Made for Dominion – Together Genesis 1:26-28 (NLT) "They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground... Then God blessed them and said, 'Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it.'"God doesn't just create humans and leave them to figure out their purpose. God immediately...  Read More

Blessed Before PerformingGenesis 1:26-31 (NLT) "Then God blessed them and said, 'Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground.' Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was very good!""Then God blessed them." This happens before Adam and Eve do anything. Before they acc...  Read More

Created for Love Genesis 1:26-31 (NLT) "Then God said, 'Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.' So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. Then Go...  Read More

At Crosswalk, we talk often about our End Statements, five descriptions of the kind of people we are becoming together. They remind us that weare growing into a community where everyone belongs, where people learn to walk with God in honest and authentic ways, where the ways of Jesus matter in our everyday world, where we live beyond ourselves by caring for the vulnerable, and where leadership alw...  Read More

Turning towards our forever home  Matthew 4:17 From then on Jesus began to preach, “Repent of your sins and turn to God, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near.”Mark 1: 15 “The time promised by God has come at last!” he announced. “The Kingdom of God is near! Repent of your sins and believe the Good News!”Psalm 23: 6 Surely your goodness and unfailing love will pursue me all the days of my life, and I ...  Read More

Living with a holy perspective Romans 8:18 Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later.2 Corinthians 4:16 That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day. 17 For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! 18 So we ...  Read More