The Cross

Pastor Rocky High · Jun 29, 2026

On the cross, Jesus cried out 'It is finished' — a single Greek word, tetelestai, that in His day meant a debt fully paid, a sentence fully served, and a victory fully won. Because Jesus completed everything necessary for our right standing before God, our relationship with Him rests entirely on what Christ has done, not on our own performance, goodness, or religious effort. This stunning reality is the foundation and fuel of all genuine worship and praise.

Pastor Bill Bush · Mar 29, 2026

Good Friday — the day Jesus was tortured, bore the full weight of human sin, and died on the cross — is called 'good' because in that darkness God accomplished the deepest possible good: He absorbed His own judgment so we would not have to, and He tore the curtain separating us from His presence. Pastor Bill argues that this same logic applies to every dark day in our lives: when we remember the cross, cry out honestly like Jesus did, and walk through the torn curtain into relationship with God rather than staying in the rubble of our circumstances, the darkest days can do the deepest good in us.

Pastor Ron Merrell · Aug 17, 2025

The question 'Why would a loving God send people to hell?' misframes the issue. God is unmistakably loving — the cross is history's greatest proof — and He is also perfectly just. Hell is not God's aggressive act against reluctant victims; it is the full, eternal consequence of a person's own sustained choice to distance themselves from Him. Because love never coerces, God honors human freedom, even when that freedom leads to permanent separation from the source of all goodness. Meanwhile, He remains patiently patient, having already made a way in through Jesus Christ.

Pastor Daniel Goulding · Mar 18, 2024

Drawing on the bronze serpent in Numbers 21 and Jesus' explanation of it in John 3, Pastor Daniel argues that God's redemptive plan has never been required to fit neatly inside human logic. Just as the Israelites were healed by simply looking at a bronze snake on a pole — an act that made no rational sense — so every person today is invited to be born again by looking to Jesus in faith. Intellectual assent alone is insufficient; true belief is an active, weight-bearing trust that surrenders the whole life to Christ.

Pastor Daniel Goulding · Mar 28, 2021

Using the life of Abraham in Genesis 15, Pastor Daniel Goulding argues that the church today is dangerously distracted — looking down at circumstances, politics, and disappointments instead of up at God's eternal promises. Just as God drew a fearful, doubting Abraham outside his tent and told him to look up at the stars, God calls us to break free from a settling, going-through-the-motions faith and to trust His multiplication-minded, generational purposes. The cross — the ultimate blood-oath covenant fulfilled by Jesus alone — is our eternal proof that God is faithful, and it gives us every reason to lift our eyes again.

Pastor Bill Bush · Mar 4, 2021

Pastor Bill Bush argues that most Christians misunderstand worship as a tool for recruiting God to their agenda, when in reality worship is a battle weapon forged in surrender. Drawing from Joshua's encounter with the Commander of the Lord's army and the battle of Jericho, he shows that God never joins our side — He is a side, and we must join His. True worship means surrendering first, walking faithfully rather than fixating on winning, and anchoring everything in the cross, the only way from our side of death to God's side of life.