Vision Nights

Last week, our church held a Vision Night for each campus.  I had the opportunity to tell our church about some doors God has opened for us to walk through.  These open doors are our next step toward the future for our church. In short, our church is preparing to […]

Prayer Service for Pastor Rick and Fawn

As many of you may already have heard our Lancaster Campus Pastor Rick Jones’ wife, Fawn, has been diagnosed with a very rare and aggressive form of abdominal cancer. They are trying to get to a NY hospital to find out what all treatments are possible. She is only 31 […]

Shock, Anger and Honor

Saturday afternoon, I received a text message from my Executive Pastor informing me that Pastor Rick Warren’s son committed suicide. I immediately felt a range of emotions from shock to disbelief. Honestly, I wasn’t sure if I believed it. There is so much misinformation on the web, that I had […]

The Feet Game

As most of you know, it is now the season of Lent. Many people give up different vices during this time. Many do this out of habit and tradition, and I believe those people miss out on the whole benefit. The purpose of giving up something is so that you […]

Prepared to Fail

Are you a fly by the seat of your pants type of person or someone who plans everything out?   I’ve typically been more of a “procrastinate until the last minute then get prepared in time” kind of person.  Yet, the older I get, the more I see the importance […]

Set the table…first.

We all have to start somewhere. I remember my first job out of High School. I was a cart boy for a local general store. I’m not sure if that was my official title, but that’s what I did. I walked the parking lot and corralled carts. When I wasn’t […]

Use what you got!

Have you ever looked at someone else with eyes of envy?  Be honest, we all have from time to time compared ourselves with someone who has more.  This person might have more talent, more money, better looks or simply more than you! Whenever we compare ourselves with someone who has […]

Open Doors

I think most of us have been trained by life that when things are good, that God must be in them, but when things feel bad, He’s not. We say things to that effect on the golf course all the time. When someone hits an errant shot that hits a […]

Removing Roadblocks

Last night I had the opportunity to speak to over 30 of our ministry leaders here at Crossroads.  I shared with them some of the changes we are making which will be unveiled at our Volunteer Event! Some people might wonder why we are constantly changing things.  It’s really simple. […]

Jumping through hoops.

One of the reasons our church is not big on creating RULES for people to follow is because we want people to focus on having a RELATIONSHIP with Jesus.  I’m not really sure why the Christian Church feels the needs to regulate what people should or shouldn’t do to be […]