Today we launch the third service. I’m excited. We’re about an hour and 15 minutes out and I’m excited to see how the service goes! A lot of people have put in a lot of work to get this service off the ground, and I’m hoping that we see this service become yet another place [...]
I’ve been doing much conferencing lately. I’ve heard a lot of speakers, and a lot of ideas, and according to my calendar, we’re still early in conference season. I’ve got a few more coming, but I wanted to share some thoughts that I had from today. I attended a men’s conference in Lodi called “No [...]
Just started listening to a seminar/message from Matt Chandler (teaching Pastor at The Village Church) entitled “Culture & Theology: God and Sex” and was blown away by how solid the teaching and discussion was. I went to their website and found SO MANY other good resources. Thought I’d share.
You can check out the resources here, [...]
Review of today at church:
Mike spoke on love, and how it is the greatest gift of the Spirit (look at 1 Corinthians 13 if you disagree). It was a really good message, focused on how God gives us the ability to love others deeply, and how without that love, we’ve really got nothing. Mike compared [...]
W.A.I.T.T. stands for “We’re All in this Together”, and the film is really moving.
The movie revolves around the youth worship band United, a product of Hillsong, the Australian megachurch best known for it’s contributions to the Christian worship music scene.
As United traveled the world over the last 3 and a half years, leading crowds/congregations in [...]
Yesterday I spoke to the high schoolers and encouraged them to become students of Christianity. If we’re going to claim that we’re Christians or that we love Jesus then we need to continually be learning more about him. Jesus tells us that the 2 greatest commandments are to love God and to love others. We [...]
I’ve been reading a lot of news lately and I’m very saddened by what has occurred following the arrest of Roman Polanski.
For those of you not familiar with the story, you can read the CNN article Hollywood Embraces Roman Polanski.
Essentially, the celebrated director was arrested in 1977 in the and tried for the rape of [...]
[Note from Tim: When I originally posted this blog I made some disparaging comments towards two different church leaders, Brian McLaren and Dan Kimball. While I hadn't set out to be malicious or unloving, my words definitely were. I owe a huge apology to both of them for what I wrote and how my words [...]
Confession: I generally have a hard time sitting down and spending time reading my bible. It seems that this is a reoccurring issue Christians have… they spend they’re whole lives KNOWING how beneficial studying God’s word is… they tell themselves constantly that they need to read frequently… but it never fails that they stay complacent, [...]
I’m at Oakland International waiting to get on my flight to Seattle. I must say, I love airports. I love to people watch. And who am I currently observing, you ask?
-There’s a dad on his cell phone chasing his little girl around. He’s got one of those super hi-tech backpacks on, like he should be [...]
We are the student ministry at Crossroads in Manteca. We believe in Jesus, love, hope, America, fresh-baked cookies, medium-length walks on the beach, short walks in the mountains, waiting on sex till marriage, loving those who need it, and the Bible.
- Pastor Tim - Heather - Casey