Crossroads Church Aspen: Recent Episodes
Crossroads Church Aspen
Today Steve has given an update to the body, and has given his conclusion message on the book of Hebrews. This message is full of encouragement as Chapter 13 of Hebrews seeks to set the bar for how we are to live in Christ with Christ as he closes out the book. This is a great watch!
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This week Steve taught out of Hebrews 12 about the crescendo of the book toward what spiritual maturity looks like and how God shakes us to make us unshakeable so we can receive the eternal unshakeable kingdom He is preparing for us.
This week Steve taught out of Hebrews 12:10, 14, 29 and discussed why holiness is so hard and how to pursue it and the implications for our worship.
This week Steve taught out of Hebrews 12:18-29 discussing a key element of spiritual maturity that we need to grow in the love of God as well as in the holiness of God.
This week Steve taught out of Hebrews 12:18-29 discussing a key element of spiritual maturity that we need to grow in the love of God as well as in the holiness of God.
This week Steve taught out of Hebrews 12:1-17 about the role of discipline and suffering in our lives that we may endure and share in the Lord’s holiness. Are we willing to hear the hard things?
This week Steve taught out of Hebrews chapter 11 about what it looks like not to shrink back in our faith, but to endure and understand more deeply the mystery of faith.
This week Steve taught out of Hebrews 10:26-39 about our need for enduring faith in our ongoing battle with the temptations of the world and through the different spiritual seasons of life so that we can be confident in doing the Father's will.
This week Steve taught in Hebrews 10:1-26 about how we are to start living under the “good things” of the new covenant while still waiting for the coming of Jesus and the fullness of His Kingdom.
This week Steve taught out of Hebrews chapter 9 about how much greater Christ’s applied blood is and how we can learn to apply it in our life to live free and for God.
This week Steve taught out of Hebrews 8, the understanding of the old covenant and new covenant and the necessity of both the fear of God and the love of God
This week Steve taught Hebrews chapter 7 about how the understanding the mystery of Melchizedek opens our understanding about religion and politics, temple and priesthood and the presence of God.
This week Steve taught out of Hebrews 6:18-20, about how our souls need an anchor point, rest, mercy and grace.
This week Derek Brown spoke on “Five vital signs you are experiencing resurrection life.”
In this sermon we discussed about the 2 most beautiful sermons from the Bible, the one in the Garden of Gethsemane and the other one in the palace of King Hezekiah.
This week Steve taught Hebrews 5:11-6:20, and discussed three strong exhortations for believers to consider so that Jesus can be the anchor of their soul.
This week Steve taught out of Hebrews 5:1-10 about the critical role of the high priest and our awakening to our great need for Jesus as our High Priest
This week Steve taught out of Hebrews 4:8-16 about the great building project that goes on in our hearts when we meet Jesus and start allowing the Word of God to read us and learn to approach Jesus for mercy and grace.
This Week Elder Trinity Terry spoke on: God never lowers the standard. Through grace, He provides everything we need to live without compromise and become more like Jesus.
This week Steve taught out of Hebrews 3 about the importance of sabbath rest in hearing God’s voice and maintaining our confidence and hope.
This week Steve taught out of Hebrews chapter 2 about why and how Jesus brought us salvation and is bringing us salvation in the midst of spiritual warfare while we are in between His resurrection and his return.
This week Steve taught in Hebrews 1:4 - 2:5 about how great a salvation that Jesus has secured for us and the pastoral exhortation to beware of the drift that comes through the pressures of the world while we wait for the promised world to come.
This week Steve taught out of Hebrews 1:1-4 and went deeper into the background of Hebrews and what the process of maturing in our faith looks like.
This week Steve taught the first four verses of Hebrews and encouraged the Body toward the “better things” that come along with moving from milk to meat in our discipleship toward spiritual maturity.
This week Daniel Toma Spoke one, “The seven sayings on the cross. Hebrews 12:1-2 invites us to lay down our burdens by looking at Jesus, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross. Come with me to the cross, in order that we may leave our burdens and witness the heavenly words spoke by the crucified King
This Sunday Steve taught out of Luke 24:13-35 about the disciples encounter with Jesus on the Emmaus Road as an introduction to our new series going through the book of Hebrews.
This Sunday Steve finished our fall series through Philippians teaching out of 4:10-23 about the divine blessing of contentment and how we are called to learn to live in it.
This week Steve taught out of Philippians 4:8-9 about the way out of distraction and amusing ourselves to death into experiencing the presence of God - Immanuel.
This week Steve taught Philippians 4:1-7 about the importance of guarding our heart and how to experience the peace of God in our life when the Holy Spirit stands watch over our heart and mind.
The week Derek Brown spoke on the importance of our character and courage as we seek transformation.
This week Steve taught out of Philippians 3:10-4:1 about Paul’s resolve in life related to his calling and purpose and how this is critical for us to be able to age well and finish well in a discipleship that does not fade with age.
This week Steve taught out of Philippians 3:1-9 about how we can know Jesus and experience the “surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus,” as our Lord.
This week Steve taught in Philippians 2:19-30, about how Paul learned to live with both suffering for the Kingdom and participating in the power of the Kingdom, while staying consistent in developing deep relationships through equipping and making disciples.
This week Steve taught out of Philippians 2:12-18 about how Paul exhorts the church in working out our salvation by not falling into grumbling as the Israelites did, by being set apart from darkness and holding fast to the Word of life.
This week Steve taught Philippians 2:5-13, about the glory of what Jesus has done for us on the cross and that crucifixion and suffering come before resurrection and exaltation. Christ humbled and emptied Himself so we could be filled with the Holy Spirit and work-out our salvation not work-for our salvation.
This Sunday Steve continued teaching out of Philippians 2:1-4, about the experience believers should be having as part of healthy church, and the growing unity we should be experiencing in our thinking and kindred spirit.
