CrossLife Blog of Pastor Jeremy Lightsey

For many of us it is easy to get complacent and satisfied with our place in life, with who we are, and with the relationships that we have.  But that is not God’s desire for us. Rather, you must grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  2 Peter 3:18 [...]

In our society women are often seen as sex objects.  Whether it is the women on TV, the cheerleaders at the ball games, the porn on the computer, or the hot chick at work.  But God teaches us in the Bible that to look at a woman and desire her sexually is lust and sinful.  [...]

A few people had some concerns on Sunday about the content of this upcoming Sunday’s message due to the fact that it is Mother’s Day and we are supposed to be talking about porn and its effects on marriage.  We will go ahead with the series as scheduled.  I will try my best not to [...]

Today we talk about forgiveness.  If we are going to overcome sin then we have to learn to forgive.  In marriage we have plenty of opportunities to practice forgiveness but also in every other relationship we must learn to forgive easily.  Forgiveness is very misunderstood and so the following point

Yesterday in the message at church I talked about the need for quickly repenting and apologizing when we have done wrong towards our spouse or someone else that we have sinned against.  I didn’t have time to really expound on what repentance is and so today’s post is explaining true repentance and t

We’ve been doing a sermon series on the book of Jonah and its been good. We wrap it up this Sunday but in chapter 1 we read about Jonah getting swallowed by a great fish. God sent the fish because Jonah was disobedient it was God’s way of disciplining Jonah and getting him to obey. [...]

There is a story in the Bible about a guy by the name of Joseph.  Joseph was mistreated by his brothers and sold into slavery and then his brothers lied about it and told their father that he was killed.  Joseph ended up in Egypt and was a slave for a man named Potiphar and [...]

3 “And why worry about a speck in your friend’s eyet when you have a log in your own? 4 How can you think of saying to your friend,t ‘Let me help you get rid of that speck in your eye,’ when you can’t see past the log in your own eye? 5 Hypocrite! First get rid of [...]

How do you define success in your life?  We all have different definitions as to what a successful life looks like.  For some it may be success in a career for others it may be being a good husband, wife, father, or mother, for others maybe it’s having a bunch of facebook friends or twitter [...]