SermonsCrossroads Church
Missed a Sunday message and like to hear have a second chance to listen? This is the place where you can find all Sunday semons from Crossroads dating back to the summer of 2013.
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Walking the Maze
Luke 15:1-2, 11-32
When God loses some is like a father who loses a son. In the parables of the lost sheep and the lost coin, the reason why they are lost is not indicated. It seems to be a given. The concern of the shepherd and the woman speaks loud and clear. This parable speaks to the question: why is it that one gets lost in the maze of life? The answer is: desires, choices and phase of life (coming-of-age). The focus of this parable is the father who is actually a Christ figure. He is the one who is willing to love even if it costs him everything. His love of his younger son is a self-sacrificial love. He loses property, wealth and even reputation. Lovers are losers. God is willing to go a long way. His love is longsuffering and patient as he looks for the return of his son. The maze of life, our choices and desires bring us at times nowhere. Home is there where the father is waiting. God is determined in waiting for those who are on their way home out of the maze of life, once home there is joy and celebration.
When God loses some is like a father who loses a son. In the parables of the lost sheep and the lost coin, the reason why they are lost is not indicated. It seems to be a given. The concern of the shepherd and the woman speaks loud and clear. This parable speaks to the question: why is it that one gets lost in the maze of life? The answer is: desires, choices and phase of life (coming-of-age). The focus of this parable is the father who is actually a Christ figure. He is the one who is willing to love even if it costs him everything. His love of his younger son is a self-sacrificial love. He loses property, wealth and even reputation. Lovers are losers. God is willing to go a long way. His love is longsuffering and patient as he looks for the return of his son. The maze of life, our choices and desires bring us at times nowhere. Home is there where the father is waiting. God is determined in waiting for those who are on their way home out of the maze of life, once home there is joy and celebration.
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Risk takers for God
As we read the Bible story, we encounter people willing to put at risk all that they hold dear to respond to the call of God and to join him in the unfolding of his redemption story. Whether behind the scenes or in the limelight, these risk-takers have chosen a life that involves both challenges beyond their natural ability, lives of great sacrifice, as well as lives of deep meaning—the deepest, most ultimate adventure! Starting now, and throughout the summer, we will explore together the lives of people like you and me who accepted God's challenge and, by God's grace, made a difference in the unfolding story of the coming of the Kingdom of God.
David and the risk of success
David is one the towering figures of the Scriptures dubbed as 'a man after God own heart' and the king 'par excellence' in the history of Israel. David's life is marked by risk taking. In this sermon we look at a well-known chapter in David’s life when he took a risk and it all blew up in his face (2 Samuel 11:1-5, 26-2). The psychologist, Adam Grant, writes that people who are entrepreneurs and risk-averse tend to be more successful over the long run. Theologically it is interesting to see what happens when a risk you take does not work out. Where do you go from there? How does your faith make sense of failure?
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Except for These Chains: Paul's Risky Business
The Apostle Paul took a lot of risks to bring the gospel far and wide. What drove him to take such extraordinary risks? This Sunday we will explore Paul's risky business, what was behind it, and the impact that it has on our lives today.
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Risktakers from the book of Daniel
Our speaker today is Rev. Teun van der Leer from Houten, rector of the Dutch Baptist Seminary at VU-University in Amsterdam.
This time we will be looking at Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego from Chapter 3 of the Book of Daniel; three Hebrew men thrown into a fiery furnace by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, when they refuse to bow down to the king’s image. These risk-takers for God did not conform to the ‘majority vote’ of the time, but held firm to their commitment to serve only God, even if He would not rescue them.
This time we will be looking at Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego from Chapter 3 of the Book of Daniel; three Hebrew men thrown into a fiery furnace by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, when they refuse to bow down to the king’s image. These risk-takers for God did not conform to the ‘majority vote’ of the time, but held firm to their commitment to serve only God, even if He would not rescue them.
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No-risktaker Jonah
Famous risk taker Jonah is not the bravest of this summer’s series of Biblical risktakers. God’s new assigment does not fit Jonah's own plan for the future, which leads to a stormy relationship between them. The Bible’s famous and 2700 year old account of a man trying to be not available for God’s purpose hopefully inspires us to rethink our own availability for God’s calling.
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Esther - the Risktaker
This Sunday as part of our continued series on ‘Risk takers for God’, we will look at what taking a risk for God really means; faith in action. We'll also highlight what a great example Esther was in not allowing fear to paralyze her when faced with an impossible decision.
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Story of Rahab
This Sunday as part of our continued series on ‘Risk takers for God’, we will look at Rahab. She believed the stories she heard about God and trusted that He indeed was who He said He was and went for it! Her remarkable and inspiring faith not only saved her own life but those close to her as well.
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Story of Moses
Risk Takers - Moses (Exodus 2:11-15 and 3:7-11)
Moses as an Egyptian prince took big risk and it blew up in his face. He had to flee and became a virtually insignificant person (VIP). It took forty years for Moses to arrive at a place in life, when he was ready to become God's friend and a prophet like no other.
After forty years God took a risk and called Moses to be His instrument of liberation. God not only took a risk on Moses but also he took a risk on Israel and allowed them to become 'his people'. God's ultimate risk is the risk he took in Christ.
