Warm sermons for unsettled seasons.
Crosswalk Sermons gathers weekly preaching from Crosswalk Redlands into measured, pastoral teaching. Recent messages move through Mark, Easter, Psalm 88, and the church calendar with a steady focus on how God meets people in disappointment and change.
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Crosswalk Sermons is a sermon feed from Crosswalk Redlands, shaped by a preaching team and the rhythms of a live worship service. The show often begins in the room before it reaches the text. Seating, first-time visitors, online listeners, campus updates, and moments of celebration all become part of the atmosphere. That setting matters. These sermons do not sound detached from community life; they sound like messages given to people who arrived carrying real things. Recent episodes spend sustained time in The Beautiful Upset, a series about how Jesus overturns expectations in ways that can feel disruptive before they feel beautiful. The preaching returns again and again to the gap between what people know and how they live. One message compares biblical truth to health advice that is understood and then treated as optional. Another follows Jesus toward Gethsemane through the image of accumulated weight, the stones that make a person’s walk slow and shoulders slump. Easter is handled with emotional care. The women at the tomb are presented not as flat symbols of triumph, but as people carrying disappointment, embarrassment, grief, and fear into the place where resurrection has already gone ahead of them. The show can be tender. It can also be grave. Psalm 88 becomes a way to speak honestly about darkness, despair, and prayer that does not sound polished. At other moments, the sermons turn lighter, using basketball stories, food cravings, travel anecdotes, and gentle humor to make a theological point land. The recurring movement is from human pressure to Scripture, and from Scripture back into ordinary life. Power, greatness, glory, humility, grief, shame, and hope are treated less as ideas to admire than as questions to live with. The teaching is recognizably Christian and rooted in Jesus, prayer, and biblical interpretation. It is especially suited to listeners who want sermons that are accessible, emotionally present, and willing to acknowledge pain without letting it define the ending.
Made for: For Christian listeners, church returners, and spiritually curious people who want sermon-style teaching that connects Scripture to grief, pressure, humility, and hope. It especially suits those drawn to pastoral preaching rather than debate or interviews.
What sets it apart: Crosswalk Sermons stands out for its lived-in pulpit tone: conversational, story-rich, and emotionally direct. Recent messages keep tying biblical scenes to ordinary burdens, then press toward reassurance without pretending the burden is light.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Biblical teaching becomes immediate here, with several pastors connecting familiar passages to burdens, belonging, humility, and practical spiritual response.
Crosswalk Sermons turns biblical scenes into practical questions about identity, belonging, disappointment, responsibility, and trust. Several pastors move from passages in Mark, Matthew, Genesis, and the Psalms toward ordinary pressures, using personal memories and familiar…
A donkey beats a stallion when you need a quieter picture of power.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
An Easter sermon about public disappointment, the women at the tomb, and courage that starts while trembling.
Crosswalk's Easter sermon treats the women at the tomb as more than mourners carrying spices. Andreas Bekai frames them as people arriving with crushed hope and the sting of having believed in public, only to face what looked like failure.
A Gethsemane sermon on worry, guilt, grief, and the trust it takes to set hidden weight down.
Ron Aguilera, executive pastor at Crosswalk in Redlands and director for Mission Expansion, shapes Week 5 of The Beautiful Upset around the weight people bring into Gethsemane.
A donkey, a crowd, and a kingdom that refuses expected power.
John Ciccarelli frames Jesus' ride on the donkey as prophetic drama, a public sign meant to wake the crowd to what kind of king is arriving. In Mark 11, garments and leafy branches line the road as the people shout words Ciccarelli connects to Psalm 118, with Jesus moving from…
A warm, candid sermon about recognizing truth while still resisting the changes it asks of a life.
Andreas Bekai examines the uneasy gap between recognizing truth and letting it change a life. A pre-diabetes warning leads briefly to a kale salad, then to a secret raid on the ice cream.
A candid Psalm 88 sermon lets despair speak while still holding open God's nearness.
Crosswalk treats Psalm 88 as a sermon about faith when relief does not come. It sits with the psalm's pit, flood-like terror, lost friends, and darkness, then holds that lament next to the promise that God hears and stays near.
A Genesis 3 reading of Christmas as God's pursuit of people hiding behind shame, blame, and borrowed identities.
