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Jonah - Man on the Run, Week 4: Chapter 3 (Part 2)

Real belief causes real action. That’s the fact we established last week as we started in chapter 3 of the book of Jonah. If we really believe something it will effect our actions, but what does our belief and actions cause God to do? That’s the question we're going to explore today as Pastor Clay continues this wonderful study in the book of Jonah.

Jonah - Man on the Run, Week 3: Chapter 3 (Part 1)

Belief, it's a critical part of our relationship with God, but how do you know when it's real? Today we come to Jonah chapter three and the high water mark of the book. Today Pastor Clay is going to show us what happens when we respond to God with belief. The people of Nineveh were a godless people, but when the prophet of God obediently delivers the word of God, what happens next can only be described as a work of God. It's a  beautiful picture of God's grace.

Jonah - Man on the Run, Week 2: Chapter 2

Last week we learned in Jonah chapter 1 that when you run from God you'll lose that race every time. Today Pastor Clay is taking us to Jonah chapter 2 where we'll learn about how God uses adversity in our lives to draw us to Him. Even when we run from God as Jonah did, we find that God is a God of second chances.

Jonah - Man on the Run, Week 1: Chapter 1

This week, we start a new series entitled, "Jonah: Man on the Run." Most of us may be aware that Jonah was running from God and he ended up in the belly of a giant fish, but how many of us know why Jonah ran in the first place?  Over the next four weeks we're going to spend some time in the Old Testament book of Jonah to see what we can learn about our own lives and what happens when we run from God.

Cross Culture in 3D, Week 11: Duplication (Part 2)

Last week we began our discussion on the last of the three dimensions, duplication. Today, Pastor Clay is going to continue his study on our responsibility to make disciples. We're going to be looking at a number of different passages that give us the various components needed for disciple duplication. 

Cross Culture in 3D, Week 10: Duplication (Part 1)

13 weeks ago we began a series entitled "Cross Culture in 3D: So Real You Can Touch It!" It’s purpose has been to help understand better what needs to be a part of our everyday lives, our everyday walk with Jesus if it’s going to be more than just something we do on Sunday morning. Today we come to the last dimension of our 3D series on discipleship and it's the dimension of duplication. As Pastor Clay is going to show us today, making disciples is the call of all of us who follow Christ. As we'll see from the Great Commission in Matthew chapter 28, it's more than trying to win converts. It's about trying to make fully-devoted followers of Jesus.

Cross Culture in 3D, Week 9: Discipline - Going

Today we return to our series entitled, Cross Culture in 3D: So Real You Can Touch It! and we come to the last discipline that we're going to explore during this series and it's the discipline of "going." As Pastor Clay is going to show us today, Jesus has clearly charged us with the task of sharing His message with the world, but most Christians struggle with the idea of sharing their faith. So how do we build in the discipline of going? Listen to this week's CrossWalk because Pastor Clay has the answer.

Special: Resurrection Sunday

Today in this special Easter edition of Crosswalk, Pastor Clay is taking us to Matthew chapters 27 and 28 and the story of the resurrection. Last week Pastor Clay established the fact that Jesus knew He was going to die, but did He believe that He was going to rise from the dead? What about the soldiers at the tomb, the religious leaders, Jesus' disciples? Is there any evidence that they believed it? Most important of all, do you believe it? How you answer that question will determine your eternal destiny.

Special: Palm Sunday

Today is Palm Sunday and we're taking a break from our current series to focus on our Lord’s sacrificial death. Pastor Clay is taking us to Luke 22 where Jesus and His disciples are gathered in the Upper Room to commemorate the Passover. Jesus knew He was only hours from the cross and so He taught His disciples to keep a new commemoration to help all of us remember the price our God paid that we might be set free from sin and death. The Lord's Supper isn't a ceremony or a ritual, it's a time of deep reflection and appreciation for what God did for us.

Cross Culture in 3D, Week 8: Discipline - Serving (Part 2)

Last week Pastor Clay began to show us from Romans chapter 12 the importance of the discipline of service. Because of time restraints we weren’t able to finish and so Pastor Clay is going to go back to Romans 12 today to wrap up the Apostle Paul’s instructions for the body of Christ and our service to each other. From there, Pastor Clay is going to take us to John chapter 13 and the fascinating account of Jesus washing His disciples' feet and the lessons we can all elarn from that as we seek to honor our Lord through the discipline of service.

Cross Culture in 3D: Week 7, Discipline - Serving (Part 1)

Have you ever gone to a restaurant and gotten bad service? Maybe the person waiting on you had a bad attitude or maybe they just didn’t seem to care what kind of service they gave. That can be frustrating, can’t it? But have you ever stopped to think about your service to the Lord? Maybe you've never thought of service as a discipline before, but Pastor Clay teaches us today, just like the other disciplines we've discussed, service has to be built into our lives or we run the risk of letting the busyness of life push our service to God out.

Cross Culture in 3D, Week 6: Discipline - Giving

Ask enough people who don’t attend church why they don’t attend and sooner or later you’ll hear somebody say, “All they talk about at church is money.” Talking about people and their money can be a touchy subject, but does that mean a church should never talk about money? Would it surprise you to know that the Bible talks about money quite a bit? Obviously, money is an important part of our lives and knowing what God expects us to do with it is important if we're going to continue to move forward in our desire to become fully devoted followers of Jesus.

Cross Culture in 3D, Week 5: Discipline - The Word

We’ve been looking at the different dimensions of a fully-devoted follower of Jesus and one of those dimensions is discipline. As disciples of Jesus Christ we need to build certain spiritual disciplines into our life in order to grow in our walk and today Pastor Clay challenges us with the discipline of the word of God. As Pastor Clay is going to show us, the 119th Psalm teaches us some important principles concerning the word of God that will help us build the discipline of studying the word of God into our lives.

