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Sunday Preparation - 7/25/10

Hi All. Audio links to the songs we will be singing this week are posted below. I encourage you to become familiar with these songs each week so that you can fully participate in worship. The music won't sound exactly like this, but this will give you a good idea. If you like a song, you may even want to download it from iTunes and listen whenever you like! A few scripture passages related to the song lyrics are also posted below. Feel free to take your bible and study some of these passages that go well with the songs. I look forward to worshiping with you this Sunday!

Sunday Preparation - 7/18/10

Hi All. Audio links to the songs we will be singing this week are posted below. I encourage you to become familiar with these songs each week so that you can fully participate in worship. The music won't sound exactly like this, but this will give you a good idea. If you like a song, you may even want to download it from iTunes and listen whenever you like! A few scripture passages related to the song lyrics are also posted below. Feel free to take your bible and study some of these passages that go well with the songs!

Sunday Preparation - 7/11/10

Hi All. Audio links to the songs we will be singing this week are posted below. I encourage you to become familiar with these songs each week so that you can fully participate in worship. The music won't sound exactly like this, but this will give you a good idea. If you like a song, you may even want to download it from iTunes and listen whenever you like! A few scripture passages related to the song lyrics are also posted below. Feel free to take your bible and study some of these passages that go well with the songs we are singing. I look forward to worshiping with you on Sunday! 

Sunday's songs and helpful passages:

Here is Love: Rom. 8:31-39, Eph. 3:14-21, 1 John 4:7-21, Eph. 5:1-2; Blessed Be Your Name: Job 1:13-22; It is Well With My Soul: Ps. 46:1-3, Ps. 103:1-6, Phil. 4:4-7, John 14:27; The Stand: Ps. 8, Phil. 3:7-11; God of This City: John 5:19-24, John 14:12, Acts 4:23-31

Sunday Preparation - 7/4/10

Hi All. Audio links to the songs we will be singing this week are posted below. I encourage you to become familiar with these songs each week so that you can fully participate in worship. The music won't sound exactly like this, but this will give you a good idea. If you like a song, you may even want to download it from iTunes and listen whenever you like! A few scripture passages related to the song lyrics are also posted below. Feel free to take your bible and study some of these passages that go well with the songs we are singing. I look forward to worshiping with you on Sunday! 

Sunday's songs and helpful passages:

You Are God: Prov. 18:24, Ps. 19:7-11, Ps. 145:14-19, Neh. 4:20, John 6:33;  Glory to God Forever: Ps. 150, Ps. 29, 1 Tim. 1:17;  Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone):  Eph. 2:1-10, John 8:36, Gal. 5:1, Lam. 3:22-24;  Lead Me to the Cross: Phil. 3:7-9, Matt. 4:1, John 1:1, 14, 1 Cor. 2:2, Luke 9:23;  Your Grace is Enough: Ps. 98:1-3, Ps. 117, Eph. 2:4-10, 2 Tim. 1:8-9 

Sunday Preparation - 6/27/10

Hi All. Audio links to the songs we will be singing this week are posted below. I encourage you to become familiar with these songs each week so that you can fully participate in worship. The music won't sound exactly like this, but this will give you a good idea. If you like a song, you may even want to download it from iTunes and listen whenever you like! A few scripture passages related to the song lyrics are also posted below. Feel free to take your bible and study some of these passages that go well with the songs we are singing. I look forward to worshiping with you on Sunday! 

We will also be singing a new song called "Awakening" taken from passages such as Psalm 57:7-11 and Isaiah 9:2. Its a great song and I encourage you to listen to it below and become familiar with it before we sing together on Sunday. 

Sunday's songs and helpful passages:

Song of Hope: Rom. 15:13, Rom. 6:4, 2 Cor. 1:10, Col. 1:27;  ‘Til I See You:  Ps. 9:9-10, Ps. 13:5-6, Heb. 12:28-29, Ps. 145, Rom. 8:1-4;  Awakening:  Ps. 57:7-11, Isa. 9:2;  Jesus Paid It All: John 3:16-17, Ps. 51:7, Col. 2:13-14;  In Christ Alone: Acts 4:11-12, 1 Pet. 1:18-21

Sunday Preparation - 6/13/10

Hi All. Audio links to the songs we will be singing this week are posted below. I encourage you to become familiar with these songs each week so that you can fully participate in worship. The music won't sound exactly like this, but this will give you a good idea. If you like a song, you may even want to download it from iTunes and listen whenever you like! A few scripture passages related to the song lyrics are also posted below. Feel free to take your bible and study some of these passages that go well with the songs we are singing. I look forward to worshiping with you on Sunday! 

We will also be singing a new song called "You Are God" taken from passages such as Prov. 18:24, Ps. 19:7-11, Ps. 145:14-19, Neh. 4:20, and John 6:33.  Its a great song and I encourage you to listen to it below and become familiar with it before we sing together on Sunday. 

