Do you Love Jesus?

John 14:15 If ye love me keep my commandments.

Such a simple statement made by our Lord but the implications are huge. Most Christians claim a love for Jesus but do we truly love him? We evidence our lack of love for Jesus when we fail to keep His commandments. When we engage in destructive behavior, smoking, drinking, overeating, drugs use, we are failing to show our love for Him and the precious gift of life that he has given us. When we allow our thoughts or our deeds to descend it to immoral sexual behavior, fornication, homosexuality, adultery, we are failing in our love for Jesus. When we lie, cheat and steal we are telling Jesus that we do not love Him. He sacrificed all for us but most Christians do not want to be inconvenienced by his commandments. Preferring instead to interpret their own form of righteousness. Jesus makes it simple “If ye love me keep my commandments” which conversely means if you don’t keep His commandments you do not love Him. That is your choice but don’t be a hypocrite and claim love that does not exist. Remember your actions speak louder than your words.

Thank you for allowing me to ramble. Pastor Jay.

Two Special Guests This Sunday!

We are very blessed to have two special guests with us this Sunday, August 2nd, during our Morning Worship Service!

Our special Guest Speaker will be Missionary Greg Kent. The Kents have been missionaries to the Dominican Republic for the past 10 years. They are back in the states raising additional support and reporting to their supporting churches. Come hear how this work has progressed by the Grace of God.

Stan Shuman will be our special musical guest on Sunday. Stan is co-founder of Mercy's Way. Stan has been singing Gospel music for a number of years, having sung with many notable quartets and TV personalities. God has also blessed Stan with a talent to write gospel music. He has written over 100 songs for groups such as, Gold City, The Kingsmen, The Anchormen, The Carolina Boys, Mercy's Way and the list goes on.

Join us at 11am as we worship God and get to know our special guests!

New LifeGroup Class - To Seek And To Save

This course of Biblical direction, practical suggestions, and organizational philosophy will help you to be more effective and balanced in fulfilling the entire Great Commission – to win souls, to baptize them, and to disciple them to become fully committed to Jesus Christ. In this study you will find that these Christ-honoring, time-tested principles still work on the cutting edge of Christianity into the 21st century. May God bless you as you follow Christ in reaching out “to seek and to save.”

Learn to share Jesus clearly and simply!

This class will start on Monday June 22nd at 7pm. Materials are limited so if you want to attend contact Pastor Jay ASAP. There is a $5 matierial charge per student.

Real Church...Real People...Real Simple...

Crossroads is a Real Church…

We were not born out of strife or disagreement; we were lovingly founded by Winter Haven Baptist Church. Crossroads is a church that is built on the Word of God – not man. A place where you can learn and grow without all the man made rules and complications.

Crossroads is full of Real People…

At Crossroads you will find people just like yourself, Real. We know what life is like: Sometimes it's great, sometimes it's a drag. Sometimes you're strong and successful, and sometimes you feel like disappearing. What's cool is that God understands. At Crossroads we're not about "having it all together" or acting like we do. We are simply growing together toward a God who really understands us and can put all the pieces of this often bizarre world into perspective. Come visit. There's a place for you.

Crossroads keeps it Real Simple…

Man has a way of making God, well, complicated. While we know that God is infinitely complex, the directions He gave us to live and grow by are Real Simple.

Step 1 - Join us this Sunday for Worship @ 11:00am.

Step 2 – Get involved with one of our Life Groups.

Step 3 – Come and pray with us during one of our POP (Power Of Prayer) Times.

Step 4 – Serve. Let us help you find your place in the family of Christ!

It just doesn't get any simpler than that!

The Sad State of Pastors Today

Last week I was contacted by one of my cousins in So. Florida who was going through a very stressful time in his life and needed someone to pray with. After we prayed and I shared some scripture he expressed that he wanted to get back in church and asked if I could help him find a good church in his area. I contacted three Pastors in the area and explained the situation to them; all three promised to follow-up with my cousin and help him get back into church. Only one actually followed through and contacted him.

At first this bothered me, even made me a little angry. However, as I prayed God called to mind the study we have been doing in the book of Jude on Sunday nights. Jude warned of a coming age of apostasy where many who claim Jesus only know him in their minds and not their hearts. The surest way to know an apostate is through their deeds. The deeds of an apostate rarely match up with their words. One of the lying pastors was quick to brag about his work and the speeches he gives to the men’s group “Iron sharpens Iron”. He travels across the state to stand in front of large groups to hear their applause but will not drive around the corner to help a hurting soul.

The other lying pastor is a man whose church I attended when I lived in So. Florida. He was confused as to why his ministry had not grown in the past 10 years and blamed it on people moving away. People can sense sincerity. To stand in the pulpit tell people to reach out to your neighbors when you will not pick up the phone sends a conflicted message. People want a pastor who does what he says and is willing to lead by example.

The comfort I drew from this is that the book of Jude is the doorstep to the book of Revelation. We are living in the days that Jude described; we are living in the days of apostasy.

Revalation 22:7 Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.

By the way, the pastor that did respond was Pastor Frank with Grace Fellowship Church of West Palm Beach. I know very little about him or his church but I do know he cares about those who are hurting and he does what he says he will do. Apparently, those are rare traits among pastors today.

Pastor Jay McCaig

Obama Needs Jesus

We have started a new Facebook Group called “Obama needs Jesus”. Please join us as we pray for our President. Whether you like him or not you are commanded to pray for those in authority in I Timothy chapter 2. President Obama desperately needs Jesus in his life. We do not claim to be able to judge a man’s heart, but from his actions, Obama has either never accepted Christ as his Savior or has walked away from Jesus. Either way he needs our prayers. Pray is the one tool we have to change a man’s heart. Let’s use it for our President and those who are advising him.

Join Facebook group by clicking HERE.

Obama Cancels Day of Prayer

It was reported today that our President has decided to cancel the annual White House celebration of the day of prayer. The reason given is that Obama does not like to pray publicly. We can only speculate why he feels uncomfortable praying in public. Perhaps it is because he cannot read the teleprompter with his eyes closed or because the rose garden does not face Mecca, we don’t know. What we do know is that with his continued attacks on the sanctity of life and other Christian values, our president continues to show that he is one of the most ungodly men ever to lead our country.

I find it very telling that President Obama refuses to pray to God but has no qualms bowing to the King of Saudi in public (Picture) and has not canceled the annual White House dinner to celebrate Ramadan.

I Timothy 2:1-3 tells us that we should pray for those who have authority over us. Our President and Congress need our prayers as they rush headlong into the same path that has resulted in destruction so many times before. Earnestly pray for these men and women that They will turn their hearts to Jesus before it is to late.