Sermons on April:

Using Our Gifts

Contributed by Delray Lentz on Oct 31, 2023

• Today is Fathers’ Day and I suspect most churches in America are hearing a Fathers’ Day sermon today. • There’s nothing wrong with that! • However, Cross Pointe Church is not most churches.

Yesterday, I watched a video of the metamorphosis of a butterfly. As a youth, I learned of the 4 stages: The egg- layed in a host plant The caterpillar-breaks out of the egg, eats the eggshell, feeds on the host plant The cocoon-hangs on the host plant and forms a cocoon, then emerges as a ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:4-11, Ephesians 4:11, Romans 12:3-8

Striving For Stability Series

Contributed by Glenn Pease on Mar 23, 2021

Paul just cannot comprehend the profound folly that would lead men to exchange liberty for bondage.

Back in the early part of the 20th century some architects in Washington began to visualize how the Jefferson Memorial ought to look from across the lake when reflected in the water. They decided it would be best to cut down the fringe of cherry trees that threatened to obscure the view. A group ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 1:6

Spong Vs Spong Part 1

Contributed by I. Grant Spong on May 22, 2020

The Church has been taken over by those who do not follow the faith once for all delivered to the saints. One of its chief proponents has been a member of my clan, John (Jack) Shelby Spong. Well, it’s time to rise up, defend the truth of the Scriptures and uphold the family name.

The Church has been taken over by those who do not follow the faith once for all delivered to the saints. One of its chief proponents has been a member of my clan, John (Jack) Shelby Spong. Well, it’s time to rise up, defend the truth of the Scriptures and uphold the family name. Noted New ...read more

Scripture: 2 Timothy 3:16, 2 Samuel 23:1

Denomination: Baptist

Not So Ordinary Time

Contributed by Jody Vansickle on Jun 18, 2025

This week we step into "Ordinary Time" in the Christian Calendar. But Gpd invites us to make "Ordinary Time; not so ordinary.

Galatians 3:23-29 (NLT) 23 Before the way of faith in Christ was available to us, we were placed under guard by the law. We were kept in protective custody, so to speak, until the way of faith was revealed. 24 Let me put it another way. The law was our guardian until Christ came; it protected us ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 3:23-29

Denomination: Methodist

Citizenship

Contributed by Isaac Magsino on Jan 7, 2006

Kingdom

Theme: CITIZENSHIP Text: Philippians 3:20-21 Date: April 17,2k5 Place: FBC Kodiak (5th anniversary) Introduction: People chose to be citizen of a country for purpose. (economic, benefits, environment, new life etc.) Citizenship usually taken for granted by those who were ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 3:20-21

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Jesus Lord & Christ Series

Contributed by John Mccurry on Aug 15, 2007

Easter Series describing what Jesus was made for you and me

Sunday, April 15, 2007 Jesus Was Made Both Lord and Christ Acts 2.1-47 As I read this yesterday I knew this was one of the most questioned chapters of the Bible. Parts of it are questioned among believers and parts of it are questioned among non-believers. In this chapter you find people ...read more

Scripture: Acts 2:1-47

Denomination: Pentecostal

We Believe In Baptism

Contributed by Brady Boyd on Apr 12, 2023

Jesus surrendered himself to death on the cross. We surrender ourselves to death in baptism.

We Believe in Baptism April 16, 2023 1. Water baptism is a surrender to Christ. Romans 6:4 NIV “We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.” Jesus surrendered ...read more

Scripture: Romans 6:4, 1 Corinthians 12:12-13, Galatians 3:26-28

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Holy Change

Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Dec 25, 2018

When God makes changes, they are quick and dramatic. Never give up on people.

Galatians 1:23  But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.  24  And they glorified God in me.  What can happen in a few months.. Feb 6, 1975 The Holy Nightmare The cataclysmic Evolution of The ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 1:23

Denomination: Baptist

The Significance Of The New Birth Series

Contributed by Scott Maze on Apr 15, 2024

The Holy Spirit is Christ in the Christian. He didn’t place an angel inside of you. He placed God inside of you.

Biophysicist Petra Schwille has been working on creating a living cell from the bottom up for the past 10 years. He says he’s always been fascinated by the question, “What distinguishes life from non-living matter?” For more than twenty years, researchers have been trying to create artificial ...read more

Scripture: John 3:1-15, Ephesians 2:4-5, John 1:12-13, Ezekiel 36:25

Denomination: Baptist

The Big If...

Contributed by Thomas Dibble on May 30, 2003

If we will... then He will!

In the summer of 1876 the grasshoppers did great damage to the crops of the state of Minnesota. The spring of the next year gave every indication that it would again be a bad year for the crops in this state. So Gov. John S. Pillsbury proclaimed April 26, 1877 to be a day of prayer and fasting in ...read more

Scripture: 2 Chronicles 7:12-16

Denomination: Pentecostal

Why Can't You Forgive Series

Contributed by Jeremy Houck on Apr 23, 2005

The ability to forgive is the ability to recieve forgiveness.

Last Tuesday, April 19th, this country observed a very difficult anniversary, and for most of us it passed by without a thought. It was April 19th 1995 that we suffered the atrocity of the Oklahoma City Bombing. As I was thinking about our sermon today I ran across a story from that event that I ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 6:14-15

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Stand Up And Be Counted Series

Contributed by Victor Yap on Dec 25, 2007

Esther, Pt. 5

STAND UP AND BE COUNTED (ESTHER 5) In 2006, America’s Public Broadcasting Company aired a documentary on Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Who was this man who had inspired Martin Luther King, Jr., Desmond Tutu and millions of Christians around the world? The calendars of the Evangelical Lutheran Church and the ...read more

Scripture: Esther 5:1-14

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Jesus And The Chief: Courage Series

Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Apr 16, 2007

For over 80 years Chief Illiniwek, symbol of the University of Illinois, represented Christian attributes; this is the first of six sermons that examine those attributes based on the Scriptures.

Jesus and the Chief: Courage --Mark 6:45-52 This has been a newsworthy week. On Tuesday, April 10th, it was finally announced that Larry Birkhead is the biological father of Anna Nichole Smith’s baby daughter Dannielynn. Radio-Television shock jock Don Imus’ program “Imus in the Morning” was ...read more

Scripture: Mark 6:45-52

Denomination: Methodist

War Room

Contributed by John Gaston on Nov 14, 2016

Battles are not only waged on the battlefield, but often far away at a military headquarters in a room dubbed a “War Room.” Our Prayer Closet is our War Room. It's where we join with God to see the visible manipulated by the invisible.

WAR ROOM Ex. 17:8-13 INTRODUCTION A. HUMOR: ON THE ELEVATOR 1. Around the coffee machine at work, Sam was telling a story. “Billy and I were in an elevator yesterday telling Aggie jokes. We didn’t notice that standing right behind us was this really big guy. 2. Suddenly he reached ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 17:8-13

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Living Holy Lives Series

Contributed by Chris Appleby on Jul 5, 2010

God offers us hope that cannot fail us but he also calls us to lives of holiness

By Rev Bill Stewart If you were watching TV on the April 12, 2009, you may have seen pictures like this one of Captain Richard Phillips shortly after his rescue. Captain Richard Phillips According to CNN.com: U.S. Navy snipers fatally shot three pirates holding an American cargo-ship captain ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 1:13-25

Denomination: Anglican