It is the risk of God's love on display in Christ. He took that risk even though it cost Him everything. Now that's what lovers do: they take the risk of love.
Moses as an Egyptian prince took big risk and it blew up in his face. He had to flee and became a virtually insignificant person (VIP). It took forty years for Moses to arrive at a place in life, when he was ready to become God's friend and a prophet like no other.
After forty years God took a risk and called Moses to be His instrument of liberation. God not only took a risk on Moses but also he took a risk on Israel and allowed them to become 'his people'. God's ultimate risk is the risk he took in Christ.
It is the risk of God's love on display in Christ. He took that risk even though it cost Him everything. Now that's what lovers do: they take the risk of love.
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Zacchaeus - spirit of a risk taker?
"Zacchaeus was a wee little man, a wee little man was he ...."Many people have learned that song in Sunday school. We might be tempted to think, therefore, that this is a story "for children only." Nothing could be further from the truth. The story of Zacchaeus is one of the most important stories for children and adults in the entire Gospel of Luke. We owe Luke a great debt. as in his Gospel we read what the mission of Jesus was all about, and in turn what the mission of the church is all about. A great story about the Grace of God and therefor a great start of our summer party!
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Only when you've nothing left to loose you're ready to take the greatest risks
The next risk taker in our series is Peter.
Text: Mt 14:22-33
Text: Mt 14:22-33
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The Story of Noah
Our guest speaker, theologian Andrew Perriman, opened our new series on ‘Risk-Takers’ by taking us deep into Genesis, the goodness of Creation, but the distortions of the Fall, and how God, grieved by the violence and wickedness of humans, called Noah to take a risk, build a boat (complete with ‘flood-lights’!), called him to be His agent for rescuing life human and animal on earth. Andrew unpacked how ancient Israel, in re-telling this judgment story, interpreted it differently than the surrounding polytheistic cultures with their fickle, soap-opera deities; the one true God is merciful, the God of a new creation, a covenant sign, a rainbow, to promise ‘never again’... and this God, then, and later, in a ‘new covenant’ of grace, through Jesus, in being willing to use imperfect people...like Moses, like us... is the real ‘Risk-Taker’ hero of the story!
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One off Sermon
One off sermons from various speakers
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Start with Death
Start with Death
Join Hud as he considers the subject of death and discusses fear and the possible answer that is offered to the believer, now, for access to freedom and joy.
Join Hud as he considers the subject of death and discusses fear and the possible answer that is offered to the believer, now, for access to freedom and joy.
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Home
As we all long for a place of belonging and are searching for it, Szaszi Bene tells about his journey and discovery of what home is, what home means.
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When Jesus arrives late
This Sunday we will look at the story of Lazarus from John 11:1-46, “When Jesus arrives late”. Consider how you would have felt to be Lazarus’ sister or one of his friends, including Jesus. This isn’t simply a story in a book, but is a true story of real people who dealt with death and grief, just as you and I do.
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Called to be the community of God
As we look into the book of 1 Peter in this sermon series, we see that God desires for us as his people to live in community. We will discover that the community of God is called to be a community of hope, of grace, of servants and of humble warriors. Ultimately, we rejoice in the fact that God in the midst of his community is the enabling factor in becoming what we are called to be.
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Reasons of the Heart
This Sunday we’ll be continuing our series on 1 Peter and will be looking at 1 Peter 3:8-16, centering on verses 3:14-16 about not living in fear, but in hope; a hope that we are prepared to share with others.
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Shepherds and undershepherds
Continuing in the series Called to be God's Community, we are encouraged by Peter to view our care for other believers in the same way a shepherd sees his care for his sheep. Whether you're an elder in a church or a Small Group leader or a Sunday School teacher - there are many lessons we can learn by looking at the Good Shepherd. Peter tells the shepherds to lead joyfully, the sheep to follow willingly and for all the clothe themselves with humility towards each other.
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Called to be the Community of God
In this section of the series on Called to be God's Community, we focus on Peter's words urging the believers to live as free people, while also choosing willingly to live as slaves for God by serving in complee humility. 1 Peter 2:13-25
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Called to be Holy
To endure suffering and come out victorious, we need to have our minds set on God's interests, yield to the leading of the Holy Spirit and adopt a heavenly perspective.
Key Verse: 1 Peter 1:13
Key Verse: 1 Peter 1:13
God of this City
Listen to our guest speaker Aaron Boyd sharing the story of his song "God of this city" and be encouraged!
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A Community of Hope
As the community of God, we are a community which holds on to hope. The reason we have hope is due to the power of God's promises, the reality of faith and the hope of Heaven
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Easter Sunday
Easter Sunday with our guest speaker Justyn Rees-Larcombe
Living in the Light
Our guest speaker Justyn Rees-Larcombe sharing his powerful story with us.
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Following Jesus
Oneoff sunday sermon
Following Jesus to the Cross
As we consider Jesus' journey to the cross this week, we are challenged with the question, 'Are we following Jesus to the cross?' If we are, then that means we are laying down our lives for him and making sure we do not get caught up in 'lukewarm' Christianity.
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