This morning Chris Henderson Next Generation Pastor spoke out of John 15: 1-12 about the importance of Abiding with Jesus every day.
This week Steve finished teaching chapter one of Philippians diving into the depth of Paul’s fight to finish well and encourage the church in Philippi to live boldly and speak in a manner worthy of the gospel.
This week Steve continued our fall series in Philippians 1:12-18, looking at the important distinction between Paul’s calling and platform and how he was able to rejoice in Jesus regardless of his circumstances.
This week Steve taught out of the first chapter of Philippians about the importance of the Day of the Lord being the aim of believers and what we are to be preparing for.
This week Steve began our fall series in the book of Philippians with the background of Acts 16 and the power of the Gospel to open doors, break chains and instill joy!
This week Steve completed the summer series on Pride and Humility, teaching out of James 4:1-10, on how to humble ourselves before God as we move past story and parable to the Word of God.
This week Steve taught out of Luke 4 and 22 about the need for humility before God and others so we can experience a healthy rhythm to life rather than be caught up in the chaos of the next thing.
This week Steve taught out of Luke chapter 12, Jesus’ teaching about the pride of our inner soul and the role of humility to be free from hypocrisy and fear to embrace the love of God inside our soul.
This week Joel Richardson, Author of “When A Jew Rules The World” spoke on Recovering The Maranatha Cry.
This week Steve taught about the origin of humility through Jesus and how opening up about our motives allows the Spirit to bring power and authority that leads to a transformed life.
This week Steve taught about the wilderness wanderings and how we can learn from Moses and Jesus to defeat the pride of grumbling.
This week Steve taught about the life of Abraham to help us grow in faith and humility as they relate to our Calling, Justification and Glorification.
This week Steve taught out of Genesis 3 and 4 about the origin of pride at the root of all sin and how we are to follow the path of humility that Christ modeled and learn how to resolve our sin, hurts, doubts and feeling to faith in God and His goodness regardless of our circumstances.
This July 4th weekend Steve taught Romans 1:16-17 about a deeper greater freedom than the one we celebrate July 4th and how it liberates us for all eternity and is our Declaration of Dependence, a life lived by faith in God.
This week Steve finished our series going through the minor prophets teaching out of Malachi and seeing how only the Gospel of Jesus reverses the curse and turns father’s hearts back to their children.
This week Steve taught on the end of Zechariah about how he prophesied about Jesus’ ministry hundreds of years before Jesus was born
This week Steve taught out of Zechariah learning how OT biblical prophecy helps us and is necessary to understand the Kingdom of God and Jesus’ exhortation to us to “Seek first the Kingdom of God.”
This week Derek Brown taught on the four messages from Haggai and how they speak to us today.
This week Steve taught out of the minor prophet Zephaniah about how we know if our faith is stuck and how to get our faith unstuck.
This week Steve taught out of Habakkuk and how he was able to take joy in God even in the midst of really tough times and uncertain future.
This week Steve taught out of Habakkuk and how he was able to take joy in God even in the midst of really tough times and uncertain future.
This week Steve continued our series in the minor prophets teaching out of the book of Nahum and the big question of whether we are praising God or playing God.
This Week Trinity Terry spoke on Hineni is a Hebrew word that means “Here I am.” It is the posture of those who live in the light of eternity. It is the heartbeat of life on mission-surrendered, available, and eternally focused.
This message will challenge us to live our lives so that our answer is simply Hineni when God calls.
This Easter Sunday Steve taught about the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and how that power unites and integrates our mind, body and spirit making us whole, knowing who we are and who we are becoming for eternity.
This week, Palm Sunday, Steve taught out of John 12 discussing Jesus’ actions and teaching leading up to Passover and our great need today to show people Jesus and our resurrected life.
This week Steve taught out of Micah about confidence in the filling and leading of the Spirit, in knowing we are right with God, and in hearing and waiting on God.
This week Steve taught about the intimate connection between worship and mission and God’s “Go!” to Jonah and Jesus’ “Go!” to us.
This week Steve taught out of Amos and discussed the big idea of looking to the fringe to hear God and to the fray to bring a prophetic word.
This week Steve taught out of Amos and discussed the big idea of looking to the fringe to hear God and to the fray to bring a prophetic word.
This week Steve taught out of the book of Joel and the big idea that only God the Father through Jesus by the Holy Spirit can offer ever increasing life with ever increasing satisfaction.
This week Steve started a new series in the 12 Minor Prophets of the Old Testament, starting with Hosea talking about Faith as something far beyond just what we say we believe.
This week Chris Henderson Next Generation Pastor spoke on our ability to hear God’s voice as He guides us through our life daily.
This week Steve introduced our 2025 Guidebook as we take most of January to hear from the Lord on a growth plan for the year
This week Steve introduced our 2025 Guidebook as we take most of January to hear from the Lord on a growth plan for the year.
This week Steve introduced our 2025 Guidebook as we take most of January to hear from the Lord on a growth plan for the year.
This last Sunday of 2024, Steve finished the Mark series challenging us to evaluate our discipleship in light of Jesus’ call to the 12 in Mark 3:13-15 and Mark 16:9-20.
This week Steve taught out of Mark chapters 15 and 16, and the bigger Kingdom of God story that Christmas is part of and the “astonishment” that comes when we seek it first.
This week Steve taught out of Mark chapters 15 and 16, and the bigger Kingdom of God story that Christmas is part of and the “astonishment” that comes when we seek it first.
This week Steve finished chapter 15 of Mark and taught about how three main miracles of Christmas: the virgin birth, the torn veil and the empty grave can awaken our childlike faith.
This week Steve taught out of Mark chapter 15 and how finding meaning is finding the truth and that those who are about the Truth will listen to Jesus’ voice.
This week Steve taught out of Mark chapter 14 about the idea of man’s ongoing attempt to put God on trial and how not to fall away.
