On CrossWalk from Cross Culture Church in Raleigh-Durham, NC, Pastor Dan Johnson opens the Bible and brings out it's exciting and practical truths to apply to our everyday lives.
Episodes
Sunday Dec 14, 2014
Sunday Dec 14, 2014
Were in the second week of our Christmas series, What God Wants For Christmas. Last week we looked at the life of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and a life of surrender. Today were in Matthew chapter 1 where Pastor Clay is going to show us from the life of Joseph what a faith-filled life should look like. Faith is obviously a very important concept, but a lot of people have some misconceptions about what faith really is, and what it looks like in our lives.
Sunday Dec 07, 2014
Sunday Dec 07, 2014
As we enter the Christmas season, were going to take a few weeks off from our series in the book of Mark to answer a question that you may have never thought of before What does God want for Christmas? Of course we know that God doesnt need anything, but the truth is, God wants YOU for Christmas. Just exactly what that should look like in our lives is what Pastor Clay is going to be exploring over the next few weeks. We start today with taking a look at Mary, the mother of Jesus, and a life of surrender.
Sunday Nov 30, 2014
Sunday Nov 30, 2014
We're in a study of the book of Mark entitled ''Jesus, The Real Action Hero.'' As we move toward the last part of Mark chapter 12, Jesus offers three important teaching moments. Last week, Pastor Clay covered the first teaching dealing with who the Christ is. This week, our study picks up with verses 38-44 as Jesus makes an observation to show us the danger and a commendation to help us live by faith.
Sunday Nov 23, 2014
Sunday Nov 23, 2014
If you were with us last week you may remember that Jesus was asked three different questions. As Pastor Clay explained, those questions were really intended to trip Jesus up and to try to get Him into trouble with either the Roman authorities or with the people. As we've seen throughout this study in the book of Mark, the religious leaders didn't like Jesus and they were desperate to stop Him. Today in Mark chapter 12 verses 35 to 37 were going to see Jesus ask a question intended to help the people understand a very important truth.
Sunday Nov 16, 2014
Sunday Nov 16, 2014
In school, do you remember having pop quizzes? It was a way for teachers to make sure their students had studied the material. But imagine having a pop quiz intended to cause you to fail. Pastor Clays back with us today and continuing our series, ''Jesus - The Real Action Hero.'' Today in Mark chapter 12, we come to a section where Jesus faced a pop quiz from people looking to trip Him up but Jesus was more than ready for their questions. And His answers teach us much about how to be a fully-devoted follower of Jesus in this world.
Sunday Nov 09, 2014
Sunday Nov 09, 2014
When bad things happen, the wheels fall off, life stinks, the dog dies and your mother-in-law moves in, where do you go? What do you do when stuff like that happens? Guest Pastor Steve Pierce offers some answers found in the Old Old Testament book of Habakkuk.
Sunday Nov 02, 2014
Sunday Nov 02, 2014
Authority.'' Its a word that seems to have fallen on hard times in our current culture. These days, almost anyone or anything that is considered to be authoritative is questioned. Sadly, for many that even includes rejecting or ignoring Gods authority. Today in our series ''Jesus - The Real Action Hero,'' the religious leaders are becoming increasingly antagonistic toward Jesus and demand that Jesus tell them on what basis He is doing these things. Jesus response was more than they bargained for and can teach us a thing or two about authority.
Monday Oct 27, 2014
Monday Oct 27, 2014
Today we come to the account of Jesus cleansing the temple in the last week of His life. As Pastor Clay is going to show us today, when Jesus came into the temple area and saw what the people were doing, He was not happy. His righteous anger called for action and Jesus took it. He also took the opportunity to teach His disciples some important lessons that would do all of us good to learn.
Sunday Oct 19, 2014
Sunday Oct 19, 2014
Today were continuing our series in the book of Mark as Pastor Clay takes us to Mark chapter 11 and a very curious account of Jesus cursing a fig tree. Jesus was on His way back to Jerusalem in the last week of His life, but along the way He walks over to a fig tree, finds no fruit on it, and curses it. Why would Jesus do that? Is there more to the story than we can initially realize? Probably! Lets dig into Gods word today as Pastor Clay explores the biblical concept of Gods expectations for those who claim His name.
Sunday Oct 12, 2014
Sunday Oct 12, 2014
Today Pastor Clay returns to our series: ''Jesus - The Real Action Hero,'' a study through the book of Mark. Pastor Clay started on Chapter 10 two months ago before his accident. Jesus was teaching on the subject of divorce and this week, Pastor Clay is coming back to this very important passage in which Jesus gives His followers a clear understanding of the priority of lasting marriages and the guidelines for divorce. Today it seems that people divorce for almost any reason, but as well hear today, Jesus has a very different idea about divorce.
Sunday Oct 05, 2014
Sunday Oct 05, 2014
Pastor Clay was involved in a serious accident almost two months ago and has been unable to be with us since then and were excited that he is back preaching today. Today we're taking a week away from our ''Jesus - The Real Action Hero'' series as Pastor Clay felt that this first week back, he needed to deal with the question of pain and adversity in the lives of believers, since it has been such a significant part of his life for the last two months.
Sunday Sep 28, 2014
Sunday Sep 28, 2014
This week, Dr. Erik Clary delivers the message here at Cross Culture Church in Pastor Clay's absence. Today's message is from Psalm 145 and entitled ''Awestruck by an Awesome God.'' Rightly-Ordered praise has an ''object,'' a ''subject'' and a ''specific content.'' Thank you for exploring the riches of God's Word with us.
