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It’s Easter Weekend and that means we are celebrating Jesus’ resurrection! Jesus worked tirelessly to prepare His follower’s for this big event. In doing so, He told one of His most famous parables to reveal how great of a love our Heavenly Father has for us. Consider inviting someone to come sit with you this Easter so they can be encouraged by how much God loves them.

When reading or listening to someone, context clues are the pieces of information you know that helps you understand the meaning of an unknown word or phrase. Jesus knew the importance of intentionally including context clues to redefine our understanding of God and His purpose for our lives. Invite someone to join you this weekend for a key context clue to Christianity.

It’s become so common that it is expected. I’m talking about “The Warm-Up Act.” Sometimes we think of the warm-up act as up and coming talent. Other times we tolerate them because the main event will be worth it. Jesus was the main event and even back then He had a warmup act. The best thing a warm-up act can do is to prepare us for the main event. This week we are going to look at both who this was and how he prepared us for Jesus, the Main Event.

Everybody has questions. Some are more important than others. Some questions we ask and never get a satisfactory answer. Sometimes the answers surprise you. When it comes to Christianity we all have questions. Believers have questions, agnostics have questions and atheists have questions. The questions we are asking might be the difference in what we believe. This weekend we start investigation Christianity with what might be the best question to start with. If you have a friend who has some Jesus questions this will be a great weekend to invite that person to Crosspoint!

Our words are a gateway to better, or to potentially destroy our relationships. We all have great power to build each other up through words, but it seems like we can’t always control what we say. How can we make sure we don’t say something regrettable? What does God say about how we are to use our words? This Sunday, as we continue our series, we will dive into words to study The Word, for the sake of our world.

When you have a temporary injury, crutches provide an opportunity for mobility while your body heals. But if you never lose the crutches, what started out as a means to promote your mobility would end up limiting your mobility for the rest of your life. A temporary injury doesn’t need a lifetime crutch. Relationships are the same way – let's learn to push through the pain and lose the crutches to restore the quality of our relationships.

We live in a world where we have never had global connectivity like we do now, but we’ve never been lonelier than we are now. Technology can’t solve our people problems, but there is something that can and will – LOVE. Where does this problem solving kind of love come from? How can I get it and how can I give it? We are going to answer these questions with our new series, "Relationship Problems".

Moses was unqualified, but he was called. He made excuses, but God provided. This is similar to what we may feel when God calls us to something bigger than ourselves. Join us this Sunday as we tackle how to trust God and not let fear get the best of us. 

This week's “giant” could easily surprise some. It is easy to pick out “one of those sins” and think that person isn’t redeemable, or if they are redeemable, their redemption has limitations. This week is a can’t miss if you think your story is too far gone for God to restore His purpose for your life. It’s a great week to invite someone to sit with you as we look at how God rewrote Rahab’s story.

Have you ever wondered if you can make a difference? In a world with eight billion people it’s easy to think we are too insignificant to make a difference. Noah probably felt the same way, but something happened that changed his mind. Join us as we consider what Noah experienced and how his experience can lead us to experience God on a deeper level.