Crossroads Community Church

“Wilderness is life beyond redemption but short of consummation.  The former seems ineffective and the latter only a mirage.  The promise has been spoken but who can live by words alone?  The hope has been proclaimed but the horizon keeps disappearing in the sandstorms.  And so trust in God often turns into recalcitrance and resentment.  [...]

Sermon Based Small Group Questions Garden to the City – Law Icebreaker: What is the craziest rule your parents had for you growing up? What methods of discipline did your parents use growing up?  How have you or would you modify their methods in parenting children? 1.       Have you experienced the prophecy of Jeremiah 31:33? [...]

“To receive the grace of forgiveness and to shun the grace of obedience and personal transformation is to misunderstand grace completely.” “Some elements within contemporary Christianity seem to fear effort more than complacency, as if legalism is a bigger threat than our lackadaisical lives.”  Quotes from Gary Thomas in Holy Available to prime the pump [...]

Sermon Based Small Group Questions The Garden to the City – Covenant Icebreaker:  What was your worst “road trip” experience?  Why was it so bad?  What was your best road trip? What made it memorable?  Where there things you remember that your mom or dad did or said on long road trips when you were [...]

Father, I want to know you, but my coward heart fears to give up its toys. I cannot part with them without inward bleeding, and I do not try to hide from you the terror of the parting. I come trembling, but I do come. Please root from my heart all those things which I [...]