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We are at a place in the book of Acts where life and circumstances are changing big time for the Apostle Paul, but there is one thing that isn't changing in his life and that should be the same for you and me. It matters not if we are male or female, young or old, a pastor, mechanic, clerk, or a student. If we are a Christian, it should never change in our lives either.
Dave Ruhl
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
God created us in His image: male and female. We will explore those distinctions and their importance in society, church, and the home.
Isaiah 3
Genesis 1:26-28
Ecclesiastes 10:16-18
Matthew 11:28-29
2 Corinthians 10:1
1 Corinthians 11:7-9
2 Samuel 10:12
1 Corinthians 16:1-3
2 Samuel 10:12
Sermon discussion topics for parents to use with their children:
- What does it mean the God made them in His image: male and female?
- How are they equal, different, and complementary?
- Masculinity: How could this be defined, what is it, and what is it not?
- Why are godly men needed in Society, the Church and the Home?
- How does the gospel help us recover biblical masculinity and femininity?
Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
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
Rejoicing and suffering seem to not fit together: but Paul experienced both, as he emphatically expressed to the Colossians, as he took on the inevitable but glorious persecution all Christians must face.
Sermon discussion topics for parents to use with their children:
- Why is it assumed Christians will suffer persecution?
- What is Union with Christ and how does that fit into this topic?
- Why is it important to have realistic expectations about this suffering?
- How does rejoicing fit with suffering in this text?
Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
Jesus probably shocked His listeners by one of His I AM statements when He said He is the True Vine. They would have understood exactly this reference to Messianic prophecy. But comfort comes from abiding in Him, thriving on the nutrients He provides, so we can bear fruit.
Sean Byham
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
We have a choice. We can remain under the curse of Adam or we can have union with Christ. One choice will lead to separation and destruction and the other brings an eternity of oneness. Choose wisely...
Chris Bowser
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
Every once in a while in Scripture we are given the rare opportunity to listen in on a very special conversation or private meeting. In Acts we will listen in as Paul pours out his deep concerns to the Elders of the Ephesian church. To hear an apostle give a sort of last will and testament to a group of Elders whom he may never see again is not only a special privilege, it is incredibly instructive. Now our church can benefit from this special teaching.
Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
Paul is telling the Colossians that Christians are to be grounded and steadfast to the end... no matter what... never quit! How do we get so deeply rooted?
Colossians 1:9-23,2:6-7For faith is not like mere opinion, which is shaken by various movements, but has a firm steadfastness, able to withstand all the machinations of the hell. John Calvin The Epistles of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians
Sermon discussion topics for parents to use with their children:
- What are the questions raised when the warning passages are read?
- What are some of the answers?
- What is Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility, and how do these realities fit into this discussion?
- What do old stumps and stubborn mules have to do with Colossians 1:23?
- How do we get this deep, persevering faith?
Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
As society continues to deteriorate at a hectic speed... it is time to go back to the Word of the Living God to find out how we can recover.
Psalm 127-128
Romans 12:2
Genesis 2:24,1:27-28
Sermon discussion topics for parents to use with their children:
- What does it mean that God established the family as the foundation of society?
- In what important ways does the family form the future generations?
- What are the termites weakening the structure of the family in our day?
- What role do Moms have, and how should we view that role?
- How can we support Moms who are actively raising children today?
Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
One of the most significant things that can impact our life for good is the practice of Daily Personal Devotions. It cannot be overstated how this can benefit a life over the years and how God has used it to mature and strengthen one's faith and walk with Him. It can be a source of struggle and frustration for many... finding time; what to do if you do find time; wandering thoughts; reading the Bible but feeling like you are not getting anything out of it. This concludes a brief series called Enriching Your Devotions. The goal behind this series is to give you the practical helps needed to have a very blessed devotional life that will bear fruit and yield years of enjoyment in fellowship with God.
Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
Paul clearly tells us in Colossians that Christ will present the believers holy, blameless, and above reproach... how can that be? How can I be there?
