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Chris Bowser
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
Showing posts with label Holy Spirit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holy Spirit. Show all posts
July 15, 2018
The Authority and Sufficiency of Scripture
June 10, 2018
Acts: Led by the Spirit
How can one humble man, who just wants to tell people the Good News, cause a riot? Well, it happens. The man is Paul, the place is Jerusalem, and the riot is real and mostly deadly. Why? What are people so upset about? Well, it has to do with the liberating power of the gospel. Do we know of this power? Let us investigate this important confrontation in Acts.
Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
April 15, 2018
New Member Course: The Inspiration of Scripture and What We Believe about Salvation
This four-part course is presented to new member candidates for the purpose of demonstrating the importance and aspects of membership in a local church. This session discussed the source and infallibility of scripture and what salvation really means.
Paul Sereda
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
January 28, 2018
Acts: The Much Traveled Apostle
So much goes on in each section of Acts we study that it is exciting to see God at work and to meet amazing people. This time we will meet a zealous and gifted man named Apollos and see his humility as well as the humility of the early church leaders... it's refreshing and instructive. Then, we will be challenged with lots of questions when some disciples of John the Baptist don't know about the Holy Spirit, then experience Him. What does this teach us about the Holy Spirit today and the gift of tongues, etc.? We will seek to unravel some of these issues and answer questions folks may have.
Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
September 17, 2017
Put to Death Your Flesh
Are you feeling like you want to love God, but can't seem to make Him the top priority in your life? This is your call for action: to walk in the Spirit you must put to death the sinful desires of the flesh. Are you ready to suffer in order to accomplish this?
Sean Byham
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
August 13, 2017
Acts: The Role of the Holy Spirit
What is the role of the Holy Spirit in the life of a Christian? Should we expect a second experience? What are the differences between the baptism of the Spirit and the filling of the Spirit? Is speaking in tongues the sign of the baptism of the Holy Spirit? Questions like these have challenged Christians for a long time. Most tend to rely heavily on the book of Acts to prove their position. In our study of Acts, we are going to look at what the Word of God teaches about these vital questions.
Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
July 16, 2017
Free to Love
Does any medical procedure or ritually performing any works bring anyone closer to God? Or are these just stumbling blocks on our journey? Can the Holy Spirit's presence be earned? Paul says these efforts avail us nothing! Only the grace of God grants us the freedom to love through faith.
Sean Byham
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
May 21, 2017
The Gospel in the Old Testament: Law and Spirit (Old Covenant and New Covenant)
The Old Testament law is hard to keep, actually impossible... but the New Covenant blessing of the Holy Spirit working a new heart enables us to fulfill the requirements of the law.
Sermon discussion topics for parents to use with their children:
- What is the difference between the Old and New Covenants?
- What place does the Holy Spirit have in our lives, in light of the law of God?
- What does it mean to be led by the Spirit?
- What practically does it mean to walk in the Spirit?
- Why should we be all in?
Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
April 9, 2017
Acts: A Healthy Church
When a church is spiritually healthy, lots of things begin to take place. Deep love for one another, unity of hearts and minds, outreach to the lost world, and loving service to others are just some of the results. But Satan does not just silently watch his influence being eroded. He attacks the church in overt and subtle ways. We will see all of this taking place in the early church of Acts. It is exciting and sobering. But we will also seek to apply these lessons to ourselves and explore whether we are a spiritually healthy church.
Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
March 12, 2017
Acts: Real Zeal
The early church had a zeal and love for each other that is so inspiring! As we read the early chapters of Acts, they provide a great role model of how to respond to the gospel. But, there is also a question of how do we interpret their actions? What of these early histories are for us to hear what God did then, and was unique? And what is to be practiced for God's people in each generation?
Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
May 18, 2014
1 Peter: Christ, Noah, and Living in a Hostile World
Peter has a pastor's heart and he is concerned that as the believers are suffering for their faith that they do not grow discouraged or bitter. He appeals to Jesus and Noah as examples of how we should live.
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Sermon discussion questions for parents to use with their children:
- In what ways do Christians suffer in the world?
- Why did Peter point to Jesus as our role model in how to handle this?
- And also Noah?
- How does God not want us to respond to unjust suffering?
- How does He want us to respond?
Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
August 4, 2013
July 21, 2013
December 30, 2012
Holy Spirit Led Resolutions
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- How can we expect a blessing if we are too idle to ask for it? How can we look for a Pentecost if we never meet with one another, in one place, to wait upon the Lord? Brethren, we shall never see much change for the better in our churches till the prayer meeting occupies a higher place in the esteem of Christians. Charles Spurgeon, The Kind of Revival We Need
- If we are disappointed about our success in Christ's work, what shall we say? Shall we not first look for the cause within ourselves? From observation and experience, I have learned to look very hopefully upon dissatisfaction and anguish when they are seen in Christian workers. It gives me no sorrow to see my brethren unhappy and miserable because others are not saved. It would be a far sadder thing to see them useless and yet contented. If ever I have been satisfied with what I have done for the Lord, I have invariably found my service to prove barren. Pangs go with birth, and anguish precedes success. So far as I am able to judge, it does not seem that the Lord can wisely bless people who are satisfied with themselves, and with their own efforts. It would not be safe to trust the conceited with any large measure of success: they might be injured for life by such honour. Certainly God Himself would have small honour, for the individual would steal every bit of it, and wear it himself. When you get to feel, “I am not satisfied, for God is not blessing me as I long to be blessed, and therefore I fear something must be hindering the blessing;” then you are advancing towards a right condition, - a condition favourable to success.
The Lord is always willing to bless us up to the measure of our fitness to be blessed; and sometimes it is absolutely necessary that we should be distressed, broken-hearted, and brought to an agony of prayer, before we can hold the choice gift of the God of grace. I am sure it is so. We are straitened in ourselves. Our own unfitness turns aside the Divine benediction. The Lord will have us know the value of the blessing before He gives it to us; and He will also have us know our own inability, apart from His Holy Spirit, to perform any good work, or bring forth any holy fruit. Our God takes care always to have security that, if He works a great work by us, we shall not appropriate the glory of it to ourselves. He brings us down lower and lower in our own esteem, until we feel that we are nothing at all, and then He condescends to use us. Some trumpets are so stuffed with self that God cannot blow through them. Some pitchers are too full of their own muddy water for God to pour the water of life into them. However much we may wish for a blessing, God will not set the seal of His blessing to work which is begun and carried on in the power of self. Charles Spurgeon, Only A Prayer Meeting
Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
August 14, 2011
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