Announcements Vote on Tuesday! 2023 Budget Presentation after morning worship on November 13th. Church Christmas Decorating: November 20th after morning worship. Big Idea A well-ordered church is led by elders who teach and protect God’s people. Read: Titus 1:5-16 This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you— 6if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination....

Announcements Men and Women in Prayer is this Saturday at 8:30am November 6th: Lord’s Supper and Fall-Back Sunday Big Idea God can be trusted; therefore, your life can be built on who God is and what God has done. Read: Titus 1:1-4 Discussion Questions What was the most impactful thing from the text and the sermon this week? Read vs. 1. Paul identified himself as a “servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ....

Announcements • Faith Promise Commitment Sunday is next Sunday. We will not be collecting commitment cards, but we do ask that you and your family will commit to help fund our mission efforts. • Secure the Knot is this coming Saturday. October 23rd is the last day to register for this important event. Big Idea Life under the sun is complex but doesn’t have to be complicated if you fear God and obey His commandments....

ANNOUNCEMENTS Mission Emphasis next Sunday. Please get food truck tickets only if you’re planning to stay for the missionary presentations after lunch. Secure the Knot is Saturday, October 29. Please sign up by the end of this week—cost is $30.00 per couple and is a small but great investment in your marriage. Faith Promise Commitment Sunday is October 30. Pray about how much you will generously give to support CrossPointe’s mission program for the next 12 months....

Question 3 Once again the Preacher is honest about the troubles of life, both physical and psychological. He also has some advice for us: we should do what we can to remove discouragement from our souls and to minimize damage to our bodies. This is not a call to deny the very real suffering that everyone experiences. Nor is it a call to escape pain by living for pleasure. Rather, it is a call to take care of our mental and physical health....

Big Idea Incomplete knowledge is not always a reason for inaction. Read: Ecclesiastes 11:1-6 Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days. 2 Give a portion to seven, or even to eight, for you know not what disaster may happen on earth. 3If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth, and if a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie....

Big Idea Life is filled with risk, so choose wisdom over foolishness. Read: Ecclesiastes 10:4-20 If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your place, for calmness will lay great offenses to rest. 5There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as it were an error proceeding from the ruler: 6folly is set in many high places, and the rich sit in a low place....

Question 3 Listen to the talk that goes on in your home. How much of it is impatient and unkind? How often are words spoken out of selfishness and personal desire? How easily do outbursts of anger occur? How often do we bring up past wrongs? How do we fail to communicate hope? How do we fail to protect? How often do our words carry threats that we have “had it” and are about to quit?...

Making Sense of a Crooked World Big Idea God is not to blame for this crooked world. Read: Ecclesiastes 7:15-29 In my vain life I have seen everything. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his evildoing. 16 Be not overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself? 17 Be not overly wicked, neither be a fool....

The Dash in the Middle Big Idea Life is serious business Read: Ecclesiastes 7:1-14 A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of birth. 2It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of all mankind, and the living will lay it to heart. 3Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of face the heart is made glad....