Crossing Church

As I have been working through the Proverbs, I cannot escape the special, immediate, practical applicability for those of us with children. After all, many of the Proverbs were written exactly for that purpose.
With this in mind, I want to share just a few tips of how I have been trying to use […]

If you listen to my teaching for very long, you will hear that I tell quite a few stories—many of which are about my small kids.

So I m on my bike this morning riding through the ‘hoods for my workout and suddenly I am overcome by Nostalgia.

The Wonder Years theme song begins to play in my mind. “What would you do if I sang out of tune? Would you stand up and walk out on me…?”

With any new missional endeavor, perhaps the most important question that needs to be answered is the question of “Why are we doing this?” As we launch this exciting new venture, we want to take just a moment to succinctly answer this question from both biblical and practical perspectives in regard to our new gathering. As in all things, it is wise to begin speaking to the biblical reason first.

So, being a young pastor, I cannot resist a good pop-culture reference when I see one (even if it is a little dated, most of you remember…). Funny thing about this one though is that connects with Jesus calling someone (actually a group of someones…) a dog in the one of the passages we are […]

Have you ever been in a situation, maybe like a school classroom or a town meeting where somebody gets up and does something or says something that seems a little off and you get that feeling like “Who IS this guy?” Well, had everybody seen what Jesus did in this snapshot…He would have been […]

Jesus Preaches in Galilee
35 And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place

So as I was saying a couple of weeks ago, there is much we can learn when babies are born in our community…

Hey everyone. This is Ben Nolen. Dustin turned over the blog to me and asked me to tell you a little about the…