Month: August 2021

Worship Service for August 29, 2021

WELCOME

Good day, welcome and thanks for joining CrossPointe Community Church’s online Word worship presentation. Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. May They bless you this day as a result of your choosing to worship them.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Our Church Leaders have made a decision to join a Greater Medina County Prayer Initiative titled, “Awaken.” Participants will receive the names of 10 households to pray for beginning September 12 for one month. You are all invited to participate. To do so visit awakenmedinaco.org

You can read about the program, register your name and download the free materials. One of the latter is a 30 day prayer guide that will assist you in how and what to pray for your households. Once you register, you will receive your names. When I talked to the point person, I asked about praying for the people in our mission field and when I received my names, I noticed they all do live in Chippewa Lake.

SCRIPTURAL CALL TO WORSHIP

Therefore, since we have been made right in God’s sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us. Because of our faith, Christ has brought us into this place of undeserved privilege where we now stand, and we confidently and joyfully look forward to sharing God’s glory.

We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation. And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know how dearly God loves us, because He has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with His love.

When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners. Now, most people would not be willing to die for an upright person, though someone might perhaps be willing to die for a person who is especially good. But God showed His great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. And since we have been made right in God’s sight by the blood of Christ, He will certainly save us from God’s condemnation. For since our friendship with God was restored by the death of His Son while we were still his enemies, we will certainly be saved through the life of His Son. So now we can rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God because our Lord Jesus Christ has made us friends of God.

Romans 5:1-11

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Worship Service for August 22, 2021

WELCOME

Good day, welcome and thanks for joining CrossPointe Community Church’s online Word worship presentation. Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. May They bless you this day as a result of your choosing to worship them.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

I am so very grateful that we are a Community Church and accomplishing our purpose, which is to “Share God’s Grace with our Community.”

To that end, Jim and I will be providing the music for the annual Chippewa Lake Pride Committee’s Fundraiser today at 5pm down at Point Park.

And we are also excited to announce that the brothers Tresch will be flying in from Texas and Florida next weekend and there will be a Bridging the Gap Reunion down at The Village Inn next Friday at 7pm. We, and they, would love to see you there!

Next Friday is also our last Friday of the month free Community Dinner. John and Amy tell me the menu consists of Italian stuffed chicken, roasted redskin potatoes, green beans and for dessert… pineapple upside down cake! We will again be serving it to folks as they drive up in their cars. So if you would like to help out, please come by 4:50 and you will be here until about 6:10 pm. Please let me know if you plan to help.

Annie Dean and Gale Arthur will be offering Grief Share beginning this Thursday here at the church between 12:30 and 2:30pm. Grief Share is a ministry offered to folks grieving the loss of a loved one. If you know of anyone who could benefit, please pass this on.

Last but not least, since next Sunday is a fifth Sunday, it is what we call Gather to Scatter Sunday, whereby, we ‘gather’ for worship and then ‘scatter’ into the community to share God’s grace. COVID has set us back a little in this regard. However;

Now to give you a clue as to our theme for today:

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Worship Service for August 15, 2021

WELCOME

Good day, welcome, and thanks for joining CrossPointe Community Church’s online worship presentation. Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. May They bless you this day as a result of your choosing to worship them.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

As a reminder, we are having in-person worship at 10:00 AM on Sundays. Because the numbers in Medina County remain low, vaccinated individuals are not yet required to wear a mask. If you are not vaccinated, we ask that you wear a mask and sit on the right side of the sanctuary where the chairs are spaced out further. If you wish to sit six feet apart from someone else, make sure that there is one chair between you and them.

Okay, to get the gray matter and the funny bone working; whereas an Astrophile loves stars, a Bibliophile loves books, not the Bible, a Hippophile loves horses (not hippos) a Lexophile loves what? And the answer is ‘a play on words.’

I couldn’t find a phile that describes someone who loves God. Religiophile, as a person who loves religion is close, but no cigar. We’ll just have to make up our own. Since all these philes are Greek terms; ‘phile’ being one of the four Greek words for love, in this case, affectionate love and since the Greek word for God is Theo, we could say that we are all Theophiles; lovers of God. Or more specifically I suppose we are Christosophiles, lovers of Christ. Theophiles and Christisophiles that’s what Paul has in mind for us to be in today’s . . .

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Worship Service for August 8, 2021

WELCOME

Good morning, welcome and thanks for joining CrossPointe Community Church’s online Word worship presentation. Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. May They bless us this day as a result of our choosing to worship.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

As a reminder, we are having in-person worship at 10:00AM on Sundays. Because the numbers in Medina County remain low, vaccinated individuals are not required to wear a mask, yet. If you are not vaccinated, we ask that you wear a mask and sit on the right side of the sanctuary where the chairs are spaced out further. If you wish to sit six feet apart from someone else, make sure that there is one chair between you and them.

SCRIPTURAL CALL TO WORSHIP

Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth!
Serve the LORD with gladness!
Come into His presence with singing!
Know that the LORD, He is God!
It is He who made us, and we are His;
We are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.
Enter His gates with thanksgiving, and His courts with praise!
Give thanks to Him; bless His name!
For the LORD is good; His steadfast love endures forever,
and His faithfulness to all generations.

Psalm 100

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Worship Service for Sunday, August 1st

WELCOME

Good morning and welcome to CrossPointe Community Church. I thank God for all of you and for the opportunity to spend this time with you. My name is Jim for those of you who may be new. I am filling in for Randy this week. He is in the sunny state of Florida visiting.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

On Tuesday the parking lot will be sealed by Grainger Paving. They asked us to not drive on it for 24 hours, which means Thursday at the earliest.

A resident here in the Village of Chippewa is moving from his home and needs help moving things out of the house and garage. He is not in the best of health physically and could really use help. We will be starting at 9 am Tuesday morning. This is an opportunity for you to share God’s grace with the community. Anyone interested, please see me or Annie Dean after worship. There is a sign-up sheet with all the information on it. I am hoping that many hands make light work. There is much to do and a short time to complete it.

I saved the best for last. This is the first Sunday of the month and we will be celebrating the Sacrament of Holy Communion. This table does not belong to any denomination, church or organization. It belongs to Jesus. He is inviting everyone so that your relationship with Him can deepen. No matter if you have loved Him for years or are just getting to know Him. Come and meet Him here.

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