Category: Sermons

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CrossPointe Community Church
P O Box 126
Chippewa Lake, OH 44215

SCRIPTURE

That night there were shepherds staying in the fields nearby, guarding their flocks of sheep. Suddenly, an angel of the Lord appeared among them, and the radiance of the Lord’s glory surrounded them. They were terrified, but the angel reassured them. “Don’t be afraid!” he said. “I bring you good news that will bring great joy to all people. The Savior—yes, the Messiah, the Lord—has been born today in Bethlehem, the city of David! And you will recognize Him by this sign: You will find a baby wrapped snugly in strips of cloth, lying in a manger.”

Suddenly, the angel was joined by a vast host of others—the armies of heaven—praising God and saying, “Glory to God in highest heaven, and peace on earth to those with whom God is pleased.”

Luke 2:8-14

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CrossPointe Community Church
P O Box 126
Chippewa Lake, OH 44215

SCRIPTURE

In Isaiah 7 and 8, the prophet attempts to warn King Ahaz that because of his continual disobedience darkness is going to befall Israel at the hands of the Assyrian army who will conquer Israel and take survivors into captivity.

At our Monday evening Disciple Bible Study class, we were studying Isaiah and I invited the class to get in touch with the feelings of the Israelites by imagining what it would be like if China and Russia joined forces to conquer America and took the survivors back to their countries as slaves. We can’t even begin to imagine how dark that would be.

But then, the gloom of darkness that prevailed over Israel in chapter 8, is suddenly and gloriously lifted as we turn the page to chapter 9 and read,

The people who walk in darkness will see a great light.
For those who live in a land of deep darkness, a light will shine.

For a child is born to us, a son is given to us.
The government will rest on His shoulders.
And He will be called:
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Isaiah 9:1-2, 6

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CrossPointe Community Church
P O Box 126
Chippewa Lake, OH 44215

SCRIPTURE

The people who walk in darkness will see a great light.
For those who live in a land of deep darkness, a light will shine.

For a child is born to us, a son is given to us.
The government will rest on His shoulders.
And He will be called:
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
His government and its peace will never end.
He will rule with fairness and justice from the throne of His ancestor David
for all eternity.
The passionate commitment of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies
will make this happen!

Isaiah 9:2, 6-7

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Good morning, everyone! I hope you’re ready to get a little intense because the topic for today is Truth. Truth is especially important because God identifies Himself with the Truth. In John 14:6 Jesus says, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” This is a bold statement. Especially in our post-truth culture. Here Jesus claims that He, God, is the truth, and that He is exclusively the way to the Father.

A lot of people don’t like truth claims enough as it is, but here we have an exclusive one. That’s an extra big no-no in our culture. But as you’ll soon see, truth is always exclusive, because the truth simply is what it is whether you like it or not. My hope with this sermon is to give us all a deeper regard for truth, understand that truth is found in God, and encourage us all to stand for and spread the truth of Christ.

In these days, people like to talk about “subjective truth,” that is, truth determined by and for the individual. You can’t tell anyone what the truth is because everyone’s got their own brand. In fact, if you try to intrude on someone’s personal truth party, you get called arrogant. The irony of course being that it is incredibly arrogant to think that one may determine what the truth is for oneself. If my personal truth is true, and your personal truth is true, and we disagree, then neither of us are right because we have a contradiction. The very word “truth” implies objectivity, or the existence of facts that are unaffected by what you think.

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CrossPointe Community Church
P O Box 126
Chippewa Lake, OH 44215

SCRIPTURE

Let all that I am praise the LORD ; with my whole heart, I will praise His holy name. Let all that I am praise the LORD ; may I never forget the good things He does for me.
He forgives all my sins and heals all my diseases.
He redeems me from death and crowns me with love and tender mercies.
He fills my life with good things. My youth is renewed like the eagle’s!

Psalm 103:1-5

Brothers and sisters, we urge you to warn those who are lazy. Encourage those who are timid. Take tender care of those who are weak. Be patient with everyone. See that no one pays back evil for evil, but always try to do good to each other and to all people. Always be joyful. Never stop praying. Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.

I Thessalonians 5:14-18

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CrossPointe Community Church
P O Box 126
Chippewa Lake, OH 44215

SCRIPTURE

One day Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock far into the wilderness and came to Sinai, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire from the middle of a bush. Moses stared in amazement. Though the bush was engulfed in flames, it didn’t burn up. “This is amazing,” Moses said to himself. “Why isn’t that bush burning up? I must go see it.”

When the Lord saw Moses coming to take a closer look, God called to him from the middle of the bush, “Moses! Moses!”
“Here I am!” Moses replied.
“Do not come any closer,” the Lord warned. “Take off your sandals, for you are standing on holy ground. I am the God of your father; the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.”
When Moses heard this, he covered his face because he was afraid to look at God. Then the Lord told him, “I have certainly seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I have heard their cries of distress because of their harsh slave drivers. Yes, I am aware of their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and lead them out of Egypt into their own fertile and spacious land. It is a land flowing with milk and honey—the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live. Look! The cry of the people of Israel has reached Me, and I have seen how harshly the Egyptians abuse them. Now go, for I am sending you to Pharaoh. You must lead my people Israel out of Egypt.”

But Moses protested to God, “Who am I to appear before Pharaoh? Who am I to lead the people of Israel out of Egypt?”
God answered, “I will be with you. And this is your sign that I am the one who has sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God at this very mountain.”
But Moses protested, “If I go to the people of Israel and tell them, ‘The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,’ they will ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what should I tell them?”
God replied to Moses, “I am who I am. Say this to the people of Israel: I am has sent me to you.” God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: Yahweh, the God of your ancestors—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you. This is my eternal name, my name to remember for all generations.

Exodus 3:1-15

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