Cross Culture in 3D, Week 4: Discipline - Fasting

Today Pastor Clay continues his teaching on the various disciplines that should be built into the life of a fully-devoted follower of Jesus by looking at the discipline of fasting. In many respects fasting seems to have become the lost discipline of a believer in Christ, but as Pastor Clay is going to explain today, fasting should still be a vital past of our lives.

Cross Culture in 3D, Week 3: Discipline - Prayer (Part 2)

Last week we began our study of the second dimension of a 3D follower of Jesus and that is discipline. Unless you build the disciplines of a fully-devoted follower of Jesus into your life, you’ll never really follow Him. Today we continue our study of the of the discipline of prayer by looking at two more practical aspects of prayer, the purpose of prayer and the product of prayer.

Cross Culture in 3D, Week 2: Discipline - Prayer (Part 1)

Today Pastor Clay continues his series entitled, ‘Cross Culture in 3D: So real you can touch it.’ It’s a series designed to make our walk with Christ come alive. The series is centered around three crucial dimensions to being a fully-devoted follower of Jesus, desire, disicpline, and duplication. Today, we move into the area of disciplines in our life and the first one we're going to talk about is prayer. As you'll hear Pastor Clay say today, statistics show that the average Christian only spends about a minute a day praying. That's not very much time for something that most of us would agree should be an important part of our lives.

Cross Culture in 3D, Week 1: Desire

Today we begin a brand new series here at Cross Culture Church entitled, ‘Cross Culture in 3D: So real you can touch it!’ Over the next several weeks Pastor Clay is going to walk us through what he calls the 3D’s of a disciple, or as we like to say around here, a fully-devoted follower of Jesus. Those 3D's represent, desire, discipline, and duplication. All three are cruicial in the life of a diciple of Christ. Today Pastor Clay is going to help us understand the first dimension of being a fully-devoted follower of Jesus, desire. We're glad you've joined us for this exciting series as we learn how to make our walk with Jesus so real people can reach out and touch it.

Special: Life & Ethics, Sanctity of Human Life (Part 2)

This week, Pastor Clay and Dr. Erik Clary continue their round table discussion on life and ethics talking about stem cell research and birth control from a Biblical point of view.

Special: Life & Ethics, Sanctity of Human Life (Part 1)

Abortion, euthanasia, stem cell research.  How are followers of Jesus to approach such hot-button topics in our world today? What does the Bible have to say about these and other ethical issues dealing with life?  Gaining biblical knowledge doesn’t make any difference if it doesn't effect the decisions and actions of our lives and this week, Pastor Clay sits down with our resident ethicist, Dr. Erik Clary, to discuss some of these topics that are so important for our culture and helps us understand the importance of ethics in our daily decision making process.

The Revelation, Week 47: Chapter 22: 6-21 (Conclusion)

As we come today to the last section of chapter 22 the question becomes, “so what?” As you’ll hear today Pastor Clay is going to challenge us to ask ourselves that very question in light of what we’ve discovered in the book of Revelation. How does what we've learned matter? What are we going to do with what we've learned? Will our lives be different as a result of this study? These are questions worth asking ourselves as followers of Jesus.

The Revelation, Week 46: Chapter 22: 1-5

We’re nearing the end of our year-long study of the book of Revelation and today Pastor Clay continues our study of the New Jerusalem that will be on the new earth in eternity. In the latter part of Revelation chapter 21 we learned of the construction of this City of God made of gold and all types of precious and beautiful stones and this week, we study the first five verses of chapter 22, where the description of the New Jerusalem shows the inner beauty of the city and fills us with anticipation of what God has in store for us.

The Revelation, Week 45: Chapter 21: 9-27

This week in our year-long study of the book of Revelation we come to the last half of chapter 21 and the description of the New Jerusalem. The description that John the Apostle gives is incredible, but it’s a description that causes us to ask some questions. Is this a real place? How big will it be? Who will be there? What will it look like? As Pastor Clay is going to show us today, this is one big city that everyone will want to live in.

The Revelation, Week 44: Chapter 21: 1-8

After the Tribulation Period, the Battle of Armageddon and the thousand year reign of Christ on earth, what then? This week in our study of the book of Revelation, we come to the last section of the book describing what it will be like in eternity. Chapters 21 - 22 are filled with the beautiful description of the new heaven, the new earth and the new Jerusalem. It's quite a scene as Pastor Clay takes u through the first 8 verses of chapter 21, we find out what's not going to be there, who's not going to be there, and most importantly, who is going to be there.

The Revelation, Week 43: Chapter 20: 7-15

Last week in Revelation chapter 20 verses one through six Satan was seized, placed in chains and thrown into the abyss. While Satan is locked away, King Jesus will establish His kingdom and rule over the earth for 1,000 years. As we continue today, beginning in verse 7, we find the devil being set loose. Why would God do that? Is this part of His plan? And what is the Great White Throne judgment? Those are just some of the questions Pastor Clay is going to deal with today.

The Revelation, Week 42: Chapter 20: 1-6

The second coming of Jesus Christ and the establishment of His kingdom on earth has been anticipated since the days of the first followers of Jesus. And even before then, the pages of the Old Testament are filled with the promise of God’s righteous rule over His creation. Today, Pastor Clay is going to teach from Revelation chapter 20, verses 1 - 6 that there are different opinions on the subject of the return of Christ and His kingdom. It's one of the most exciting and debated chapters in all the Bible.