Sunday's songs and helpful passages:

Marvelous Light:  1 Pet. 2:9-10, Acts 26:22-23, 1 Cor. 15:50-57, 1 Pet. 2:24, Jn. 14:6, 1 Jn. 1:7;  You Are God: (See Above);  Nothing But the Blood: Eph. 2:13-22, Heb. 10:19-25, Heb. 12:22-24, 1John 1:7;  This is Our God:  Isa. 25:1-9; Glory to God Forever: Ps. 150, Ps. 29, 1 Tim. 1:17

theSTORY - a 40 day challenge

Over the summer months we are embarking upon a challenge as a church community to engage in theSTORY of God. It's our hope that as we journey through the Scriptures, getting a picture of the sweeping narrative that it is, we will better be able to connect our story with God's story. To assist in this journey we have produced theSTORY booklet that will guide you through 40 days of Bible reading. It may take you 40 days. It may take you double that. It may take you all year. The point is that we need to connect with God's story. If you have not picked up a booklet, you can do so on Sunday at CrossPointe. You can also download it by clicking this link Download TheSTORY.

Additionally the staff of CrossPointe will periodically be posting interactions and reflections on some of the readings. Use this as an opportunity to share your thoughts. To ask questions. To build community and accountability with those who are participating. To kick things off I am going to copy below a post written by CrossPointe worship leader and pastoral intern, Zach Simons from his blog...

I have recently been going through a 40 day bible study covering many of the key redemptive-historical elements of the entire biblical story in a booklet published by our church, CrossPointe Winter Park. The booklet is entitled "The Story: A 40 day guide to help you connect your story to God's story." I know the concept of "story" may seem like a trendy concept these days, but in reality I think it helps clear up a lot of misconceptions we have when we read many biblical narratives.  Spoiler alert:The story of David and Golioth is not about David!  The story of Daniel in the lion's den is not about Daniel!  The story of Peter walking on the water is not about Peter!  Now, I know this flies in the face of all we have ever been taught in Sunday school or by veggie tales.  Although these characters have important things to teach us about living by faith, these stories are interwoven into the greater narrative that spans from Genesis to Revelation: the story of God's redemptive work in restoring his creation. This story has its climax in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.  Therefore, anything on either side of this event points either forward to it, or backwards at it. Most of all, this story is about God - not about sinful, human, biblical characters who overcome great obstacles against great odds with a little help from their fairy God-father. However, these human, sinful, and disobedient characters (along with ourselves) are invited into this story and are made a part of it.  We have the privilege of being included as the Holy Spirit is at work in transforming our lives. This 40 day guide has really been helping me to see this and has been teaching me new truths from familiar biblical stories each day.  I encourage you to check it out.  

Sunday Preparation - 6/6/10

Hi All. Audio links to the songs we will be singing this week are posted below. I encourage you to become familiar with these songs each week so that you can fully participate in worship. The music won't sound exactly like this, but this will give you a good idea. If you like a song, you may even want to download it from iTunes and listen whenever you like! A few scripture passages related to the song lyrics are also posted below. Feel free to take your bible and study some of these passages that go well with the songs we are singing. I look forward to worshiping with you on Sunday! 

Songs and helpful passages:

Song of Hope: Rom. 15:13, Rom. 6:4, 2 Cor. 1:10, Col. 1:27;  O For a Thousand Tongues: Mark 13:10, Gal. 3:7-9, Isa. 66:18, Rev. 7:9-10, Phil. 2:9-11;  Give Us Clean Hands: Psalm 24;  Sweetly Broken: Gal. 2:20, Rom. 5:1-11, John 12:46, 1 Peter 2:9;  Glorious and Mighty: Psalm 96

Sunday Preparation - 5/30/10

Hi All. Audio links to the songs we will be singing this week are posted below. I encourage you to become familiar with these songs each week so that you can fully participate in worship. The music won't sound exactly like this, but this will give you a good idea. If you like a song, you may even want to download it from iTunes and listen whenever you like! A few scripture passages related to the song lyrics are also posted below. Feel free to take your bible and study some of these passages that go well with the songs we are singing. I look forward to worshiping with you on Sunday!

Songs and helpful passages:

O Worship The King:  Ps. 104, Rev. 5:6-14;  Mighty is Our God: Psalm 104;  Center: Rom. 11:36, Col. 1:15-20;  ‘Til I See You:  Ps. 9:9-10, Ps. 13:5-6, Heb. 12:28-29, Ps. 145, Rom. 8:1-4;  Hosanna:  Matt. 21:9-11, John 12:12-16, 2 Cor. 4:16-18

Sunday Preparation - 5/23/10

Hi All. Audio links to the songs we will be singing this week are posted below. I encourage you to become familiar with these songs each week so that you can fully participate in worship. The music won't sound exactly like this, but this will give you a good idea. If you like a song, you may even want to download it from iTunes and listen whenever you like! A few scripture passages related to the song lyrics are also posted below. Feel free to take your bible and study some of these passages that go well with the songs we are singing.

Also, we are singing a new song this week called "Song of Hope." Take a look below to become familiar with the lyrics. Our goal and purpose is to engage in worshiping God, and this should help. I look forward to worshiping with each of you this weekend!

Songs and helpful passages:

Song of Hope: Rom. 15:13, Rom. 6:4, 2 Cor. 1:10, Col. 1:27;  Come Thou Fount: John 4:1-14, John 6:35, John 7:37, 38;  Jesus Paid It All: John 3:16-17, Ps. 51:7, Col. 2:13-14;  Lead Me to the Cross: Phil. 3:7-9, Matt. 4:1, John 1:1, 14, 1 Cor. 2:2, Luke 9:23;  Sing to the King: Rev. 5:11-12, Rev. 15:2-4, Rev. 17:14