Our prayer for you in this New Year. . .

Dear Friends, Our prayer for you in this New Year... To live in the unforced rhythms of grace to know God in prayer as the One who knows and loves you deeply to experience the One who can set the course for a year filled with Divine purpose to enjoy God and the people God has given to love you to show compassion on those God has given you to care for... In returning no one evil for evil in forgiving as you have been forgiven in sharing what is freely given in giving away what you cannot keep... Holding all things loosely believing all things boldly kneeling at all times reverently enduring all circumstances bravely standing in faith on all days courageously... and when you fail... rise again! You will receive healing grace, divine ideas, innovative strategies, wisdom for decisions, promotion and position into God's will and ways ... the keys to His Kingdom (Matt 16:19) in this New Year. In Jesus precious and holy name. Amen With Deep Love and Anticipation, Join us this January for: There's an App for that... ...if you are in a ditch and need help to get out, there' an app for that... if you are happy and want to thank somebody, there's an app for that... if you wonder what to do and don't know which way to turn, there's an app for that, too. In fact, there's an app for everything but only on the iamPhone. Join us over the next six weeks and learn what apps are available to connect with God and how to use them. © 2010 Scott & Clare Loughrige

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas and a Happy and Holy New Year! Dear Tami, "Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift". (2nd Corinthians 9:15) May God's unspeakable gift of Jesus Himself fill your homes at Christmas and in the New Year. We thank God for your friendship and partnership in the Good News of the Gospel. O Come let us Adore Him, Scott & Clare Join Our Mailing List!

You are in the Story

Invite a Friend Forward to a Friend Crossroads Calendar Midweek Experience Online Registrations Online Giving View Messages You are in the Story But the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary. God is very pleased with you... The Holy Spirit will come to you. The power of the Most High God will cover you. So the holy one that is born will be called the Son of God." ..."I serve the Lord," Mary answered. "May it happen to me just as you said it would." Then the angel left her. (Luke 1:31 NIRV) Our morning prayer in this season has a whole different flavor for us... and we don't mean eggnog (although Scott LOVES Detroit's own Calder's Eggnog)! Every Scripture is inviting us into the story of God becoming man.We are captivated, challenged and envisioned! We have been studying the story of Christmas for about 3 decades now (yes, we're officially old pastors) and we can't get over it! In the past 3 weeks we've been hanging over scriptures about prophets that foretold the event hundreds of years before Christ, we've been humbled in the "His-story" of God using places like Bethlehem and people like shepherds (click here to view those messages)... but this week we are BLOWN AWAY by the majesty of the angels in the story! What's got us flying is not just the story itself but the fact that we are being invited to be in the story. That's right, God never intended for us to read the spectacular work He accomplished, as an outsider. He wants us and you in the story. The words and acts of God have been recorded to bring the miraculous into our lives not just our ears.These stories are not for our information they are for our formation... our transformation. So this week we'll be teaching about angels visiting people. Real people like Mary, you, and us. We'll be uncorking stories from scripture and stories of people you may know! When we understand that God wants us in the story, we'll start to experience the life we were meant to live. So, if you're reading this and something is stirring in you... IT'S NOT TOO LATE! Let the miracle of Christmas visit you this year.Join us LIVE... invite your family and friends (click here to send an evite). You don't want to miss this! If you absolutely can't be with us, watch the messages online and let the Christmas Story come alive in you! Maybe we'll even have the courage to say "May it happen to me just as you said it would." Thanking God we are in the Story,

Joy Happens!

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Joy Happens!

Joy to the world, the Lord is come! Let earth receive her King. Let every heart prepare Him room...

