Church at the Cross : Sunday Messages

Death to Disordered Loves

Luke 14:25-33 “We cannot live for ourselves and bring life to this world.” -JR Vassar

Death to Self-Rule

Luke 9:21-27 “When it comes to glory and shame, you get one now and one later, but the one you choose for later is forever”

Death to Self-Righteousness

Luke 5:27-31 “No one walks into the kingdom with their head held high” – JR Vassar

Unselfing Our Lives

Luke 4:1-13 “I’ll submit my desires to God’s will and I will not define God’s will by my desires ” – JR Vassar

Wisdom and Anger

“We need to be the kind of people that take our anger and let it be fueled and motivated by love.” – Joseph Tenney

Wisdom & Sexuality

“You cannot move towards Jesus and sexual sin at the same time” – JR Vassar

Wealth & Wisdom

“In the end it won’t matter what you owned, what will matter is who owned you” – JR Vassar

Sloth and Its Cure

Proverbs 24:30-34 | 26:13-16 “Boredom is the result of being unhinged from your purpose and your design.” -JR Vassar

Wisdom and Words

“If you hope to change your speech, you must address your heart.” -JR Vassar

Wisdom & the Sanctity of Life

Proverbs 1:8-19 “Creation and the Cross level all of humanity and equally elevate it.” -JR Vassar

The Fear of the Lord

Proverbs 1:1-7, 20-30 “Proverbs shows us what a life looks like when it’s been put back together by God – by His good rule and authority.” -JR Vassar

Finish the Course

2 Timothy 4:6-8

“If You Hear His Voice”

Hebrews 3:7-15 “If you hear his [God’s] voice you become immediately accountable to what he asks”

The Fact of Christmas

1 John 4:14 “One thing that makes Christianity unique is that it is based on historically verifiable events.” JR Vassar

Understanding Islam: Befriending Muslims

UNDERSTANDING ISLAM | DECEMBER 12 Understanding Islam: Befriending Muslims: Every local church needs to equip every Christian to “Go and make disciples.” Scott Venable, Glocal Impact Pastor, Northwood Church

Love in Action

The Provoking Love of God

1 John 4:7-10 | CATC Advent Series 2017 “You are like a lost treasure that Jesus Christ has come for and it cost God everything just to bring you back into his possession.”

Ordering Our Loves

Ephesians 6:21-24 “What you love most is the most important thing about you because it determines how you live.” JR Vassar

Spiritual Warfare

Ephesians 6:10-20 “There are things we are up against that will not have pragmatic solutions because they have demonic origins.” -JR Vassar

Work as Worship

Ephesians 6:5-9 “Christian workers should be the hardest working, most reliable, most responsible, most dependable workers because they are working to please Jesus. And they should do their work with excellence.” – JR Vassar

The Jesus-Centered Home

Ephesians 6:1-4 “As you see the kind of father God is you can see the kind of parent you can become.” – JR Vassar

Marriage and Women

Ephesians 5:22-33

Marriage and Men

Ephesians 5:22-33

The Mystery of Marriage

Ephesians 5:22-33 “Marriage is a parable of Christ’s relationship with his people.” -JR Vassar

Filled with the Spirit

Ephesians 5:15-21 “God’s will isn’t something buried that you have to dig up. It is something revealed that you have to learn and live out.” -JR Vassar

Walk in the Light

Ephesians 5:7-14 “Counter the darkness with the truth of the Gospel – I belong to God, he is for me and not against me. He is for my good.” – JR Vassar

Going Global

Going Global: God’s heart for the World. God loves the world. What does this mean for us in a city of growing diversity? How do we understand the opportunities of globalization? Afshin Ziafat, Lead Pastor of Providence Church

Biblical Sexual Ethic

Ephesians 5:1-7 “We are not to do with our body what we don’t have the character, the courage and the commitment to do with our whole life.” -JR Vassar

Imitators of God

Ephesians 5:1-2 If my life is going to be an ongoing impression of God…I have to learn how to walk in love and ask what is the loving thing to do. – JR Vassar

Giving Grace

Ephesians 4:25-32 “What if my mantra were, ‘I refuse to withhold from others what God has so freely given to me.'” JR Vassar