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Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
June 23, 2013
1 Corinthians: The Use of Gifts
Death is Gain: Our Stake in Heaven
How can you know you are going to heaven? How can you be really confident? Well, all who trust in Jesus have a stake in heaven...in fact many. In the west they used to stake a claim, which gave them legal rights to heaven. Christian, you have a claim staked in heaven as well. This message will examine many of the stakes we have in heaven.
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Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
June 16, 2013
June 9, 2013
Death is Gain: Heavenly Rewards
What motivates us? Is it heaven and its treasures? Should heavenly rewards be a motivation for us? What kinds of things will be rewarded? What will the rewards be? Get prepared for some heavenly economics!
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Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
June 2, 2013
Death is Gain: New Heavens and New Earth
Why did Jesus, the Son of God, come to earth? To save sinners...yes...but more! To take us to heaven...yes...but more! How about this?...Jesus came to fully restore the earth and universe to the original paradise intended by God!!! Yes, a New Heaven and a New Earth is the ultimate reason Jesus came and what a wonder and glory that will be!!
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- Are we to spend eternity somewhere off in space, wearing white robes, plucking harps, singing songs, and flitting from cloud to cloud while doing so? On the contrary, the Bible assures us that God will create a new earth on which we shall live to God’s praise in glorified, resurrected bodies. On that new earth, therefore, we hope to spend eternity, enjoying its beauties, exploring its resources, and using its treasures to the glory of
God. Since God will make the new earth His dwelling place, and since where God dwells there heaven is, we shall then continue to be in heaven while we are on the new earth. For heaven and earth will then no longer be separated, as they are now, but will be one (see Revelation 21:1-3). But to leave the new earth out of consideration when we think of the final state of believers is greatly to impoverish biblical teaching about the life to come. Anthony A. Hoekema, The Bible and the Future
Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
May 26, 2013
Death is Gain: Resurrected Bodies
When believers die and their souls go to heaven they are in paradise and yet look forward to an even more glorious day. That is the day Christ returns and they receive glorified bodies. What does that mean...glorified bodies? In this message we will examine the great change and future for the believer in Christ.
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Titus 2:13
John 5:24-29
Philippians 3:20-21
Romans 5:18-23
1 Corinthians 15:3-58
Matthew 13:41-43
- He will make the feeblest and filthiest of us a dazzling, radiant, immortal creature, pulsating all through with such energy and joy and wisdom and love as we cannot now imagine. C. S. Lewis
- But God tells us that in heaven our bodies will be filled with energy. We will not know what weariness is. A new dynamism will possess us, new physical powers, so that the swiftest, strongest Olympic athlete would appear feeble in comparison with a believer in glory. Edward Donnelly
- Try for a moment to imagine the sheer physical well-being of heaven. Just as the pains of hell are more excruciating than any conceivable on this earth, so are the pleasure of heaven infinitely more delightful than any we can presently imagine. Our bodies here are subject to the results of the Fall. Even the youngest and strongest do not know what real health is like. We have no idea of the exhilarating sense of well-being that will course through our veins in heaven. It will be physical pleasure of the most intense kind. Edward Donnelly
- My dearest child, the true love of God strengthen you in virtue, you who are yet so young, and whom I must leave in this wicked, evil, perverse world. Oh, that it had pleased the Lord that I might have brought you up, but it seems that it is not the Lord's will...Be not ashamed of us; it is the way which the prophets and the apostles went. Your dear father demonstrated with his blood that it is the genuine faith, and I also hope to attest the same with my blood, though flesh and blood must remain on the stake, well knowing that we shall meet hereafter. Young mother from prison 1573
Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
May 19, 2013
Death is Gain: When Do Christians Go to Heaven?
When do Christians go to heaven? Upon death or at the general resurrection from the dead? What about our bodies? How does this all work? How can I grow in confidence as I approach death that I will be with the Lord?
