Episodes

In A Fresh Perspective, dig into topics central to the Christian experience in fresh ways, and (re)discover a faith you can love. __ What’s the Issue Anyway? _____________________ _____________ is a concept of God that many of us grew up with. This “Thin” concept of God has produced many ________________ and ________________ images of God. What Wisdom can a Fresh Perspective on God bring us? A Fresh Perspective embraces our understanding of God as ________________ and ________________. (Is...

In A Fresh Perspective, dig into topics central to the Christian experience in fresh ways, and (re)discover a faith you can love. __ What’s the Issue Anyway? The word ___________ has become synonymous with the word ______________. “Faith” as a synonym for “belief” leads to _________________. Dogmatism leads to certainty which hardens the ___________. Faith as a beautiful ___________ _________ of living with God always dies on the altar of certainty. Exploring a Fresh Perspective on Faith ...

In A Fresh Perspective, dig into topics central to the Christian experience in fresh ways, and (re)discover a faith you can love. __ What’s the Issue Anyway? The Bible has been a significant source of ___________. The Bible has been a significant source of _____________. Christians are leaving the church because of the ___________ more than any other single reason. A Fresh Perspective on the Bible starts with knowing a little secret about _____________-_____________ interpretation methods....

In A Fresh Perspective, dig into topics central to the Christian experience in fresh ways, and (re)discover a faith you can love. __ What’s the Issue Anyway? When was your last ____________ experience? Spiritual disconnection, dissatisfaction and deconstruction are the fruit of a Christianity that no longer: o Exists in the ____________ middle o Holds the ____________ tensions of both/and that make up reality o Invites people to ____________ instead of leading people to certainty o Balan...

Easter with Crossroads is Where Love Includes Everyone __ What’s the Issue Anyway? “Isolation is being by yourself. ________________ is not liking it.” Loneliness is an ______________. Loneliness is a __________. Loneliness leads to feelings of ________________. What Wisdom does the Resurrection story of John offer our loneliness? The Living Christ found and included Mary in the loneliness of her ____________. (John 20:13-16) The Living Christ found and included the disciples in the lone...

In Explaining Jesus | Experiencing Christ, we will together explore how understanding the historical Jesus can shape our own faith, actions and experience with him today. __ What’s the Issue Anyway? If we never experience _______________, we will never experience _____________. What Wisdom does Scripture offer us? The Historical Jesus saw _______________ __________ as the perfect time to challenge the conventional wisdom of his day. (Luke 9:51) That week, Jesus staged two _______________ d...

In Explaining Jesus | Experiencing Christ, we will together explore how understanding the historical Jesus can shape our own faith, actions and experience with him today. __ What’s the Issue Anyway? Failing to change often leads to ____________. Organizations and individuals can decide what ____________ ____________. The Tension There are _________ voices. There are ____________ voices. It’s hard to know _________ voice to listen to. Not all wise voices of change are ____________. It may...

In Explaining Jesus | Experiencing Christ, we will together explore how understanding the historical Jesus can shape our own faith, actions and experience with him today. __ What was the Cultural Matrix of the historical Jesus? Sometimes the decision to get INVOLVED brings joy and sometimes it brings pain. The social world or cultural matrix of Jesus was in CRISIS. The Roman tax policy created a system of DOUBLE TAXATION for the Jews. The politics of HOLINESS dominated the Jewish world as ...

In Explaining Jesus | Experiencing Christ, we will together explore how understanding the historical Jesus can shape our own faith, actions and experience with him today. __ Mark 1: Jesus’ Baptism In Mark 1:8, John declares to the crowd, “I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.” It’s a clear declaration of two things happening at once: One, a _________________ of our earthly form Two, a _________________ to a spiritual realm Mark 1:10 says, “As soon as Jesus...

In Explaining Jesus | Experiencing Christ, we will together explore how understanding the historical Jesus can shape our own faith, actions and experience with him today. __ What’s the Issue Anyway? We can be _____________ by faith or reason. A christianity unwelcoming of reason is a tool to gain ___________, maintain _____________ and impose _________. What Wisdom does an exercise on the question “Who is Jesus?” offer us today? Mark 8:27-30, Matthew 16:13-20, Luke 9:18-20 Explaining the ...

What does it practically mean to follow the peacemaking path of Jesus? In The Way of Peace, learn about the concept of a rule of life and discover flexible and achievable ways to walk this peacemaking path. __ Rule #01 Choose love, forgiveness and inclusion: Daily choose to follow Jesus: walk the narrow path of loving mercy, doing justice, and living sacrificially. Rule #02 Listen to Wisdom: Daily listen to wisdom from Scripture, sacred writings and other sources to understand where peace is ...

What does it practically mean to follow the peacemaking path of Jesus? In The Way of Peace, learn about the concept of a rule of life and discover flexible and achievable ways to walk this peacemaking path. __ Rule #01 Choose love, forgiveness and inclusion: Daily choose to follow Jesus: walk the narrow path of loving mercy, doing justice, and living sacrificially. Rule #02 Listen to Wisdom: Daily listen to wisdom from Scripture, sacred writings and other sources to understand where peace is ...