This week Steve taught out of Mark 14:32-42 about Jesus’ prayer with the apostles in the Garden of Gethsemane and how we too can learn to enjoy and abide in the secret place with our heavenly Father.
This week Steve taught out of Mark 14:10-31 about Judas’ secret life and the importance of following Jesus in developing a secret place with God
This week Steve taught out of Mark chapter 14 about the extravagant love expressed by the woman who anointed Jesus’ feet and how we desperately need to be re-enchanted with the love of God today in the midst of our disenchanted society of self creation.
This week Chris Henderson spoke on the primary relationship as it completes us with acceptance, identity, security, and purpose.
This week Steve taught again out of Mark chapter 13 about how Trusting Faith, Waiting Faith and Obedient Faith all work together to help us be watchful and stay awake in changing and uncertain times.
This week Steve taught on the rest of Mark chapter 13, about what Jesus says we should look for as the end approaches.
This week Steve started teaching Mark 13, the Olivet discourse, and the understanding of Jesus’ prophecy about the destruction of the temple and where we currently are in God’s plan for history.
This week Steve finished teaching chapter 12 in the Gospel of Mark and taught about what loving allegiance to Jesus looks like as it relates to the Kingdom of God in the world today.
This week Steve taught out of the first part of Mark chapter 12 about how believers are to live Word and Spirit lives in the world today.
This week Steve taught out of Mark chapter 11 about Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem and the cleansing of the temple and what this means for our alignment and allegiance to God’s plan for His Church and the Temple now and in the future.
This week Derek Brown spoke on the five ways to restore the flow of the river of God in our lives.
This Sunday Steve taught out of Mark chapter 10 about the faith dynamic of holding amazement and fear together as we learn to follow Jesus on His continued mission in this world of serving and sacrificing.
This week Steve taught out of Mark chapter 9 and the significance of the transfiguration for the Gospel, the Church and the world. Are we living with a spiritual warfare worldview?
This week Steve taught in Mark 7-8, about Jesus’ ministry and use of bread to represent the kingdom of God, a whole new way of living as a follower of Jesus.
This week Steve taught out of Mark 7 and what Jesus says about purity of worship and heart in light of the new wineskin and new wine of the kingdom of God
This week Steve taught out of Mark chapter 6 showing the disciples sitting and soaking in the presence of Jesus’ teachings and miracles and then being sent out. Have we been adequately equipped and sent out as followers of Jesus?
This week Steve taught out of Mark chapter 5 about three cases that the world has no solution for but that the gospel of the kingdom has good news for as the Church learns to walk in the ways of Jesus.
This week Jan Nell from Anchor Point Church Houston, Tx spoke on “The joy of living in the true gospel. “
This week Steve taught in Mark chapter 4 about hearing the Word of God and understanding the government of God.
This week Steve taught out of Mark chapter 2 about the intimate connection between sin and sickness and how the Gospel is the only ultimate solution and the importance of fasting and sabbath-keeping in the fight against sin and sickness.
This week Steve started our new series in the Gospel of Mark. The key to life is being connected to the right person. There is no more important person to be connected to than Jesus Christ the King.
This week is Family Service as we gear up to start Vacation Bible School on Monday. Chris Henderson “The Next Generation Pastor” spoke on Faith and Imagination, the two ingredients to living a life in relationship with God.
This week Steve completed our series through the book of Ephesians looking at how the heavenly places perspective impacts our purpose and glory.
This week Derek Brown spoke on a few things to consider when developing a plan for spiritual growth.
This week Steve taught out of Ephesians 5:18-21 about how to make space for the Spirit to do His work in our life and the life of the Church.
This week Chris Henderson Next Generation Pastor spoke on the need for Wonder in our relationship with God as he looked at the power of Mothers to Wonder. Luke 2:19 gives the great example of Mary treasuring and pondering about the happiness around Jesus’s birth.
This week Steve taught out of Ephesians 6:16-20 and how we need to put on the armor of God so we can stand and represent our King and so we can be faithful in all circumstances.
This week Derek Brown (Worship Pastor) taught on Insights from Romans 5 that can help us develop hope for the journey.
This week Steve taught out of Ephesians 6:10-15 about what the first three pieces of armor are and how to strap them on to be able to stand in the midst of spiritual battle.
This Sunday Steve taught out of Ephesians 6:10-13 about learning how to expose the fragmented life, establish a heavenly places perspective and to engage spiritual warfare with the armor of God.
This week Steve taught out of Ephesians 5:21-6:9 addressing the importance of the Church to uphold and model God’s design of the equality of all persons and at the same time the importance of specific roles.
This week, Resurrection Sunday, Steve taught out of Ephesians 1:15-23 and how we can know “the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us,” as we prepare to live not die!
This week Steve taught on Ephesians 5:18 and what Paul means by his exhortation to the church to be “filled with the Spirit,” and how this reveals our heart and motivation.
This week Steve taught out of Ephesians 5:1-16 about what it looks like to be spiritually asleep and the glories of what it is to be spiritually alive and experiencing the benefits of the resurrection life.
This week Steve taught out of Ephesians 4:25 - 5:2, about the glorious integrated life of following Jesus and the danger of not dealing with inner unrest and turmoil but how to practically experience the freedom of a whole life in Christ Jesus.
This week Chris Henderson Next Generation Pastor spoke on the importance of weaving all of our life stories into the Gospel Story. Looking at John 3:16-20 and Zephaniah 3:17 to show that God’s Love for us is so great it is imperative that we seek to see everything though the lens of the Gospel
This week Steve taught from Ephesians 4:17-24 and how we apply the Gospel by putting off, putting on and the renewal of the spirit of our mind.
This week Steve taught out of Ephesians 4:11-16, showing how to grow in the truth as the body of Christ in the midst of all the so-called voices of truth and the growing influence of false teachers.
This week Steve taught from Ephesians 3:14 through 4:16, showing the necessity of knowing the love of Christ, the victory of Christ and the gifts of Christ if we are going to learn how to “walk in a manner worth of our calling.”
