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For the Summit View Church of Christ community, Cross Section offers a mix of faith-based stories about experiences that have shaped our lives as followers of Jesus, brief and inspiring messages from the Scriptures, dives into topics related to Christian living, and each week’s sermon (in case you missed it).
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Sunday Sermon by Kevin Jensen — Solomon, third king of Israel, began his reign well, worshiping and seeking God, the true King of Israel. In response, God offered to grant whatever Solomon might ask of him. Solomon asked God for exactly what mattered most to God: that God would grant him wisdom to govern God's people well. God did, and the entire nation was blessed. We, too, are blessed when we seek God's will first, above our own selfish priorities. And when we seek the priorities of God's kingdom first, God grants us even more than we ask of him. 1 Kings 3, 4:20-34
Sunday Sermon by Jack Campbell — The gospel is the story of God's work to save human beings, especially through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. But how do you obey a story? This lesson takes us through stories and teachings from Scripture that help us understand how God calls us to respond to his work for our salvation through Jesus. Selected Texts
Sunday Sermon by Kevin Jensen — Revelation and Colossians call Jesus the firstborn from the dead. Other people were raised from the dead before Jesus was, but he is the first to rise from the dead, never to die again! He is the first, but he will not be the last—and that promise gives us great hope that guides our lives as we live in anticipation of the great resurrection of the dead. Text: Revelation 1:4-7, Colossians 1:15-20 & 2:9-12
Sunday Sermon by Kevin Jensen — As he closes his first letter with instructions for the church to help them endure times of suffering, Peter also describes a church family into which we would delight to invite our friends and family. In this family, God's household, elders lead out of a desire to serve God and his people, each person humbles themselves toward one another and toward God, God lifts up his people, his people resist the devil, and God strengthens us all. As we let our light shine for Jesus, it is into this joyful and hopeful community of people and all the promises of God that we invite those whom we serve as witnesses for Jesus. Text: 1 Peter 5
Sunday Sermon by Kevin Jensen — Our suffering for the sake of Christ becomes a warning to the people around us that they and we must all one day give account of our lives to the one who will judge the living and the dead. This is why we preach the gospel, the purpose of evangelism: that we may help one another prepare for the judgment and share the hope of eternal life. For this purpose we live godly lives, unsurprised by the suffering that comes upon us for Christ. Text: 1 Peter 4
Sunday Sermon by Kevin Jensen — We want to share the message of Jesus and be good witnesses for him, but we often feel pressured by unbelievers around us. What should we do? Should we fight back? Give in? Hide away? Peter gives us a better option, but it's difficult: He calls us to stand strong, as Jesus did, and to be prepared to explain the reason for the hope we have in Christ. Text: 1 Peter 3:8-22
Sunday Sermon by Kevin Jensen — It is not by promising to fulfill people's dreams and guaranteeing a prosperous life that we bring people to Jesus most effectively, but by setting ourselves aside to pursue the glory of God above all else, even if that means—as it did for Jesus—suffering for the Lord's sake. For though we are free in Christ, we live as slaves of God. Text: 1 Peter 2:11 to 3:7
Sunday Sermon by Kevin Jensen — We, along with Jesus, are living stones that God is using to build his temple, the people in whom he lives. We are also God's priests in his temple, representing God to people and people to God. In these roles, we must live holy lives, and through our living as priests we may have opportunities to lead unbelievers to bring glory to God. Text: 1 Peter 2:4-12
Sunday Sermon by Kevin Jensen — The joy we have in Christ is one of the great keys to witnessing effectively for Jesus in an often-unbelieving world. Peter calls the early church, suffering through trials that frequently stemmed from their status as a suspect or despised minority in the Roman Empire, to hold onto their joy and to live holy lives as they live as foreigners and exiles in this world. Text: 1 Peter 1:1 to 2:3
Sunday Sermon by Kevin Jensen — The goal of Christian evangelistic ministry, as Paul expresses it, is not to dominate others or to create a Christian-dominant culture. It is to persuade others about Jesus, that he died for us all so that we might no longer live for ourselves, but for him who died for us and was raised from the dead. In order to persuade others—and to be excellent witnesses for Jesus—we need to have the proper motives, mindset, ministry, and message, which Paul describes in this passage. Text: 2 Corinthians 5:11-21
