For the first time in our nations history the majority of children born to women under age 30 are born out of wedlock. Forty percent of child will go to sleep tonight without a father. Marriage in America is in disarray. God desires for our marriages to begin and end well, especially for his people. Join us as we hear God's words on dating and marriage so we can begin and finish our marriages well.


Malachi 2:10-16 - What Are God's Words On Dating And Marriage? - Quicktime and iPhone Audio - AAC
Malachi 2:10-16 - What Are God's Words On Dating And Marriage? - Manuscript - PDF
Malachi 2:10-16 - What Are God's Words On Dating And Marriage? - Sermon Handout - PDF
Malachi 2:10-16 - What Are God's Words On Dating And Marriage? - Sermon Handout with blanks - PDF
Malachi 2:10-16 - What Are God's Words On Dating And Marriage? - Editable Sermon Notes - DOCX

Tags: Dating, Marriage, Purity, Faithful

There are times when life gets hard. Sometimes, we can look back and see how God was faithful and he used those hard times for a good thing in our life. As Jacob prepares to die, he look back on life and can see God's faithfulness to him. He encourages his son Joseph, and he encourages us, that God's faithfulness to us will continue.


Genesis 48 - God Is Faithful - Quicktime and iPhone Audio - M4A
Genesis 48 - God Is Faithful - Manuscript - PDF
Genesis 48 - God Is Faithful - Sermon Handout - PDF
Genesis 48 - God Is Faithful - Editable Sermon Notes - DOCX
Genesis 48 - God Is Faithful - Digging Deeper Sermon Study - PDF

Tags: Faithful, Death

In 1771 the king of Sweden died of digestion problems after consuming a meal of lobster, caviar, sauerkraut, smoked herring, champagne and 14 servings of his favorite dessert. He is the king remembered for a bad ending as he literally ate himself to death. In Genesis 25, we look at the final days of Abraham and how the memory of his death reminds us we can trust in God’s promises.


Genesis 25 - Good Ending, Tough Beginning - Quicktime and iPhone Audio - M4A
Genesis 25 - Good Ending, Tough Beginning - Manuscript - PDF
Genesis 25 - Good Ending, Tough Beginning - Sermon Handout - PDF
Genesis 25 - Good Ending, Tough Beginning - Editable Sermon Notes - DOCX
Genesis 25 - Good Ending, Tough Beginning - Life Group Work Sheet - PDF

Tags: Death, Children, Election, Choices, Faithful, Infertility, Rewards

The election season is in full swing. The candidates for president are making promises of what they will do for us if elected to office. Unfortunately, most of us don't believe them. Politicians have become synonymous with dishonesty. Bill Clinton promised to lower taxes for the middle class, he didn't. Franklin Roosevelt ran for president on the pledge he would balance the budget. While in office the national debt ballooned. Is there anybody we can trust to keep their word? In this message we learn God is always true. It doesn't matter how long it takes or how great the odds, we can rest assured that God will come through on every promise he made in his word.


Genesis 21 - Promises - Quicktime and iPhone Audio - M4A
Genesis 21 - Promises - Manuscript - PDF
Genesis 21 - Promises - Sermon Handout - PDF
Genesis 21 - Promises - Editable Sermon Notes - DOCX
Genesis 21 - Promises - Life Group Work Sheet - PDF

Tags: Promises, Faithful, Children

Join the combined worship service of the CrossWinds Church Spencer and Spirit Lake campuses as we remember God's faithfulness in our lives. After remembering God's faithfulness, we recommitted ourselves to faithfully following Jesus with the same commitments God's people made when they recommitted themselves in the days of Nehemiah (Nehemiah 10:28-39).

1. We commit to only dating and marrying someone that loves Jesus.
We will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons. Nehemiah 10:30 (ESV)

2. We commit to faithfully keeping the day of worship and rest.
And if the peoples of the land bring in goods or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or on a holy day. And we will forego the crops of the seventh year and the exaction of every debt. Nehemiah 10:31 (ESV)

3. We commit to everybody doing a little something so my campus can operate.
We also take on ourselves the obligation to give yearly a third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God: for the showbread, the regular grain offering, the regular burnt offering, the Sabbaths, the new moons, the appointed feasts, the holy things, and the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God. Nehemiah 10:32–33 (ESV)

4. We commit to giving God what is first and best in our lives.
We obligate ourselves to bring the firstfruits of our ground and the firstfruits of all fruit of every tree, year by year, to the house of the Lord; also to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God, the firstborn of our sons and of our cattle, as it is written in the Law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks; and to bring the first of our dough, and our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God;… Nehemiah 10:35–37 (ESV)

• Money — My offering check is written first.
• Serving — I plan on serving others at church first in my schedule and my vacations second, not the other way around.
• Worship — I will go to bed early on Saturday so I am not falling asleep on Sunday. I want to give my best to worship and study of God’s word.
• Bible Study - I will read my Bible as one of the first things in my day, not the last thing when I am exhausted.

5. We commit to financial faithfulness in our tithes and offering.
…and to bring to the Levites the tithes from our ground, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all our towns where we labor. And the priest, the son of Aaron, shall be with the Levites when the Levites receive the tithes. And the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers of the storehouse. For the people of Israel and the sons of Levi shall bring the contribution of grain, wine, and oil to the chambers, where the vessels of the sanctuary are, as well as the priests who minister, and the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not neglect the house of our God.” Nehemiah 10:37–39 (ESV)

CrossWinds Covenant Renewal - God is Faithful - Quicktime and iPhone Audio - M4A
CrossWinds Covenant Renewal - God is Faithful - Manuscript - PDF

Tags: Faithful, God, Multicampus