This week Steve taught in Ephesians 4:1-7, diving into the importance of relational unity within the Body of Christ and how it is critical to God’s overall purpose of uniting all things in heaven and earth together.
This week Steve taught out of Ephesians 3:14-21, looking at Paul’s powerful prayer for both believers and unbelievers to experience the fullness of God in their inner being and belonging to the household of God.
This week Steve taught in Ephesians 3:1-13 and talked about 4 key aspects of faith that are necessary for a growing healthy faith for the individual believer and the church.
This Sunday Steve taught in the last part of Ephesians chapter two, about what real peace is and how we can have peace in our life and in the world ultimately.
This week Steve taught out of Ephesians 2:1-10; we cannot solve humankind’s problems until we see the truth about humankind. And we cannot embrace the glory of salvation until we understand our state we were saved from so we can start walking in what we were saved to.
This Week Steve taught about the 5 passages in Ephesians that relate to the heavenly realm and how the message of Ephesians can encourage and equip us as we head into 2024.
This Christmas Eve morning at our regular service at 9am Steve taught the Christmas story from the Gospel of Mark asking, “Is what we think about God aligned with what God thinks about us?”
Listen in as Derek shares about Baptism and the importance of it as it connects us to the Gospel.
This week Trinity spoke on the importance of regularly seeking the power and presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives.
Today Bryant Ragan spoke on “Understanding the secrets to the Kingdom of God and how to cling to it for building a deeper awe-inspired relationship with God which produces a huge harvest and the perseverance of the saints.
This week Brent Phillips spoke on How to see God when it seems as if everything is collapsing around you.
This week Steve gave a Church Family Update and then taught in Ephesians 1:15-23 about how can we know what we must really know.
This week Steve takes a big picture look at the last part of chapter one of Ephesians and discusses why Paul prayed these prayers for the churches.
This week Steve covered Ephesians 1:11-14 again focusing on verse 13 and the importance of knowing what it means to be sealed by the Spirit.
This week Steve connected Ephesians 1:11-14 with Revelation 2, the letter to the Ephesians, and encouraged us to remember and renew the joy of our salvation so we can restore a zeal to share the hope inside us.
This week Steve taught on the ultimate purpose of God in Christ in bringing all things together in heaven and earth and how Paul’s time in Ephesus in Acts 19 sheds light on that.
This week Steve taught verses 7-10 in chapter 1 of Ephesians and explained the importance and power of blood in God’s saving plan from the beginning to the end to unite all things in Christ in heaven and earth.
This week Steve continued our study in Ephesians looking at verses 5-6 and the blessings we have because of our loving Father who has given us revelation into His glorious grace and how Belief, Being and Behavior are fleshed out in life.
This Week Camron Wenzel spoke on the compassion of God and a door that is wide open to repentant sinners.
This week Steve taught Ephesians 1:3-4 and why developing a Heavenly Perspective is so critical to our God-given purpose, identity and struggle to walk holy and blameless.
This week Steve taught on verse two of Ephesians chapter one and the supernatural and miraculous work of the Gospel to bring grace to our lives so we can be at peace with God and experience the riches of His inheritance.
This week Steve kicked off our new series through the book of Ephesians with a "heavenly places" perspective and looking at what is holding us back from being saints, faithful and experiencing all the riches of being “in Christ”.
This week Derek Brown taught on Purpose and Calling; What’s the difference? What are the dangers? And how do we discover them?
This week Steve concluded this series on the Kings with one final lesson: We are not to feel comfortable, in control or powerful, but dependent on God, for in Christ, we are more than conquerors and will reign with Him forever.
This week Steve taught about King Hezekiah and how we can learn from him the importance of unity, sanctity and upholding the Gospel of the Kingdom in uncertain times.
This week Steve taught out of 2 Chronicles chapters 17-20 learning from king Jehoshaphat some key lessons on understanding and seeking the kingdom of God so we can be in His will and hear His voice clearly.
This week Steve taught about king Asa and how faith has to be fought for in trials, in the good times, in our families, in society, and in battles for mental and physical health.
This week Steve taught out of 1 Kings chapter 13 about the importance of wholehearted devotion to the Lord in the midst of constant compromise to break out of the cycle of the Kings.
This week Steve taught out of 1 Kings chapter 12 and the lessons learned about decision making from Solomon’s son Rehoboam as he began to rule after his father’s death.
This week Steve taught about key lessons from King Solomon’s life that help us seek the standard of living that Jesus calls us to and to see that there is nothing new under the sun.
This week Steve taught on the origin story of the Old Testament Temple and its role throughout history leading up to the new Temple and Church to encourage our souls with what God has done and is going to yet do to truly dwell with us on earth.
This week Steve taught about the difference between David’s heart and Saul’s heart so we can learn how to be people after God’s heart and not repeat the failures of Israel and her many kings who lost heart and favor with God.
This Sunday Steve started a new series titled: Lessons from the Kings, where we all journey through 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings and 1 and 2 Chronicles. In this first message, Steve covered three critical biblical lessons around the question, “Who is King?” from 1 Samuel 1-16. A detailed sermon manuscript can be found at www.stephenwoodrow.com
This week Steve wraps up this series with teaching out of Romans 8 and the importance of practicing Sitting, Listening, Praying, and Waiting. He also gives 8 practical questions to evaluate if we are being led by the Spirit.
Listen in as Steve, Chris and Luke gather around the table to bridge the generational gap and discuss the root issues of our culture. In this Root Issues episode, the conversation is on the Hope that we have in the Gospel is a Hope that can lead us in our core families and our more prominent church family. Only through the lens of the Gospel can we find the strength and courage to live with joy and peace in our family environments.
This week Chris Henderson the Next Generation Pastor spoke on. The Hope that we have in the Gospel is a Hope that can lead us in our core families and our more prominent church family. Only through the lens of the Gospel can we find the strength and courage to live with joy and peace in our family environments.
