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In The Winners Circle, explore the power of ambition and modeling, turn freedom on its head and ultimately discover Jesus’ path to greatness. __ The Winners Circle: Paving your (unlikely) Path to the Top | Week #01 The Ambush of Ambition | October 30th What’s the Issue Anyway? We want to be WINNERS. We want SUCCESS and GREATNESS. We call this desire AMBITION. Ambition tends to AMBUSH us. "Sometimes, our highest goal becomes our big enemy when we move towards our goal blindly without focus...

In this series, we will expose the lie of living to the edge of our limits. We will look together at how to build margin into our emotions, moral choices, time and finances—and finally discover the key to all margin.

What’s the Issue Anyway? Mental exhaustion is a response to THINKING overload. Emotional exhaustion is a response to FEELING overload. Mental and Emotional exhaustion are RELATED. Our spiritual traditions often unintentionally SHAME us in our fatigue. Continual emotional and mental exhaustion leads to BURNOUT. SUCCESS is often the sacred object. What Wisdom does Jesus offer us? Matthew 11:28 Jesus HONORED people’s exhaustion. Jesus offered a GENTLE and HUMBLE space to unpack the pain. Je...

Quick Review Anchor Verse: The Devil, the ultimate ____________, has always hated the truth because the truth brings freedom from his control. So, deception and destruction just come naturally, it’s his character. All lies flow from him like water from a fountain. John 8:44 (Ryan’s Paraphrase) Week 01: Margin ____________ the con and reduces the _________ of overload. Week 02: Creating and maintaining margin is only possible when we go through the loss and death of the ____________ __________...

Quick Review Anchor Verse: The Devil, the ultimate CON-MAN, has always hated the truth because the truth brings freedom from his control. So, deception and destruction just come naturally; it’s the Devil’s character. All lies flow from the Devil like water from a fountain. John 8:44 (Ryan’s Paraphrase) Week 01: Margin EXPOSES the con and reduces the RISK of overload. Week 02: Creating and maintaining margin is only possible when we go through the loss and death of the SACRED OBJECT. What’s t...

What’s the Issue Anyway? Have you ever felt the discomfort of DISCONTENTMENT? We believe that something out THERE can make me whole in HERE. This longing for wholeness or completeness is the experience of LACK. The thing we think will deliver us from lack becomes a type of SACRED OBJECT. Something often stands in the way of the sacred object: PROHIBITION. How can I be FREE from the excessive drive for the sacred object to enjoy a life not weighed down by the negative power of lack: A Life ...

What’s the Issue Anyway? FOMO is a real thing! Progress is the great ILLUSIONIST of our day. Most of progress has dealt with the PHYSICAL or COGNITIVE world. Most of our pain is in the SPIRITUAL (Social/Emotional) world. The greatest con on earth is that with progress our limits DISAPPEAR. When we live without limits, we experience the pain of STRESS and OVERLOAD. Something inside us BREAKS. RELATIONSHIPS will disappear right before your very eyes. What Wisdom does Scripture offer us? O...

What’s the Issue Anyway? FOMO is a real thing! Progress is the great ILLUSIONIST of our day. Most of progress has dealt with the PHYSICAL or COGNITIVE world. Most of our pain is in the SPIRITUAL (Social/Emotional) world. The greatest con on earth is that with progress our limits DISAPPEAR. When we live without limits, we experience the pain of STRESS and OVERLOAD. Something inside us BREAKS. RELATIONSHIPS will disappear right before your very eyes. What Wisdom does Scripture offer us? O...

What’s the Issue Anyway? FOMO is a real thing! Progress is the great ILLUSIONIST of our day. Most of progress has dealt with the PHYSICAL or COGNITIVE world. Most of our pain is in the SPIRITUAL (Social/Emotional) world. The greatest con on earth is that with progress our limits DISAPPEAR. When we live without limits, we experience the pain of STRESS and OVERLOAD. Something inside us BREAKS. RELATIONSHIPS will disappear right before your very eyes. What Wisdom does Scripture offer us? O...

It's time to going groups & today's podcast begins with the audio from a video we have explaining groups. Think about joining a group. Online or in person. Below are this week's talk notes filled in so that you can access it late. Ryan teaches on Crossroads 2023 - week 2. If you missed last week's check out the previous podcast, week 1! Have a great week! _____________________________________ Crossroads 2023: Focused | Week #02 Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing | September 11th What’s ...

It's time to going groups & today's podcast begins with the audio from a video we have explaining groups. Think about joining a group. Online or in person. Below are this week's talk notes filled in so that you can access it late. Ryan teaches on Crossroads 2023 - week 2. If you missed last week's check out the previous podcast, week 1! Have a great week! _____________________________________ Crossroads 2023: Focused | Week #02 Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing | September 11th What’s ...

It's time to going groups & today's podcast begins with the audio from a video we have explaining groups. Think about joining a group. Online or in person. Below are this week's talk notes filled in so that you can access it late. Ryan teaches on Crossroads 2023 - week 2. If you missed last week's check out the previous podcast, week 1! Have a great week! _____________________________________ Crossroads 2023: Focused | Week #02 Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing | September 11th What’s ...

