The Cross Community Church

The Cross Community Church A contemporary and growing church in Enniskillen with a community focus, sharing God's love and compassion with everyone. Church in Enniskillen.

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07/07/2026

Have you ever felt God stirring you to do something that’s terrifyingly outside of your comfort zone?

I confess that, left to my own choosing, I want to take the safe and comfortable route. And then a question forms in my heart, forcing me to stop and reconsider the path that terrifies me … Do I love Jesus and want Him more than anything else?

This is the question Jesus asked one of His disciples, Peter, at a crucial crossroads in Peter’s life:

“Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?” (John 21:15a).

Peter had followed Jesus for years, but it wasn’t easy. Then Jesus was crucified, and Peter took his eyes off the path of ministry he’d been called to. In John 21:2-3, Peter went back to what felt safe and comfortable: his original occupation of fishing.

When the resurrected Jesus appeared in the flesh, He ruined Peter’s justifications for playing it safe. Peter’s destiny wasn’t to be a fisherman for the rest of his life. He was to be a shepherd of God’s people.

We all have our own distractions and concerns in life — things we sometimes choose over Jesus.

I believe Jesus saw Peter’s potential and wanted to turn Peter from a critical fisherman into a caring shepherd.

But Jesus was calling Peter to finish his season of being a fisherman of fish and start being a shepherd of people.

In the same way, Jesus is asking us to love Him more than the lives we’ve known. And just like Jesus equipped Peter by sending His Holy Spirit to fill and empower Peter for his calling (Acts 2), Jesus equips us. We have the gift of the same Holy Spirit inside us and His written Word to guide us.

Friend, let’s not rush past how amazing it is that the Lord wants to work through us — despite our fears and failings. Let’s not allow love of comfort to convince us to stay stuck in our same old ways. Let’s simply say to Jesus, Yes, Lord, I love You more than these, and follow where He leads us.

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What does life “to the full” mean to you? What next step is God inviting you to take as you walk in the abundant life He has for you?

07/07/2026

Lord, I Want to Know You More.

(Published July 2 2026)

Every night, almost without exception, at the moment, Theo asks for the same book. I’ve started letting him finish each sentence as he knows it by heart.

He doesn’t get bored even though he knows the story or has looked at the pictures every night for 4 weeks. If anything, it is the reason he wants it.

I have read the Bible from cover to cover twice in my life. Once at fourteen or fifteen. Again in my twenties. Both times, I remember it feeling less like a task and more like I could not put it down, one book leading into the next because I needed to know what came next.

I have not done that in my thirties. These days, it is whole books here and there, a lot of picking and choosing, a verse for the day I’m having, a Psalm for the season I’m in. Scripture I reach for because I need something from it, not because I am trying to be near Him.

And if I am honest, there have been whole seasons where even that has felt flat. Opening the same pages and feeling less like I am meeting God and more like I am going through motions I know I am supposed to keep.

Writing these devotionals every day has actually done something for that. Digging into a verse to write about it has made me look at Scripture differently again, made me curious in a way I had not been for a while.

But even that is not quite what I am chasing. I want to know Jesus the way Theo knows that book: not information gathered from a distance, but the way you know a friend, through time spent together. Someone I want again and again, not because I need something from Him, but because I cannot get enough of Him.

Paul wrote from a prison cell, after a lifetime spent giving everything for the gospel, "That I may know Him." Not learn more facts about Him. But to truly know Him.

If your reading has gone flat, whole seasons of duty instead of desire, that doesn’t mean it’s over between you and God. This was never a season to get through and be done with.

We could spend the rest of our lives reading the Bible and still not know Him enough. That’s not a discouraging thought, it’s just what it looks like to love someone infinite. You never run out of reasons to come back.

That is the "again" I want, the one Theo has with his book every night. Not more information about God. Just more of Him.

Lord, I want to know You more.

P.S. I write these devotionals every weekday and email them out along with a prayer and journaling prompts. You can sign up to receive them free through the link in the comments.

Who told you it was over? If it wasn't God, then it's not over. Ron Scott
26/06/2026

Who told you it was over? If it wasn't God, then it's not over.
Ron Scott

12/06/2026

Lord, Silence My Worries So I Can Hear Your Voice

(Published June 9 2026)

Over the last couple of years, my son Theo has had a handful of proper meltdowns. Not the everyday tears over the wrong colored cup. I mean the big ones. Completely inconsolable.

When he gets to that place, there is absolutely nothing you can do to reach him. You can hold him, you can get down on the floor, you can say all the right things in the calmest voice you have.

None of it lands. He is too far inside the storm to hear a word of it.

And the thing is, I am not angry in those moments. I am right there. As close as I can get. Saying the only things that matter. I'm here. You're okay. I've got you.

He just can't hear me yet.

It would be easy to think that is only a toddler thing, something we grow out of. But I am not sure we do. We just get quieter about it.

Mine doesn't look like lying on the floor screaming my lungs out (although that does quite apealing sometimes).

