CrossBridge Christian Church, Lincoln, NE

CrossBridge Christian Church, Lincoln, NE CrossBridge believes that God has a plan to set things right; it's called the Church. We strive in all we do to embody Christ to a hurting world.

We're about setting things right, one heart at a time. CrossBridge Christian Church is affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), a global community of faith of approximately three-quarters of a million Christians across 3,700 congregations. With a healthy respect for diversity, Disciples of Christ congregations come in all shapes and sizes. At CrossBridge we believe:

God is the

creator and sustainer of all life and every human being is created in God's image. Jesus Christ is the savior of the world, the son of the living God, and that a personal relationship with Christ transforms lives. The Holy Spirit is available to all people and responsible for the inspiration and energy to accomplish all things within the church. God continues to speak to us through the Bible, and we are devoted to the study of the scriptures for discerning God's will for our lives. In baptism by immersion when a person is old enough to make that decision on their own, although we honor other baptismal traditions. The Lord's Supper is the central experience of worship and is open to all believers in Jesus Christ. That becoming a fully-devoted follower of Jesus Christ is a goal every Christian should strive for, and that it's a lifelong process. In freedom and diversity in Christian thought and interpretation, guided by the Bible, the Holy Spirit, study, and prayer. Want to learn more about our core beliefs as well as our vision and values? Send us a message or stop in to chat with a pastor!

Hope you enjoy a cool Sunday.Worship is in The Capital Room at The Country Inn & Suites.10am. All are invited.
08/23/2026

Hope you enjoy a cool Sunday.

Worship is in The Capital Room at The Country Inn & Suites.

10am. All are invited.

***Saturday Afternoon Decaf Coffee***My (Robert’s) right knee has a puffy scar. I got it playing hero and trying to load...
08/22/2026

***Saturday Afternoon Decaf Coffee***

My (Robert’s) right knee has a puffy scar. I got it playing hero and trying to load a moving truck too fast. Jumping into the bed, I gashed it on a piece of metal.

My right elbow bears a scar too. A congregation I served in Arizona had a bell tower in its courtyard. One Sunday morning, just before worship, I climbed up to fix the bell-ringing rope and, out of the tower, I fell. I bled through my sleeve as I preached.

My right wrist has a jagged scar. I gashed it on the broken glass of a car window I'd broken to get a stranger's small child out of a locked car.

I guess my right side has seen more excitement than my left. But, my left gets more of the quieter, daily joys.

It's my left foot that does most of the kicking when I used to play soccer with my daughter. It's my left hand that gets to draw. It's my left arm that cradles the head when I hold a baby.

The Apostle Paul is famous for using the human body to describe how all of us together get to be Jesus' body sharing his loving presence in the world. Paul says this involves realizing that individuals have different roles, like an eye and a liver do different things for the body.

I’m thinking of Paul (1st Corinthians 12; Romans 12) as I think about the right and left sides of my body and about the different types of people in the church.

Some of us are on the right side of things. We are on the front lines, in the excitement, gathering scars as we go.

Others are on the left side, sharing in the quieter daily works that make up a faithful life.

Which side tends to be yours?

Thunderstormin' now, but looks like it'll pass soon. Then (drumroll) only a high of 81.Wow. Enjoy your Sunday.Worship at...
08/16/2026

Thunderstormin' now, but looks like it'll pass soon. Then (drumroll) only a high of 81.

Wow. Enjoy your Sunday.

Worship at 10am.

The Capital Room at The Country Inn & Suites on North 27th St.

***Saturday Afternoon Decaf Coffee***The discount store Dollar Tree has books. A few years ago, I found George Saunders’...
08/15/2026

***Saturday Afternoon Decaf Coffee***

The discount store Dollar Tree has books. A few years ago, I found George Saunders’s Tenth of December there. This is a great collection of stories, a modern classic of short fiction, no matter what the price tag said. A buck!?!?


The thrift store next door had a copy of Martha Grace Reese’s Unbinding the Gospel for 25 cents. This is an outstanding book for Christians that I’ve used in multiple congregations to help people describe and share their faith. A quarter?!?!


In both cases you could say, “Well, those books are worth exactly what the market (or the culture or whatever) says they’re worth.” Maybe. Sure. And yet… Yet, I know that’s not true.


The gospel stories are clear: on the cross, the market (and the culture and the government and the religious leadership and pretty much everyone) declared that Jesus from Nazareth wasn’t worth anything. Not a dollar. Not a quarter. Not a can of spit.


But I know this isn’t true; they were wrong. I trust that, no matter what the market (or whoever) says otherwise, God has made Jesus Lord and the one through whom the universe is being healed.


