Crossroads Community Church

Priority Pill #4 – Pilot Service Projects Sermon Based Small Group Questions Matthew 25: 31-46 & Isaiah 58:6-9 (NIV) Icebreaker: When was the last time you helped someone stranded on the side of the road, helped a friend move, or helped a family member who needed financial assistance?  How did it make you feel to [...]

Living in God’s kingdom means living in an upside down world. Last will be first. Give to receive. Lose to gain. People who mourn are blessed. All statements Jesus made, yet they seem so opposite from how our world functions and even how we are wired, don’t they? But the kingdom of God is upside [...]

Yesterday I gathered with some of my fellow pastors in the Christian Reformed Church in NW Indiana.  We began by reading Jeremiah 29:7 which says, “seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile.  Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.”  [...]

Priority Pill – Sermon Based Small Group Questions Goal #3 – Urban Church Plant Icebreaker:  Have you ever made New Year’s resolutions that “stuck”?  When you have successfully implemented a (diet, exercise routine, devotional plan, Bible reading plan, time with family, etc.) goal what brought about the change and what made it stick? How do [...]

I don’t usually borrow my “Pastor’s Desk” thoughts but I really liked this from Donald Miller.  I thought it fit well with our Priority Pill series: “I heard a lecture recently in which the speaker talked about goals, and how powerful they are. He did say, however, that we shouldn’t share our goals, if possible. [...]