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If you demand God give you what you are not to have, you may not get what God wants you to have. Luke 9:23 states, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily and follow Me.” Join Pastor Chris as he speaks about LesserandGreater and Acts 2.
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Another important aspect we need to have in our relationship with God is Commitment. Psalm 37:5 states, “Commit your ways to the Lord; trust in Him and He will do this.” Join Pastor Chris as he speaks about going All In and John 13.
The Bible tells us to continually Pray through every circumstance. 1 Thessalonians 5:17 says, “Pray without ceasing.” Join Pastor Chris as he speaks about Always Praying, Never Quitting, and Luke 18.
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It is vital to have Faith if we want a close relationship with God. 2 Corinthians 5:7 says, “For we walk by Faith, not by sight.” Join Pastor Chris as he speaks about 3 aspects of Living by Faith and Acts 17.
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One of the many tests we face in our lives is to continuously grow in our walk with God. We should be constantly Graduating in our faith. Join Pastor Chris as he speaks about Graduating and Philippians 1.
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God has Anointed us to proclaim the good news of the Gospel. Luke 4:18 says, “The Sprit of the Lord is upon me, because He has Anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor…” Join Pastor Chris as he wraps up our series on the Messiah speaking about how the Messiah Anoints Us.
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Jesus died on the cross for us so that we could be saved. John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” Join Pastor Chris as he continues our series on the Messiah speaking about how the Resurrection Seals the Deal.
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God does not give us false promises. He is always true to his word. Join Pastor Chris as he talks about the Covenant Keeper and Psalm 108.
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God will provide for us. Philippians 4:19 says, “And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.” Join Pastor Chris as he talks about the God who Provides and Psalm 103.
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The word “Christ” means “Anointed One.” Jesus was anointed by God to bring us salvation and freedom from our sins. Join Pastor Chris as he starts our series on the Messiah and speaks about Psalm 133.
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King Solomon said Wisdom is better than anything you could possibly desire. Proverbs 8:11 says, “Wisdom is more precious than rubies, and nothing you could desire can compare with her.” Join Pastor Chris as he speaks about the 4 aspects of Wisdom and Psalm 89.
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As Christians, we should not always believe everything we hear or see. Proverbs 14:15 says, “The simple believes anything, but the prudent give thought to their steps.” Join guest speaker Jamie McKnight as he speaks about the Simple and Proverbs 14.
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God has given all of us gifts to use for good. 1 Peter 4:10 says, “As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.” Join guest speaker Micah Lanham as he speaks about the Sluggard and Matthew 25.
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The fear of the Lord is an important part of our relationship with God. Proverbs 1:7 says, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; but fools despise wisdom and instruction.” Join guest speaker Chad Linn as he speaks about the Fool and Proverbs 26.
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If we are to follow God, it’s important to have a strong relationship with Him. James 4:8 says, “Come near to God and He will come near to you…” Join guest speaker Pastor Chris Morgan as he speaks about the Tale of Two Towns and Psalm 91.
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We should always praise God, for He provides for us and guides us. Join Pastor Chris as he talks about A Life in Praise in Psalm 42.
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We should always focus on the Lord. 1 John 5 says, “For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world.” Join Pastor Chris as he talks about the Posture of Victory and 2 Chronicles 20.
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God doesn’t want us to love Him so He can give us this or that, but God wants us to love Him for no other reason besides love. Join Pastor Mark Northcutt as he talks about Love in Galatians 5 and 1 Corinthians 13.
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God wants us to serve others, not to be served. Matthew 20:28 says, "Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."Join Pastor Chris as he talks about Joy in the Journey and Acts 21.
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As Christians, we should always strive to shape ourselves into the image of God, leaving us Never the Same as we grow in faith. Join Guest Speaker Chad Linn as he closes up our series on "Never the Same" and the book of Acts.
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God wants you and I to walk with him each and every day. Luke 19:10 says, “For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.” Join Pastor Chris as he talks about Huge Steps in faith and Acts 19.
God wants us to trust in him with all our heart. If we submit everything to him, he will make our paths straight. Join Pastor Chris Stephens as he talks about the 3 important aspects of Potential.
