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Crossings Knoxville

Crossings Knoxville

Crossings Knoxville is a faith community in Knoxville, Tennessee that launched in 2007. We exist to help people find their way back to God.

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00:37:39

Crayon Drawings of Heaven (Revelation 21:1-22:7)

Crossings Knoxville ·

2025/11/09

We've finally arrived at the final scene of the drama in Revelation. After the destruction and wars, dragons, and chaos, the seas are calm again and John begins drawing a picture of where the whole thing is headed.

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00:39:39

H-E-Double Hockey Sticks and OMG (Revelation 20:1-15)

Crossings Knoxville ·

2025/11/02

In Revelation, John spends a lot of time contemplating God’s justice. How do we account for evil in this world? How do we want it to be dealt with? What was does the Bible discuss it? When is lament more appropriate than certainty?

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00:40:42

Holy and Broken Hallelujahs (Revelation 19:1-21)

Crossings Knoxville ·

2025/10/26

What if the book of Revelation is like a song being worked on over time, that is never quite finished, but will be covered by later artists who add their own twist to the song? What would our cover of Revelation be like today based on our experiences?

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00:44:13

Go Ahead and Start Detaching (Revelation 17:1-18:24)

Crossings Knoxville ·

2025/10/19

The Great Whore of Babylon is an intentionally derogatory metaphor used to describe people’s attachment to empire. Revelation 17-18 are difficult to read, but communicate something important to all of our interaction with unjust political sysmtems. Namely, it asks, “If and when this empire comes crumbling own, with our faith crumble too, or is there something deeper rooting us?”

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00:31:20

One Damned Thing After Another (Revelation - 15:5-16:21)

Crossings Knoxville ·

2025/10/12

Does life, history, and the human condition have a structure of hope and progress or are they as meaningless and arbitrary as they sometimes seem? What can (or should) we do in a world devoid of justice? How can tell a better story that no longer needs seven bowls of wrath?

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00:34:08

Toward and Apocalypse of Suspicion (Revelation...

Crossings Knoxville ·

2025/10/05

How can we read the book of Revelation with both a posture of skepticism and respect? How does apocalyptic literature like Revelation reveal the truth about our world and where does its binary thinking present drawbacks? How do we balance Revelation’s imagery with the whole story of God?

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00:34:23

Fairytales for the End of the World (Revelation...

Crossings Knoxville ·

2025/09/28

Revelation 12-13 introduces us to wild beasts and dragons, and also a pregnant woman with nowhere to give birth. These are familiar stories to John's original audience, and if we pay attention, are familiar stories to us. What happens when the dragons of the empire play pretend-Christian? And how do we respond?

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00:36:35

A Witness to the End of Empire (Revelation 11:1-19)

Crossings Knoxville ·

2025/09/22

What does it mean to reimagine the Christian witness today? How can we ensure that our allegiance is to the Kingdom of God and not a political ideology? What are we willing to sacrifice to model the peaceable ways of Jesus?

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00:38:13

Reversing the Thunder (Revelation 8:6-10:11)

Crossings Knoxville ·

2025/09/14

What does it mean to live faithfully in a world gone mad? As we enter the third narrative loop in Revelation, we ask: What does it look like to hold on to our center in a culture of chaos, violence, and delusion? What difference does prayer make when the world feels unchanged?

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00:34:31

I Heard… and Then I Saw (Revelation 7:1-8:5)

Crossings Knoxville ·

2025/09/07

This week Chad Wright Pittman of Lake Forest Presbyterian joined us to continue our study of Revelation. Together, we asked: “How do account for the differences between what we’ve heard and what we see? How do we endure discomfort as we reminder ourselves that one day, we will experience a true sense of home?”

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00:37:40

The Wrld Urownd Us (Revelation 6)

Crossings Knoxville ·

2025/08/31

What and why is evil so pervasive in our world and what, if anything, does God have to do with that? Four horses, their riders, and clay seals on a scroll try to explain it in Revelation 6.

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00:39:58

An Open Door to Imagination (Revelation Revelation...

Crossings Knoxville ·

2025/08/24

How does the book of Revelation encourage us to expand our imagination of God? How might the book of revelation show the limits of our imagination when thinking about God and heaven? How does our season of life or circumstances shape the way we imagine God?

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00:46:12

Acorns in a Terrarium (Revelation 2-3 )

Crossings Knoxville ·

2025/08/17

Like Jimmy Fallon's "Friday Thank You Notes," John of Patmos interrupts Revelation with seven letters to seven different churches in various cities. These letters reveal to us the diversity of Christian thought and practice in the ancient world, and pulls us back into the big, wild, vast ecosystem of God.

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00:36:38

A Church in Opposition to Empire (Revelation 1:4-20)

Crossings Knoxville ·

2025/08/10

How can an ancient, symbolic, and often misunderstood book like Revelation speak directly to the chaos, injustice, and political realities of our time? What does it mean to live as citizens of God’s Kingdom while surrounded by the power and propaganda of empire? What might it look like to name and confront the deeper forces—fear, death, authoritarianism—that warp human community? How can we creatively blend Scripture’s imagery with the realities of our moment to proclaim a counter-story of hope,

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00:39:02

Pulling Back The Curtain (Revelation 1:1-3)

Crossings Knoxville ·

2025/08/03

In a world obsessed with end-times predictions and cryptic codes, we want to try to read the Book of Revelation the way it was meant to be heard — not as a secret puzzle, but as an open letter of hope and imagination. This teaching series reclaims Revelation as a powerful unveiling of Jesus Christ, written to a persecuted church asking hard questions: Where is God in our suffering? How is God’s kingdom different from the violent empires of this world? Through vivid imagery and bold worship,

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00:34:41

My Most Important Question (Daniel Watson and Kristi...

Crossings Knoxville ·

2025/07/27

Our final week of “My Most Important Question” focuses in on Jesus’s commission to be the light of the world, or the salt of the earth. What does it mean to make a difference? What is our work to do?

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00:38:50

My Most Important Question (Ryan Foran and Bethany Long)

Crossings Knoxville ·

2025/07/20

How do we see faith as a puzzle-solving exercise done in community? Ryan Foran asks whether the early Christians would recognize his (our) version of the faith. Bethany Long asks what it means to witness when our beliefs about the afterlife and gospel are changing.

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00:35:37

My Most Important Question (Mike Anawkwe and Rebecca...

Crossings Knoxville ·

2025/07/13

Every year Crossings attempts to live into its name, derived from Genesis 32 and Jacob’s wrestling with God. We invite folks to share for 10 minutes about their biggest questions of faith right now, how they arrived at these questions, and ways they’re wrestling through these questions. This week we remembered that the process of solving puzzles is often more important than actually solving the puzzle.

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00:29:59

Our Unforming: A Serviceberry Community

Crossings Knoxville ·

2025/07/06

Unforming our Western-influenced, independent, hyper-individualized, understanding of community will take work. Even in our attempts to provide hospitality and create community it’s easy to become so focused on ourselves. What might the story of Elijah teach us about Elijah’s loneliness? What might the plants and creatures of the earth and Indigenous wisdoms teach us about our interconnectedness?

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00:35:14

Our Unforming: A Thin Silence in a Post-Fire World

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2025/06/29

What do we do when our ideas and expectations of God and faith die? Where do we go if we Westernize ourselves out of received forms of Christianity? How can we encounter an unexpected “thin silence” through our intellects, ethics, and brothers and sisters from other religions? What does Christianity look like for now?

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