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Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
May 12, 2013
Death is Gain: We Will Be Changed
We are sinners, yet sin can't exist in Heaven. How? We will be changed on the inside.
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Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
May 5, 2013
Death is Gain: Heaven is Paradise
Heaven is the center of God's plan for us. We will see its connection with the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden.
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2 Corinthians 12:1-10
Luke 23:39-43
Hebrews 12:2
John 14:28
Revelation 2:7,21:3-5,22:14-15
Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
April 28, 2013
1 Corinthians: The Love Chapter
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Death is Gain: Heaven Is Being with Jesus
The longing of New Testament Christians was to be with Jesus. This longing was so great that they thought death was gain! To be with Him was their goal and should be ours as well.
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2 Corinthians 5
Philippians 1:21-23
1 Thessalonians 4:16-18
John 13:33-14:5
Revelation 1:10-17,5:6
- It is interesting that the New Testament nowhere speaks of believers going 'to heaven' when they die. Instead, they go to be with Christ. Edward Donnelly
- John Bunyan's Mr. Standfast (The Pilgrim's Progress), just before he dies, rejoices that 'I am going now to see that Head that was crowned with thorns and that face that was spat upon for me. I have formerly lived by hearsay and faith, but now I go where I shall live by sight and shall be with Him in whose company I delight myself.' Edward Donnelly
- Sooner could a worm aspire to be a brain surgeon than a sinner expect to work his own passage to glory. Edward Donnelly
- So then let Deserved be written on the floor of hell, but on the door of heaven and life The Free Gift. Richard Baxter
- If you are in Christ, do not be afraid of death. He who has conquered that last enemy is waiting for you on the other side. As soon as our souls pass into glory we will see Jesus. He who has known and loved us from before the beginning of time will welcome us into His immediate presence. We will not feel strange or out of place, but profoundly and permanently at home. We will know that we are where we belong, and everlastingly secure. Edward Donnelly
- If we do not get to heaven before we die, we shall never get there afterward. Charles Spurgeon
- The joy of heaven is communing with Christ. The joy of earth should be communing with Him as well. Edward Donnelly
- Modern Christians are ready to busy themselves in almost any religious activity but that of quiet communion with their Lord, regarded more as a duty than a delight. They hope to go to heaven, claim to be looking forward to it eagerly. Yet the essence of the heaven they profess to long for is that communion with Christ in which they show so little interest! Something profoundly troubling underlies this spiritual apathy. Edward Donnelly
Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
April 21, 2013
Death is Gain: Heaven is God's Home
Heaven is God's home! He lives there and it has all the powerful realities of being at His place where He reveals Himself most fully. Consequently it is a place of Glory, Love, Peace, Holiness and Joy!
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- Heaven is a part of creation that God has built for this end, to be the place of his glorious presence, and it is his abode forever; and here will he dwell, and gloriously manifest himself to all eternity.
And this renders heaven a world of love; for God is the fountain of love, as the sun is the fountain of light. And therefore the glorious presence of God in heaven, fills heaven with love, as the sun, placed in the midst of the visible heavens in a clear day, fills the world with light. The apostle tells us that "God is love;" and therefore, seeing he is an infinite being, it follows that he is an infinite fountain of love. Seeing he is an all-sufficient being, it follows that he is a full and over-flowing, and inexhaustible fountain of love. And in that he is an unchangeable and eternal being, he is an unchangeable and eternal fountain of love.
