Plainspoken sermons with urgent evangelical conviction.
The Crossing Fellowship offers weekly church messages with a candid, Bible-forward evangelical tone. Sermons move between everyday illustrations, close readings of Scripture, altar-call urgency, and practical calls to faith, prayer, marriage care, and life-group connection.
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The Crossing Fellowship is a weekly evangelical sermon feed built around biblical preaching and a clear call to follow Jesus. Its messages are not abstract theology lectures. They sound like church Sundays: greetings to “Crossing,” personal stories, Scripture passages, congregational response, and a closing invitation for prayer. The preaching is candid and often urgent. Recent sermons press against the idea that sincerity makes something true, arguing instead that truth is found in Jesus. Easter teaching defends the resurrection against alternative explanations and treats faith as a decision made in light of evidence. Palm Sunday becomes a meditation on hope, shaped through family experience, infertility, embryo adoption, and the arrival of Malachi. The Elisha series uses stories of loss, desperation, and scarcity to talk about restoration, dependence, and God’s ability to work with little. Guest teaching from Roger and Brenda Dahm brings marriage, Restoration Ministries, prayer, mercy, and discipleship into the foreground. The show’s register is warm but unsparing. It uses humor and ordinary detail, then pivots quickly into sin, repentance, salvation, and obedience. That directness is central to the experience. Listeners hear firm evangelical teaching on sex, pornography, marriage, hell, Scripture, and the exclusivity of Christ. They also hear repeated pastoral invitations: bring burdens to Jesus, seek prayer, join life groups, trust God with what feels lost or insufficient. The format suits people who want sermon audio rather than interviews or devotional chatter. It is especially aligned with listeners looking for evangelical preaching that combines practical application, emotional immediacy, and a high view of biblical authority.
Made for: For listeners seeking evangelical sermon audio centered on Scripture, repentance, prayer, and following Jesus. It especially fits those comfortable with direct moral teaching and altar-call-style application.
What sets it apart: The show pairs everyday storytelling with uncompromising claims about truth, salvation, and discipleship. Its sermons move quickly from relatable life pressure to direct spiritual response.
The Crossing Fellowship exists to see people meet follow and love Jesus. Here you can stay up to date on our weekly messages and discussion questions, designed to help you grow in your relationship with Christ and thrive in the mission of making disciples.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Direct, scripture-rich sermons connect Christian doctrine with anxiety, loss, evangelism, prayer, and the demands of everyday faith.
The Crossing Fellowship turns biblical passages into direct counsel for moments of strain, loss, doubt, and responsibility. The sermons move easily between close attention to scripture and familiar situations, from financial pressure and troubled relationships to anxiety stirred…
A pulpit takes you from Hebrew grammar to five loaves, then asks you for a decision.
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A direct sermon tests personal beliefs against Jesus' claim in John 14:6.
The opening sermon in Almost True starts with a question: does a belief become true because it feels right? Two Truths and a Lie gives the congregation a familiar way into the subject before the sermon turns to John 14:6. Its answer is firm.
A warm sermon on lost peace offers pastoral reassurance and an invitation to talk.
A sermon closing a series on Elisha starts with the familiar annoyance of lost keys, phones and wallets. The preacher jokes about losing his mind, then moves to the loss of a relationship or a sense of peace. The shift feels natural in his conversational delivery.
A sermon on feeling overwhelmed and offering God what little you have.
When the news and the demands of life feel overwhelming, this sermon asks what someone can offer God when even a little seems beyond reach. The preacher moves through David's sling, the loaves and fish, and faith the size of a mustard seed.
A sermon on dependence on God is at its clearest when it examines Elisha's promise of water.
In the second part of a series on Elisha, a plea for a miracle leads into a sermon about dependence on God. The preacher names pressures that can make that need feel urgent: a troubled marriage, uncertain finances, a diagnosis, or a decision requiring wisdom.
A direct sermon connects Jesus' death with the courage to share the gospel.
The sermon begins with separation from God and judgment, then turns to the preacher's central claim: access to God comes through faith in Jesus. He explains why Jesus, as both God and a sinless human, could die in humanity's place.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Scripture, surrender and faith put into practice.
This episode discusses the importance of consistency in achieving goals across spiritual, financial, and relational areas of life.
A pastor discusses the common struggle of discerning God's will in major life decisions like jobs, marriage, and college.
A pastor introduces a sermon series on why people struggle, encouraging the congregation to reflect on the gap between their current selves and who they want to become.
A pastor recounts picking up a hitchhiker who boasts about his good deeds and Bible knowledge, prompting reflection on comfortable Christianity.
A sermon exploring the emptiness of worldly achievement and the need for a deeper relationship with God.
The Crossing Fellowship sermon "How to share the Gospel" moves from Genesis 2:7 and Genesis 3:6 to Romans 3:23 and John 3:18, arguing that sin separates humanity from God.
After 30 years of gardening, the speaker compares tomato cultivation with tending “the garden of your heart.” Proverbs 18:15 and 15:22 support seeking experienced counsel, while Proverbs 2:1–5 urges active pursuit of wisdom.
A pastor introduces a sermon series called 'Almost True' about discerning truth from false beliefs in culture, starting with a game of two truths and a lie.
A pastor delivers an Easter sermon emphasizing the reality of the resurrection, the consequences of sin, and the need for repentance.
A pastor explains the meaning of Palm Sunday by discussing how people respond to hope, using personal stories about Nebraska football and embryo adoption.
Roger Daum shares about his background and the founding of Restoration Ministries, a discipleship ministry focused on carrying out the Great Commission.
Roger and Brenda Dahm are introduced as guest speakers who saved the host's marriage and led him to faith, and they begin a teaching on prioritizing marriage at a church service.
"If it matters to you, it matters to God," tied to the borrowed axe head in 2 Kings 6.
"What do you have?" leads to the widow's only answer: "a small jar of olive oil."
Elisha says, "make this valley full of ditches," and the sermon ties that to faith with action.