This Sunday Steve taught on Romans 8:1-2 about what the law of the Spirit of Life is and how it sets us free to be people of the Spirit.
This week Steve worked through the whole Chapter 8 of Romans discussing what it means to set our minds on the things of the Spirit.
This week Steve finished Romans 7 teaching about the inner struggle of the soul with sin and the struggle to obey the Law. Awareness of these soul realities is necessary to lead us into the new way of the Spirit and Gospel centeredness.
This week Steve continued in Romans 7 verse 7-13, showing how the Gospel frees us from Confusion (fear, anxiety and lawlessness) and sets us free to Contentment (faith, peace and righteousness).
This week Steve taught out of Romans chapter 7 about the glorious Gospel freeing us from the law and sin into a whole new way of living by the Spirit.
This week Bryant Ragan (Elder at Crossroads) spoke on being astounded with this thought. “I don’t know how he did it, all I know is that…”
This week Steve finished Romans 6 and taught about the importance of knowing the new language of being a new creation and how embracing our new identity in Christ also gives us God’s view of history bringing faith and peace.
This week Steve began a study in Romans chapters 6-8. We must know who we are in Christ before we can learn to be like Christ. We must learn to be people of the Spirit and not merely human.
This Resurrection Sunday Steve taught from John chapter 12 and asked the question if we are willing to consider that the God of our story and life is not the God of the Bible but a distortion of the God of the Bible we created to cope with our struggles. And can we remember the time the Gospel became personal?
Derek unpacks how the simple and unexpected challenges of daily life can become profound opportunities for spiritual growth and how Christ-like humility is the best place to start.
This week Steve finished chapter 6 in 2 Corinthians, calling us all to develop a heart in pursuit of holiness and to see the Church and our bodies as God’s temple so we can experience all the promises of God and not receive His grace in vain.
This week Steve continued in 2 Corinthians chapter 6, looking at Paul’s exhortation to the church to widen their hearts and awaken their affections. Steve tied in Hebrews 4:12-13 to show how our hearts are widened by the Word of God by discerning the division of soul and spirit.
This week Steve taught out of 2 Corinthians chapter 5 about the powerful ministry of reconciliation and the importance of dwelling on what God has done and is going to do rather than what man has done.
This week Steve taught in 2 Corinthians 5:11-21 about what it means to regard no one according to the flesh any longer and how focusing on being a new creation answers most of our problems.
This week Steve continued in 2 Corinthians chapter 5 talking about the promises and assurances we have from the Lord about the future of our life and body and how we are to view and treat our body.
This week Steve finished chapter 4 of 2 Corinthians looking at the present realities of the Gospel for a believer’s life which are the overflow of seeing Jesus and His Gospel as our treasure.
This week Steve taught out of 2 Corinthians 4:1-6 discussing the spiritual dynamics of how our heart is enlightened by the Spirit in the midst of the battle of our mind with the god of this world so Jesus can be Lord of our life and shine forth.
This week Steve started a new series titled Not Just Human working through 2 Corinthians chapters 3-6. In this first message we explored the power of the Gospel to transform and truly set us free and that it is not about self help, but self death that leads us to glory.
Derek Brown brought us teaching on the 5 lessons from the life of Joseph to help us live with greater hope and vision.
This week Steve concludes this series through the epistles of John discussing what we are to believe about material blessing, sickness and health and spiritual and emotional health.
This week Steve taught out of 2 and 3rd John about what it means to walk in the truth and how we know we are walking in the Truth and the deep connection with joy and our need to learn to fight for joy.
This week Steve finished our study in 1 John talking about the importance of assurance as related to faith and hope. We will cover 2 John and 3 John in the next 2 weeks.
This first Sunday of 2023, Steve taught about the importance of beginning our day aligning with God’s assignment for our life. If we are unclear about our assignment our faith is overcome by the world rather than overcoming the world by faith.
This week Steve taught out of 1John chapter 4 about how we all know we need love and know we need to give it, but need redemption with God to know He is love so we can grow in love.
This week Steve was in 1 John chapter four and teaching on the important connection between discerning the Spirit’s voice and loving one another properly in the Body of Christ.
This week Steve continued our series in 1 John and talked about our struggles to understand who we are and how we belong to each other and power of the Spirit to help us learn to abide and truly love one another and minister to one another in a transformative way.
This week Brent Phillips spoke on living a life worth living. Looking at Ephesians 4:1,Hebrews 11:6, and Luke 12:48.
This Sunday Steve continued our series in 1 John and takes a deeper look at what it means to abide in Jesus and practice righteousness and wrestled with the question of whether we really want to be like Jesus and be holy.
This week Steve taught in 1 John chapter 2 verses 18 through 29. In these verses John warns believers about the temptation of falling away from the faith and the importance of understanding the anointing of the Spirit and abiding in Jesus.
This week Steve continued our series in 1 John dealing with chapter 2 verses 15-17 and how to learn to fight off the influence of the world and walk in the glorious will of the Father.
This week Steve continued the series in 1 John chapter 2 verses 12-14, discussing the remedy for spiritual depression and the strength needed to live with faith and joy in the world.
This week Steve comes back to 1 John 2:6 and discusses three important faith questions we need to process to be moving and maturing into faith like Jesus.
This week John Galambos spoke on 1 John 2: 7-8. Jesus told his disciples a new command to “Love one another as I have loved you”. Our call is to love one another, it is to be the defining mark of a Christian. So it’s a new command…but it also is old. Ties back to Deuteronomy and Leviticus to love God with all your being and to love your neighbor. It even goes back to the very beginning where God’s heart is to invite us (mankind) into a beautiful fellowship with him and with each other.
This week Steve started 1 John chapter 2 and taught about what it means to walk and live in the same way that Jesus walked and lived.