Andreas Bekai frames Christmas as a season of return, starting in Genesis 3 with humanity hiding from God after the wrong choice. The sermon traces shame into the familiar instinct to pretend everything is fine, then brings in Kierkegaard's idea that trying to be someone other…
A warm sermon on spiritual home, healing, and communities where belonging can take root.
Tim Gillespie follows Jerusalem as a spiritual home into the healing story at the Pool of Bethesda, asking why some places feel close to God and what happens when a community blocks the very healing it should make room for.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
Pastor Andreas Beccai opens a Christmas series by questioning how to celebrate in sunny Southern California.
Lead pastor Andreas Beccai welcomes the congregation, highlights the dedication of volunteers, and introduces a sermon series on promises and waiting on God.
A pastor introduces a sermon series on the life of David, with announcements about a sabbatical and daylight saving time.
Pastor Tim Gillespie delivers a sermon on 'Belonging' at Crosswalk Church.
Andreas Beck, lead pastor at Crosswalk, closes his Missio Dei series by handing the pulpit to World Vision's Pastor Josh, who frames the world as a stream and listeners as its "keeper." Josh cites 68.5 million displaced people and 4,000 daily deaths from unsafe water, then reads Luke 10 and the Good Samaritan as a call to "affirm dignity" and restore broken circumstances.
["Crosswalk Sermons' Easter Saturday message, \"The Beautiful Upset - Week Six,\" centers Mark 16:1-8 and the empty tomb.", "Andreas Bekai says Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome walk to Jesus' tomb carrying spices, grief, and a question they cannot solve.", "He names disappointment, disqualification, and desperation, then points to the line \"go tell his disciples and Peter\" as a direct message to failure.", "The closing claim is that the stone was already rolled away before they arrived, so Easter asks listeners to keep walking because \"God gets to the tomb before you do.\""]
["Ron Aguilera, Crosswalk's executive pastor and director of Mission Expansion in Redlands, says week five of \"The Beautiful Upset\" is about God turning disruptions into \"a more beautiful outcome\" after his trip to Jakarta.", "He argues that transformation is hard and slow, using weight-loss, debt, and strained friendships as examples of the hidden \"rocks\" people carry.", "He places Jesus in Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives, explains the site as an olive press, and points to Luke's image of sweat \"like drops of blood.\"", "The sermon lands on Jesus's prayer, \"not my will, but yours be done,\" as Ron calls listeners to put the weight down instead of treating guilt, shame, or anxiety as their identity."]
["Crosswalk Sermons' week four message centers on Mark 11 and Jesus' entry into Jerusalem on a donkey, not the stallion of a conquering general.", "John Ciccarelli pairs that image with Mark 10:32-34, where the disciples are filled with awe and the crowd is overwhelmed with fear on the Passover climb from Jericho to the Mount of Olives.", "He links the fig tree and temple cleansing to Isaiah 56, Micah 7, Psalm 118, and the warning that God's house is for prayer, not market abuse.", "The closing argument is that the kingdom of God is received through Jesus' humble beautiful upset way, not controlled through power or religious leverage."]
Taylor Bartram introduces week three of the Beautiful Upset series, discussing how Jesus redefines greatness in the kingdom of God.
Youth pastor Mark Ricalde shares a personal story about a high school basketball comeback to illustrate celebrating peak moments in life and faith.
Andreas Beccai opens Crosswalk Sermons with Mark 8:27-30 at Caesarea Philippi, where Jesus asks, "Who do you say I am?" and Peter answers, "You are the Messiah." He frames Mark as a three-part gospel with Galilee, a middle hinge, and Jerusalem, and says the series will run from chapter 8 to Easter.
Crosswalk Sermons, in "Campus Week | February 21 - Andreas Beccai," uses Psalm 88, Psalm 22, Sour Patch Kids, and 100% dark chocolate to show the contours of lament.
Lead pastor Andreas Beccai returns from visiting a sister church in Tennessee and introduces the final week of a Christmas sermon series.
Miranda Burton shares her love for Christmas and discusses the importance of timing during the holiday season in a church service.
Pastor Andreas Beccai introduces a Christmas series at Crosswalk Redlands, sharing a personal anecdote about adjusting to sunny weather and leading into prayer.