Sunday Sep 21, 2014
Sunday Sep 21, 2014
Student/Youth Pastor Ivey Rhodes delivers the next message in the ''Jesus - The Real Action Hero'' series. This week, we're in Mark chapter 11, verses 8 through 10, where we'll learn what it means when we experience God's power.
Sunday Sep 14, 2014
Sunday Sep 14, 2014
Pastor Ivey Rhodes delivers the next message in the ''Jesus - The Real Action Hero'' series. This week, we're in Mark chapter 11,verses 1 through 7.
Sunday Sep 07, 2014
Sunday Sep 07, 2014
Do you see Jesus as your sole joy and as your most precious relationship? Worship Pastor Jon Spallino delivers this week's message in the ''Jesus - The Real Action Hero'' series. In ''Jesus the Delivering Son of David,'' Pastor Jon explains how Jesus is the Savior and He is worth following Him at all cost.
Sunday Aug 31, 2014
Sunday Aug 31, 2014
Worship Pastor Jon Spallino delivers this week's message in the ''Jesus - Action Hero'' series is titled ''The Humility Of The Son Of Man.'' The Bible answers the questions ''Who is God?'' and ''What does it mean to be Gods People.'' Now we need to ask the questions, what does this say about God and what does God expect from His people?
Sunday Aug 24, 2014
Sunday Aug 24, 2014
Life Group Pastor Bill Hopkins speaks from Mark 10:17-29 and continues the ''Jesus - The Real Action Hero'' series.
Sunday Aug 17, 2014
Sunday Aug 17, 2014
Today, our Life Group Pastor Bill Hopkins continues in our series, ''Jesus - The Real Action Hero,'' speaking from Mark 10:13-16. With passages such as ''anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it,'' it may seem as if Jesus is playing Kindergarten Cop, but when studied in context, we see that He is ''all action.''
Sunday Aug 10, 2014
Sunday Aug 10, 2014
Divorce, its word that brings up a lot of emotion for many of us. Broken dreams, broken promises, and broken lives are all part of aftermath of divorce. Today, we come to chapter 10 in the book of Mark, where Jesus was asked a question by some religious leaders about divorce. What He has to say on the subject of divorce was probably more than they expected and probably sounds out of step with what our culture today things of divorce, but as Pastor Clay is going to remind us today, if were going to call ourselves followers of Jesus, then we have to follow Jesus.
Sunday Aug 03, 2014
Sunday Aug 03, 2014
Today we come to the end of Mark chapter 9 in the ''Jesus - The Real Action Hero'' series. Pastor Clay is going to share three more things that we need to think about as followers of Christ and one of those things is the possibility that we need to get rid of some things in our life. Following Jesus means that we need to be ready to eliminate what may hinder our walk with Him. Lets see about this and the other things that we can learn today from Mark 9:30-50.
Sunday Jul 27, 2014
Sunday Jul 27, 2014
Today, we'll talk about the recent Cross Culture Youth Camp in Tennessee and about a struggle for followers of Jesus, regardless of age. There is a war going on between ''our flesh'' and God. It's a battle between the ''new us'' and the ''old us'' our sinful desires and our Godly desires, between death and life. Student Pastor Ivey Rhodes speaks not just to students but to everyone with an important message from Gallations 5:16-26.
Sunday Jul 20, 2014
Sunday Jul 20, 2014
We're continuing in our series, ''Jesus - The Real Action Hero,'' and this week as we move into the latter part of chapter 9, we find Jesus trying to help His disciples have the right perspective. They were still struggling with understanding fully why Jesus came. And they were even beginning to fight among themselves about which one of them was the greatest. They had a lot to learn about what it really means to be a fully-devoted follower of Jesus, but we sometimes struggle with the same issues that the original followers of Jesus did. And the answer they needed to hear is the same one we need to hear today.
Sunday Jul 13, 2014
Sunday Jul 13, 2014
God's grace and mercy are for everyone, even people like us who have failed. You are not defined by your failures and today, guest speaker Steve Pierce encourages us with this week's message about the grace available to all of us through Jesus Christ.
Sunday Jul 06, 2014
Sunday Jul 06, 2014
We're picking up where we left off last week in Mark chapter 9 and what we can learn from God's word about faith and why we come to Jesus. As we heard Pastor Clay explain last week, a lot of people come to Jesus for a lot of different reasons and hopefully last week's message has caused each of us to think about our motivation for coming to Him. What we have with God, and why we come to Him, is meant to be relational, and as we'll hear today, through Jesus Christ we become part of the family of God. And like any relationship we have, it should be a growing, vibrant thing where we enjoy being in Gods presence.
Sunday Jun 29, 2014
Sunday Jun 29, 2014
What is faith? On the surface that may seem like a simple question with a pretty simple answer, but for a lot of people the answer may need a little clarification. Were looking at a story of a man that desperately wanted his son set free from demon possession. So in faith the man brings his son to Jesus and his disciples to be healed. But when he comes to Jesus, the man's words indicate that he was unsure whether Jesus could help his son or not. The man honestly evaluated his own faith and asked the Lord to help him where his faith fell short. As Pastor Clay explains, this story from word of God has something to teach us today about our own faith.