There, even in heaven, dwells the God from whom every stream of holy love, yea, every drop that is, or ever was, proceeds. There dwells God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit, united as one, in infinitely dear, and incomprehensible, and mutual, and eternal love. There dwells God the Father, who is the father of mercies, and so the father of love, who so loved the world as to give his only-begotten Son to die for it. There dwells Christ, the Lamb of God, the prince of peace and of love, who so loved the world that he shed his blood, and poured out his soul unto death for men. There dwells the great Mediator, through whom all the divine love is expressed toward men, and by whom the fruits of that love have been purchased, and through whom they are communicated, and through whom love is imparted to the hearts of all God’s people. There dwells Christ in both his natures, the human and the divine, sitting on the same throne with the Father. And there dwells the Holy Spirit — the Spirit of divine love, in whom the very essence of God, as it were, flows out, and is breathed forth in love, and by whose immediate influence all holy love is shed abroad in the hearts of all the saints on earth and in heaven. There, in heaven, this infinite fountain of love — this eternal Three in One — is set open without any obstacle to hinder access to it, as it flows forever. There this glorious God is manifested, and shines forth, in full glory, in beams of love. And there this glorious fountain forever flows forth in streams, yea, in rivers of love and delight, and these rivers swell, as it were, to an ocean of love, in which the souls of the ransomed may bathe with the sweetest enjoyment, and their hearts, as it were, be deluged with love, and that forever! Jonathan Edwards, Heaven a World of Love
Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
April 14, 2013
Death is Gain: Heaven is a Real Place
This is the first in a series on the glorious doctrine of heaven. Many Christians show a strange unfamiliarity with heaven and so deep down inside do not feel death is gain as the Scriptures teach. We are the poorer for it. So in this series we will look at what the Bible teaches of the wonderful place in hopes that it will set our hearts longing with excitement to be in that special place.
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Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
April 7, 2013
March 31, 2013
March 24, 2013
Luke: That's Crazy Talk
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Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
March 17, 2013
March 10, 2013
March 3, 2013
Opening Doors with Prayer
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Pastor Lon Snyder
Riverwood Chapel
Kent, OH
February 24, 2013
1 Corinthians: Equal, Yet Different
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Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
Promises...Real Promises from God
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Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
February 17, 2013
Luke: The Completed Work
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- There is a sense, however, in which our Lord’s words supply a lesson to all true Christians. They show us the manner in which death should be met by all God’s children. They afford an example which every believer should strive to follow. Like our Master, we should not be afraid to confront the king of terrors. We should regard him as a vanquished enemy, whose sting has been taken away by Christ’s death. We should think of him as a foe who can hurt the body for a little season, but after that has no more that he can do. We should await his approaches with calmness and patience, and believe that when flesh fails our soul will be in good keeping. This was the mind of dying Stephen; “Lord Jesus,” he said, “receive my spirit.” This was the mind of Paul the aged, when the time of his departure was at hand. He says, “I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed to him against that day.” (Acts 7:59, 2 Timothy 1:12) Happy indeed are those who have a last end like this! J.C. Ryle
Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
February 10, 2013
February 3, 2013
Luke: Today -- Paradise
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Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
January 27, 2013
January 20, 2013
January 13, 2013
January 6, 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
December 23, 2012
December 16, 2012
December 9, 2012
The Doctrine of Christian Liberty
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Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
October 28, 2012
Luke: Judas and Peter (Part I)
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- No doubt to human reason these two principles appear inconsistent with each other; that God should arrange human affairs by His Providence so that nothing happens other than by His Will and bidding, and that He should destroy the reprobate (unbeliever) by whom He achieves His ends. We see how Christ reconciles these two, placing Judas under a curse although it was divinely appointed that he should plot against God as he did, not that the treachery of
Judas should properly be called a work of God, but because God bent the treachery of Judas to the fulfillment of His purpose. John Calvin, Commentary on Luke
Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
October 21, 2012
1 Corinthians: One Mind and One Heart
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Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
October 14, 2012
October 7, 2012
September 30, 2012
1 Corinthians: The Practical Bible
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Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
September 23, 2012
Luke: Now Jesus Asks a Question
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Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
September 16, 2012
September 9, 2012
1 Corinthians: Our Church's Identity
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Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
The Question We Should Not Ask...The One We Should!
