Cross City Church

The new home of the believer creates new courage that marks our lives to follow and love God with strength and gentleness in the most adverse conditions.

It is a fundamental shape of God's gospel people to wait for Christ's return and for the Spirit's intercession in prayer.

Do you know God's overall priorities for us? To misunderstand or neglect the priorities of God for a person or a church is to be outside his will. And welcome to church… you dont want to be outside the will of this amazing, awe-inspiring God who only gives us what is truly good and best.

Our 2025 Easter Sermon. The King of Kings rose from the dead and promises to raise all who will trust him.  He is the true lover of our souls and sacrificed himself to free us from our sin in both our genuine gilt and its power over us.

It is the way of Jesus to intentionally and repeatedly reach out into the world with unexpected timing, unexpected groups people with unique weakness. Jesus sends out a message that leaves each person in a position of absolute condemnation or repentance into absolute blessing.

Jesus' power over death is on display as he heals Jairus' daughter and brings her back to life. In the midst of urgency and desperation, he shows that his ways are true and his timeline is perfect.

Jesus is so full of authority and power that just the sight of Jesus makes demons flee to him, confess his divine authority and to beg for mercy. He now tells us that we too wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against satan and his forces and gives us specific attacks to watch out for as well as the tools of a Gospel centered life with which to fight to be strong in the Lord and the power of his might.

Christ claims to be sufficient for you in every and all areas of life. There is no foe, no fear nor any need where he is not the place where we confidently run.

The only way to find the Treasure of God's word to be the treasure of your heart is to prayerfully determine that it really is officially that …and that it will be that to you come what may.. and treat it that way today. He will exponentially bless your heart's love for and joy in his word as you walk in this.

The Spirit is precious and powerful and must be respected by all. But what is the unforgivable sin and have I committed it? Can I be forgiven? Do I even want forgiveness?

The mission of Christ means the establishment of strong, healthy church families and we believe God has placed this ambition on the shoulders of Cross City Church for His children in Ohio.

If we are to glorify the Father, we must glorify the Son because the Father is actively seeking, advancing and enforcing the glory of Jesus who gives us life through his words.

Jesus looks straight in the eyes of the leaders of Israel and tells them that He is the “Son of all Mankind”, holding a position with full divine nature by which he can forgive sins.

As Jesus interacts with the leper, so he does with us. When we humbly come to him, his holiness overpowers our uncleanness and he takes our place as the one put outside of the camp. 

At this point in Mark, we have found Jesus to be the incognito Christ whose primary mission from the Father was to preach the truth of the glorious kingdom that even reigns over demons and sickness. And he effortlessly overpowers and expels all demons and sickness he engages, while refueling and re-centering in significant times of prayer with the Father.

Jesus Christ possesses full authority over all.  His teaching and commands over the spiritual realm both describe and demonstrate his divine power.

The long-awaited King has finally arrived and there is only one rightful response--- to repent and believe.

Jesus, the light of the Word, the Son of God, started his ministry by defeating Satan's temptations and being upheld by the Father's angels before beginning his gospel preaching ministry.

The Father has authoritatively spoken now through his Son who He has always deeply loved and has made effectively and sufficiently made this known to all the world.

The joys found with God are incomparably better than anything this earth has to offer.

Believing the right things about what Jesus has done for us is important and necessary. It's just as important to believe correctly how he views us and how he responds to us when we fail. In Hebrews 4, we see the picture of Christ, our Great High Priest, who moves towards us in our weakness and leads us to the throne of grace so we can receive what we most need.

The new life Christ has given us is one where the norm of our life is the continual prayerful connection with God in which we experience regular joy as we notice his loving works and fill our minds with his loving and blessing instruction form his letter to us… the Bible.

The two ways of life are promised here. Joy and exaltation are provided by God's promised delivery to those who will earnestly seek Him in his self-revealed information, promises and reflection on his abundant faithfulness in our life. The other option is to be stopped by God.

The sweet life of the blessed is formed by a fixed delight upon the words of God mulled over throughout our days.

Prayer is the highest but hardest spiritual tool we have been given to wield.

As Paul closes out the letter to the Colossians we see a snapshot into the people that he has invested in and have invested in him, and we look at the ways that God calls each of us to invest in the health and growth of our brothers and sisters in the body of Christ.

We share the mission of Christ by praying to our Father together for this mission and carefully engaging each outside soul God has given us.

Human marriages are designed to brilliantly transmit the love between Christ and his Church Bride. Christ created that marriage and its nature and the human marriages must mirror it in order to yield the joyful life and light of the gospel it was designed for.

Having covered Colossians 1-3 over the past 6 months, we have found an astonishing amount of things taught to us by Christ through this book. It is time to regain our bearing after all we have heard before we move into the specific applications found in this book.

Every piece of life is the Lord's and we are called to do all of it as Christ would, in his honor, in his name, as an extension of Him as if you were Him… because He is in you.. and you are being changed into his image. This happens as we ensure that the message of Christ dwells richly in and between us and we respond in singing together to our great God.

The new man rightfully places his mind on things above, which includes a loving and peace seeking heart for God's children here who are hidden with him in Christ. And together they carefully watch for Christ in all and all He does with thanksgiving.