God can help anyone come to their faith. No one is too far gone for Him. Join Pastor Tim Gross as he dives into Acts 9 in the series “Never the Same.”
God is wanting to bring a new freedom and an old freedom. “It is for freedom that Christ set us free. Do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.” Pastor Chris speaks out of Galatians today and how through grace alone, by faith alone, in Christ alone is how we’re saved.
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Today Pastor Chris begins the Freedom series. Listen as he speaks on the importance of Salvation, what we are saved from and what we are saved to.
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Our guest speaker for this Sunday morning message, Mark Northcutt, talks about how the power of Christ can bring change to our lives.
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As we get closer to the holiday season, Pastor Chris uses various passages throughout the Bible to explain our need for Christmas in this Sunday morning message.
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Pastor Chris speaks on “The Journey of a Lifetime”, using 2 Corinthians 4:1-9 as his key passage, for this Sunday morning message.
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Audio Block Double-click here to upload or link to a .mp3. Learn more What can we expect when God speaks to us? In this Sunday morning message, Pastor Chris demonstrates how God’s word brings humility, hope and healing for His children. Acts 9:1-9 is the key passage for today’s message.
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God speaks to us in many ways. In this Sunday morning message, Pastor Chris tells us how He speaks to us through prayer, the Word of God and His Holy Spirit.
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In this Sunday morning message, Pastor Chris explains how the voice of God is the greatest and most important voice you will ever hear. John 10:22-28 is the key passage for this message.
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Using James 1:1-12 as the key passage, this Sunday morning message is regarding resilience through trials and life in general.
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In this Sunday morning message, Pastor Chris explains how a new life in Christ Jesus is transformational in a person’s heart. Romans 6:1-13 is the key passage in this message.
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Our guest speaker, Jamie McKnight, speaks on the dangers of comparison in this Sunday morning message.
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In this Sunday morning message, Pastor Chris uses John 1:31-33 as his key passage to explain how we are to be fully engaged with God to be what He has destined us to be and to accomplish all God desires us to accomplish.
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In this Sunday morning message, Pastor Chris uses Luke 16:19-31 as his key passage to explain that the best way to win at life, in the eyes of Christ, is to lose.
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In this Sunday morning message, Pastor Chris uses 2 Peter 1:1-4 to encourage us to be a blessing to others as God has blessed us.
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Audio Block Double-click here to upload or link to a .mp3. Learn more In this Sunday morning message, Pastor Chris encourages us to look at the bigger picture in regards to the mission of discipleship, refusing to allow unity in the church to be dissolved because of small differences. 1 Corinthians 3:1-13 is the key passage used in this message.
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Our guest speaker, Mark Northcutt, explains the significance and purpose of communion in this Sunday morning message.
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In this Sunday morning message, Pastor Chris uses Colossians 3:1-17 to explain the meaning behind the word “Sanctification” and how we are to be separated from a life of sin and into a life with Christ.
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In this Sunday morning message, Pastor Chris uses 1 John 1:1-10 to explain what God’s true light reveals in each believer.
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Our guest speaker for this Sunday morning message, Chad Linn, explains the meaning and significance of Passover, especially from a Christ-centered perspective.
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Our guest speaker, Mark Northcutt, explains how strength and weakness go together in the Christian experience in this Sunday morning message. The key passage used in the message was 2 Corinthians 12:7-10.
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Pastor Chris discusses the mission of Hope Crossings in this Sunday morning message, using the key passage from John 4.
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In this Sunday morning message, Pastor Chris uses Matthew 20:25-28 and John 13:3-5, 12-14 as his key Scriptures to discuss the value of serving in the life of a disciple.
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In this Sunday morning message, Pastor Chris takes the story of the Prodigal Son, found in Luke 15, to give a good progression from a life of “give me” to a life of “search me” and, finally, to “make me”.
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In this Sunday morning message, Pastor Chris uses 1 John 4:1-11 as his key verse as he discusses the importance of testing the spirits.
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In this Sunday morning message, Pastor Chris uses Acts 20:22-31 and Ephesians 4:11-16 to discuss the importance of discipleship.