This week Steve continued the series in the epistles of John focusing on chapter one verses 8-10, and teaching about the importance of conviction and confession in fighting dishonest spirituality.
This week Steve continued in our new series in the epistles of John discussing the important dynamics of evaluating our spiritual dishonesty and quality of our fellowship.
This week Steve started a new series in the letters of John. We cannot be fully loved and love without confidence in the source of love. How does love, fellowship, partnership and joy work together to bring about the assurance of love?
This week Steve concluded the Foundations series diving into the big questions, why did Jesus have to die? Why does it take shedding blood to forgive sins? What is the best version of ourself? How does faith work?
This week Steve taught about the implications of the fall and how we wrestle in the courtroom of God to experience justification.
This week Steve taught on Genesis chapter 3 and hope for the problem of sin, shame, guilt and fear.
This week Steve continued in Genesis chapter 2 teaching on God’s design for marriage and family as the foundation for society and how to restore and strengthen it in the midst of overwhelming pressures trying to tear it down.
This week Trinity Terry teaches on The Kingdom of God and how it belongs to the humble. This is a call for us to all hear the call to humility.
This week Steve continued his series in Genesis and we looked at the creation of Adam and the 4Ps of manhood which need restoring in the church and society.
This week Steve continued the series in Genesis chapter one discussing what was really going on when God rested on the 7th day and what does the sabbath mean for us today in a culture that does not understand true rest.
This week Steve continued the series in Genesis chapter one talking about the awe and wonder of our unique identity among all creation and how the Gospel restores the deconstruction of it.
This week Steve kicked off our new summer series, looking at Genesis chapter one and how we recover and stay in awe so our faith stays vibrant and informing our meaning and purpose.
This week Steve taught about the lavish love of our heavenly Father and how we all in one way or another deal with fatherlessness
This week Steve did an overview of 1 Corinthians chapters 12-14 discussing what has informed our understanding and expectation of church in light of our traditions and what the scriptures say.
This week Steve concluded our series in the book of Revelation by showing that the entire book reveals ultimately who knows God and who doesn’t and the conclusion.
This week Derek Brown spoke on Transcendence and Immanence and how these theological concepts directly influence our faith and experience with God?
This week Steve continued our Revelation study teaching out of chapter 21 and raising the question of which dream house are we focused on building, one that fades or one that is full of glory.
Today Dan Bosko takes us back to the life of Hannah and her son Samuel as we see what the faith and diligence of a Godly mom will accomplish.
This week Steve taught out of Revelation 20 and 21 about the Great White Throne judgment and the beginning of the new creation.
This week Steve continued the Revelation series discussing the Millennium, Christ’s return, the battle of Armageddon, the binding of Satan and the coming new Kingdom.
This Easter Sunday Steve taught on the rest of the story from resurrection to our preparation to celebrate at the marriage supper of the Lamb at Christ's return and the significance of the bread and wine at table fellowship.
This week Steve taught out of Revelation chapter 18 and how there are two world systems, the world, its currency of money and the Kingdom of God and its currency of faith.
This week Steve took an interlude from Revelation to dive into 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12, looking at more prophetic detail about the Antichrist, mystery of lawlessness and government’s role so we can make a plan to move from spiritual apathy to being spiritually aware.
This week Steve taught out of Revelation chapter 17 about the meaning of Babylon the great and the beast and how they relate to the nations today.
This week Steve continued our Revelation series in chapter 16. We wrestled with the justice of God and the wrath of God and dove into the big question of what do we deserve and how that will lead us to the world or to Jesus.
This week Bryant Ragan taught on Lordship “Turning from your selfish ways which will never profit, to doing the Father’s will with endless profit.”
This week Steve taught out of Revelation chapter 15 and the introduction to the last 7 bowl judgments of God’s wrath. Do we have a Gospel lens to see the big issues of the world properly and an informed view of the revival that is needed?
This week Steve taught Revelation chapter 14 and discussed the idea of faith being an increase in both expectation and endurance.
This week Steve taught out of Revelation chapter 13 about the future Antichrist and false prophet and the endurance required by the saints. We have entered into a new era where we must learn how to strengthen our faith to endure hostility.
This week Steve was in Revelation chapter 12 and discussed the spiritual warfare between Satan and the Church and our role in it and how we need to shift our thinking about church and the Gospel.
This Sunday Steve taught out of Revelation chapter 11 and focused on the importance of understanding the meaning of the Temple and our roll in being prophetic witnesses for Jesus in the world.
Today Dan Bosko shares the first of seven messages the leadership team will share over the next 12 months as they unpack the core changes we are pursuing in 2022 that Crossroads may be the new wineskin God desires to fill with His new wine.
This week Steve was in Revelation chapter 10 and discussed if we are captivated by the Gospel of hope and if our message of hope is big and bold enough to captivate the technological mind today.
This week Steve taught out of Revelation 8-9 about the trumpet judgments of God and that what we do with silence could be the biggest indicator of the depth of our relationship with God.
This week Steve taught out of Revelation chapter 7 and how the gospel forms our identity and seals us secure as God’s children and the importance of owning one’s faith.
This week to start 2022 Steve picked up our Revelation series in chapter 6 highlighting what it looks like to experience the promised blessing found in this prophecy.
Today Preston Files spoke on "The One Gift Left Off Every Christmas List You Can’t Live Without"
This week Trinity Terry taught on "Learning to steward the Gospel in our lives and leading others to Him."
This week Cameron W. spoke on Romans 3:23 and how we can overcome the fear of sharing our faith.
This week Brent Phillips brings us a deep understanding that truly we have Nothing to Lose.
This week Steve summarized the first section of our Revelation study and called us to examine our hearts and to wrestle with what we are truly desperate for and a call to the church to be a praying church.
This week Steve taught about Revelation 5 and the issues of justice and judgment and our need to embrace Jesus’ first coming and second coming.
This week Steve taught out of Revelation 4 and the importance of living in the awareness of God’s sovereign reign especially in these crazy uncertain times.