Sometimes the Jesus we meet in the Gospel is “valuable” in the wider world, and sometimes he’s “worthless”. But, if my sense of Jesus is deeply dependent on the world’s assessment, my faith is in trouble; I'm in trouble.


This isn’t just about Jesus, of course.


You look at yourself in the mirror. What’s your value? It’s infinitely high. You’ve been made in the image of God, loved by Christ, and called worthy to receive God’s Spirit. And those things don’t change, no matter what. And yet…


On the days we noticed we’ve aged, or lost our job, or gone on assistance, or been abandoned by a loved one, it’s easy to slap a dollar or a quarter pricetag on ourselves and say, “Guess that’s all I’m worth.”


Not so, says God.

08/09/2026

worship on August 6th

Good morning! 🌞💤🌄 See everyone at the Capital Room in the Country Inn & Suites10amHave a beautiful Sunday!!!
08/09/2026

Good morning! 🌞💤🌄

See everyone at the Capital Room in the Country Inn & Suites

10am

Have a beautiful Sunday!!!

***Saturday Morning Coffee***When a child picks up markers and draws the sun, she usually draws a yellow circle. That’s ...
08/08/2026

***Saturday Morning Coffee***

When a child picks up markers and draws the sun, she usually draws a yellow circle. That’s accurate. If I’m in the backyard during a sunny noon, and I (Robert) look up, there’s the sun, and it’s a yellow circle.

But, of course, that’s not all the sun is. It’s a celestial star, a massive globe of plasma and gas, a furnace of almost everlasting nuclear fusion. The sun’s temperature is some 27 million degrees Fahrenheit at its core. Its energy is the natural source of life on Earth.

Yes, the sun is a yellow circle. And, yes, it’s also so much more.

The world around us tells us what we are all the time. You are a consumer. You are an employee. You are a data point. You are an economic statistic. You are a voter. You are… on and on it goes.

And that’s accurate, to a certain point. I do buy and consume things. I do have an income and vote and search things on the Internet.

However, as with the sun, that’s not enough to sum ourselves up. At least it shouldn’t be. We’re infinitely more, at least according to the Christian faith many of us claim to follow.

Christianity teaches me I am made in the image of God, and so are you.

The faith teaches me these words from the ancient letter to the Colossians that can apply to any of us: 2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

Heaven opens when we treat others according to their glory in Christ. Hell sneaks in when we don’t.

08/02/2026

worship on August 2nd

Nice the heat has eased off a little.Have a great Sunday!Worship at 10am.Capital Room at the Country Inn & Suites on Nor...
08/02/2026

Nice the heat has eased off a little.

Have a great Sunday!

Worship at 10am.

Capital Room at the Country Inn & Suites on North 28th St.

Lunch at Villa Amore to follow.

People have been saying for years that classical music is pretty much dead. But, as an outsider to the art form, I (Robe...
08/01/2026

People have been saying for years that classical music is pretty much dead. But, as an outsider to the art form, I (Robert) am not so sure.


It seems true that nowadays less people are willing to pay money to sit in a hall and listen to a Rachmaninoff piano concerto on a Friday night, but still…


I listen to music while I work. Periodically, I listen to film scores. A lot of these scores are new musical compositions that sound to my untrained ears like the classical music people paid to sit and hear when they saw the movie.


It’s just the music wasn’t front and center, at least not at first. The music was made to support a story – a film, television show, a stage play, a video game.


So, what we call “classical music” could be dying, or the main sign of its presence could be shifting to something different from what many people were accustomed to. (Could be both, of course!)


As clergy, I’ve been hearing for decades about how the church is dying (or dead). Typically, to prove this point someone mentions how less and less people are willing to pay to go sit in a hall early on a Sunday morning for a service of worship.


I get that. Most people I know still see a worship service when they picture the word church. And communal worship of God is an essential part of Christian life.

But, when you read the Book of Acts, what we’d call a worship service is just one part of church life. It isn’t the only part or, perhaps, always the main part.


And, in a story like Acts, worship is in service of a larger story – the good news of how the Holy Spirit is carrying the presence of Jesus to the whole world through a people called church. Worship is in service to a God who, through this Jesus, is spreading healing and peace and truth and new creation and care for the oppressed “from Jerusalem to the ends of the Earth.”

So, what we call “church” could be passing away, or the main sign of its presence could be shifting to something different from what many people were accustomed to. (Could be both, of course!)

When you imagine church, what do you see?

When you imagine Jesus, what do you see?

How do the two fit together?

Address

2800 Crossbridge Place
Lincoln, NE
68504

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 12pm
Tuesday 9am - 12pm
Wednesday 9am - 12pm
Thursday 9am - 12pm
Sunday 8am - 12pm

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(402) 438-6443

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