Crosswalk Chattanooga Podcast

Our final episode of this series explores the story of Paul's conversion in Acts chapter 9, and considers how truth is shifted and shaped by the presence of Jesus. Whether on the road to Damascus, the road to Emmaus, or on the road we each travel, when Jesus shows up, our story is rewritten.

In today's episode, we explore a story from Acts 15, and how God uses the community of believers to expose truth.

In this episode, Jesus demonstrates that truth is only true when it is characterized by love. The point of truth is not slander, bitterness, or winning at the expense of others. Truth is an implement of love, tenderheartedness, and forgiveness. Join us in the challenge to be imitators of Christ.

In the third episode of this series, Pastor Dave leads us through a healing, what it means to witness, and how God uses our stories to tell the truth.

Jesus invites us to "pay attention to HOW we hear." Today, we consider the limited resource of our attention and the impact of focus on our understanding of truth.

Join us as we embark on a six-week adventure to discuss how we pursue truth in today's culture. Today, we consider the age-old question Pilate asks in John 18, "What is truth?" Lean in as we listen for the response of Jesus.

In the aftermath of Jesus' resurrection, something crazy happens: the church of Christ explodes with growth. How did this happen? Today, we go beyond the message of the Gospel and consider the methodology so pivotal to this story.

The Beautiful Upset series concludes in Mark 15 and 16 with the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. This Easter weekend, with Jesus now risen, we ask, "Who did He come here for?"

Today's episode takes us to the Garden of Gethsemane and Jesus' final moments before the cross. His decision brings us face-to-face with our own. Because He paid the price, our lives are changed forever.

Today's episode follows Jesus into Jerusalem in Mark chapter 11, and the beginning of the week of His crucifixion. Experience the movement of God accelerating the story of salvation in three parts: the donkey, the table, and the tree.

In today's episode, we consider the dissonance demonstrated by James and John's request of Jesus in Mark 10. As it turns out, Jesus will give them seats beside Him in His mission. However, in doing so, He will turn their world upside down and reorder our expectations of what it means to be a follower of Christ.

Today's episode takes us to Mark 9 and the story of Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration. Join us as He pushes us past our initial inclinations, down into the valley, and headlong into the brokenness and pain of the world.

This is episode 1 of our new sermon series exploring the surprising acts and words of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark, titled Beautiful Upset. In Mark 8, Jesus asks His disciples, "Who do you say that I am?" And, while they use the correct language, He reveals that they don't really get it. Join us as Jesus tips our understanding upside down in the Beautiful Upset.

Today, Pastor Dave leads a study of 2 Kings 7, a story of desperate hunger, finding what we need, and the call to share beyond ourselves. As we look in the mirror of God's word, we hear a call to courage and sacrifice, as Crosswalk seeks to Make Room for Jesus to move through our community and gather the hungry to His feast.

Today Pastor Dave concludes our Learning to Lovewell series by exploring our fifth end statement: Crosswalk will be a community that exemplifies servant leadership.

In today's episode, Pastor Dave Ferguson unpacks Crosswalk's 4th end statement: "Crosswalk will be a community that lives beyond herself by caring and advocating for the powerless, oppressed, and abandoned.

Join us for the fourth episode of Learning to Lovewell. Today as Pastor Andreas Beccai, lead pastor of the Redlands campus and member of our Global teaching team, guides us on an exploration of Crosswalk's third end statement.

Crosswalk's second end statement is that, "Crosswalk will be a community where people will learn and grow in an authentic relationship with God." So, today, we explore what it means to have this relationship and how to pursue it.

During this second episode of our "Learning to Lovewell" series, we begin exploring Crosswalk's five end statements. End statement #1 is that Crosswalk will be a community of belonging. Join Pastor Dave in a discussion of God's deep desire to build a community of belonging through His believers.

Today, we begin a six-week series exploring Crosswalk's five end statements. To begin, we center ourselves on the identity given to us from the beginning of Genesis: the image of our God who is love.

Today, we celebrate the growing global community of Crosswalk. Join us as Pastor Dave explores the importance of honoring our unified story across 21 current locations. God has blessed the mission that unites us, and we suspect He has only gotten started.

This yearly family service includes a special story for the children about how big boxes and fancy wrapping can be deceiving. At the heart of God's call to our Crosswalk family is the mission of inviting others into the love of our community. Whether in small or large packages, we enter the new year with a straightforward task of loving others well.

Today concludes our Christmas series as we unwrap a surprising gift in the book of Revelation: Christmas Future. Join us as Pastor Dave suggests Jesus has both the power and the right to save you.

Today, Pastor Andreas Beccai visits from our Redlands campus and leads us through a study of the nativity as we visit Christmas present in our series, A Christmas Carol.

Today, we begin a three-week series called A Christmas Carol. This week we consider Christmas Past by going back to Genesis to find the through-line of all of scripture: the Christ Child's rescue of humanity.

Today, we conclude our second season of the "It's Complicated" series on the life of David. This teaching compares King David with the would-be King Absalom. In the end, only the King of Kings deserves our allegiance and worship.