This week Steve taught about the sickness of lukewarmness and how we as individuals and a church can restore intimate communion with our Lord Jesus.
This week Steve taught on the message to the church in Philadelphia which encourages us to be faithful in keeping His Word and not forsaking HIs name so we can be faithful witnesses for His glory.
This Sunday Steve continued our series in the book of Revelation taking a look at the letter to the church in Sardis and why it means to be truly alive and how we know we are alive on the inside.
Today Dan Bosko teaches on how everyone has seasons of patterns, habits, and/or attitudes that disrupt our faith. Today we look at Romans 6:1-11 and how God breaks us free from them.
This week Steve gave a big overview of the biblical worldview related to the spiritual realm and how important this is for us to understand the scriptures and especially the book of Revelation.
This week Steve taught about Jesus’ warning to the church of Thyatira to watch out for deceptive teachings that erode God-given authority structures so we can inherit the blessing of sharing in His authority in the new heaven and earth.
This week Steve continued teaching from Revelation and the letter to the church in Pergamum. We are constantly in danger of compromising the Word of God in light of cultural pressures. As the church in Pergamum we today need to learn how to conquer compromise.
This week Steve taught out of Revelation chapter two, the message to the church on Smyrna. Jesus tells it to be “Faithful unto death.” What does that mean for us today and our discipleship?
The last couple of years have opened the door to an unprecedented level of funk and frenzy in our world. How do we not get trapped in it ourselves? How do we get out of it if we do? Today Dan Bosko unpacks God’s path to rise above it all.
This week Steve taught about the message of Jesus to the church in Ephesus and His calling them to repentance from abandoning their first love. Just what does it mean to abandon our first love and how do we restore that love to be a faithful witness for Christ?
This week Steve continued the series in chapter one of Revelation about John's vision of Jesus and how we can stay close to Jesus especially in uncertain times.
This week Steve started teaching in the book of Revelation. We need Revelation the Word of God, but we need also the spiritual experience of revelation by the Holy Spirit so we can “see” and be ready.
This week Steve finished teaching on Matthew 24 discussing the third aspect of how can we be ready. We first Embrace truth, Face Reality and then Walk by Faith.
This week Steve continued our series in Matthew 24 about what Jesus had to say about the end of the world and the importance of embracing truth, facing reality and walking by faith.
This week Steve taught out of Matthew 24 and discussed the question, How do we prepare for something we don’t know when it will happen? Embrace truth, Face Reality and Walk by Faith.
This week Steve began a new series looking at Jesus’ message about the end of time and His seven letters to the church in Revelation. We began this series diving into the question of whether we have grown more in dependence on God this last year or more independent.
This morning we have the pleasure of having our Glenwood Church Family members join us to lead worship and deliver the message.
“The mysterious gospel is powerfully revealed in and through us to reveal God’s triumph over evil, and to reveal to all realms those who believe as distinct to all other creation, as eternally born new creations for His glory and ours."
This week Steve concluded this series with focusing on Acts 9:31, When the house is in order His presence takes over.
This week Mike Taylor spoke on the meaning of Faith as it pertains to taking God at His word.
This week Steve taught about a healthy church is a beautiful rhythm of gathering and scattering. We gather to realign our hearts in the love of the Father, grace of our Lord Jesus, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit so when we scatter we can boldly speak of His goodness and glory.
This week Steve taught out of Acts chapter 5 and the importance of the church pursuing holiness because we desire to please Him and He calls us to be holy like Him.
This week Steve addressed three critical things that the church should be experiencing as they are gathered together, cherishing Jesus above all, engaging the world not accommodating the world, and being filled with the Spirit for bold proclamation of Jesus.
This week Steve taught out of Acts 2 about the essentials of Church and how we need to restore them.
This week Steve taught out of Acts chapter two about the foundation of the Church and the things we need to have sifted from our wrong ideas about church that had been possibly formed in our past experiences.
This week Derek Brown Worship Pastor at Crossroads Church teaches about how God sets us apart to live with him so that we are empowered to live for him.
This week Steve taught about the power of the gathered church when it focuses on what Jesus has done for us to make us a new creation with all new possibilities.
This week Steve began our new Spring Series “Gathered Together” as we journey with the early church through key phases in the book of Acts. This week we saw in chapter one of Acts the importance of Kingdom Unity - Community Prayer - Faithful Waiting.
This week Steve taught about how Jesus encountered the disciples after His resurrection so they would learn to boast in their understanding and knowledge of Him.
This week Steve talked about table fellowship and how we experience the presence of Jesus in the midst of celebrating communion.
This week Steve continued our journey in discipleship through the book of Luke as we encountered some challenging words from Jesus about what it means to follow Him.
This week Steve taught out of Luke 10 and how God works in us so that he can work through us for His purposes in the world.
This week Steve talked about the cost of discipleship and how biblical truth makes us the same on the inside as on the outside
This week Steve talked about Jesus’ call to discipleship and what it means to die to live rather than live to die.
This week Steve taught that discipleship is growing in our appetite for God and the impossible.
This week Steve taught about one of the most critical aspects of discipleship which is to be patient with the unresolved issues of our heart and learn to be led by the Holy Spirit.
This week Bryant Ragan spoke on Discipling others by leading them to the supernatural love of God.
This week Steve taught about the greatest invitation we have ever received which is not just to receive eternal life from Jesus but to step into discipleship and learn to follow Him.
This week Steve taught about the most important aspect of discipleship and how our Lord Jesus beckons us to join Him in the presence of the Father to hear His voice.
This week Derek Brown spoke about: On the road that leads to spiritual maturity, we learn a lot about God and a lot about ourselves. Be courageous. Be faithful. Be patient.
This week Steve started our new series on Discipleship teaching out of John 10 what it means to hear Jesus’ voice, be known by Him and follow Him.