What’s the Issue Anyway? Moralistic religion creates an unhealthy _____________ in our lives. What Wisdom does Matthew 9:35-38 offer us as it relates to our work? Illness and Disease made you an ________________ to the synagogue. (35) Jesus’ heart was marked by ___________________ for the outsider. (36) Jesus knew the _____________ would always outweigh the _____________. (37-38) Don’t Miss This! Jesus modeled the way of divine work: ______________________ ________________. How can I liv...

What’s the Issue Anyway? Moralistic religion creates an unhealthy _____________ in our lives. What Wisdom does Matthew 9:35-38 offer us as it relates to our work? Illness and Disease made you an ________________ to the synagogue. (35) Jesus’ heart was marked by ___________________ for the outsider. (36) Jesus knew the _____________ would always outweigh the _____________. (37-38) Don’t Miss This! Jesus modeled the way of divine work: ______________________ ________________. How can I liv...

What’s the Issue Anyway? Moralistic religion creates an unhealthy _____________ in our lives. What Wisdom does Matthew 9:35-38 offer us as it relates to our work? Illness and Disease made you an ________________ to the synagogue. (35) Jesus’ heart was marked by ___________________ for the outsider. (36) Jesus knew the _____________ would always outweigh the _____________. (37-38) Don’t Miss This! Jesus modeled the way of divine work: ______________________ ________________. How can I liv...

Hello and welcome to the Crossroads podcast! I encourage you to go watch this past week's service, because it was a whole church, family experience. You'll find the link HERE. We loved having the kids and students helping lead and then we wrapped up our time together with communion. In today's podcast we're including a recap of our friend Steve talking through our different campfire stories and then Ryan will lead us in communion. Feel free to pause and come back to share in communion with us, w...

Hello and welcome to the Crossroads podcast! I encourage you to go watch this past week's service, because it was a whole church, family experience. You'll find the link HERE. We loved having the kids and students helping lead and then we wrapped up our time together with communion. In today's podcast we're including a recap of our friend Steve talking through our different campfire stories and then Ryan will lead us in communion. Feel free to pause and come back to share in communion with us, w...

Hello and welcome to the Crossroads podcast! I encourage you to go watch this past week's service, because it was a whole church, family experience. You'll find the link HERE. We loved having the kids and students helping lead and then we wrapped up our time together with communion. In today's podcast we're including a recap of our friend Steve talking through our different campfire stories and then Ryan will lead us in communion. Feel free to pause and come back to share in communion with us, w...

What’s the Issue Anyway? Do we have a history with DUPLICITOUS actions? Do we act in a way opposite of the CULTURAL EXPECTATION? We can easily feel DEFLATED when our intentions are questioned. Questioning our intentions exposes our RESILIENCY. What Wisdom does David and Goliath in I Samuel 17 offer us? Legend has it David was not a stranger to the CONTEMPT of his brothers. Jesse sends David to check on the SAFETY of his brothers. (17-19) David HONORED his father by following through. (20-22...

What’s the Issue Anyway? Do we have a history with DUPLICITOUS actions? Do we act in a way opposite of the CULTURAL EXPECTATION? We can easily feel DEFLATED when our intentions are questioned. Questioning our intentions exposes our RESILIENCY. What Wisdom does David and Goliath in I Samuel 17 offer us? Legend has it David was not a stranger to the CONTEMPT of his brothers. Jesse sends David to check on the SAFETY of his brothers. (17-19) David HONORED his father by following through. (20-22...

What’s the Issue Anyway? Do we have a history with DUPLICITOUS actions? Do we act in a way opposite of the CULTURAL EXPECTATION? We can easily feel DEFLATED when our intentions are questioned. Questioning our intentions exposes our RESILIENCY. What Wisdom does David and Goliath in I Samuel 17 offer us? Legend has it David was not a stranger to the CONTEMPT of his brothers. Jesse sends David to check on the SAFETY of his brothers. (17-19) David HONORED his father by following through. (20-22...

Welcome to the Crossroads Church podcast! You can find more information and many resources at our Gather page. We encourage you to connect! Head over there when you're ready to fill out the connect card, find more information on how to be involved, ways to give and to see what's going on in the Feed, our e-newsletter. You also will find the message notes below.....Have a great week! What’s the Issue Anyway? “Three things cannot be hidden: the sun, the moon and the TRUTH.” –Buddha “Even if y...

Welcome to the Crossroads Church podcast! You can find more information and many resources at our Gather page. We encourage you to connect! Head over there when you're ready to fill out the connect card, find more information on how to be involved, ways to give and to see what's going on in the Feed, our e-newsletter. You also will find the message notes below.....Have a great week! What’s the Issue Anyway? “Three things cannot be hidden: the sun, the moon and the TRUTH.” –Buddha “Even if y...

Welcome to the Crossroads Church podcast! You can find more information and many resources at our Gather page. We encourage you to connect! Head over there when you're ready to fill out the connect card, find more information on how to be involved, ways to give and to see what's going on in the Feed, our e-newsletter. You also will find the message notes below.....Have a great week! What’s the Issue Anyway? “Three things cannot be hidden: the sun, the moon and the TRUTH.” –Buddha “Even if y...