Today's episode explores the tragic story of Tamar, Amnon, and Absalom. We consider the family system that David cultivated and the role our faith community can play in strengthening hurting families.

Today, we travel through challenging and painful portions of 2 Samuel 11 and 12. Not only has David engaged in an adulterous act, but it was likely not entirely consensual. Maybe it included some of the worst forms of abuse. Amazingly, even here, we find our own lives represented in the text. Jesus meets us in our worst moments, offering healing for the abused, providing forgiveness, and change for the abusers.

Join us for a two-part study of 2 Samuel 11-12 over the next couple of weeks. Today, Pastor Dave explores the shocking story of King David resorting to murder and how close he comes to losing his soul. If you've ever thought, "That could never happen to me," or, "How did I get here?", discover the God who never leaves us, even in our worst moments.

Today we celebrate 7 years as a community. Join us as we focus on the Center of our faith: the love, the faith, the presence of Jesus.

Today, we launch the second season of It's Complicated, a study of the life of King David. Join Pastor Dave as he explores the heart of worship and the confusing death of Uzzah.

We usually use the word trigger negatively. But Jesus uses the things we know, see, and bump into every day to trigger thoughts about His kingdom. So, today, join us as Pastor Dave shares a modern parable: the cup of latte.

During this second season of our Belonging series, we've explored several unique miracles that Jesus used to express His desire that we experience community. Today, we consider His most incredible miracle of belonging: you.

Among all of Jesus' many miracles, there is just one He uses to destroy. Matthew and Mark record this miracle as an actual event that occurred during Jesus' last week before the crucifixion. Luke writes a parable of the cursed fig tree. Join us as Pastor Dave explores what this unique miracle tells us about God's call to belonging.

In today's teaching, Pastor Dave leads a study of John 2, and Jesus' miracle turning water into wine. Join us as we consider how Jesus builds a culture of belonging through the multiplication of joy.

This is Chattanooga's first opportunity to experience the new lead pastor for our Redlands Campus, Pastor Andreas Beccai. He will lead us through the second episode of Belonging Season 2, which explores John's telling of the feeding of the 5000 and what it teaches us about the importance and power of community.

Today, the second season of the Belonging series launches with a study of Matthew 14, where Jesus and Peter walk on the water. Join Pastor Dave Ferguson as we unpack an uncomfortable truth: we don't need the boat; we need Jesus.

Today we spend our campus week with one last lesson from Nehemiah. The walls are built, and the city rests in safety. Finished, right? Sometimes crossing the finish line is only the beginning... There is more.

The conclusion of our series visits Nehemiah 6 and the sneakiest of all attacks on the progress of God's movement. Facilitated by enemies, the workers must battle back distraction, discouragement, and compromise to complete the wall in a miraculous 52 days. Here we find helpful principles for our journey as a faith community.

In this fifth episode, our story of Nehemiah leads us through the challenges that arise from inside the walls of church and belonging. So often, the most damaging attacks come from fellow believers rather than complete outsiders. Meanwhile, we are called to be the Body of Christ... the Lamb slain for those in need of forgiveness.

In this episode of Nehemiah, excellent forward progress is achieved on the wall due to a basic repeatable principle. But our story isn't entirely rosy. As predictable as our own lives, difficulties accompany the progress.

In Nehemiah 2:11-18, our study turns to the author's arrival in Jerusalem. This passage reveals valuable lessons on leading change and adopting the eyes of Jesus as He calls us to build a community of belonging.

The second episode of our series walks through he first half of the second chapter of Nehemiah. Pastor Dave leads us to consider the power of God to use us to accomplish impossible things.

Today, Pastor Dave launches a new series on the first half of the book of Nehemiah. Chapter one throws us into the disheartening problem facing Jerusalem, Nehemiah's concern, and the practices of prayer that sync our hearts with God.

For this Campus Week, our Chattanooga campus studies a prologue to the upcoming series on the book of Nehemiah. Join us as Pastor Dave sets the background with a look at the challenge of setting our priorities to the Kingdom of God through the story of Haggai.

Today, we conclude the Liturgy for Life series by considering the spiritual discipline of rest and Sabbath. Join us as Pastor Dave encourages us to cast aside everything that weighs us down (Hebrews 12:1) and invites us to sink deep into the love of Jesus.

In this episode, Pastor Dave teaches on the personal disciplines of prayer, fasting, silence and solitude. Join us as we consider God's suggestions for breaking our patterns of disconnection in favor of closer communication with Him.

In today's episode, Pastor Dave focuses on the spiritual disciplines of confession and forgiveness. And as we observe this liturgy, we consider the unique practice of lament.

During our second episode in the Liturgy for Life series, Pastor Dave explores the practices of gratitude and giving and considers how these disciplines align us with the heart of God.

Pastor Jon Ciccarelli is the Discipleship Pastor for our Redlands campus and wrote the current series guide, Liturgy for Life. Join us today as Pastor Dave shares a special Father's Day greeting and Pastor Jon launches the series in a study of the spiritual discipline of worship.