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In this Sunday morning message, Pastor Chris emphasizes the importance of discipleship, using 1 Peter 2:1-5 as his key passage.
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In this Sunday morning message, Pastor Chris uses Mark 10 and Malachi 3 to ask some questions that could become game changers regarding your faith in Christ.
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Pastor Chris uses Galatians 3:1-7 as his key verse in discussing the importance of true transformation in our walk with Christ in this Sunday morning’s message.
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Our guest speaker, Jamie McKnight, uses Psalm 32 to discuss the importance of giving our entire heart to Christ without any deception in this Sunday morning message.
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Pastor Chris, using Psalm 84 as his text, gives a special Mother’s Day message for this Sunday morning.
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In this Sunday morning message, Pastor Chris uses the story of Mephibosheth in 2 Samuel 9 to discuss how God can bring restoration to His children—from our low places to a place at His table.
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Pastor Chris shares a message, based on the main text from 2 Corinthians 9:6-11, on the purposes of sowing and reaping in our lives and how we progress (or “graduate”) from one stage to another as part of this Sunday morning’s Graduation Day message for our graduates.
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Pastor Chris continues his I AM series with a look at Jesus as both the Good Shepherd and the Door for His sheep. John 10:11-21 is the key passage in this Sunday morning message.
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Pastor Chris continues his I AM series with this Sunday morning message in how our connection with Christ is vital to the Christian life and how He wants us to be successful through that connection. John 15:1-8 is the key passage in the message.
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Pastor Chris continues his I AM series with the message from Easter Sunday entitled “Done”. Romans 3:21-31 is the key passage in the message.
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In this Sunday morning message, Pastor Chris begins a series, “I AM”, with a message on how Jesus is the resurrection and the life for the believer who deals with death. John 11 is the key passage in this message.
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Our guest speaker for this Sunday morning message, Mark Northcutt, uses Mark 11:1-4, 7-17 as his key passage in revealing how the power of Jesus can set you free from a lifestyle of sin.
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In this Sunday morning’s message, Pastor Chris uses Luke 7:1-10—”The Faith of the Centurion”—to discuss how God’s authority and power comes through God Himself and not through any earthly order or training.
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Baptism is an essential element in the Christian faith. But did you know that there are three distinct baptisms mentioned in the New Testament? In this Sunday morning message, Pastor Chris explains the meaning of baptism and why we do this. His key passage used is in Matthew 28:18-20.
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Pastor Chris concludes his series on “Together” with the Sunday morning message “The Grip of Gathering”. In addition to using Hebrews 10:19-25 as the key Scripture for the series, Pastor also refers to 2 Samuel 11-12 and Psalm 51 in this message.
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In this Sunday morning’s message, Pastor Chris continues his “Together” series with “The Growth of Gathering”. In addition to focusing on Hebrews 10:21-23, he gives a comparison between Hebrews 10 and Genesis 3.
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In this Sunday morning’s message, Pastor Chris begins a series entitled “Together” with “The Gift of Gathering”, using Hebrews 10:19-25 as his key passage.
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In this special Sunday morning message, our guest speaker, Tom Greene, talks about the FireBible and its impact around the world.
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In this Sunday morning message, Pastor Chris uses the story of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15:11-24 to share on the wonderful grace of God.
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When it comes to a life of following Christ, all it takes is committing ourselves to what God is committed to as Pastor Chris explains in this Sunday morning message.
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Pastor Chris’s Sunday morning message entitled “Engaged For Impact”: An encouragement for the church to find their purpose in ministry.
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In this Sunday morning message, Pastor Chris uses Romans 15:17-21 to explain how we are empowered through the Holy Spirit.
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In this Sunday morning message, Pastor Chris uses the life of Peter in the book of John to show how our setbacks can lead to comebacks which, in turn, can make an impact in others.
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In this Sunday morning message, Pastor Chris uses Luke 4:14-30 as his key passage in identifying three main keys to doing life with an eternal purpose.
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In this Sunday morning message, Pastor Chris uses Acts 1:4-9 as his key passage in encouraging us on the habits that we can create for a healthy spiritual walk with Christ.
