the Cross Orlando
the Cross Orlando is a congregation of people living under the reign of God — gathering weekly, working across our city, and caring for one another.
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October 4, 2026 • 30 mins
Continuing the Psalms series that closes out the church year, Ben works through the second half of Psalm 34, an acrostic that invites us to taste and see that the Lord is good. Drawing on Elijah in the ravine, the Holy Family in Egypt, and Jesus calming the storm, he describes taking refuge in God by fearing the Lord rather than relying on ourselves, and seeking a peace that doesn't remove hardship but removes panic and existential...
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September 27, 2026 • 28 mins
Opening a six-week series in the Psalms to close out the church year, Ben works through Psalm 30, where the psalmist credits God for a secure mountain, is dismayed when God hides his face, and cries out from the edge of the pit. With Peter's 'Lord, to whom shall we go?' from John 6, he argues that since only God can rescue and restore, we can receive mountaintops with thanksgiving and call out for help from the pit.
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September 20, 2026 • 29 mins
Closing the series on the network's four core values, Ben reads Luke 4:14-30, where Jesus begins his ministry in the Nazareth synagogue by reading Isaiah 61, and uses Job 5 to argue that we are the poor to whom he announces good news. He contrasts Nazareth's rejection with the widow of Zarephath and Naaman, who received God's provision in unexpected ways.
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September 13, 2026 • 27 mins
Guest speaker Blake Wright of Resurrection Church in Sanford closes the network values series with 'sincere,' contrasting the Pharisees' flattery in Matthew 22 with Jesus' call to love God and neighbor, a sincerity he lived out through every healing and conversation. Drawing on 1 Timothy 1:5 and the early church in Acts 2:42-47, he describes a sincere church as one that loves one another, serves because people matter to Jesus, and ...
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September 6, 2026 • 26 mins
Ben works through Ephesians 2-4 to unpack 'focused,' the third of the network's four core values, following Paul's stacked argument that God moves first toward people while they are still dead in their sins, grafts them together into a dwelling place for God, and prays they would grasp a love that surpasses knowledge. That encounter with the gospel, rather than moral effort, is what propels a church out to live truthful, generous, ...
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August 30, 2026 • 31 mins
Guest speaker Russ Peterson continues the network values series with 'collaborative,' tracing the word to the Latin for working together and finding the pattern in Acts, where the temple-observant Jerusalem church and the multicultural Antioch church strengthen each other in both directions — Barnabas sent north, famine relief sent back. The Jerusalem Council then models how collaboration survives disagreement: much debate, t...
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August 23, 2026 • 25 mins
Opening a four-week series on the multi-site network's core values, this message takes up 'adventurous' through Hebrews 11 — the Hall of Faith, where at least half the examples are people who died without receiving what they were promised. Faith persists because the God of Abraham is broader and deeper than the grave, as the cross and resurrection show, and that conviction frees a church to take risks in loving its neighbors.
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August 16, 2026 • 29 mins
A guest speaker works through Isaiah 5's song of the vineyard: God created, cultivated, and protected Israel as a vineyard meant to bear good fruit, yet it yielded rotten fruit — he looked for justice but saw bloodshed, for righteousness but heard cries of distress. Drawing on Micah 6:8 and John 15, it frames righteousness as right relationship with God that flows outward into justice, and Jesus as the true vine we are grafte...
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August 9, 2026 • 28 mins
Opening a series on the church shared with two sister congregations in Lake Mary and Sanford, this message works through Paul's body analogy in 1 Corinthians 12:12-20, teaching that the church is a cohesive unit of distinct members with reciprocal need: you both belong and are needed.
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August 2, 2026 • 29 mins
Closing out the series in 2 Peter, this message works through chapter 3 and its answer to the scoffers who ask where the promise of Christ's coming has gone: God's delay is patience, not forgetfulness. Drawing on Isaiah 40-43 and Romans 2:4, it calls the church to wait for the new heavens and new earth with diligent, peaceful lives and hearts of repentance.
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July 26, 2026 • 31 mins
Continuing through Peter's second letter, chapter 2 catalogs the moments God has separated people out — the angels, Noah's generation, Sodom and Gomorrah — and warns of false prophets who play on our passions and promise a freedom that turns out to be bondage. The hinge is verse 9: the Lord knows how to rescue, and the freedom Christ calls us into is liberation rather than rule-keeping.
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July 19, 2026 • 31 mins
Opening a three-week look at Peter's second letter, this message walks through chapter 1: God's divine power has already granted everything needed for life and godliness through the knowledge of Christ. Peter's list of virtue, knowledge, self-control, steadfastness, godliness, and brotherly affection is not a to-do list but a set of dummy lights signaling where we have forgotten what is already true.
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July 12, 2026 • 38 mins
The final message in the series on vocation looks at civic and neighborhood calling through the Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25), urging us to get in the game with the gifts and resources God has entrusted to us, followed by a conversation with Paul about his work in commercial real estate and his involvement with the Coalition for the Homeless.
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July 5, 2026 • 32 mins
Continuing the series on vocation, this message turns to the second arena—church—working through 1 Peter 2, where Peter urges believers to put away malice and slander and be built together as living stones into a spiritual house, a sanctuary founded on Christ the cornerstone, justice, and righteousness. It closes with a conversation with Brandi-Michelle Rhodes on belonging and what members of a church owe one another.
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June 28, 2026 • 38 mins
Continuing our series on vocation, we turn to Luke 3 — where John the Baptist tells the crowds, tax collectors, and soldiers to do their everyday jobs justly rather than abandon them — and see how working fairly and well honors the image of God in the people our work touches. Ben is then joined by urban planner Eliza, who shares how her faith shapes the way she designs more walkable, neighborly communities.
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June 21, 2026 • 31 mins
Wrapping up family and turning to the church arena of vocation, this message focuses on the Great Commission in Matthew 28, where the risen Jesus meets his disciples on a hill in Galilee and sends them to make disciples of all nations.
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June 14, 2026 • 26 mins
Continuing the vocation series on family, this message turns to John 19 and the crucifixion scene, where Jesus, seeing his mother Mary and the disciple he loved standing by the cross, entrusts them to one another's care.
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June 7, 2026 • 29 mins
Revisiting the three arenas of vocation (family, church, and neighborhood), this message focuses on family through Psalm 68, where God is father to the fatherless and sets the lonely in families, and includes Amy sharing her own story about family.
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May 31, 2026 • 33 mins
Concluding the three arenas of vocation, this message turns to neighborhood, examining the parable of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10 and the lawyer's question about how to inherit eternal life and who counts as one's neighbor.
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May 24, 2026 • 26 mins
Continuing the series on vocation, this Pentecost message turns to church as the second arena of vocation, focusing on Acts 1 and Jesus' ascension and promise of the Holy Spirit, sending his followers to be witnesses from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth.
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