Crossway Pond Sermon Podcast · Crossway Christian Church

30th Anniversary

·33 min

Crossway's 30-year celebration opens with gratitude for the life of the church together. Dave Ripper introduces the podcast and frames the mission as practicing the way of Jesus together, pursuing God, building community, and unleashing compassion. He says hearing the stories is a blessing and notes that an extended video with longer testimonies will also be shared. The service makes space for the many people who have invested themselves in Crossway over the years. Their service is treated as part of the church's identity, and the invitation to get involved with Team Crossway is presented as a way to make a lasting difference. The celebration then reaches back to the church's beginning. Dave Smith and Nancy are remembered as the ones who responded to a call from the Lord to plant the church in Nashua, New Hampshire, in 1995. Scripture then takes over the center of the room. A reading from Matthew 25 describes the sheep and the goats, with Jesus identifying with the hungry, the thirsty, the stranger, the clothed, the sick, and the imprisoned. The speaker recalls studying that passage a few months earlier and jokingly apologizes to anyone in the goat section before returning to the seriousness of the text. The point lands plainly: what is done for the least of these is done for Christ. The conversation then shifts into testimony about pastoral calling. One speaker describes how an earlier focus on the suburbs gave way to a wider sense of mission. Time in New York City helped shape a heart for all kinds of people, and returning to a home church while seeing the neighborhood change sharpened that awareness further. The closing prayer gathers the service into one appeal. It asks God to free people from the things of this world that do not last, and to shape lives through deep community and good works prepared in advance. The final note is praise, gratitude, and a blessing over the congregation.

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A warm anniversary sermon about faithfulness, service, and a church's long memory.

Crossway's 30-year anniversary is presented as a church telling its own story plainly. It moves from gratitude for decades of service to the memory of Dave Smith and Nancy answering the call to plant Crossway in Nashua in 1995, so the message stays centered on faithfulness lived…

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