What does it practically mean to follow the peacemaking path of Jesus? In The Way of Peace, learn about the concept of a rule of life and discover flexible and achievable ways to walk this peacemaking path.

What does it practically mean to follow the peacemaking path of Jesus? In The Way of Peace, learn about the concept of a rule of life and discover flexible and achievable ways to walk this peacemaking path. __ Week 01: A Jesus-centered life is a peace-centered life. Rule #1 Daily choose to follow Jesus: walk the narrow path of loving mercy, doing justice and living sacrificially Rule #2 Daily listen to wisdom: work hard for knowledge then use it to rewrite the Five Unacceptable Truths Rule #3...

What does it practically mean to follow the peacemaking path of Jesus? In The Way of Peace, learn about the concept of a rule of life and discover flexible and achievable ways to walk this peacemaking path. __ A Quick Review of the Peacemaking Rule of Life Week 01: A Jesus-centered life is a peace-centered life. Rule #1 Daily choose to follow Jesus: walk the narrow path of loving mercy, doing justice and living sacrificially Rule #2 Daily listen to Wisdom: work hard for knowledge then use i...

What does it practically mean to follow the peacemaking path of Jesus? In The Way of Peace, learn about the concept of a rule of life and discover flexible and achievable ways to walk this peacemaking path. __  What’s the Issue Anyway? We focus on ______________________ interests. We focus on ______________________ interests. We focus on ______________________ interests. Peace is broken when our vision _______________ on one interest area over the other. What Wisdom does Scripture offer...

What does it practically mean to follow the peacemaking path of Jesus? In The Way of Peace, learn about the concept of a rule of life and discover flexible and achievable ways to walk this peacemaking path. __ Week 01: A Jesus-centered life is a peace-centered life The Way of Peace Prayer: Jesus, I choose to follow your Way of Peace. Lead me to one person that I can love, give hope and bring your peace to today. What’s the Issue Anyway? Our daily CHOICES ripple out further than we can ima...

What does it practically mean to follow the peacemaking path of Jesus? In The Way of Peace, learn about the concept of a rule of life and discover flexible and achievable ways to walk this peacemaking path. __ What’s the Issue Anyway? What is your life CENTERED on? Some of us center our life on MONEY. Some of us center our life on FAMILY. Some of us center our life on RELIGION. The center point has a GRAVITATIONAL PULL to everything in its orbit. What Wisdom does Jesus offer us on the Gr...

This Christmas season, Crossroads Church will reflect on the opening line of the famous Christmas Carol in the teaching series What Child Is This. Explore how the birth of a Jewish peasant over 2000 years ago lights our darkness and guides our feet on the path to peace. __ Anchor Verse: In the heartfelt Mercy of our God, the dawn from on high will visit us, to shine on those sitting in darkness, in the shadow of death, to guide our feet to the way of peace. Luke 1:78-79 Week 01: This Child Li...

This Christmas season, Crossroads Church will reflect on the opening line of the famous Christmas Carol in the teaching series What Child Is This. Explore how the birth of a Jewish peasant over 2000 years ago lights our darkness and guides our feet on the path to peace. __ In the heartfelt Mercy of our God, the dawn from on high will visit us, to shine on those sitting in darkness, in the shadow of death, to guide our feet to the way of peace. Luke 1:78-79 Week 01: This Child Lights the Path ...

This Christmas season, Crossroads Church will reflect on the opening line of the famous Christmas Carol in the teaching series What Child is This? Explore how the birth of a Jewish peasant over 2000 years ago lights our darkness and guides our feet on the path to peace. __  What’s the Issue Anyway? For some, Jesus is a path to wealth and health NOW and/or LATER. For some, Jesus is an icon of FREEDOM. For some, Jesus is an icon of OPPRESSION. Jesus’ birth has brought HEALING and PEACE to ...

In The Winners Circle, explore the power of ambition and modeling, turn freedom on its head and ultimately discover Jesus’ path to greatness. __ What’s the Issue Anyway? We are told the path to greatness comes through what we OWN. We are told the path to greatness comes through the TITLES we earn. Greatness built on credentials and ownership perpetuates DIVISION and ends with DEATH. What Wisdom does Paul offer us in Philippians 2:1-11? Paul believed his suffering and sacrifice was worth i...

In The Winners Circle, explore the power of ambition and modeling, turn freedom on its head and ultimately discover Jesus’ path to greatness. __ What’s the Issue Anyway? Freedom is a BIG DEAL in our COUNTRY. The fantasy of freedom is that if I could just have more of THAT, I could be truly free. Freedom is a BIG DEAL in our RELIGION. Definitions of Freedom: Freedom is doing WHATEVER I want to do, WHENEVER I want to do it, WITH WHOMEVER I want to do it. Freedom is doing what I was CREATED ...

In The Winners Circle, explore the power of ambition and modeling, turn freedom on its head and ultimately discover Jesus’ path to greatness. __ The Anchor Verse ...but among you it shall not be so. Rather, let the greatest among you be as the youngest, and the leader as the servant. –Luke 22:26 John 13:1-20 1Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to...