CrossPointe Church

CrossPointe Church - Orlando
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Real conversations about following Jesus in everyday life. Each week, Lead Pastor Steve McKenzie explores what it means to live out the gospel in your relationships, work, struggles, and questions. Whether you're new to faith, wrestling with doubt, or just trying to figure out what it looks like to actually follow Jesus on a random Tuesday, this is for you. We're CrossPointe Church in Orlando, but these messages are for anyone, anywhere.

  1. 6d ago

    The Questions Already Answered (Romans 8:31-39)

    What Can Separate Us From the Love of God? — Romans 8:31–39 You already know the answer. Nothing. But knowing it and feeling it are two very different things. This week, Stephen Bean closes out Romans 1–8 with Paul's thundering conclusion — a string of rhetorical questions that aren't really questions at all. What can be brought against you? Nothing. Who can condemn you? No one. What can separate you from the love of Christ? Not suffering, not doubt, not your worst failure, not your longest drought. Stephen unpacks why we so often struggle to believe what we say we believe — and why the security of God's love doesn't rest on how well we're doing. A fitting summit after months in the deep terrain of Romans.

    38 min

  2. May 24

    Help for Hurting Christians (Romans 8:18-30)

    You know the verses. You believe them. But Monday afternoon still feels heavy, and the gap between what you know and what you experience can be isolating. In this message from Romans 8:18-30, Steve McKenzie walks through one of the most hope-filled passages in all of Scripture, not as a quick fix for pain, but as an anchor for people who are tired of pretending everything is fine. If you've ever wondered whether your struggles mean your faith is failing, this is for you.

    44 min

  3. May 17

    The War is Over (Romans 8:1-17)

    What do you do when you're a Christian who's done everything right and still feels like it isn't enough? Steve McKenzie opens Romans 8 with a declaration meant for the weary believer: the war with God is over. Through the story of a soldier who hid in the jungle for 30 years after his war had ended, we see what it looks like to finally lay down a fight Jesus already finished — and to live as sons and daughters, not soldiers and slaves. Listen, share with someone who needs the reminder, and join us this Sunday at CrossPointe Church | Orlando — xpointe.com.

    43 min

  4. May 10

    Unbound (Roman 7:1-25)

    You know the feeling: you promised yourself you'd do better, be more patient, more present, more faithful. And then you didn't. Romans 7 is Paul at his most raw, naming the civil war every honest person recognizes inside themselves. In this sermon, Steve McKenzie walks through why the struggle isn't a sign that something is wrong with you. It's actually evidence that something has gone right. If you've ever felt exhausted by trying harder, this one is for you.

    41 min

  5. May 3

    Freedom in a New Master (Romans 6:15-23)

    You finally land the job you've been chasing. You finally pay off the debt. You finally move out of your parents' house. And somewhere in the middle of celebrating, it hits you. The new job came with a new boss. The new place came with a stack of bills. The freedom you wanted came wearing a different uniform. So what if real freedom was never about getting rid of every master in your life? What if the question we're actually asking is which master is worth giving yourself to? In this message from Romans 6:15-23, Associate Pastor Stephen Bean walks through Paul's most uncomfortable question yet. We're all slaves to something. The wages of one master are death. The gift of the other is life. And the difference between the two might be sitting closer to the surface of your week than you think.

    42 min

  6. Apr 26

    Living Under Grace (Romans 6:1-14)

    Do you feel defeated by sin? Not in some abstract theological sense, but the Tuesday afternoon kind, where you feel like you've broken the same promise for the thousandth time? Or maybe you've swung the other direction, quietly convinced that grace is a blank check and the fire for holiness has just gone cold. In this message from Romans 6:1–14, Pastor Steve McKenzie shows that both postures are living like a prisoner in a cell where the door has already been ripped off the hinges. The Christian life is not about white-knuckling your way to better behavior. It is about reckoning what is already true: you have been moved, fused with Christ in his death and resurrection, and sin no longer has authority over you. Listen and let the first command in the book of Romans do its quiet, revolutionary work.

    46 min

  7. Apr 19

    Grace Wins (and it's not even close) (Romans 5:12-21)

    Hope is a strange thing to lose quietly. You don't decide to stop believing it — it just goes cold. A diagnosis comes. A relationship falls apart. A child walks away. And the world tells you to stay positive, find your peace, keep your chin up. You try that. The peace doesn't come. And somewhere you don't show many people, you start to wonder if hope was ever real — or just something Christians say to paint a clown's smile on a frowning soul.                          Paul had something to say about that. In Romans 5, he starts a sentence about what sin has done to the human race and can't even finish it. Not because the weight of it broke him — because the grace of God is so much bigger than he could fit into grammar. He invented a word to try.                                                                     That's where we're going in this episode.

    41 min

  8. Apr 12

    A Song of Soul-Satisfying Worship (Romans 5:1-11)

    Easter was powerful. The worship, the baptisms, the celebration of a risen Savior. But then Monday came. The alarm went off and nothing had changed. The diagnosis was still there. The marriage was still hard. The grief didn't lift just because we sang about an empty tomb. So what difference does the resurrection actually make when life is still heavy? In Romans 5, Paul answers that question, and his answer isn't just a comforting thought. It's a song. A song that Christ followers can sing through the highs and the lows, from future glory all the way down into the deepest suffering. Join us as we walk through Romans 5:1-11 and discover why your pain in the hands of a loving God is producing something that will never disappoint.

    39 min
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Real conversations about following Jesus in everyday life. Each week, Lead Pastor Steve McKenzie explores what it means to live out the gospel in your relationships, work, struggles, and questions. Whether you're new to faith, wrestling with doubt, or just trying to figure out what it looks like to actually follow Jesus on a random Tuesday, this is for you. We're CrossPointe Church in Orlando, but these messages are for anyone, anywhere.

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  • Creator
    CrossPointe Church - Orlando
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    305
  • Rating
    Clean
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    CrossPointe Church