Sunday Sermon by Kevin Jensen — As we live as witnesses for Jesus, our speech and conduct must be always full of prayer and grace. Paul urges the church to pray all the time, including for his ministry, even while he's a prisoner—for we are witnesses for Jesus all the time, in every situation. Then he calls the believers to conduct themselves wisely among outsiders, and to always let their conversation be full of grace, seasoned with salt. Wise conduct and gracious speech, built on the foundation of prayer, lets us present the message of Jesus in ways that nonbelievers can receive, opening them to the love, hope, and mystery of Christ. Text: Colossians 4:2-6
Sunday Sermon by Kevin Jensen — Incarnational ministry is taking on some of the identity of the people we want to reach for God in order to make it as easy as possible for them to receive our message about Jesus. It's modeled after what Jesus did for us when he stepped out of heavenly glory, took on human form, became the Son of God in human form (God incarnate), and lived among human beings in order to bring people to God. In this lesson we talk about how to reach out to others through incarnational ministry like Jesus did, and like Paul did as he ministered among both Jews and Gentiles. Text: 1 Corinthians 9:19-23
Sunday Sermon by Kevin Jensen — When believers in the young church in Corinth argued over which great Christian leader they followed (Paul, Apollos, Peter, Christ), Paul reminded them how he and Apollos had ministered to that church: Paul planted the seed of the gospel there and Apollos watered it—but God made it grow. Paul and Apollos, in their common work for the good of the church, always pointed the church not to themselves but to God. If we will do the same, our humility and devotion to Christ will add to our credibility as witnesses for our Lord. Text: 1 Corinthians 3
Sunday Sermon by Kevin Jensen — In his Great Commission, Jesus commanded his followers to go and make disciples of all nations—yet for a while, they stayed together in Jerusalem and did not go. But when persecution arose there, God used that terrible event to send Christians out into the world, and as a result the gospel message has spread around the world and to us today. We too are called to go—perhaps to go far or perhaps to go near, but always to share the message of Jesus with others. Text: Matthew 28:16-20, Acts 7:59 to 8:40
Sunday Sermon by Kevin Jensen — In this new series on letting our light shine to others, we begin to explore biblical tips and techniques for being excellent witnesses for Jesus, drawing others to faith in him. We start with Jesus' own instruction: let your light shine before others by doing good deeds that they will see and respond to by glorifying our Father in heaven. This is what the early church did, especially during the terrible epidemics that hit the Roman Empire in the 100s and 200s. Text: Matthew 5:13-16
Sunday Sermon by Walt Ranta — Persevering through trials, listening more than speaking, doing what God's Word says, loving your neighbor—James calls us to these actions as he reminds us how to live for God. His instructions give us good guidance for the new year, just as they were good guidance for the very early church. Text: selections from James
Sunday Sermon by Kevin Jensen — Was there anything better in the story of Jesus' birth than the glorious appearances of the angels? As wonderful as they were, yes, there was one thing even more glorious: the birth of the Son of God himself. Jesus is superior even to the angels, and in all the distractions of life we do well to keep our focus on him. Texts: Luke 2:1-20, Hebrews 1, and other selections
Sunday Sermon by Kevin Jensen — To close his great Sermon on the Mount, Jesus reminds us of how good God is to us: God gives good things to us when we ask. Then, as Moses did with the Israelites in much earlier times, Jesus calls his listeners to decide whether we will truly seek God—whether we will walk the narrow road, bear good fruit in our lives, do the will of our Father, and build our lives on the firm foundation of the teachings of Jesus. Texts: Matthew 7:7-29 and selections from Deuteronomy 11
Sunday Sermon by Kevin Jensen — As he continues his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus teaches not to judge—or does he? His teaching on this topic seems contradictory: first he says, "Do not judge," but then he calls us to judge the character of others. This seeming contradiction points us to the complexity of judging wisely and our need to judge ourselves before we humbly judge others. In this teaching, Jesus teaches us how to judge in a godly manner, always extending to others the mercy that we would want God to extend when he judges us. Text: Matthew 7:1-6
Season 4, Episode 48 — December 3, 2023Depending on God — Sunday Sermon, December 3, 2023Sunday Sermon by Kevin Jensen — In his great Sermon on the Mount, Jesus teaches us not to pursue temporary, earthly treasures, but heavenly treasures, which are eternal. He calls us to be generous with our money, and not to let money be our master—but only God, our true Master. We can do these things because we know God, our good Father, always provides what we need. So we do not need to worry about such things; we need only to focus our lives around God's kingdom and his righteousness, and God will provide everything else for us. To do otherwise would be idolatry, putting our trust in something other than God. Text: Matthew 6:19-34
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