"“Real spiritual need and change, as we have emphasized, is on the inside, in the hidden area of the life that God sees and that we cannot even see in ourselves without his help.”
- Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart
This week, Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs, continued our series, Movementum, wi...

This week Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs kicked off our new series—Fearless: Finding Courage in God looking at a favorite text where the disciples find themselves in a precarious storm in the middle of a lake and are worried for their lives. Jesus is literally in the boat with them, and yet they are ...

"This week, Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs continued in our Fearless series, focusing on something that is prevalent in our culture today—the fear of missing out, or FOMO as it is called. This fear is most often based in insecurity and focusing on the wrong things. With social media presenting unreal...

"This week, Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs continued in our Fearless series with a story from the Old Testament when the Israelites were close to entering the Promised Land. Focusing on the wrong things, the Israelites feared the people before them and forgot what God had done for them in the past. G...

"This week Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs continued in our Fearless series and taught from the Old Testament text of Nehemiah. Relating this story to serenity, Marty recited the prayer that contradicts fear for so many: God, grant me the serenity to... ACCEPT the things I cannot change, COURAGE to ch...

Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs continued in our series, The Next Right Thing, teaching from the New Testament book Philemon. The apostle Paul wrote this letter to Philemon from prison where he had befriended a runaway slave who was owned by Philemon. Paul had grown to love the slave, Onesimus, who ha...

Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs continued in our series, The Next Right Thing, teaching from the book of Nehemiah. Nehemiah, the cupbearer to King Artaxerxes, (historically an officer of high rank in royal courts) was concerned with the state of the Jews in Jerusalem after one of his brothers returned...

Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs brought us Impact Sunday, an annual event where we look back at the previous year and take time to celebrate all that God has done through the church. Through ministries in and outside the walls of Crossings Community Church, the community has heard and experienced the ...

Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs continued in the Sermon on the Mount series focusing on prayer. Throughout his life, Jesus taught about prayer many times. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus preached about prayer through three words: Ask, seek, and knock. Asking God is only part of prayer. Sometimes it ...

Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs continued in the Sermon on the Mount series focusing on what we treasure. In his most famous sermon, Jesus touched on many topics, including the difference between earthly and heavenly treasures. As Marty explained, Jesus tells us:
• What we typically treasure is tempo...

Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs continued our series on the Sermon on the Mount, jumping to the end and where Jesus uses a parable explaining how to receive and act upon his words. Jesus knew his listeners would hear his words and return to their lives. He told them they had a choice to make when they...

Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs kicked off our new series on the Sermon on the Mount. Over the next seven weeks we will look at this most famous sermon; its meaning for all, its blessings to followers of Jesus, and its call for change and commitment to Jesus. Those in the audience when Jesus preached ...

Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs continued our Sermon on the Mount series, addressing the topic of worry. He explained the difference between concern and worry. Concern is a healthy state of being that can motivate change. Worry, on the other hand, can damage us and our lives. Worry puts our focus on t...

Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs kicked off our new series Building a Life That Matters. Teaching from a passage of Scripture that has guided his vision for Crossings, Acts 2:42-47, Marty focused on the importance of the Church in the believer’s life. A life that matters is built connected to the One w...

Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs wraps up the series, Building a Life That Matters, reminding us that the Gospel is for us, but not only us. Part of loving Jesus is sharing his love with others. We gather for worship, we spend time growing in our knowledge and love for him, and we go, we serve so other...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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 ...