NEWEST MEMBERS OF CROSS OF CHRIST FELLOWSHIP Our Naperville church plant, Cross of Christ Fellowship, is growing! The newest members are Kevin and Kara: Kevin is from St. Petersburg, FL. Graduated from Wheaton College and is currently working on finishing a Masters there in the History of Christianity as well as an M.Div at the […]
Author: Tom Schmidt
Christian, husband of Rach, Church Planter,musician,
Eternal Life (Double Confidence): God’s Calling and Our Profession of Faith (1 Timothy 6:12) Last time we considered what it meant to ‘take hold of eternal life’ in 1 Tim 6:12 and concluded that this involved both faith and faith expressed in action. Now I’d like us to consider something else in this verse: Paul […]
Taking Hold of Eternal Life (1 Timothy 6:12) “Take hold of the eternal life, to which you were called and to which you made the good confession before many witnesses” (1 Tim 6:12) Amidst a series of instructions, exhortations and rich theology, the Apostle Paul commands Timothy, his son in the faith, to ‘take hold […]
3 Reflections From Ecclesiastes In my personal devotions, I try to read through the Bible about once a year. Recently, I had the pleasure of working my way through Ecclesiastes. Many call this book one of the most difficult in the Bible–this is because of its many bleak and ‘seemingly contradictory’ statements about life. Traditionally, […]
Learning How to Preach From Augustine: 3 Styles of Preaching In a previous post, I shared Augustine’s 3 aims of preaching. Here’s we’ll look at the 3 styles of preaching. In De doctrina Christiana 4, Augustine lists the three styles appropriate for a sermon’s delivery: restrained, mixed, and grand.[1] Each style has a particular function, […]
Cross of Christ Fellowship WEBSITE Our Naperville church plant, Cross of Christ Fellowship, now has a website! Here it is: www.crossofchristfellowship.org
10 Questions to Help You Apply the Gospel Here’s 10 questions I came up with and used in our church plant core team to help us consider and apply the gospel to our lives and community. (If your familiar of Tim Keller, you can see his influence!) By God’s grace it was a great discussion! […]
Is Submitting to Authority Inherently Wrong? (Guest Post by Tsouloufis) Someone recently asked me: “Do you think that hierarchy, which was the dominant form of society until more recently, is inherently wrong?” This is a fair question in 21st century America, which continues to drift further into libertarianism and secularism. However, not only is the […]
Newest Members of Cross of Christ Fellowship: Gregor Family I’d like to introduce you to the newest addition to the Cross of Christ Fellowship family: John and Aynsley Gregor! This is a wonderful couple and we are so thankful and blessed to have them on our core team as we seek to plant Cross of […]
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Love Kills My Insecurity
Love Kills My Insecurity Unsure of myself. Wondering if I can connect with others. Insecure and uneasy in my own skin. These are often the emotions and descriptions of my heart. Depending on the situation, these descriptors may be strong or weak. If I’m around friends whom I know love and accept me, the temptation […]
