Crosswalk PLUS Weekly

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  31 Ways to Make Fall Fun if You Don’t Celebrate Halloween You may not be into spooky ghosts, creepy costumes, or scary stories, but you can still find ways to create meaningful and wholesome memories over Halloween. Here are 31 fun ways to make Halloween and fall...
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  4 Things to Remind Ourselves about Heaven While Living on Earth Jesus lets us know that our lives here are an opportunity to invest in our eternal future in Heaven. In light of Jesus’ words and the painful reality that our time here on Earth is short, we can see that...
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  What Will You Do With Your Pain? We can settle for a life defined by pain, or we can harness the power of our pain and use it for good. We can try to ignore the pain and hope it all goes away, or we can face it and let God heal the broken...
• 3 Reasons It Is Bad Theology to Promise Single Christians a Spouse Bad theology, whether well-intentioned or not, can pop up anywhere in our world. But it seems to show itself the most on social media. Inspirational posts and messages twist Scripture or outright lie about...
• Will Someone Help Me Do the Right Thing? What a perfect picture of accountability – giving someone who loves you the permission to "reel you in" when they see you headed in a dangerous direction. When we willingly make ourselves accountable to...
• 8 Ways to Practice Encouragement Just as Christ has come into our lives to encourage us, we are to give that encouragement away. The most amazing truth is that the more encouragement we give, the more we will receive in the circle of...
• 7 Verses to Pray over Your Children Our children are the greatest gift that God entrusts to us. Let us be intentional and thoughtful in how we lead them, and pray diligently that they are blessed with a lifetime devoted to who Christ has...
• What Makes the Christian's Burden Light? We are to learn of Christ, who is meek in suffering. He is the one who did not demand His due honor. He is the one who set aside glory so that He could give salvation to us. A cross was His crown! It was...
• How Can Prayer Break Chains? I have watched someone I love fight daily battles and come out weak and weary on the other side. Praying day after night and night after day, I asked everyone I knew to pray on his behalf and mine. I was...
• Getting Our Act Together: The Gift of Rest Fatigue is not a spiritual gift, but we proudly wear dark-circled eyes as badges of honor and sacrificial service. The enemy loves it! If he can keep us exhausted, we are no threat to him. We must learn...
• 5 Surprising Benefits of Living a Generous Life The Bible illustrates this principle that we are called to be generous and cheerful givers! When we give freely, we also harvest abundance in our lives. Here are five surprising benefits of generous living.
• God's Recipe for Peace If we have trouble finding God’s peace, we need to examine our walk. Maybe there’s an unconfessed sin in our lives that we haven’t dealt with. Maybe we haven’t been living out our faith consistently. We can...