Crossmap Podcast

For better or for worse, we have all heard the phrase, “Go to hell.” While considered a coarse and crass thing to say, this snide directive is seen as sarcasm and never viewed in a positive light.    But what about the inverse of that phrase? Have you ever heard someone utter, “Go to heaven?” It seems sort of foreign y

From the ghettos of Brooklyn, New York, to a successful singing career, to a stunning restoration in Jesus, Jeannie Ortega, a contemporary Christian musical artist, fought demonic attacks, thoughts of suicide, rejection, and being treated like a commodity earlier in her career as a secular pop star.   After many years

Even for the most devout people of faith, the Holy Spirit can be mysterious and the least understood person of the Holy Trinity. Bible scholars point to Abrahamic religions, where the Holy Spirit has equal footing with God the father and the Son of God, who is Jesus. According to Acts 5:3-4, the Holy Spirit is consider

In what has become a time honored tradition, my wife and I spend the first Saturday morning in December wrestling with a Christmas tree. And for the twentieth year in a row we hope to accomplish our goal – to move our artificial bundle of joy from our attic’s crawl space to the centerpiece of our living room. Serving a

In a world not too far removed from our past, a young pastor and author named Dietrich Bonhoeffer and a small group of dissidents worked tirelessly to dismantle the Third Reich as Adolf Hitler and the Nazis attempted to exterminate the Jews of Europe and beyond. Rather than flee to the safer haven of America, Bonhoeffe

As we inch ever closer to our next presidential election just a few days away, more than a few have pondered the notion that we as a nation are edging ever closer to the Apocalypse. For centuries, the term apocalypse has been used to characterize a great disaster, a prophetic revelation, or the end of the world. Vivid