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This Sunday morning message is presented by Pastor Brandon Lanier of Augusta, GA.
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Enjoy this special Sunday Father’s Day message from our guest speaker and brother, Rick Kwiatkowski.
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In this Sunday morning message, our guest speaker and brother, Jamie McKnight, looks at the life of Moses and how God pursues a relationship with us as we pursue our paths to greatness.
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In this Sunday morning message, Mark Northcutt speaks on the benefits of the Holy Spirit, using Acts 2:1-12 as the key passage.
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Our guest speaker for this Sunday morning message, Brandon Lanier of Augusta (GA), addresses on the viewpoint of Hagar in Genesis 21
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Pastor Chris uses Galatians 5:1-15 to talk about the great moves of God in this Sunday morning message.
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Our guest speaker for this Sunday’s message, Noah Herrin of Neighborhood Church in Dacula, uses the story of Noah to speak on faithfulness.
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For our special Mother’s Day message, our guest speaker, Pastor Tony Vismor of Grace Fellowship in Bogart (GA), speaks on the life of Mary, the mother of Jesus.
The lessons we learn in life give us the opportunity to change from being focused on ourselves to being focused on others. As we honored our graduates this Sunday morning, Pastor Chris gives a message on how God is taking all of us on a journey to graduate on to better things in our lives.
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As we go from one season (i.e. COVID) to another, God prepares us to be stronger, smarter, more loving, more tolerant and better prepared for the next season. Check out this Sunday morning’s message from Pastor Chris with 1 Samuel 30 as the main passage for this message.
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In this special Easter message, Pastor Chris uses five different paintings of different stages of Jesus’s life to help us gain a clear perspective on God's plan for our redemption in Christ Jesus.
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Our six-part series on the book of Ephesians concludes in this Sunday morning’s message as our guest speaker, Mark Northcutt, deals with the Armor of God in Ephesians 6:10-18.
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Pastor Chris continues his series on the book of Ephesians. In this Sunday morning’s message, based on Ephesians 5 and first part of 6, we discuss the important role of family in the church and how each member of the family has a specific responsibility towards each other.
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Pastor Chris continues his series on the book of Ephesians. In this Sunday morning’s message, we look at Ephesians 4:17-28 and examine new ways of connecting within the body of Christ.
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Pastor Chris continues his series on the book of Ephesians. In this Sunday morning’s message, we examine Ephesians 4:11-16.
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Pastor Chris continues his series on the book of Ephesians. In this Sunday morning’s message, we look at Ephesians 2:11-18 and the importance of unity in the body of Christ.
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Pastor Chris begins a six part series into the book of Ephesians with a look at Ephesians 1:1-14 in this Sunday morning’s message.
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Jesus performed many miracles during His ministry on earth. Did you know, however, that many of those miracles occurred in response to ordinary circumstances? Pastor Chris uses John 2 to share the benefits of having great faith in this Sunday morning’s message.
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Sometimes, even the best of us face anxiety in our lives. But, it’s how we handle that anxiety that can shape our interactions and overall relationship with Jesus Christ. Pastor Chris reminds us, in this Sunday morning’s message, that when our identity is found in Christ, we live with His assurance.
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In this Sunday morning’s message, Pastor Chris uses Luke 6 to demonstrate how grace replaces rules with relationship.
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As individuals, our identity is important. In this Sunday morning’s message, Pastor Chris settles the debate between new identity and true identity--and explains how our true identity is found in Jesus Christ.
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Using a special illustration in this Sunday’s message, Pastor Chris explains how we can remain focused on the love that Christ has for us despite the distractions we face on a daily basis.
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Our missionaries to Ecuador, Michael and Leah Baty, bring the word in this Sunday morning message.
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The fastest way to kill your uniqueness is to compare yourself to others—which makes you feel superior or inferior. In this message, Pastor Chris gives us strategies that maintain our focus on honoring God through our unique qualities in Christ.
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Mark Northcutt, our guest speaker for this message, gives a timely word in this first Sunday of 2022.
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Our worship leader, Austin Smith, gives this Sunday morning message entitled, “Love Came Down”.