It looks like being busy. Running from one thing to the next, the drop-off, the inbox, the list that never gets shorter. It looks like lying awake doing the math on next month's mortgage, watching gas prices climb again, bracing for a bill I haven't even opened yet.

From the outside it looks like a normal, functioning adult. Inside it is the same storm Theo gets lost in. So much noise that I cannot hear the One who is right here beside me.

And He is right here. Doing for me exactly what I try to do for Theodore. As close as He can get. Not angry. Not standing over me tapping His foot.

Saying the very thing I need to hear. I've got you.

I just can't hear Him yet, because the worry is so loud.

So today, my prayer is simple: Lord, silence my worries so I can hear Your voice.

Settle the rush and the money and the running. Help me be still so I can hear you.

Enjoying

P.S. I write these devotionals every weekday and email them out along with a prayer and journaling prompts. You can sign up to receive them free through the link in the comments.

09/06/2026

God Loves You More Than You'll Ever Understand.

(Published May 29th 2026)

My son Theo has been very sweet recently. He has started saying "I love you" at random points throughout the day.

He used to just say it, but now he's started giving it size.

"I love you more than peanut butter sandwiches" (his favorite). "I love you more than Christmas presents." "I love you more than the tallest building in the world."

The other day, he came out with one that made me smile.

"I love you to the top of God."

"Oh wow, that's very high!" I said while internally thinking I'm not sure God has a top. He's got a bit more to learn.

But the longer I sat with what he had said, the more I realized he had stumbled into something I had been missing.

He was reaching for the biggest, highest thing he could think of. And the answer was a Person without a ceiling.

A few days ago, I wrote about David's words in Psalm 103. As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

The point David was reaching for is that east and west never meet. There is no end to the distance. There is no point at which His forgiveness runs out, because there is no edge to the measurement.

His love for you is the same.

There is no top to it. No floor under it that you might fall through. No outer wall you might bump into on the day you fail badly enough. The love that holds you is not a quantity that could be used up. It's infinite.

You were loved before you were born.

You were loved at your lowest, when getting out of bed felt like too much.

You were loved in the moments you felt unlovable, and the years you spent wondering if anyone had really seen you.

You were loved when you doubted Him, when you were angry at Him, when you couldn't feel Him in the room.

You were loved when you walked away, and the day you came back, and on every page of your story you wish you could rewrite.

You are loved right now, reading this sentence, in whatever shape your heart is in.

He is not running out. He is not pulling back. He is not measuring.

He loves you more than peanut butter sandwiches. More than Christmas presents. More than the tallest skyscraper. More than the biggest thing you can reach for, even if you used the rest of your life to reach.

He loves you to the top of Himself. And He has no top.

P.S. I write these devotionals every weekday and email them out along with a prayer and journaling prompts. You can sign up to receive them free through the link in the comments.

Gather with us this morning from 10:45am for tea/coffee/treats in The Cross Community Church. You are so welcome 🤍 Find ...
24/05/2026

Gather with us this morning from 10:45am for tea/coffee/treats in The Cross Community Church. You are so welcome 🤍 Find us across from the Buttermarket and next door to Hanna’s Electrical.

He is RISEN 🙌 New Living TranslationHe isn’t here! He is risen from the dead, just as he said would happen. Come, see wh...
05/04/2026

He is RISEN 🙌

New Living Translation
He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead, just as he said would happen. Come, see where his body was lying.
Matthew 28:6

Greatest man in history, had no servants, yet they called him Master. Had no degree, yet they called him Teacher. Had no...
04/04/2026

Greatest man in history, had no servants, yet they called him Master. Had no degree, yet they called him Teacher. Had no medicines, yet they called him Healer. He had no army, yet kings feared Him. He won no military battles, yet He conquered the world. He committed no crime, yet they crucified Him. He was buried in a tomb, yet He lives today. His name is Jesus.
Tom Hemby

03/04/2026

I can’t stop thinking about the garden and all that’s happening for Him.

The lamplight of the soldiers. The kiss of betrayal from someone He loves.
The frantic emotions as He’s arrested.

The heart bending noises and sounds of this unfolding…

I just don’t ever want to look away from what He faced.

But somehow, this verse tucked in there with so much power, grabbed my heart tonight.

“Jesus fully realized all that was going to happen to him, so he stepped forward to meet them. “Who are you looking for?” he asked. “Jesus the Nazarene,” they replied. “I Am he,” Jesus said. (Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them.)”

It’s powerful. Isn’t it. The whole thing.

But that tiny word “so”…. It just felt extra big tonight.

He knew. So He stepped forward.

Forward into the hands of those who will torture Him all night. And into tomorrow.

Forward to the crown of thorns. The mocking. The spitting. The beating.

Forward to the cross. And then into death.

Forward for you. And for me, too.

So He stepped forward.

And I just can’t get enough of this Man. The One Who stepped forward into death so that we can live.

Thank You Jesus.

Thank You for stepping forward. For taking my place.

For knowing all You were stepping into. And stepping forward still.

❤️

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