Were You There?

Have you ever heard the old hymn “Were You There?” The first stanza goes like this: Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Oh! Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble. Were you there when they crucified my Lord? This past Sunday we looked at […]

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Location, Location, Location

“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” – Acts 1:8 Don’t you love Acts 1:8?  What a great promise given to us that we will receive power through the Holy Spirit to carry the […]

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So you got baptized…

This past Sunday, we celebrated with seven Crosspointers who took a next step and got baptized.  I love baptisms!  I love to see people going public with their faith, sharing what Jesus has and is doing in their life, and I love to see the joy on their faces in such a big moment.  I […]

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The One Thing I Miss

In July 2007, I left my job at State Farm to join the Crosspoint staff full-time as the Community Life/Teaching Pastor.  Needless to say, it was a big change and transition for me and our family, as I had been at State Farm for almost 10 years.  Now almost 6 years after having left the […]

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NEXT – 2 Year Update

Hello Crosspointers – What an exciting season for our church right now! Not quite a year ago, we moved into our current facility and held our first service on Sunday, May 6. Then on Easter of this year, we launched our second Sunday service, in order to create more space for more people. It was […]

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Bold – Life of Peter

I know this one guy.  He’s a blue collar guy.  Works really hard, provides for his family.  Works some long nights, often on 3rd shift, at a job that could cost him his life.  What he does is not always OSHA approved, but he does it anyways.  Because that is the kind of guy he […]

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Flexibility

I used to be more flexible.  I really did…I promise.  As a kid, I would sometimes watch TV in this upside-down-tripod-thing (I lived in the country…we had to be creative in how we entertained ourselves).  In middle school and high school, it wasn’t any big deal to touch my toes.  One of my nicknames was […]

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