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Pastor Chris brings a message of redemption and of family in this Sunday morning message.
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Even as we approach the holidays, God’s desire is to interrupt our plans with new birth. Pastor Chris uses Luke 2:6-18 as the key passage for this Sunday morning’s message.
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Austin Smith, our worship leader, delivers this Sunday morning message entitled, “One on One”.
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When we are in Christ, we are thankful because we are eternally blessed. Pastor Chris gives us a message of hope and encouragement when we are near God, using the first 14 verses of Ephesians 1 as the key passage.
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Is the cross a sign of foolishness and weakness? Pastor Chris answers this and reasons why our relationship with Christ brings us righteousness and freedom.
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Pastor Chris’s message, entitled “With Christ”, from November 7th with 1 Samuel 30 as the key passage.
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Pastor Chris gives his message on God’s work in the Universal Church through Martin Luther on this Reformation Sunday morning message.
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In this Sunday morning’s message, Pastor Chris gives the importance and significance of water baptism in the life of a believer.
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This Sunday morning message, entitled “The Worship of Cain”, is presented by our guest speaker, Mark Northcutt.
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Jesus says in John 12:46: “I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness.” In this Sunday morning message, Pastor Chris shows us how we can reflect His light to a darkened world.
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Our Love series is concluded with one of our own, Rick Kwiatkowski, giving a message on how love keeps no record of wrongs based on 1 Corinthians 13.
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In this message from his Love Series, Pastor Chris explains how many of us have, at one time or another, experienced signs of fatigue, exhaustion or even burnout. Using Nehemiah 8:5-10, he goes on to show how we need times to reset our lives to be more effective in God’s Kingdom.
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Learn more In the 13th chapter of 1 Corinthians, Paul writes that love “is not easily angered”. In this continuing series on Love, Pastor Chris explains how someone who isn’t easily angered lives with the constant awareness of God’s love and is, therefore, living with composure.
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Pastor Chris continues his series on love and the importance of trust in God rather than finding ways to show love in self-seeking ways.
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Pastor Chris continues his series on love, talking about the important aspect of honor.
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This is part 3 of Pastor Chris’s series on Love, based on 1 Corinthians 13, on how love is kind.
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This is part 2 of Pastor Chris’s series on Love, based on 1 Corinthians 13, on how love is patient.
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Pastor Chris continues his series on love as we examine the importance of showing love through humility.
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Pastor Chris continues his series on love as we seek to be generous in our love rather than envious.
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In this Sunday’s message, Pastor Chris begins his series on love with a perspective on how the love of Christ transforms our lives.
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In this Sunday’s message, Austin Smith uses Luke 4:1-13 as his text in showing us how we can be active overcomers in Christ by both listening to His word and actively responding to His word.
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In this Sunday’s message, Pastor Chris challenges us on what declaration of freedom we should be signing in our lives, using 1 Peter 1:13-21 as his text for the message.
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In this Sunday’s message, delivered on Father’s Day, Pastor Chris has a special message for all the fathers on why they are indispensable to their families.
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As he continues his series on the Holy Spirit in this Sunday’s message, Pastor Chris explains the importance and the purpose of the Holy Spirit’s power in our lives.
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Pastor Chris continues his series on the Holy Spirit, in this Sunday’s message, by sharing how the Holy Spirit gives each of us gifts to use in love, to bring glory to Jesus and to build the church. His text will come from 1 Corinthians 12-14.
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In this Sunday morning message, Austin Smith uses Genesis 1:27-31 to demonstrate how we are to live a life of holiness as God Himself is holy.
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In this Sunday’s message, special guest Mark Northcutt uses James 1:5-7 to speak on how our faith is based on a covenant with Christ as opposed to a contract.
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Pastor Chris gives an encouraging word to all the moms on this special Mother’s Day message.
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Pastor Chris starts a new Sunday series, “Your Best Family”, with the first part focusing on the importance of our alignment with God.
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Our objective in serving others is not about publicity, emotions or promotion. We serve because God has told us to serve others. In this Sunday’s message, Pastor Chris explains how we grow in our relationship in Christ through serving others, using the book of Jonah and John 13.
