On June 11 at 7PM, Pastor Levi Lusko will bringing the Word about life, death, sex, and romance. This isn’t just another purity conference where you’ll be asked to make a stand for purity. This is going to be an event that will change your perspective on relationships and Heaven. Life is short and the world will tell you to live your life like it’s your last day on earth, which in part may be true, but Jesus has a greater plan for you than the world does! The world wants you to live a glamorous, party hard type of life which promises satisfaction, but fails to actually make you happy. God then tells us that if we are willing to give up those things to follow Him that He will lead us to the source of happiness, His Son, Jesus Christ, who takes away the sins of the world.

Don’t miss out on this killer opportunity to make a difference in your community by giving yourself to purity and eternal matters. Keep your eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of your faith. Trust in Him and turn from all worldliness.

Invite & bring all of your friends and let’s see our great God to great & mighty things!

http://www.o2experience.com/events/riverside/

Sky High!

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!

CRUX Baptism & Celebration

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!

2013 Summer Surf Camp

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

UNLEASHED Winter Camp Sermons

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- Chuck

UNLEASHED Winter Camp- Pastor Jon

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Back At It Again

In order to reach the youth of our city, the CRUX Jr. High ministry is partnering with the ACTIVATE: High School Ministry to host an evangelistic outreach on April 24, called “UPRISING.” Our first event was almost exactly a year ago, and our second was this past October; we are very excited for our third Uprising! We want the young people of our city to stop living for the things of this world and start living according to God’s Word.

We want our youth to rise up and take ground for Christ and His Kingdom. We want students to make a difference in their homes, schools, churches, and communities. We want an uprising. We will have a concert with the bands Manafest and Worth Dying For, and an evangelistic message from Pastor Jason Powell.

Students: grab some flyers and stickers and get the word out! Make it your goal to bring at least one friend to the event who doesn’t know Jesus or go to church.

Parents: Challenge your children by being willing to bring all of their friends! Fill up the car and bring students to hear the gospel.

Here’s the info:

When: Wednesday, April 24 at 7pm (doors open at 6:30pm)
Where: The Court at Harvest Riverside
Cost: Free

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