Lent Sacrifice
Church services cancelled due to the concern over COVID-19 Coronavirus
Are you a shut-in, or can't make it to Church because of Coronavirus closures? Great news: make plans to join Crossroads Community Church ONLINE on Sunday, March 22, at 10:00 a.m. PST for a special live stream event with Pastor Joel Defries, live from CMC in Davis Bay (normally services are held at Ravens Cry Theatre in Sechelt, B.C.): Faith over Fear. Go to www.crossroadssechelt.com on the main page, scroll down to the live video and you should be all set.
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During this time with the coronavirus, fear is gripping the hearts of people around the world. There is a mountain of anxiety and alarm, and it is still building. It is as real as the virus itself - but it is treatable. There are people in need that we can reach out to help. Like a fireman runs to the fire, the church needs to respond to crises around us. We who are the church need to stand up and be the hands and feet of the Lord Jesus Christ. - Franklin Graham
Anyone can rejoice when things are going reasonably well. But when we're facing adversity or sickness or hardship or death and then we rejoice, we are obeying God. God is on his throne. He loves you and is watching out for you. So rejoice in the Lord. - Greg Laurie
One of my great puzzles when I first became a Christian is that verse, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, because My strength is made perfect in your weakness.’ That was so completely upside down for me. Weakness? And now I embrace that with the fullness of everything around me when I'm realizing that my strength is inadequate, whether it's coronavirus or some family crisis, God's strength is always sufficient. - Francis Collins
In the midst of this crisis, we must not only pray-though we must most fervently pray - we must also work. There are many things to be done and it’s going to be up to us to do them. - Albert Mohler
How do you have peace in the middle of a pandemic? How do you have faith over fear and an unknown future? Here is how - you trust Jesus with your life. - David Platt
We find out at times like these how fragile all our man-made shelters are. Our steel is seen for what it is: candle wax kept from a flame all along only by God's grace. We are as those who huddle beneath palm branches, bracing for a squall. But the Lord regards our humble estate. - Beth Moore
As our world is confronting their mortality, for some of them the first time, we have the choice to either place our faith in the hope of Christ or to mirror their fear born of a perishable hope. - Ed Stetzer
We should all hope for the best-case scenario, even as we prepare for the worst case. Prudence and precaution is not a sign of panic or fearfulness, but as the Bible commands us, of bearing on another's burdens (Gal. 6:2) and thinking more highly of others than ourselves (Phil. 2:3). - Russell Moore
It is such a blessing to have been called, however unworthy, to be the handmaid of the Lord. - Florence Nightingale
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. - Corrie ten Boom
Prayer is a long rope with a strong hold. - Harriet Beecher Stowe
QuotaBillsMan thinks and God laughs. - Yiddish Proverb
Forgiveness is God's command. - Martin Luther
A human life is a story told by God. - Hans Christian Andersen
God made man because he loves stories. - Elie Wiesel
Trust in God, but tether your camel at night. - Jack Ryan
God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants. - Jonathan Winters
Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death. - Unknown
The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards. - JRR Tolkien
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. - Ambrose Bierce
God never made a promise that was too good to be true. - Dwight L. Moody
If you want to give God a good laugh, tell Him your plans. - Yiddish Proverb
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. - Voltaire
God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends. - Ethel Mumford
Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed. - Bruce Springsteen
God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December. - James M Barrie
Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith. - Paul Tillich
The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. - George Bernard Shaw
Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach. - Victor Hugo
Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God. - Martin Luther
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things. - Henry Ward Beecher
The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe. - Charlotte Lennox
If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith. - Robert G Ingersoll
Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity. - Ravi Zacharias
He does most in God's great world who does his best in his own little world. - Thomas Jefferson
Better to deserve praise without having it, than to have it without deserving it. - Ivan Panin
He drained the cup of God's wrath bone dry, leaving not a drop for us to drink. - Richard A Bodey
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. - Johann Sebastian Bach
God isn't asking you to figure it out. He's asking you to trust that He already has. - Unknown
Let us build a church so great that those who come after us may thing us mad to have attempted it. - Unknown
It is not your business to succeed, but to do right; when you have done so, the rest lies with God. - C S Lewis
For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. - Bible
If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don't recommend Christianity. - C S Lewis
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. - C S Lewis
Let nothing disturb thee,
Let nothing affright thee,
All things are passing,
God changeth never. - Teresa of Ávila
There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him. - C S Lewis
In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame. - Phil Donahue
If God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him. - C S Lewis
Worship is a posture of life that takes as its primary purpose the understanding of what it really means to love and revere God. - Ravi Zacharias
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. - Bertrand Russell
Where God guides He provides. He is not responsible for expenses not on His schedule. He does not foot the bill when we leave His itinerary. - Vance Havner