Sermon discussion topics for parents to use with their children:
- What are some of the amazing aspects of the fact that God wants to be reconciled with us?
- How are the saved people going to appear before God?
- Why will no one dare to question how these people can be holy, blameless and above reproach?
- What will these people feel like as they stand there?
- Will you be one of them?
Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
Much can be learned about the relationship between the Father and the Son with Jesus' final words on the cross. God turned away as His Son willingly suffered for us. He was separated from Jesus. But He did not leave His Son behind; God reclaimed Jesus' body as a resurrected and living Lord!
Sermon discussion topics for parents to use with their children:
- Read Matthew 27:27-46 which describes the greatest abandonment ever to occur.
- Who was being abandoned - and by whom?
- Why was this the only abandonment with any honor and redemption?
- How do we know that judgment occurred at Calvary?
- Who was being judged?
- What different individuals and groups contributed to Jesus' social abandonment while He was on the cross?
- Read Psalm 22:1-21. From this passage, describe the emotional desertion the Son experienced on the cross.
- What was the deepest part of Jesus' suffering on the cross?
- Why was it the source of His greatest suffering?
- How do we know that Jesus ultimately was not abandoned?
Scott Graubard
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
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 concluding session considers the role of elders and deacons and the responsibilities of members.
Matt Courtney
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
We are running a race of faith. We aren't just running to run; we are running to win the prize, the prize being fellowship with Christ. Fix your eyes on Jesus!
David Ruhl
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
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 digs into the meaning and importance of baptism.
Chris Bowser
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
Why would anyone seek to reconcile with an enemy who hates them and wishes them harm? Why me, Lord? Paul is explaining to the Colossians God's amazing offer.
Colossians 1:19-22
Romans 5:9-10,8:7,8:31-32
2 Corinthians 5:18-21
This is the most wonderful scene that the universe will ever witness; a beseeching God, an imploring Savior, standing at the door of the sinner’s heart with eternal salvation in His hand, knocking for entrance and begging to be let in; the insulted Omnipotent Creator of the universe, beseeching a worm, whom an exercise of His will could sink in a moment to hell, and His justice be glorified in the act, to accept His pardoning mercy, and waiting year after year, in all longsuffering, for the sinner’s reconsideration of his obstinate refusals. Be astonished, O heaven, at God’s unutterable mercy, and be horribly afraid, O earth, at man’s indescribable wickedness. Here is the climax of God’s divine love, and man’s desperate depravity. John Angell James An Earnest Ministry
Sermon discussion topics for parents to use with their children:
- How are people enemies of God?
- Why is it amazing that God even wants to be reconciled to us?
- What is so amazing about How God reconciled us to Himself?
- Why is it amazing that God pleads with us to be reconciled to Him?
- How beloved and safe are those who are reconciled?
Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
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
Why would a God, whom we offended, seek to reconcile with us? What does this teach us about Him? Let's look to Colossians for the answers.
Sermon discussion topics for parents to use with their children:
- How is preeminence of Christ over all things shown in this passage?
- Why is this so unsavory to the world... especially today?
- Why should it not worry us that such power is in this God's hands?
- What does it mean that God is: relational, others oriented, and sacrificial?
- Why is it not the normal way reconciliation works that God chose to reconcile and to do something dramatic to bring it about?
Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
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. The first session covers the foundations of the church.
Matthew 16:18
Revelation 2-3
Romans 16:5
Ephesians 5:22-32
Dave Ruhl
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
How can we know... for a fact... that Jesus really did rise? And why is that great news and possibly unsettling?
Matthew 27:57-28:20
Acts 2:32-36,17:30-31
Romans 1:3-4
1 Corinthians 15:22
Psalm 130:3
1 John 2:1
Sermon discussion topics for parents to use with their children:
- Why do we believe some people when they tell us something is real or it really happened?
- Why do the facts of Jesus' resurrection and the eyewitness accounts point to the fact that He did rise?
- Why do you and I need a risen Savior?
Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA
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