Sep 30, 2026 · @Josiah Armstrong

A prophetic call from Hosea 2 and Psalm 81 to the church: come home.

Listen to the message: Return. Renew. Rejoice. — The Crossing Life Church Sermons

I was at a friend's wedding recently. Weddings are so beautiful. Weddings are so powerful. They are prophetic pictures. They open a window into the very heart of God.

You watch two worlds collide with intense devotion. Two hearts putting away and dying to every other lover, every other attachment, and giving themselves completely, wholeheartedly, to the one their soul loves.

And then I watched him dance with his bride for the first time. He was locked in on her. The intensity of his passion. His love. His commitment. His singleness of gaze.

Friends, that is a prophetic plumb line. That is an invitation into exactly what God wants for you and me with Him.

We are the bride of Christ. We are His inheritance. We are His reward. We are the apple of His eye. He is fiercely committed to us, fiercely ...

Transformation is facilitated by meditation and practice!

One of the key truths iv been sitting on even the last few years is “less is more” and “slow down in order to go fast”.

• Authentic spirituality, which is a life lived in the Spirit, requires that we slow down and be very intentional to abide in the word and love of God.  We can bear no fruit on our own and we must let our soul drink deep of God’s grace.

We need to learn to set our mind and affection on things above and think on what is true, noble, praiseworthy, pure….etc (Col 3, Phil 4)…

Our mind and the meditations of our heart are the gateway of personal growth and transformation.  What we behold we become.

The scriptures teach that transformation happens by the work of the Holy Spirit as we renew our mind according to the truth of the word, ways, and nature of God (Rom 12).

The practical counterpart to the supernatural work of God operating in our hearts and lives is what many struggle to implement on a regula...