, not just into a personal relationship with God. But family is messy. Community takes work. What does it look like to follow Jesus in real Gospel community with one another, especially with the current challenges we’re all facing today? Jesus hasn’t left us alone to figure out community for ourselves. He walks patiently with us and empowers us to love each other well by His Spirit.
Jamey Nettles | What’s your story? We all construct some kind of story of who we are and where we’re going. As disciples of Jesus, we’ve been caught up into God’s great drama of redemption in which Jesus is the hero, not us. In this teaching we’ll learn about how to share our story and God’s story to a world that needs to hear.
Dave Baker | The Gospel tells us who God is, what He’s done for us through Jesus, and who we now are in Him. God has given us a whole new identity in our relationship to Him. The more we see and believe the truth of who we are in Jesus, the more our hearts and lives will reflect that reality.
Jamey Nettles | The saving grace of God through Jesus is completely free, never earned. And yet the Bible says that this free salvation is a package deal - to say yes to Jesus’s cross is also to gladly say yes to His crown. When we receive Jesus’s grace we also receive Jesus Himself as King over every area of our hearts and lives. In Him we find our identity, our direction, and our ultimate satisfaction.
Jamey Nettles | With the pandemic affecting many aspects of daily life, it would be easy to disengage both spiritually and relationally. But God wants us to draw closer to Him in these hard days, not father away. Disciples follow Jesus both in times of flourishing and crisis - not just “one day” when it’s easier, but everyday.
Jamey Nettles | In last week's message from 1 Peter 5 we saw the promise that God will establish His people in the face of great difficulty. This week we'll see an Old Testament example of what that looks like and how it applies to our lives today.
Jamey Nettles | Walking through the book of 1 Peter during our series titled Church under fire.
Joey Thompson | Walking through the book of 1 Peter during our series titled Church under fire.
Joey Thompson | Walking through the book of 1 Peter during our series titled Church under fire.
Dave Baker | Walking through the book of 1 Peter during our series titled Church under fire.
Dave Baker | Walking through the book of 1 Peter during our series titled Church under fire.
Jamey Nettles | Walking through the book of 1 Peter during our series titled Church under fire.
Jamey Nettles | Walking through the book of 1 Peter during our series titled Church under fire.
Jamey Nettles | Week eleven of walking through the book of 1 Peter during our series titled Church under fire.
Jamey Nettles| Walking through the book of 1 Peter during our series titled Church under fire.
Jamey Nettles | Walking through the book of 1 Peter during our series titled Church under fire.
Jamey Nettles | Walking through the book of 1 Peter during our series titled Church under fire.
Jamey Nettles | Walking through the book of 1 Peter during our series titled Church under fire.
Jamey Nettles | Walking through the book of 1 Peter during our series titled Church under fire.
Jamey Nettles | Walking through the book of 1 Peter during our series titled Church under fire.
Jamey Nettles | Walking through the book of 1 Peter during our series titled Church under fire.
Jamey Nettles | Walking through the book of 1 Peter during our series titled Church under fire.
Jamey Nettles | “All Scripture is breathed out by God and is profitable…” (2 Timothy 3:16) - but how are Old Testament narratives profitable for New Testament Christians? As history lessons? As accounts of “good guys” to be like and “bad guys” to be unlike? As God’s preparation for the coming of Jesus? Maybe all these things and something more? This teaching series intro will cover themes of 1-2 Samuel as well as how the New Testament teaches us to read and apply the Old Testament.
Jamey Nettles | In our 2020 Vision Series we’re considering what it will cost us to be disciples of Jesus who make disciples from the neighborhoods to the nations for the glory of God. Jesus is the pearl of great price, worth losing everything to gain. Whatever it may cost us to follow Him, He’s infinitely worth it.
Jamey Nettles | In our 2020 Vision Series we’re considering what it will cost us to be disciples of Jesus who make disciples from the neighborhoods to the nations for the glory of God. Jesus is the pearl of great price, worth losing everything to gain. Whatever it may cost us to follow Him, He’s infinitely worth it.
Jamey Nettles | In our 2020 Vision Series we’re considering what it will cost us to be disciples of Jesus who make disciples from the neighborhoods to the nations for the glory of God. Jesus is the pearl of great price, worth losing everything to gain. Whatever it may cost us to follow Him, He’s infinitely worth it.
Dave Baker | A healthy church is devoted to being driven and shaped by the gospel of Jesus for the good of the world and the glory of God. We cling to Jesus by faith, we flee together from the old way of life from which Jesus saved us, and we seek to embody to others the same kind of graciousness that God has shown toward us. God so values this kind of Gospel culture in the church that He calls church leaders to help cultivate it and protect it.
Joel McCarty | For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.
Joel McCarty | A healthy church is called to present to the world an attractive picture of the good news of Jesus. And everyone in the body is called to a role as the church lives out the gospel in community together. But as we seek to live out what accords with healthy teaching, we also need to be reminded about the effective power of the gospel. Only the Spirit of God making the gospel real in our hearts can motivate us for right living that accords with sound doctrine.
Joey Thompson | Christians can disagree charitably about many issues while staying committed to each other as brothers and sisters in Jesus. But some truths are so central to the Gospel that to reject them is to reject Jesus Himself. Jesus and the apostles warned that false teachers would always seek to infiltrate and corrupt the church. In order to stay spiritually healthy churches must stay committed to sound doctrine regarding God, the Gospel, and the Christian life of love.
Joey Thompson | God loves His Church and wants us to thrive spiritually. So He established elders (also called pastors) to oversee and steward local churches for their spiritual health. But to serve the church well, elders must be mature in character, sound in doctrine, and able to teach and lead. In many ways, elders are simply called to the same kind of spiritual health that God desires for all His people.
Dave Baker | The Book of Titus opens with a staggering claim, that the plan which God purposed from eternity past He is working out at this very moment in the lives of His people, the Church. Whether we realize it or not we play a meaningful part in God’s eternal plan. God wants us to realize it, to feel the immeasurable significance of our ordinary Christian lives, and to pursue our spiritual health unto His glory in Jesus Christ.
Jamey Nettles | “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!” (Luke 2:14) While we were at enmity with God, He gave Jesus to bring us peace. Much more than just the absence of conflict, God’s peace means positive flourishing and wholeness - true shalom with God. In a hectic and anxious world burdened with guilt and fear, Jesus Himself is peace for us and all nations.
Jamey Nettles | The angels announced Jesus’s birth as “good news of great joy that will be for all the people.” The God of heaven gave His only Son to us - for our joy! God cares deeply about the full and eternal happiness of our souls. Jesus came at Bethlehem to secure our joy in God and He will come again in glory to complete it. While we walk through many sorrows as we wait for his return, God’s Spirit is with us and enables us to rejoice even through tears.