This Friday Night, CRUX Jr. High will be heading back out to Sky High Trampoline Park for a night of fun and fellowship. The ACTIVATE: High School ministry will also be joining us. If you want to go, just sign up on Wednesday Night. The cost is $10 a person. If you need an emergency release form, just head over to our ACTIVITIES page and download it from there. Hope to see you there!
At the beginning of May we started a new mini-series on Wednesday nights. The series is titled, “WIRED: Created for a Relationship”, and the idea behind this series we are in, is to help you as a student to understand your role in all relationships you have. From your relationship between family and friends, to your relationship that you will one day have with your spouse, the goal of the WIRED series is to equip you with the right tools of relational truths. Join us for the next 3 weeks as we look at your relationship with your friends, family, and future spouse.
Join us every Wednesday night at 7PM. Hope to see you there!
Join us on May 17, 2013 at 6:30PM for our CRUX Baptism & Celebration! We will spend time worshiping the Lord together, including an exhortation of the meaning of baptism.
What is baptism? The word “baptism” can be defined as, “to purify or cleanse spiritually especially by a purging experience or ordeal.” Water baptism is a public, outward testimony that indicates a personal, inward faith. It gives evidence of the inner change that has already occurred in the believer’s life when he or she was “born again” through faith in Jesus Christ. Romans 6:3-4 says, “Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.” What this means for the Christian is that just as Christ died on a cross for our sins, and was buried, then rose again 3 days later, symbolically, Christians also use water baptism as an act of showing that they want to take their relationship with Jesus seriously. To be immersed into the water symbolizes your death to sin and the cleansing of spiritual impurities, and the coming up out of the water represents your newness of life as Romans 6:4 tells us.
We are to be baptized because Jesus Christ commanded it (Matthew 28:19), and because we love the Lord. Jesus said, “If you love Me, keep My commandments” (John 14:15). Baptism identifies the believer with the message of the gospel, the Person of Jesus Christ, and other believers. It associates the believer with the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and signifies the believer’s death to the old life and his or her resurrection as a new creation in Christ.
With that in mind, the question must be asked, “Have you been baptized?” If not, you should! Not only because Jesus wants us to as a way of obedience, but we should also desire to be baptized as well. And you have an opportunity to do so on May 17 at 6:30PM. We will also be having FREE pizza after as we celebrate those who got baptized.
Hope to see you there!
Our 2013 Summer Surf Camp is right around the corner! To sign up, contact the CRUX Jr. High ministry (951) 687-6902 or sign up after any of our weekly services. Spaces are limited so sign up today!
To download an emergency release form click the link here: Emergency Release Form
Here they are! All 4 sermons from our 2013 CRUX Jr. High Winter Camp: UNLEASHED
UNLEASHED Winter Camp- Adam Eaton
UNLEASHED Winter Camp- Brad Jr.
UNLEASHED Winter Camp- Pastor Jon
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The Last or Lord’s Supper had concluded, and Jesus, with His disciples, was heading to the Mount of Olives and the Garden of Gethsemane. In verse 40 Jesus tells His disciples. “Pray that you may not enter into temptation.” In Matthew 26:31, Jesus told His disciples, “You will all fall away because of Me this night, for it is written, ‘I will strike down the shepherd and the sheep of the flock will be scattered’” quoting from Zechariah 13.
Jesus was their Shepherd, but many followed him with certain expectations: He would overthrow the Romans and be Israel’s next king.
Jesus wanted to be alone, verse 41 states, and withdrew from them. He wanted one-on-one time with His Father. “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from Me. Yet not My will, but Yours be done.” (more…)
