Month: September 2021

Worship Service for September 26, 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.

I want to to thank John and Amy Topola for their continued faithfulness in shopping for and preparing the delicious food for our monthly Community Meal. And thanks to the elves that come and help them hand the meals to those who drive up.

Gail and I will be flying to Florida tomorrow, I will return a week from Wednesday and she will stay another 10 days or so before coming back to Ohio. I will; however, be appearing next Sunday via the magic of television. That is, I will be video recording the message and Lindsay Brandenburg will access it on YouTube.

Before today’s call to worship, did you hear about the pastor who was preparing pancakes for his young sons when the boys began arguing over who would get the first pancake. Their mother saw the opportunity for a moral lesson. “You know boys, we are to try our best to be like Jesus. If He and His disciples were sharing our table right now, do you know what He would say?”
The boys said, “No, but I bet you’re going to tell us.”
She said, “He would say, ‘Let my brother have the first pancake.’”
The younger boy quickly said to his older brother, “You be like Jesus!”

CALL TO WORSHIP

This letter is from Simon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ. I am writing to you who share the same precious faith we have. This faith was given to you because of the justice and fairness of Jesus Christ, our God and Savior.

May God give you more and more grace and peace as you grow in your knowledge of God and Jesus our Lord. By His divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know Him, the one who called us to Himself by means of His marvelous glory and excellence.

II Peter 1:1-3

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Worship Service for September 19, 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

SCRIPTURAL CALL TO WORSHIP

Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters;
and you who have no money, come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.
Why spend money on what is not bread,
and your labor on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
and you will delight in the richest of fare.
Give ear and come to me; listen, that you may live.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
My faithful love promised to David. . . .

Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts.
Let them turn to the LORD, and He will have mercy on them,
yes, turn to our God, for He will freely pardon.

Isaiah 55:1–3, 6–7 (NIV)

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A mother reports that her four-year-old daughter was learning the Lord’s Prayer in her Sunday School class and the first time she recited it for her mom at bedtime prayed, “And forgive us our trash baskets as we forgive those who put trash in our baskets.”

The issue of forgiveness is one that touches all people. Sometimes it’s a major crisis that forces us to choose between forgiving and not forgiving; a betrayal by a spouse, a family feud, someone stole our money or something else of value. But thankfully, it’s those pesky lesser offenses that we must deal with: when we get passed over at work for a promotion that we were expecting, or when a colleague spreads a lie about us, or a friend betrays us.

The issue of forgiving another person who has wronged us is one that touches all people.

The issue of forgiving another person who has wronged us is more of an issue for those who call themselves Christians because we know that we are called upon to forgive others. We were just reminded by Jesus and Paul that it is incumbent upon those who sing It Is the Cry of My Heart to Follow You to forgive as Jesus forgives.

My hunch is that not all of us have become as adept as Jesus was in forgiving those who put trash in our baskets.

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Worship Service for September 5, 2021

WELCOME

Good day, welcome and thanks for joining CrossPointe Community Church’s on-line 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

CrossPointe Community Church’s Mission, should we choose to accept it, is to “Share God’s Grace with Our Community.” By the way, ours is not a Mission Impossible! Ours is a Mission that is more than possible because according to Paul in Ephesians “God is able, through His mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think” (3:20). One of the premier ways that God works through us is through the power of prayer. And so one of the most effective ways we can Share God’s Grace with Our Community is by praying for our Community.

To that end, our Church Leaders are asking all of us to participate in Awaken Medina County, in which we will pray for 30 days starting next Sunday for people who live in Chippewa Lake. After you visit www.awakenmedinaco.org to register, you will receive the names of 10 households and access to the free materials that include among other items a 30 day prayer guide that will assist you in how and what to pray for your 10 households. What a wonderful opportunity this is to join forces with God to bring about His will in our community as we pray.

Our leaders would like to invite all of you to gather here on the late afternoon/evening of Saturday, September 18th for a little soirée at which we will enjoy fellowship, food, fun and a little music.

Many of you have already noticed that we have Randy Hall today. And we are very blessed to have him as our special speaker today. Randy is a member of the Wadsworth Camp of the Gideons. The Gideons started in 1899 in Wisconsin and has grown into a world-wide Christian organization that excels in distributing Bibles. He has been with us several times over the last decade and each time he comes you folks tell me that I missed a very special blessing. And so we look forward to hearing what Randy has to bring us.

By the way Randy, did you hear about the very gracious lady who was mailing an old family Bible to her brother in another part of the country. When she took it to the Post Office, the clerk asked, “Is there anything breakable in here?”
“Only the Ten Commandments,” answered the lady.

Today, we have the added blessing of celebrating the Sacrament of Holy Communion. If you haven’t already prepared the sacramental elements of your choice, you may want to stop here and do so. All who desire to draw closer to God through faith in His Son are invited to participate.

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