New Naperville Church Plant Are you new to Naperville? Interested in helping a new church plant get started in downtown Naperville? Cross of Christ Fellowship is a new church plant taking root in the heart of downtown Naperville. We are gospel-centered church in the Southern Baptist Convention and affiliated with the Acts 29 Network. Our […]
Author: Tom Schmidt
Christian, husband of Rach, Church Planter,musician,
Cross of Christ Fellowship 2014 Goals Our Naperville church plant, Cross of Christ Fellowship, has both long term and short term goals. Our overarching long term goal is to plant a gospel-centered, biblically-faithful, evangelistic, church-planting church in the heart of Naperville for the glory of God. As we strive toward this, our core team is […]
7 Highlights from My Church Planting Residency: Now that I have completed 2/3’s of my church planting residency at Redeemer Fellowship, its encouraging to look back and see some of the progress. Here’s 7 of the highlights: 1. Name and Location: We are planting a church in Naperville, IL and the name is Cross of […]
NEWEST MEMBERS OF CROSS OF CHRIST FELLOWSHIP Our Naperville church plant, Cross of Christ Fellowship, is growing! The newest members are Kevin and Kara: Kevin is from St. Petersburg, FL. Graduated from Wheaton College and is currently working on finishing a Masters there in the History of Christianity as well as an M.Div at the […]
Eternal Life (Double Confidence): God’s Calling and Our Profession of Faith (1 Timothy 6:12) Last time we considered what it meant to ‘take hold of eternal life’ in 1 Tim 6:12 and concluded that this involved both faith and faith expressed in action. Now I’d like us to consider something else in this verse: Paul […]
Taking Hold of Eternal Life (1 Timothy 6:12) “Take hold of the eternal life, to which you were called and to which you made the good confession before many witnesses” (1 Tim 6:12) Amidst a series of instructions, exhortations and rich theology, the Apostle Paul commands Timothy, his son in the faith, to ‘take hold […]
3 Reflections From Ecclesiastes In my personal devotions, I try to read through the Bible about once a year. Recently, I had the pleasure of working my way through Ecclesiastes. Many call this book one of the most difficult in the Bible–this is because of its many bleak and ‘seemingly contradictory’ statements about life. Traditionally, […]
Learning How to Preach From Augustine: 3 Styles of Preaching In a previous post, I shared Augustine’s 3 aims of preaching. Here’s we’ll look at the 3 styles of preaching. In De doctrina Christiana 4, Augustine lists the three styles appropriate for a sermon’s delivery: restrained, mixed, and grand.[1] Each style has a particular function, […]
Cross of Christ Fellowship WEBSITE Our Naperville church plant, Cross of Christ Fellowship, now has a website! Here it is: www.crossofchristfellowship.org
10 Questions to Help You Apply the Gospel Here’s 10 questions I came up with and used in our church plant core team to help us consider and apply the gospel to our lives and community. (If your familiar of Tim Keller, you can see his influence!) By God’s grace it was a great discussion! […]