Luke 2:8-18 And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night... And the angel said to them, "Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of a great joy that will be for all the people... The shepherds said to one another, "Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us."...And all who heard it wondered at what the shepherds told them. How does "joy happen"? This week in Advent we celebrate the Shepherds Candle on our Advent Wreath. The theme of the Shepherds Candle's is joy! Joy to the world, people! Think about it... these shepherds were minding their own business just doing what they did for a living and all of a sudden they look up and joy happened! Next, they followed the leading and the message they were given and joy shows up again. Then, they gave the message of the joy they encountered and the joy spread and people were in wonder!!! The shepherds were first to receive the joy message and the world has never been the same. So how does "joy happen"? Want to start a joy movement? · Do what God made you to do and "joy happens": What has God made you to do? Are you doing it? God shows up in our lives even when we think we are only doing the ordinary or what comes naturally. In those ordinary, natural places... prepare room for God! · Go where God shows you to go and joy increases: Where has God prompted you to go? Have you gone yet? Have you prepared room in your schedule for entering the place of joy? · Share the joy with other people and watch how joy spreads: Have you prepared room in your schedule to tell someone about Jesus? Joy happens when we prepare room for Him to a) move in our lives, b) move our lives and c) move others with our life message! Check your calendar... have you prepared room? Let "joy happen" in you today! Joy!

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How small are you?

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Bethlehem Ephrathah, you are one of the smallest towns in the nation of Judah. But the Lord will choose one of your people to rule the nation... Micah 5:2 NLT

Why did God choose one of the smallest towns in the nation of Judah for the birth of a Savior? Could it be to make the small significant? How small does your life feel? Do you know why God has chosen you? Your place in God's grand scheme has meaning. We become powerful when we accept our place in this world as small but significant. We begin to diminish our fears, insecurities and disappointments when we feel the difference we make in this world. Yesterday, we saw so many small things happening... copies being made, office supplies being ordered, coordinating of room usage... all kinds of small, seemingly meaningless and insignificant things. Then it all happened...in a matter of a few hours: someone called the church and Julie Sunderman, working reception, was shedding tears on the phone, leading someone to faith in Christ; Brian Robbins was playing basketball with a group of young people; we heard the sound of kids in Awana being taught by a band of faithful, God-filled teachers; joyful kids thrilled about being in church, totally pumped about their Bible memory verse; we saw Scott Whitesell and Stacey Livingston videotaping people who were willing to tell their story of how God has used Crossroads' Midweek classes to change their lives. It was like Hebrews 11, where time would get away from us if we named every teacher of both children and adults... not to mention the amazing adults who are themselves students of God's Word and God's ways, hungry to learn about their Savior and their place in His plan. Yesterday seemed small. It was... but it was significant. It was full of small things that mattered to God. The small things, the small places, the small people matter.... our lives matter. Bethlehem became a place from which The Ruler came... can God get into your small stuff and change the world? "We can do no great things, only small things with great love."--Mother Teresa "He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much...." (Luke 16:10) Living Small,

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Whining or Dining this Thanksgiving?

Whining or Dining this Thanksgiving?

Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. 1 Thess 5:16-18.

Trying to decide whether you'll be whining or dining this Thanksgiving? Paul wrote the above scripture before he was jailed for his faith. Did his attitude change when he encountered "all circumstances" in life... like jail? The letters commonly known as Paul's Prison Epistles; (Ephesians, Colossians, Philippians, and Philemon) were all written while the author was in chains, in unspeakable conditions for his faith. Let"s hear from him...

"Always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ."(Eph 5:19-20) Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. 13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves." (Col 1:11-13) "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." (Phil 4:6-7) "Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful." (Col 3:15) "I always thank my God as I remember you in my prayers," (Philem 4) "And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him." (Col 3:16-17) "I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers." (Eph 1:16-17)

And these are just a few of his "give thanks" directions from prison. However this doesn't mean Paul was in denial about his needs. He wrote: "I, Paul, write this greeting in my own hand. Remember my chains. Grace be with you." (Col 4:18) and "May the Lord show mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains." (2 Tim 1:16-17) Paul is telling us that thanks and trouble dine at the table together. Chains and cheers can eat together, love together, refresh each other. Paul is teaching us to be thankful, to ask for help and to remember those who need us. Who needs you to be Onesiphorus and remember them and refresh them this Thanksgiving? Who needs you to remember their chains?

