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
QuotaBillsBlack holes are where God divided by zero. - Steven Wright
A politician... one that would circumvent God. - William Shakespeare
A puff of wind and popular praise weigh the same. - English Proverb
I should not believe in a God who does not dance. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Of all the bad men, religious bad men are the worst. - C S Lewis
I once dieted so religiously I quit eating in Church. - Zig Ziglar
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. - Saint Francis of Assisi
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. - Soren Kierkegaard
If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. - Jay Leno
I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise. - Noel Coward
Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave. - James R Lowell
Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe. - Mitch Albom
You can have faith or you can have control, but you cannot have both. - Mark Batterson
God created Adam lord of all living creatures, but Eve spoiled it all. - Martin Luther
Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving. - Frederick Buechner
Prayer is the difference between the best we can do and the best God can do. - Mark Batterson
Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness. - Mark Twain
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. - Erich Fromm
I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon. - Phillip Pullman
Every evening I turn worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway. - Mary C. Crowley
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. - Dorothy Parker
All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. - Tennessee Williams
I don't see anywhere in the Bible where it says you shouldn't get breast implants. - Carrie Prejean
It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you. - Timothy Keller
When you carry the cross of Jesus, you will find that the cross will wind up carrying you. - Unknown
A man must be orthodox upon most things or he will never have time to preach his own heresy. - G K Chesterton
Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it. - Charles Caleb Colton
It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to. - C S Lewis
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. - Saint Augustine
If I were ever prosecuted for my religion, I truly hope there would be enough evidence to convict me. - John Wooden
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. - Soren Kierkegaard
Atheists are fighting and killing each other again, over who doesn't believe in any God the most. - Ricky Gervais
Most people have some sort of religion, at least they know which church they're staying away from. - John Erskine
It cost God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost him crucifixion. - C S Lewis
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way. - C S Lewis
You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing. - George Eliot
Sabbath: A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. - Ambrose Bierce
We are fashioned by God to be thinking and emotional creatures. The emotions should follow reason, and not the other way around. - Ravi Zacharias
God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us. You are as much alone with him as if you were the only being he had ever created. - C S Lewis
What is a prayer? Prayer is sending blessing to all. Prayer is sending your compassion to all. Prayer is creating an antidote of negative thoughts. - Osho