This week Steve concluded the December series on joy teaching out of chapter four of Philippians talking about how to fight for joy so we can experience sustaining joy.
This week Steve taught out of Philippians chapter 3 about the joy of knowing Jesus which is a deeper experience than just believing Jesus and how the Gospel brings forth joy in our lives.
This week Steve taught out of Philippians chapter 2 about the connection between unity and our experience of joy.
This week Steve started a new series GOOD NEWS Always for the month of December. We will be going through the book of Philippians. Today, we talked about the joy of community and looked at Paul’s relationship and partnership with the church community in Philippi.
This week Brent Phillips Pastor of Sandbox Church Houston, Tx. spoke on: The perfect church if you could create it. What would it be like?
This week Steve taught out of Acts chapters 4-5 and what it means for followers of Jesus to live with Spirit-filled boldness rather than fleshly boldness.
This week Steve taught out of Proverbs 28:1-14 and addressed our great need for wisdom today as believers, as the Church and for our nation.
This week being time change Sunday Steve talked about our need for a time change for divine encounters for a holy awareness to revive us, the Church and our politics.
This week Steve started a new series Revival, Church and Politics. It starts with being able to answer in all three areas: What does it mean to live?
This week Steve talked about being in the world but not of the world and what that means for the Christian’s political involvement.
This week Steve talked about how Faith defines and helps us understand hope and optimism.
This Week Dan Dangler (Area Director of Young Life) spoke on. Don't You Care? This is a profound question we ask God all throughout our life. How we answer this question is a great look into our relationship with Him. What could happen if we not only knew that He cared but couldn’t help telling others this truth? This week we are going to take a deep dive into Mark’s account of Jesus calming the Storm.
This week Steve taught about Peter’s encouragement to the Church in the midst of the last days how they should treat each other and be a hope-full community.
This week Steve broke down 1 Peter 1:1-9 to show how we can tell if Jesus is truly our living hope and how to restore Him as our living hope.
This week Steve talked about HOW we are to see our HOPE growing as our faith grows. Has your HOPE been growing during this time?
This week Steve talked about how we see evil and that the scriptures reveal it will increase in the end, but that we have the security and protection of Jesus who will conquer all evil.
This week Steve talked about how we can watch over our hearts and emotions in increasingly challenging times and learn how to trust Jesus and experience the fruit of the Spirit.
This week Michale Miller (The Denver Project) spoke on "Hope in The Church - God’s Plan for Redemption.”
This week Steve answered the questions: Could it be that Church as we know it is preventing Church as God wants it and Could it be that Discipleship as we know it is preventing Discipleship as Jesus wants it?
This week Steve talked about the foundation of our hope being what Jesus has done for us and what He will do for us in our battle against fear
This week Brian taught about the HOPE we have because of God’s promises and how that spurs us to pursue a deeper relationship with Him.
This week Steve taught about the promise of future bodily resurrection and how that fortifies our HOPE for the future and desire for health and wholeness.
This week Steve taught about our Blessing Hope and that at the foundation of our HOPE is a longing for Jesus’ return.
This week Steve talked about the incredible promise of our assurance that we will be immediately with Jesus when we die.
This week Steve began a new series discussing the foundation of our hope and the importance of that as the Day of our Lord’s return draws near.
This Sunday we discuss women of bold faith, what bold faith looks like, and how to walk it out in our daily lives.
This Sunday being Father’s Day Steve discussed spiritual fatherlessness and how the Gospel powerfully restores it.
This week Steve addressed the big issue of how we can keep a Kingdom of God perspective in the midst of Pandemics, Politics and Protests.
The People’s Series-Week One: Steve and the elders discussed and answered these questions you sent in over the past several weeks: How Fear fights against Faith and Fruit? How to Live in the world but not be of the World?
This week Steve talked about how God takes us to the desert to awaken us from spiritual laziness and from hyperactivity.
This week Steve talked about the two primary reasons that God takes us into the wilderness.
This week Steve concluded the Jonah series with three “certainties” to hold on to in the midst of these COVID-19 “uncertainties
This week Steve taught out of Jonah chapter 4 and about the destructive nature of anger and the way out.
This week Steve stepped back into the Jonah series to talk about how to deal with the often contradiction in our hearts between the love of God and the judgment of God.
This Easter Sunday Steve talked about the life Jesus expects us to live and experience and how to start laying hold of it.
This week Steve taught about HPST, how to get God’s attention through Humbling ourselves, Praying, Seeking God’s face and Turning from our wicked ways.
This week Steve talked about how faith conquers fear by trusting in the heart of God and holding onto His promises.
This Sunday Steve talked about Jonah’s isolation in the belly of the fish and what that teaches us about isolation from God and one another.
This was our first week of online church and Steve taught about Jonah being in the belly of the fish and what we can learn about our heart when we experience isolation.
This week Steve talked about what we can learn from Jonah’s deep dive and how God meets us in our mess before He delivers us from our mess.
This week Steve talked about the difference between Jonah’s sleep of escape versus Jesus’ sleep of peace and how the fear of God calms storms.
This week Steve talked about what we can learn from Jonah’s running from God and that for believers God’s presence is the destination.
This week Steve began a new series in the book of Jonah where we will learn to trust Jesus who we can’t control and move from being unbelieving believers to trusting followers of Jesus.
This week Steve wrapped up this series talking about what a healthy church culture looks like and how we can all pursue it.
This week Matt Chandler Pastor of The Village Church Flower Mound Tx. spoke on the key points needed to be a church that is based on both word and power.
This week Steve talked about the joy and privilege of being a sending church that partners with other churches to plant churches and the danger of mission drift in the process.
This week Steve talked about community and why we need it and long for it and the importance of the Spirit’s role in the process.
This week Steve talked about the important difference between just believing and following Jesus and what it means to call Him Lord.
This week Steve continued our new series Building Our House talking about how to integrate dependence and reverence into our prayer and worship.