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Our guest speakers for this Sunday’s message is Ryan and Caitlyn Jordan, missionaries to the country of Colombia.
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In the end, death is a reality that we all face….even if some try to dismiss it. In this Easter Sunday message, Pastor Chris uses Luke 7 as a springboard for how Christ conquered death.
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There are many, many attempts that people make to know God and live in a harmony with Him. Every attempt is seen by God, but not all attempts are accepted by Him. In this Sunday’s message, Pastor Chris lets us know how we are assured of God’s love.
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Babies are placed in a family for a reason: Because parents are God’s agents to love, lead, train, correct and forgive their children. Pastor Chris shares a message of hope for parents and children alike in this Sunday’s message aimed at encouraging healthy relationships between parents and children.
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In this Sunday’s message, Pastor Chris uses the 3rd chapter of 1 Kings to show how divine wisdom can reveal much more than a sword.
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God created us to worship Him and experience His presence. In this Sunday morning message, Pastor Chris speaks from Revelation 4-5 to allow us a small taste of what John saw when it comes to His majesty.
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In this Sunday’s message, Mark Northcutt speaks from 1 Samuel 15, regarding the story of how Saul was rejected as king, and how we can recognize self-deception in our own lives.
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In this Sunday morning’s message, Austin Smith preaches from 1 Peter 2 to share how God builds different aspects of our lives—our family, our career, our ministry, etc.—piece by piece.
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There have been more poems, songs and books written about love than any other subject. But what is love….especially in the eyes of God? This Sunday’s message from Pastor Chris examines how the love of God truly changes us.
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1 Corinthians 13:13 says: “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” In this Sunday’s “Sanctity of Life” message, Pastor Chris explains how these three components are essential to life in the womb.
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Guilt is intended to be a negative feeling, based on truth, which brings a positive result. In this Sunday’s message, Pastor Chris uses Romans 8 to show how unresolved guilt can lead to condemnation and how we can be free from condemnation.
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We are living in a world where trust is a vanishing quality. However, in this Sunday morning message, Pastor Chris gives us a Biblical framework in how we can use trust as an essential component to healthy relationships and societies.
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Austin Smith shares a word of God’s assurance and sovereignty even in the midst of the new year, reading from Mark 8.
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In this message from Sunday, December 27, 2020, Pastor Chris allows four different families to give testimonies of God’s faithfulness and encouragement throughout a difficult year.
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The details into the Christmas story are well-known: the Virgin Mary, Joseph, no room, shepherds, wise men, etc. The question that is eventually asked, however, can also be difficult to answer: WHY? Pastor Chris explains the solution in this Sunday’s message.
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When we engage with God….when we lean into the Holy Spirit….we live with divine insight, direction and protection. In this Sunday’s message, Pastor Chris uses the first two chapters in Matthew to view how Joseph allows four separate dreams to guide his travels with Mary.
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Pastor Chris’s message from December 6, 2020, entitled “Seed and Soil”.
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Pastor Chris’s message from November 29, 2020, entitled “Courage to Act”.
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Psalms 118:24 reads, “This is the day the LORD has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it.” In this Sunday’s message, Pastor Chris motivates us to live each day fully in joy and faith in the face of our daily obstacles.
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Your actions don’t just speak louder than your words—your actions reach FURTHER than your words, too. In this Sunday’s message our worship leader, Austin Smith, reads from Luke 7:11-35 as he encourages us to refrain from talking and let our acts do the communicating.
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Today’s society is filled with anxiety and with uncertainty. We get easily confused about what isn’t important, what is important…and what is VITALLY important. In this Sunday’s message, Pastor Chris gives us Biblical foundations as to how to live our lives in these days where fear is prevalent.
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In this Sunday’s message, Pastor Chris uses John 4 to explain that the Gospel is not meant to stay in a building, in a group or even in a community but, rather, the Gospel is for everyone, everywhere, at all times.
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In this Sunday’s message, Pastor Chris deals with the problem of hypocrisy in the world today and how we must combat it with the truth that can only be found in Christ Jesus. His text comes from Mark 8.
