Crosswalk PLUS Weekly

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  How Should I Discipline My Highly Sensitive Child? Highly sensitive people feel things much more strongly than others do and need empathy. How can parents discipline children that are highly sensitive without being mean?
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  3 Ways to Overcome an Anxious Spiral The world’s treatment of human struggles like anxiety varies with time. However, the Bible offers something different, solutions that are transcendent of time. These are 3 biblical ways to overcome the...
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  I Have Hope in Jesus! We do the same thing. We come to Christ and experience the new life he offers. We do well until a crisis hits, and suddenly, the old life looks pretty good. The old bondage was awful, but we were used to it....
• How to Survive the Holidays around Narcissistic People How do we survive tense and frustrating interactions without losing our cool? Here are a few helpful tips to make it through the holidays around a narcissist:
• Seize Every Chance to Experience – and Share – the Love of Christ There’s a lot to be said about our time, and how we are willing to spend it. God is purposeful, layering opportunities into each day of our lives for us to seize and embrace — things which He knows will...
• God's Plan for Prayer We are all guilty of praying for a specific need, but we give up when that need is not immediately met. We go to every other source in the world, hoping to find someone or something that can either alter the...
• How Do Many Christmas Movies Get the Meaning of Christmas Wrong? There is nothing wrong with watching and enjoying holiday movies. However, remembering the true meaning of Christmas is vitally important. Many holiday movies miss the mark of depicting the reason behind the...
• 6 Reasons God Commands Us to Give Thanks This Christmas Season Trusting Him to give us all we need, we find Him to be more than enough. And suddenly our workload doesn’t feel so heavy nor our problems so substantial, not once we’ve placed them in our Savior’s hands.
• What to Say to a Loved One Fighting Depression This Holiday Season By lending a listening ear, wide heart, and open eyes, perhaps the best gift we can give to those we love this holiday season is ourselves.  
• Non-Traditional Verses for Christmas The whole Bible is the story of Jesus, from Genesis to Revelation. But at Christmastime, we tend to stick to a few beloved verses. This year, why not explore some other books of the Bible that also point to...
• Praising God, Even Through Depression I was paralyzed. I had fallen into some deep dark pit. I honestly had no idea how I had gotten there, but what was even more frightening was the fact that I didn’t have a clue how to get out! But God did.
• Is Advent Supposed to Be Fun? In addition to church Advent celebrations and Scripture reading, the little excitement each day of opening a door and pulling out a treat helps to build my joy and anticipation of Christmas. But does that...