Crosswalk PLUS Weekly

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  5 Reasons You Should Go Back to Church In 2020, the world dramatically shifted at the onset of COVID-19. Travel was restricted, people were encouraged to stay home and many businesses were forced to shut down. Whether you feel like the pandemic...
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  Give...and You Will Receive I want to live my life with open hands, dusty feet, calloused knees, and rolled-up sleeves. I want to be a generous giver. I may not have much money, but I can give what I have. I can give my time and...
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  3 Proven Marks of a Healthy Church Jesus didn’t preach to win the affection of the crowd, he preached and taught to win their hearts. He wasn’t after their applause, he was after their devotion. That’s why the size of the crowd is not...
• 7 Morning Prayers to Help You Start the Day Strong “But I will sing of your strength, in the morning I will sing of your love; for you are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble” (Psalm 59:16).“Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we...
• Seek to Love Others for Jesus We can always forgive, and never love less, by the power of Christ in us. Love them for Jesus. Instead of offense, we can choose forgiveness. We, those God calls righteous, have the honor of bringing glory...
• If Aliens Are Real, Can I Still Be a Christian? If we learn that aliens do exist, our hope as Christians is to find direction on how to respond from the Bible. What does Scripture say about aliens, if anything?
• 3 Ways the Bible Teaches Us to Make our World a Better Place The way to fix our world is simple, it starts with us and it won’t be complete until Jesus returns. Yet these are places we can start: understand the answer to our sin is in Christ alone, and trust him in...
• How Should a Christian Respond to Grief? Losing a loved one is hard. Christians are not exempt from grief and will be impacted by the death of those they love. The process of grief is not something to be ashamed of or avoided since mourning is a...
• What Does the Bible Say about Wavering Faith? Worse than the loss of our peace is the fact that God spits out the faithless. God does not like the taste of a wavering belief. If we are being tossed around between hot faith and cold doubt, it won’t...
• When Following God Is Hard, Persevere I stood to the side of the court, bare feet roasting in the sand, sweat dripping all down my face and my lungs screaming. “Why the heck do I do this,” I wondered for at least the fourth time. Every summer in...
• How Can We Stay Focused When We Pray? When our lives are filled with distraction, we veer off course and into danger. When we simply pretend the distractions aren’t there, or that we can handle them ourselves we quickly go dangerously off...
• 3 Lessons from Biblical Men for the Lost, Anxious, and Afraid I have a great question for those who consider themselves Christian. Is there any greater source of wisdom than the Holy Bible? Throughout life, we find ourselves walking high across the mountains and low...