 CROSSROADS COVENANT MISSIONS
For further information, contact us and we will put you in touch with Linda Knight who provides oversight of our missions. Crossroads continues to support several missions, both foreign, local and regional. Currently we are supporting these missions:
Email received from Nathanael and Darla Gregoriev Dear Prayer Partners, We are grateful for your prayers. Thank you for investing in our Wycliffe ministry. God is good. We are thankful for all he has done and is doing. If you want more ideas on how to pray for us, we resonated with the suggestions at this link: https://hungryformore.org/prayer-for-returning-missionaries Your prayers matter. We recently took our car in for regular maintenance. The mechanic found that a rodent had some fun chewing on stuff under the hood so that was good to get fixed. Another item we wanted to get checked out was the hood. We could raise it a bit when it was latched. The mechanic said the hood certainly could have disconnected and flew into the windshield. We are so grateful for your prayers for our safety!! Thankfully, that is fixed and Lord willing we won’t need to worry about it causing an accident any time soon. Our car sounds great and is ready for the next road trip that starts on Monday. Upcoming Travel Schedule September 25 – Altamont, Kansas October 2 – Buckeye Lake, Ohio October 9 - Bedford, Virginia October 16 – Merritt Island, Florida October 23 – Rockledge, Florida October 2022 – January 2023 – Florida/Arizona/Missouri Please pray for these ongoing needs:
Nathanael, Darla and Eliana UPDATE - OPTIONS HEALTH Celebrate Life Gala Join Options Health for the 2022 Celebrate Life Annual Fundraising Gala Friday, October 7, 2022 at the Bay Church in Concord. Dinner & Program 6:30 pm Throughout the program, you will hear how Options Health has impacted the lives of women, men, and their families in our community. Questions: Call 925-827-0100 Info@optionshealth.org Options Health is looking for volunteers. To learn about opportunities, call their Concord Center at 925-827-0100 or email info@optionshealth.org. Training is provided! ---------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATE - Bridges of Hope We were pleased to have a surprise visit from Karin Sorensen in September. She shared from her heart about the extreme needs both physically and mentally and spiritually in Micronesia. Please continue to pray for the young people at Pacific Island University for spiritual growth, strength and that the outreach to the islands to recruit for students would not be hampered by Covid. Pray for an opening of both hearts and minds in this closed off area of the world. Check out Karyn Sorenson's amazing story about Guam and what God is doing there: wearecrossroads.church ---------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATE - Bay Area Chaplains Chaplain John will be sharing information at Crossroads on Sunday, October 2. Delivered Out Of Darkness - Chaplain’s Celebration Dinner We are pleased to announce that in lieu of our annual benefit dinner we will host a dinner to celebrate God's faithfulness through 20 years of ministry including the legacy of Chaplain Harold Albert. Contact Linda Knight if you would like to join her and others from Crossroads attending this event. When: Friday October 28th, 2022, 6:30 PM Price $30.00 per person Location: Oak Park Christian Center 2073 Oak Park Bl., Pleasant Hill Your heart will be blessed. Hearing the testimonies of former inmates who have been at the very bottom of social ladder, and who through Christ have put their lives back together, will bless you and your church. Lance Marshall, Chaplain lmars@so.cccounty.us CHANGING LIVES and BUILDING HOMES through Spiritual Guidance of the Incarcerated  September 27, 2022 following Alex Hardt’s sermon of September 25.
I was pondering justice this morning after Pastor Alex’s sermon and looked up the definition of justice. It seems justice is equal treatment of all members of society and has to do with our conduct of being just or righteous, having moral principle and then receiving reward or punishment based on our actions. I want to also note that Fairness is getting what we deserve while Biblical Justice is Jesus getting what we deserve, so we could have what Jesus deserves. This is complicated by the fact that due to our fallen nature we cannot be right, just or totally principled, therefore we deserve punishment not reward. Perhaps the Psalmist in Psalm 130 realized this and was pleading with God for His justice and righteousness to reign in his life. He cried out to God in verses 1 and 2 as he begs for mercy and for the Lord to hear his pleas. The psalmist knew that God was accessible and would hear his prayers. He also knew that he was a sinner. Do you know for sure that God hears your prayers? Here are a couple of verses to reassure you: James 4:7-8 “ Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Come near to God and he will come near to you.” You need to humble yourself before God, turn from evil ways and seek God. Psalm 34:17 “The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles.” God promises to listen to the righteous, so that begs the question, how does one become righteous? Here the answer is easy to understand, JESUS. 1 John 5:1 “Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well.” Romans 3:22” This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile,” God promises to hear our prayers if we belong to him through faith in Jesus. For answers, we need to seek to align ourselves with His will and seek what He desires. We are not to seek for God to fulfill our own selfish desires. James addresses our motives in James 4:1-3 and concludes “You do not have because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.” We need to ask in faith seeking God’s will be done. Knowing that you are a believer, filled with His Holy Spirit gives us right standing before God. We still need to seek cleansing and seek to walk in obedience to His ways. The psalmist realizes this as he speaks of forgiveness, desiring to be whole before His God and to be able to wait patiently for His answers. Hard stuff to do but God empowers us through His Spirit to be able to cling to Jesus and lean upon Him. I love the psalmist’s conclusion in verses 7,8. These are our memory verses for this week. “Israel, put your hope in the Lord, for with the Lord is unfailing love and with him is full redemption. 8 He himself will redeem Israel from all their sins. Israel stands for all who believe in Him as their God and Savior. Look at these wonderful promises. By putting our Hope in Jesus we will receive His unfailing love and be fully redeemed! The psalmist knows that apart from God there is no redemption. He has no power to redeem himself for he is lost without God. God’s redemption is cleansing and will remove our sins so that they are remembered by God no more. Two of my favorite verses about God’s forgiveness are: Micah 7:19 “You will again have compassion on us; you will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.” Isaiah 43:25 ““I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more. How great is our God! Have a great week basking in His forgiveness, hope and love. Linda SERMON LINK Hope Unites | Is Jesus Just? Click Here to View the Sermon Sermon series, "Hope Unites." Today Alex Hardt teaches from Psalm 130 If you are local, please join us for our weekly service. Our Sunday service is held at 11:00am. Come visit us at 5353 Concord Blvd, on the corner of Concord Blvd and Kirker Pass. |
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