Giving Thanks and Remembering,

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In Conclusion

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In Conclusion You're blessed when your commitment to God provokes persecution. The persecution drives you even deeper into God's kingdom." Not only that-count yourselves blessed every time people put you down or throw you out or speak lies about you to discredit me. What it means is that the truth is too close for comfort and they are uncomfortable. You can be glad when that happens-give a cheer, even!-for though they don't like it, I do! And all heaven applauds. And know that you are in good company. My prophets and witnesses have always gotten into this kind of trouble. "Matthew 5:10-12 Message Well there you have it - the final blessing in our series on the Beatitudes. Jesus ends the whole list letting us know that as we take on the life of the beatitudes the final result is ... some people will hate you and heaven will applaud you! You will begin to care more about people's souls than people's opinions. You will begin to live like you are committed to the one who is committed to you ...and you know what they did to Jesus. You are in good company. The purpose of all children of God, whether prophets or witnesses, is to point to the promise of eternal life with God; to show the way of salvation. People's eternal destination will change because of it. Some people will thank you for saving their lives, others will put you down, throw you out and speak lies about you. No worries... remember you are living for an audience of One! The stakes are high. We believe God has given us the ministry of teaching people who are dying how to live life fully... and by the way, we are all dying. We don't know the day or the hour for anyone but we do know the end result. So live a sermon of God's love today. Share the truth of Jesus Christ through your deeds and your words. Find someone who needs the hope within you. Live the blessings of the poor in spirit, those who mourn, the meek, those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, the merciful, the pure in heart and the peacemakers. And if you are persecuted because of it, you're in good company. Don't count on having tomorrow to live the beatitudes... the blessings. You don't know who has tomorrow. Today is the day. Love God ~ love people, share the way of salvation. Leave the results up to God. I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes... Rom 1:16

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Blessed are the Peacemakers

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Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. Sometimes peace making seems impossible. Nations, ethnicities, families, and friends are at odds with each other... so many people are at war with themselves in their own souls. So, how do we make peace with ourselves and others in the battle zone of life? Do we deal with conflict through "an eye for an eye," settle accounts, take medication to bring peace? We may be peace lovers or peace keepers but we must learn to be peace makers... and peace makers - make war. The Apostle Paul gives us a clue in 2 Cor 10:3-5. "The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ." Paul is saying that the way to win a war is in our thoughts. Making thoughts obedient to Christ, declaring war on darkness through light... destroying evil with God's goodness. Don't resist war like a "peace lover" or a "peace keeper" who merely doesn't "rock the boat". They believe through passivity they win a war. That wasn't Jesus' style at all. So what does peace making look like? The way Jesus dealt with conflict was to take it on... even take it in to himself. The chastisement of our peace was upon Him. Scripture teaches us to bear one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ. The way we can bring peace is to make it; make it through being an instrument of peace. If someone is harassing you, take in their pain, put yourself in their shoes, pray for them, bear it for them and give them peace in return. Be an instrument for God's peace. Breathe in someone's pain - breathe out relief to them. Absorb someone's anger - offer consolation. Listen to someone's rantings - extend an olive branch. Hold reverently someone's despair and impart the hope of Christ. As you bring peace to others (like Jesus did), you'll experience His peace in your own soul. You are His instrument! We pray this prayer with you, Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood, as to understand; to be loved, as to love; for it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life. Amen. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. John 14:26-27

Create in Me a Pure Heart

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Create in Me a Pure Heart "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God" Matthew 5:8 (NIV) "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world" --CS Lewis How are you hearing God these days? How is your heart toward God? A few short weeks ago our beloved nephew, Isaac, heard God calling him through a song his Uncle Scott was singing in church: "Create in me a clean heart". Isaac asked his mom to print the scripture the song was based on for him to place on the dashboard of his car. When just a few weeks later Isaac passed from earth to heaven, that scripture was still on his dashboard... now it is speaking to all of us about Isaac's heart. It is a pure heart. A heart that said, "God help me, forgive me, cleanse me." Because of Isaac's dashboard scripture, hundreds prayed at his funeral, and many more who can't be numbered are praying, "God create in us a pure heart, a clean heart." An imperfect young man now teaches us all about our imperfections. Now a young man who was in need... is revealing our deep need. He is speaking to each of us from heaven saying, "Ask for God's help, his cleansing, his forgiveness... you need it!" We share a picture of our precious nephew whose heart remains in our heart. His family is working on establishing a foundation in his name. Isaac's life was dedicated to helping others and includes many stories that reflect his beautiful heart. Whether he was suiting up a disadvantaged Battle Creek Football player in Under Armor, setting up a hotline for the girls to be escorted to their dorms at CMU after the rape of female student, taking the shoes off his feet for a homeless man, intercity mission work, or purchasing birthday gifts for under privileged kids, Isaac continually showed his heart to his beloved family and anyone who needed him. They will honor his life by continuing his vision through a foundation (more details to come later). How about you? Are you hearing God today? How's your heart? Praying this prayer with you, Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. Psalm 51:10-12(NIV)

