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CrossPointe, This Sunday we're going to be looking at 1 Thessalonians 1:210. It's in these verses that the Apostle Paul commends the Thessalonians for their faith and example. Just reading it gives the believer a sense as to what type of faith is pleasing to the Lord. I hope that we will walk away from this text encouraged and challenged in our own faith. So, prepare your...

Dear CrossPointe, I trust Hebrews 11 was as helpful to you as it was to me. It contains so much encouragement to hold fast to Jesus by faith. This Sunday we're in one of the high points of the letter, Hebrews 12:13. It's an exhortation that stands on the foundation of the examples of faith from Hebrews 11. The preacher is summarizing his sermon in these verses. His main...

Dear CrossPointe, This Sunday, we come to the end of this famous chapter with a look at Hebrews 11:3240. Our author is bringing his exhortation to a close with a fascinating, instructive, and encouraging mixed bag of examples. He begins by recounting the deeds of those who conquered by faith and then unexpectedly highlights those who endured suffering by faith. He concl...

Dear CrossPointe, Good doctrine is beautiful, but good doctrine with real-life examples is even more beautiful. It's what we see in Hebrews 11. This Sunday, our text is Hebrews 11:2331 and the examples of Moses, Israel at the Red Sea and the walls of Jericho, and Rahab the prostitute are the most unlikely of candidates to make it into the example chapter. We need Hebrew...

Dear CrossPointe, Hebrews 110 gives us reason after reason to have faith in the supremacy of Christ. Hebrews 11 then gives us example after example of those who have gone before anddemonstrated this faith. Our text this week, Hebrews 11:822, zooms in on Abraham and his family. Despite many reasons to doubt, they persevered, looked forward by faith,and trusted God. They ...

Dear CrossPointe, Happy New Year! I'm looking forward to getting back into Hebrews this Sunday. We'll begin the famous Hebrews 11 passagea beautiful chapter full of exhortation on what living by faith looks like in the lives of God's people. Specifically, consider the first seven verses and then come to the Lord's Table on this first Sunday of 2024. I am looking forw...

CrossPointe, I hope you had a happy Christmas, and as we look ahead to 2024 my prayer is that we as a church would increasingly find our contentment and joy in Christ alone. To cap off the year, I'll be preaching from Matthew 3:112, our introduction to John the Baptist. Much like his cousin Jesus, John is intent on delivering a simple message: "Repent, for the kingdom o...

Dear CrossPointe, This Sunday, ourtext is just one verse, John 1:14, "And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth." I plan to explain the incarnation's beauty, necessity, and implications. Hope to see you Sunday morning and again in the evening for our Christmas Eve service a...

Dear Church, Our text this Sunday, Hebrews 10:2639, will take us through the end of this section of the letter before we begin the famous Hebrews 11 in January. This week's passage contains yet another warning (maybe the most severe of the five in the letter), followed by a call to remember past faithfulness and encouragement to persevere. This is yet another rich porti...

Dear Church, I'm looking forward to this Sunday! We'll enjoy being ministered to by our first-ever CrossPointe Christmas Choir! They will lead us in singing with some familiar advent hymns and songs, and then we'll consider one of the mountain peaks of the Bible in Hebrews 10:1925. It may be the high point of the letter as it builds on all the theology up to t...