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  • Dr. Bradford Reaves

    Contributing sermons since Jun 27, 2019
Dr. Bradford's church

CrossWay Christian Fellowship
Hagerstown, Maryland 21742
3016604966

About Dr. Bradford
  • Education: BS, MCM, MAR, D.Min
  • Experience: I earned my Bachelor's of Science Degree in 1999 from Southwestern Assemblies of God University with a Major in Pastor Ministry and a Minor in Pastoral Counseling. I also hold 2 Master's Degree from Liberty University in Christian Ministry (Homiletics Cognate) and in Religious Leadership. My D.Min is in Church Revitalization. I started my first pastorate in 1999 in Mt Pleasant, SC, and also worked as a police chaplain. In 2012 I served as executive pastor in Hagerstown, MD, in 2016 I became Sr. Pastor in Winchester, VA. In 2021 I planted my current church in Hagerstown, MD, Crossway Christian Fellowship.
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  • Warfare Prayer And Fasting

    Contributed on Jul 16, 2025
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    Prayer and fasting are not passive religious rituals; they are mighty weapons in God’s arsenal to demolish strongholds and advance His Kingdom in the unseen realm

    Warfare Prayer and Fasting July 20, 2025 Dr. Bradford Reaves Crossway Christian Fellowship Matthew 17:21, James 5:13-18, Ephesians 6:10-20 Introduction Prayer and fasting are not passive religious rituals; they are mighty weapons in God’s arsenal to demolish strongholds and advance His Kingdom ...read more

  • Spiritual Sleepiness: Shallowing Theology And The Church Growth Movement

    Contributed on Jul 16, 2025
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    We live in an age where worship teams rival pop bands, and the Sunday sermon has been carefully distilled into a 28-minute TED Talk with a side of Scripture. But beneath the gloss of production and the metrics lurks a growing hollowness.

    Spiritual Sleepiness: Shallowing Theology and the Church Growth Movement July 13, 2025 Dr. Bradford Reaves Crossway Christian Fellowship 2 Peter 2:1-3, 1 Timothy 4:1-3, Revelation 3:14-16, 2 Peter 1:5-8 Introduction: Navigating The Fog of Modern Faith On September 1, 1983, Korean Air Flight 007 ...read more

  • The Battle For The Mind: Taking Thoughts Captive

    Contributed on Jul 16, 2025
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    You have around 6,000 thoughts per day. According to cognitive neuroscience, the average person generates 6,000+ thoughts daily. The question isn’t if you’re thinking—but what are you thinking? And more importantly, who is influencing those thoughts?

    The Battle for the Mind: Taking Thoughts Captive June 29, 2025 Dr. Bradford Reaves Crossway Christian Fellowship 1 Corinthians 10:5 INTRODUCTION: The Mind is a Mindfield You have around 6,000 thoughts per day. According to cognitive neuroscience, the average person generates 6,000+ thoughts ...read more

  • Overcoming Temptation: Jesus’ Example In Resisting Satan

    Contributed on Jul 16, 2025
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    Jesus didn’t just defeat temptation for Himself — He demonstrated how you can walk in victory. Armed with the Word. Filled with the Spirit. Anchored in your God-given identity. Temptation is inevitable — but defeat is not.

    Overcoming Temptation: Jesus’ Example in Resisting Satan June 8, 2025 Dr. Bradford Reaves Crossway Christian Fellowship Matthew 4:1-11 We’ve spent the last several months pulling back the veil on the enemy’s tactics — exposing his schemes, his snares, and his shadow games. Let’s be real: Satan is ...read more

  • The Believer's Victory In Jesus Christ

    Contributed on Jul 16, 2025
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    As Americans, we honor those who died so we could live in freedom. But as Christians, we must also honor the One who died to free us from sin, darkness, and the grip of Satan himself.

    The Believer’s Victory in Jesus May 12, 2025 Dr. Bradford Reaves Crossway Christian Fellowship Matthew 5:5-6 A War Worth Remembering Today is Memorial Day weekend. For many, it is a time of cookouts, flag-waving, and gatherings. But for a moment, we pause to remember the fallen—those who paid ...read more

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  • Dying For Treasure

    Contributed on Aug 11, 2023
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    Have you ever heard about a man named Forrest Fenn? Forrest Fenn was a pilot in the US Air Force, earning the rank of Major and awarded the Silver Star for his sermon in Vietnam, which flew 328 combat missions within a year. After his service to his country, he ran an art gallery where he made his ...read more

  • Cipa (Congenital Insensitivity To Pain With Anhydrosis)

    Contributed on Mar 10, 2022
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    Not far from my home lives a young woman who was born with a very rare disease called CIPA, congenital insensitivity to pain with anhydrosis. Imagine having a body that looks normal and acts normally, except for one thing: You cannot feel physical pain. That sounds as if it would be a blessing. But ...read more

  • It All Happened On A Subway

    Contributed on Mar 10, 2022
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    Marcel Sternberger was a methodical man of nearly 50, with bushy white hair, guileless brown eyes, and the bouncing enthusiasm of a czardas dancer of his native Hungary. He always took the 9:09 Long Island Railroad train from his suburban home to Woodside, N.Y.., where he caught a subway into the ...read more

  • Bee The Body Of Christ

    Contributed on Jan 14, 2022
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    My dad has bees. Today I went to his house and he showed me all of the honey he had gotten from the hives. He took the lid off of a 5 gallon bucket full of honey and on top of the honey there were 3 little bees, struggling. They were covered in sticky honey and drowning. I asked him if we could ...read more

  • Dna And Stained Glass

    Contributed on Sep 2, 2021
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    Dr. Francis Collins’s credentials are impeccable: he is a physical chemist, a medical geneticist, and the former head of the Human Genome Project. He is also, by his own account, living proof that there is no conflict between science and religion.” “In 2006, he published ‘The Language of God,’ in ...read more