Under the Influence

Forward to a Friend Get Connected Midweek Experience From Nursery through Adult, CCM has something for everyone in your family on Wednesday nights. Personality Power Rescheduled! 1 Day Workshop December 5th 9:45am- 4:30 pm 6 Week Course Wednesdays November 11- December 16 6:30-8:00 Spend time identifying the God- given power of your personality, learn to diffuse the sources that drain your power and most importantly... discover God's plan in all of it! Improve Your Artistic Craft Day October 24th 9 am - 12:30 pm Stacey Livingston has prepared this hands on workshop for musicians, lighting and sound designers, projection technicians, service coordinators, singers, artists, actors and dancers to discover and to improve their natural giftings. Online Registrations View Messages Under the Influence If you speak words that are worthy, you will be my spokesman. You are to influence them... from Jeremiah 15:19-20 NLT Are you under the influence? What influence is it? Who is influencing you? Are the words they speak and the deeds they do bringing the best out of you? Think about what words or actions have influenced you for the good of your life... What words or actions have you given to influence others for their good? In the famous Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said that "you are the light of the world and the salt of the earth." He was influencing us to become light-filled, tasty, life preserving influencers! Light entering a room influences the darkness so much it dispels it. Salt added to a steak preserves the goodness of that steak and brings out the best flavor. This commission to influence darkness and bring the best out in people is a high call! How can we stay under God's influence and influence others for their best life? Be aware of God's presence... Be aware of the presence of the one who needs your influence... Be aware of God's presence... Yes, we said be aware of God's presence twice. It's amazing how beginning and ending with that awareness will influence you and subsequently influence others. Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means. --Albert Einstein Let him that would move the world, first move himself. --Socrates Join us this weekend with international influencer, Dr. David Loveless (davidloveless.org), as we continue our series Just Be It! Under the Influence,

Words from God about your diet...

Forward to a Friend Get Connected Midweek Experience From Nursery through Adult, CCM has something for everyone in your family on Wednesday nights. Personality Power: Journey to the Center of Your Worth. November 14th 9:30-5:00 Spend the day identifying the God- given power of your personality, learn to diffuse the sources that drain your power and most importantly.. discover God's plan in all of it! Improve Your Artistic Craft Day October 24th 9 am - 12:30 pm. Stacey Livingston has prepared this hands on workshop for musicians, lighting and sound designers, projection technicians, service coordinators, singers, artists, actors and dancers to discover and to improve their natural giftings. Online Registrations View Messages Words from God about your diet... "You're blessed when you've worked up a good appetite for God. He's food and drink in the best meal you'll ever eat." Matthew 5:6 (Msg) Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are they who keep His testimonies, and who seek, inquire for and of Him, and crave Him with the whole heart. Psalm 119:2 Do you have to be talked into hunger or is it just a natural response to need? Where is your hunger and thirst taking you these days? Where are you going to eat to fill your soul? The following words found in a church bulletin describe hunger or the lack thereof: "To encourage everyone to attend worship services this year, every Sunday will be "No Excuse Sunday" and the following will be provided: Cots for those who say, "Sunday is my only day to sleep." Visine for those with tired eyes from watching TV (or other things) too late on Saturday night. Steel helmets for those who say, "The roof would cave in if I ever came to church." Blankets for those who think the church is too cold. Fans for those who say it is too hot. Rubber rooms for your children if they don't want to go to Sunday School. Cotton balls for those who say, "The music is too loud." Score cards will be available for those who wish to list all the hypocrites present. There will be meals provided for those who can't go to church and cook dinner also..... You get it... how are your hunger and thirst for God? What does your soul crave these days? Are the places you're going nourishing? Are the things you're craving satisfying you or destroying the health of your soul? Are you filled? How's your diet? Do you need Jenny Craig to coach you? More words from God about your diet... "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled." Matthew 5:6 (TNIV) "As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?" (Psalm 42:1-2) "How lovely is your dwelling place,O LORD Almighty! My soul yearns, even faints,for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere. Psalm 84:1-2,10 (NIV) Hungering and thirsting for God... Ways to be filled: Begin your week with God-hunger this week. Join us Sunday for just be it: Blessed are Those Who Hunger

Got Power? Get meek!

