Marty Grubbs

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  • Build a Life That Matters - GO

    Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs focused on the mission, or the command of a Christian to love God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind, and to love your neighbor as you love yourself. In other words, the call to GO to the world to bring hope and light to the hopelessness and darkness....

  • Spiritual Growth... It's Not What You Think It Is

    Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs continued in our series, Building a Life that Matters, focusing on the foundation and result of spiritual growth when it takes hold of our lives. Change occurs, relationships deepen, hearts open, and hands get busy doing the Lord’s work. Marty reminded us that spiritual...

  • The Church is Like...

    Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs continued in our series Building a Life That Matters focusing on the importance of gathering in a church. This type of gathering or assembling was modeled in the first churches in the New Testament. Sometimes in homes, and other times in larger gathering areas, everyone...

  • Church: Why Bother?

    Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs returned to the pulpit and continued in the sermon series, I’ve Been Thinking, with a message about the church, our church. In addition to voting on bylaws, elders, and budgets, Marty spoke about the history and purpose of Crossings Community Church. As so often it does...

  • Restored!

    Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs wrapped up the Unwavering series with the beautiful truth of restoration in Job’s life. Job lost everything in his life – his children, his wealth, his health, and his righteousness was called into question by friends. Job’s spirit was beaten down. God spoke to Job, fir...

  • Experiencing God

    "Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs continued teaching in our Unwavering series where he looked at God’s response to Job. Advice, blame, pity, compassion and more had been offered to Job by his wife and friends, but Job was still in pain and questioning his suffering—its cause and purpose. Job was consum...

  • The Young and Restless

    Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs continued through the book of Job in the Unwavering series. A new voice joins Job, Elihu, son of Barakel the Buzit. Elihu was younger than Job’s friends who had shared their advice and admonitions. He had waited until now to speak out of respect, showing humility. His m...

  • The Defense Rests

    Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs continued through the book of Job in the Unwavering series. Job lived under the law of the Old Testament. If he had broken any of those laws, as his friends had suggested earlier, then he would believe his suffering was justified. But he knew himself to be innocent, and...

  • The Wisdom of Shared Suffering

    Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs continued in our Unwavering sermon series, focusing on Job chapters 29 and 30. Job, after suffering the overwhelming losses in his life and bad advice from friends, takes a searching and fearless personal inventory. He looks back on his life, and then faces his present ...

  • God in a Box

    Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs continued teaching from the book of Job in chapters 20-26. Job’s friends, who had an empathetic response earlier and sat with Job in his grief, have returned to “help” him with their advice and counsel. Their religion, or understanding of it, was one based on following ...

  • Words That Wound

    Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs continued in the series Unwavering, teaching through the book of Job. When Job was in his greatest pain he was joined by three of his friends who brought advice about his suffering. This became a good lesson in what not to do or say when someone is going through trials ...

  • As For Me and My House

    Jeni and Pastor Lance Ward joined Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs to talk through their journey of losing their son to an accidental overdose, and then Lance’s mom to cancer just a few months later. Their losses are recent and emotions are raw, yet their faith in the Lord is unwavering. Clinging to wh...

  • Sometimes ... Saying Less is Better

    Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs continued in the book of Job where after losing his children and his livelihood, Satan strikes Job with a horrible skin disease. Satan’s goal was to get Job to curse God to his face, but God remained certain of Job’s integrity and the depth of his faith. Job doesn’t pra...

  • Trusting in the Trials

    Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs kicked off the new series, Unwavering: Trusting God in the Trials, with a message from the book of Job. Job was an extremely wealthy man, with a wife and ten children. He was also God’s example of a great man of faith. When Satan declared he could turn anyone and everyo...

  • Press On

    Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs continued in the Breathing Underwater series, wrapping it up by looking at Steps 10, 11, and 12—sometimes referred to as “The Maintenance Steps.” These last three steps are ongoing, promote continual growth, and extend our reliance on God. In other words, the last steps...

  • Making Amends

    Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs continued in our Breathing Underwater series, focusing on making amends—forgiving and extending forgiveness. This step in the 12-step program is one of the most difficult as it means reaching out to those whom you have hurt in the past. Forgiveness doesn’t come easy or ...

  • Search and Rescue

    Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs continued in our Breathing Underwater series, focusing on letting God search us and point out weak points that need attention. This means getting honest with God, and then sitting and listening while he gets honest with us. After getting honest with God, in order to kee...

  • Adrift but not Alone

    Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs continued in our series, Breathing Underwater, and with vulnerability and honesty described his experience with depression. After what could be considered the best day, one of new beginnings and celebration, he found himself in a dark place that was determined to be cli...

  • The Lifeline

    Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs continued in the Breathing Underwater series with the call for a decision. The most important decision you can make in your life comes when you answer this question, “Are you ready to change and accept the help of God for the power to do it?” Using the favorite and fami...

  • What Do You Believe?

    Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs continued in our Breathing Underwater series and asked us to consider one of the most important questions ever to be asked, “What do you believe?” Crossings is a place where people who don’t know the answer to that question are invited and welcome to explore this questi...

  • Breathe Deep

    Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs kicked off the new series Breathing Underwater. The New Year is the perfect time to take a personal inventory, ask God to search your heart, attitudes, actions and to address them, and change direction. Perhaps you feel like you are losing your breath, holding your brea...

  • Tell Your Story

    Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs wrapped up our Breathing Underwater series and introduced us to Kary and Bryan who found healing through the 12-step program in LifeCare at Crossings Edmond. Kary and Bryan, from a place of humility and vulnerability, shared their story of how addiction and secrets ende...

  • Ep 2: Mighty God

    Are you willing to walk by faith?
    Crossings Community Church
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    Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs
    December 13, 2020

  • Ep 3: Everlasting Father

    Jesus came to show us a clear picture of God.
    Crossings Community Church
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    Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs
    December 20, 2020