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Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
September 2, 2012
August 26, 2012
August 19, 2012
August 12, 2012
August 5, 2012
July 29, 2012
July 22, 2012
July 15, 2012
July 8, 2012
Luke: Seeking
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Luke 19:1-10,3:12-14
1 Timothy 1:15
Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
July 1, 2012
June 24, 2012
Enriching Your Devotional Life
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Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
June 17, 2012
Luke: Roadblocks to God
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Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
June 10, 2012
Revelations: Are There Signs of His Coming?
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Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
The Doctrine of Justification (Part V)
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James 2:14-26
Galatians 3:10
Romans 6:1
Ephesians 2:8-10
Titus 2:14
- Faith thus receiving and resting on Christ and His righteousness, is the alone instrument of justification; yet it is not alone in the person justified, but is ever accompanied with all other saving graces, and is no dead faith, but worketh by love. 1689 Confession of Faith, Chapter 11 Of Justification
Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
June 3, 2012
May 27, 2012
The Doctrine of Justification (Part III)
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Romans 3:19-4:8,8:1-4,1:16-17,5:17-21,10:1-4,8:33-34,5:1-2
1 Corinthians 1:30
Philippians 3:8-9
- What is justification? We may define it as follows: Justification is an instantaneous legal act of God in which He (1) thinks of our sins as forgiven and Christ's righteousness as belonging to us, and (2) declares us to be righteous in His sight. Wayne Grudem Systematic Theology
Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
May 20, 2012
May 13, 2012
May 6, 2012
April 29, 2012
Revelations: Who Wins, Who Loses?
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Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
Luke: Which One Am I?
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Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
April 22, 2012
Revelations: Armageddon
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Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
Luke: Like a Stubborn Mule
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- We know how uncommon and difficult a virtue is persistence in prayer; and in this our unbelief betrays itself, for unless our first requests are answered, we at once give up hope and also the practice of prayer.
- In the parable Christ introduces a widow who gets what she wants from an unfair and cruel judge because she did not stop asking. The point of it is that God does not help His people immediately because in a sense He wants them to tire themselves out with praying.
- How then shall the prayers of believers be unfruitful if only they persist in them? Therefore if we are weakened by boredom, if when we have done a little we give up, or if our fervor in prayer languishes because God seems to have deaf ears, let us still be convinced that success will be assured even if it is not yet seen. And in this confidence let us so wrestle against our impatience that a longer delay does not break our perseverance in prayer. John Calvin
Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
April 15, 2012
Revelations: Very Powerful Figures
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Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
April 8, 2012
April 1, 2012
March 25, 2012
Revelations: The Church as Witness
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Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
March 18, 2012
Revelations: Opening the Seventh Seal
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Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
March 11, 2012
Asking 'Why God?'
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Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
March 4, 2012
February 26, 2012
Revelations: A Guided Tour of Heaven
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Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
Luke: Seeing Clearly...Way Too Late
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Luke 16:19-31
2 Corinthians 5:10
Revelation 20:12
Ephesians 2:8-9
2 Timothy 3:16-17
- We learn, fourthly, from this parable, the reality and eternity of hell. The Lord Jesus tells us plainly, that after death the rich man was "in hell--tormented with fire." He gives us a fearful picture of his longing for a drop of "water to cool his tongue," and of "the gulf" between him and Abraham, which could not be passed. There are few more dreadful passages perhaps in the whole Bible than this. And He from whose lips it came, be it remembered, was one who delighted in mercy! The certainty and endlessness of the future punishment of the wicked, are truths which we must hold fast and never let go. From the day when Satan said to Eve, "You shall not surely die," there never have been lacking men who have denied them. Let us not be deceived. There is a hell for the impenitent, as well as a heaven for believers. There is a wrath to come for all who "obey not the Gospel of Christ." (2 Thessalonians 1:8) From that wrath let us flee betimes to the great hiding-place, Jesus Christ the Lord. If men find themselves "in torment" at last, it will not be because there was no way to escape. J.C. Ryle
Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
February 19, 2012
February 12, 2012
Luke: Parties in Heaven and On Earth
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Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
February 5, 2012
Revelations: A Framework to Revelation
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Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
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