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Matt 5:5 (NIV)

So the meek shall inherit the earth? Jesus keeps making these almost incomprehensible statements. Let's break it down a little bit...

Meek does not mean a weak, pushover, do-nothing doormat life. Jesus said He was meek and clearly He is the greatest revolutionary of all time! The movement He began over 2,000 years ago is still spanning the globe and changing the lives of innumerable people... So, how is that meek?

The word meek means "strength under control". Jesus lived this life and continues to be the role model for meekness. The power that Jesus has is immeasurable and He only uses it for good. In a world that rejects, mocks and even hates Him, He loves, heals and keeps offering new life to anyone who opens their heart to Him.

The famous philosopher and atheist Friedrich Nietzsche said this: "Assert yourself. Care for nothing except for yourself. The only vice is weakness, and the only virtue is strength. Be strong, be a superman. The world is yours if you can get it."

This is the kind of power that is self-serving, self-aggrandizing and weakens others. We all have power. Do you know what yours is? How do you use your power? Is your strength under control? Do you use it for love, healing and empowering your life and the life of others?

Get your strength/power under the control of God and see the promise of God follow.

"The meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. Rather he may be in his moral life as bold as a lion and as strong as Samson; but he has stopped being fooled about himself. He has accepted God's estimate of his own life. He knows he is as weak and helpless as God declared him to be, but paradoxically, he knows at the same time that he is in the sight of God of more importance than angels. In himself, nothing; in God, everything. That is his motto." A.W. Tozer

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just be it: attitudes that influence... the meek shall inherit the earth

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Blessed Mourning?

Blessed Mourners?

Have you ever lost something really important to you... a person... a dream... your integrity... sight... motivation... hope... years... how about your faith? Have you taken the time to grieve that loss?

Jesus has this to say about that "Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted." Blessed mourning? Isn't that an oxymoron? A paradox? A bunch of bull-ogne?? The word blessed here means "possessing an inward contentedness and joy that is not affected by physical circumstances." When mourning a loss takes place in the awareness of God's presence, that blessing will come because honesty is there. When we stop trying to sugarcoat it, wax it over or give it a shiny veneer and give God the cold, hard, painful truth-- comfort will come-- again and again!

Take the time to tell God how you feel about the circumstance, yourself, others and Him! Tell Him how you are handling the truth you are facing, the fears associated with that truth. Take the time to pour out your heart like water and tell Him what has happened in the past, present and future because of your loss ... and then let Him comfort you like nobody else can.

We have lost many things in this life, including the most important commodity- people. The comfort of God has come each and every time. We have been brutally honest with God and He has been brutally honest with us. The blessing of mourning has awakened us to the presence and comfort of the God who blesses us and calls us blessed.

You have turned my mourning into dancing for me; You have put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness. Psalm 30:11

Blessed Mourners,




Where and how to begin the process of mourning and being comforted...
Get alone or get with a trusted spiritual friend or counselor
Bring your Bible, journal, pen and kleenex (for liquid communication :)
Tell the truth and awaken to God's presence
Scriptures for meditation before during and after prayer...

Psalm 94:17-19, 22 Psalm 25:15-17 Psalm 23:4 Psalm 31:7 Psalm 30:11 Psalm 31:24 Psalm 34:18 Psalm 119:50 Matthew 5:4

A book that has truly helped us: A Grace Disguised by Jerry Sittser.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of sympathy (pity and mercy) and the God [Who is the Source] of every comfort (consolation and encouragement), Who comforts (consoles and encourages) us in every trouble (calamity and affliction), so that we may also be able to comfort (console and encourage) those who are in any kind of trouble or distress, with the comfort (consolation and encouragement) with which we ourselves are comforted (consoled and encouraged) by God. 2 Corinthians 1:3-4

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