Audio Messages & Sermon Series - Crosswinds, Plainfield, IL

We all feel we have busy lives. In today's message we will learn from a man was busy gaining all the pleasures, knowledge and things of life and in all his busyness he found life very empty without the one thing that really matters.

God is better than anything else in all the world but we are often distracted from knowing Him by our addiction to stuff in this life. In Christ there are true treasure God wants to give us but we need to trust Him more than our stuff.

Are you serving Jesus with your life? We were saved to serve him. The Christian life is about being a servant. But we get distracted by ourselves. In today's message learn from Jesus the heart of servant.

It really matters what you love! In today's message, we learn about the dangers of loving the world and the freedom and joy found in loving God.

Is artificial intelligence evil? That is the question Pastor Ken took on Sunday — and his answer was not a tech lecture. It was a walk through Matthew 15, where religious leaders confronted Jesus over something that looked scandalous on the surface: his disciples eating bread with unwashed hands. Jesus flipped the argument upside down. It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth (Matthew 15:11). Mark 7:20-23 says it even more bluntly — evil comes from within, out of the heart.

The scripture is Philippians 4:14-23 — Paul's closing words to a church that had supported him while he sat in prison. On the surface, it sounds like a polite "thanks for the cash." But Paul does something remarkable with it. He borrows the language of a business ledger ("credited to your account," "paid in full," "well supplied") and turns it into a picture of friendship. These believers weren't patrons buying influence, and Paul wasn't a client on the payroll. They were partners in the gospel.

In Philippians 4:1–3, Paul urges believers to stand firm in the Lord and calls Euodia and Syntyche to agree in Him, teaching us that Christian unity is more important than winning every argument. Unity does not mean agreeing on everything, but choosing love, humility, forgiveness and the mission of the gospel over personal opinions and the need to be right.

Paul in Philippians 3:12-21 reminds us that we have not yet “arrived,” but are called to press on toward Christ, refusing to let our past, failures, circumstances, or pursuit of perfection keep us stuck. Because Christ has already made us His own, we do not run to earn salvation—we run from a position of grace, keeping our eyes on the heavenly goal and remembering that our citizenship is in heaven.