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Using Romans 5:1-5 for his text, Pastor Chris shows us how we can find “gold” in the most unexpected of places.
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This year, 2020, has been filled with tension in so many ways. Pastor Chris, however, explains in this Sunday’s message how tension can be used in a positive way in one’s daily walk with Christ.
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Even in our daily walk with the Lord, sometimes we lack faith in His word and in His promises. But, as our worship leader, Austin Smith, explains from this Sunday’s message, there’s grace for that.
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Learn more Pastor Chris’s message, from this past Sunday morning, sheds some light on what motivates the true servant-leader and how we can glorify God in that position.
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Bigger isn’t necessarily better. In this Sunday’s message, Pastor Chris uses the example of the early New Testament church in Acts 6 to give us a better understanding of the correlation between bigger and better.
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In this Sunday’s message, Pastor Chris uses the story of Joseph in the book of Genesis to show how God uses obstacles in our life to demonstrate His grace.
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Someone once asked: “When the Bible mentions the glory of God, what is it talking about?” In this message, Pastor Chris shares that we can know more about God through His glory.
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David writes in Psalm 91 that the Lord “is my refuge and my fortress” ESPECIALLY when we dwell in the shelter of the Most High. This Sunday’s message from Pastor Chris discusses more on the security we find in the verses of Psalm 91 when we truly seek Him.
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This Sunday’s message from Pastor Chris is a reminder that the sense of safety is the result of trusting greatly in Jesus Christ. He uses Psalm 86 as his text for this message.
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As we enter into a season of prayer this week at Hope Crossings, Pastor Chris Stephens has a message, beckoning all of us to draw near unto Christ and not to be distracted by the issues of today. He’ll be speaking from the first chapter of Hebrews as well as from the book of James in this message.
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Our guest speaker, Joseph Gordon, calls on us to treat the world like our neighbor in this message from this past Sunday.
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Just as our bodies thirst for water, our souls will always thirst for God…..until we meet Christ. Check out Pastor Chris’s latest message from Sunday as he speaks from John 7:37-39.
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Speaking from 2 Samuel 9, Pastor Chris Stephens shares a message of how God is still able to restore our lives today.
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In this Sunday’s message, Pastor Chris Stephens and John Ryan talk about one of the most important privileges and responsibilities we have as followers of Christ: Prayer.
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The threshing floor is a hard place, a grueling place, a place of labor and pain, but it is a fruitful place! It’s a place where we are developed into the likeness of Jesus. Listen to this Sunday’s message presented by our worship leader, Austin Smith.
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Emphasizing one of the core values at Hope Crossings when it comes to unity, Pastor Chris shares a message from a familiar story about Solomon’s wisdom from 1 Kings 3:16-28.
In this Sunday morning’s message, Pastor Chris examines the concepts of freedom and submission as he shares from the book of Daniel.
Pastor Chris Stephens addresses the assurance of God’s everlasting peace as opposed to the world’s passive peace.
Pastor Chris Stephens speaks from James 1 in this message on resilience as the church physically gathers together for the first time in 11 weeks due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This morning’s message has Pastor Chris Stephens speaking from John 16:33 and Christ’s unconditional love for us.
Pastor Chris Stephens finishes up his series, “Come To The Table”, with a look at Jonah chapter 4.
Pastor Chris Stephens continues his series, “Come To The Table”, with emphasis on the end of Jonah chapter 2 and into Jonah chapter 3.
Pastor Chris Stephens gives his illustrated, Easter morning message, Come to the Table.
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Pastor Chris Stephens brings a word of encouragement in regards to the current state of the world this morning, preaching from Matthew 15:21-28.
Pastor Chris Stephens continues on the “Momentum” series, preaching from Acts 7:57-8:1.
Pastor Chris Stephens continues his series on Momentum from the book of Acts in this message, focusing on the life of Stephen in Acts 6-7.
February 23, 2020
Hope Crossings Church
Pastor Chris Stephens continues on the “Momentum” series, preaching from Acts 6:1-7.
February 16, 2020
Hope Crossings Church
Our guest speaker for this message, Dale Stephens, is the lead pastor of Riverside Church in NW Atlanta.