Candace Crabtree

Crosswalk.com Contributing Writer

The 25 Best Verses to Read This Advent

This is Advent. We celebrate a coming. We celebrate an arrival. The arrival of a baby boy born in a stable. A baby, yet a king. The arrival of new...

November 20, 2023

The 25 Best Verses to Read This Advent

30 Advent Bible Verses and Scriptures for Reflection

This is Advent. We celebrate a coming. We celebrate an arrival. The arrival of a baby boy born in a stable. A baby, yet a king.

November 22, 2021

30 Advent Bible Verses and Scriptures for Reflection

10 Bible Verses to Pray over Your Marriage

What if marriage is so hard we can hardly utter words of hope? This is where we must pray God’s Word. Praying God’s Word gives us the words when we...

10 Bible Verses to Pray over Your Marriage

5 Prayers to Pray for Your Church

Our churches are under the attack of the enemy like never before. Our leaders and each of our brothers and sisters in Christ need our prayers.

5 Prayers to Pray for Your Church

25 Encouraging Bible Verses for New Beginnings

New beginnings. New creations. Our God is a God of all things new.

25 Encouraging Bible Verses for New Beginnings

10 Psalms for People Who Struggle with Anxiety and Fear

The Bible reminds you that you aren’t alone, you aren’t forsaken, and the God of the universe loves you.

10 Psalms for People Who Struggle with Anxiety and Fear

20 Scripture Verses to Pray for Your Marriage

The Bible tells us the very definition of marriage and that two are better than one (Ecclesiastes 4:9-12). We know God’s Word to be true, but if we...

20 Scripture Verses to Pray for Your Marriage

10 Bible Verses to Pray over Your Marriage

What if marriage is so hard we can hardly utter words of hope? This is where we must pray God’s Word. Praying God’s Word gives us the words when we...

10 Bible Verses to Pray over Your Marriage

10 Bible Passages for New Beginnings

I have often struggled with the passages in the Bible that talk about God making us into NEW creations; verses that tell us that God is doing a NEW...

10 Bible Passages for New Beginnings

5 Reasons to Take Your Family on a Mission Trip

Ask God for opportunities to share His love. He may open a door for you that is two minutes away. He may provide a trip around the world.

5 Reasons to Take Your Family on a Mission Trip

25 Joyful Prayers to Ready Your Heart for Christmas

As we focus our hearts on Jesus this Christmas season, we can offer Him one prayer each day, focusing on who He is and all He has done for us!

November 29, 2016

25 Joyful Prayers to Ready Your Heart for Christmas

10 Bible Passages for New Beginnings

I have often struggled with the passages in the Bible that talk about God making us into NEW creations; verses that tell us that God is doing a NEW...

October 18, 2016

10 Bible Passages for New Beginnings

How to Apply a Psalm to Your Life

If we say that His Word can’t still speak to us today, we are saying that God Himself can no longer speak to us.

October 10, 2016

How to Apply a Psalm to Your Life

20 Verses to Meditate on in the Middle of a Storm

Each of us are faced with various storms. No two storms are the same. Some face physical storms in the form of cancer and lifelong disease....

September 08, 2016

20 Verses to Meditate on in the Middle of a Storm

Am I Depressed or Just Having a Bad Day?

All of us have bad days from time to time. So, how do we know that we are truly suffering from depression and not just having a bad day?

Am I Depressed or Just Having a Bad Day?

5 Verses to Help You Relax This Summer

There are so many fun and wonderful things about summer, let’s choose to be intentional about our rest and relaxation as well.

5 Verses to Help You Relax This Summer

Prayer Time is Not All about You

We may think that prayer is taking our wish list or “needs” list to God. But a big part of prayer is placing our heart in God’s hands and allowing...

Prayer Time is Not All about You

What it Really Means to Put Your Hope in Christ

We may know in our heads that Christ alone is our source of hope… but how do we get our hearts to believe it, too?

What it Really Means to Put Your Hope in Christ