Why Would Anyone...??

Why would anyone get baptized? There are many great reasons!!!

Acts 8:26-40,2:37-38,2:41,8:12,9:18,10:47-48,22:16
Matthew 28:18-20
1 John 1:7
Romans 10:13,6:1-6,6:11
Colossians 3:1-3
Galatians 2:20,3:26-29
1 Peter 2:9-10

Sermon discussion questions for parents to use with their children:

• How are baptism and a wedding ring similar?
• Did Jesus command His followers to be baptized?
• Where in the Bible?
• What three things does baptism symbolize: clues (bathtub drain, grave and empty tomb, joining a gang)?

Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA

Mark: Keep Rowing and Trusting

What makes you scream like a little girl? Seeing a ghost? Facing a terrifying storm? Or something more routine like finding a mouse? Mark tells us the disciples screamed when they saw Jesus walking on the water. Where was their trust and why were their hearts hardened?

Mark 6:30-56,1:35
Matthew 6:6
John 20:29

We do not obey God properly and substantially unless we simply follow whatever He commands even though it conflicts with our ideas. God always has the best reason for His purpose, but He often hides it from us for a time so that we may learn not to be wise in ourselves but to depend entirely on His will. John Calvin

Now by going up the mountain He was seeking the possibility of praying free from all interruption. We know how easily warmth in prayer can be quenched or at least cooled by the least distractions. He wished to warn us by His example to be careful to use all the helps that will disengage our minds from the snares of the world, so that we may be carried up to heaven. The most important thing is solitude. Those who set themselves to pray with God as their only witness will be more watchful, will pour forth their hear into His bosom, will examine themselves more carefully, and, knowing that they have to do with God, will rise above themselves. John Calvin

Sermon discussion questions for parents to use with their children:

• Why did Jesus spend so much time in prayer?
• Why did He often get alone to pray?
• Why are the disciples described as having hard hearts?
• How should they have responded?
• In what ways do we respond to circumstances in life with hard hearts?
• How can we do it differently?

Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA

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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1 Peter 3:8-22,2:20-23,4:1,4:4,4:12-14
2 Peter 3:16,2:4-9
Luke 23:43,23:46
Hebrews 9:27-28
2 Timothy 3:12
Romans 12:17,1:4,8:11
John 10:16
Ephesians 2:17
Hebrews 11:7
1 Corinthians 1:13-17
Matthew 23:37

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

1 Peter: In Us and Among Us

Love one another...wow, there are so many times in Scripture that God says this to the body of Christ. Are we doing it? But it can be so hard at times...how to do it?? Peter lays a solid foundation in describing what has happened inside our hearts and how that should affect how we live among each other.

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1 Peter 1:22-25,1:3,4:8
John 3:1-10,13:34-45
Ezekiel 36:25-29
Romans 12:9
1 John 3:18,4:20-21,3:16
James 2:15-16
Colossians 3:12-14

Sermon discussion questions for parents to use with their children:

• Why does God think it is so important that we love one another?
• What has God done, according to this passage, which gives us hope that we can love like this?
• How are ways we may love hypocritically?
• What are specific ways we as a family can live out the suggestions on how to love that were given in the application?
• What can we do this week and this month to love our brothers and sisters in Christ who are at our church?

Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA

1 Peter: Precious Blood

Peter says the blood of Christ is precious...more precious than gold and silver. The angels and saints in heaven as well as God the Father Himself certainly see the blood as precious. Do you? This sermon examines the preciousness of Christ's blood.

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Hebrews 9:1-15
1 Peter 1:13-21,1:7
Matthew 20:28

Sermon discussion questions for parents to use with their children:

• If you died tonight and God said "why should I let you into heaven?" what would you say?
• Why is the blood of Jesus precious?
• Why do we need His blood?
• Why will the blood be precious to us on Judgment Day?
• Why will it be precious when we are in heaven?
• Is the blood precious to you now?
• Why should this precious blood motivate us to live holy lives?

Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA

Walk by Faith, Not by Sight

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Matthew 14:22-33,19:21-22
2 Corinthians 5:7
Job 42:5
Isaiah 6:8
1 Samuel 3:10
Hebrews 12:2
Acts 3:1-8

Steve Voke
WorldVenture
Esbly, France