Crosswalk PLUS Weekly

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  6 Prayers for Broken (or Breaking) Relationships If you find yourself in a tough place, there’s always one thing you can and should do. Pray. Pray like your relationship depends on it.
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  Moms, You Have Permission to Invest in Yourselves Throw out the guilt that says you aren’t doing enough, aren’t strong enough, or good enough. He that lives in you is enough, and that's all we need to remember.
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  5 Prayers for the School Year As excited as I am to watch my children reconnect with old friends, grow their knowledge, and embark on new adventures, I often wrestle with the "what-ifs" the new school year also brings.
• 4 Ways Barbie Adds to the Church’s Conversation about Gender Roles I won’t say that Barbie solves this universal problem or will make a clear-cut, biblical argument for or against complementarianism versus egalitarianism. But it provides enough striking examples to get...
• Stay at Home Mom, You Are Enough Just as You Are Being here matters most. The relationship you build with your kids, their friends, your friends, community, church, and more is what has the greatest eternal value. 
• 5 Ways to Find Encouragement When Life Is Bleak No matter how bleak, how dark, how unsavory life becomes, there’s good on the other side. Until we get there, we should find ways to stay encouraged.
• 10 Benefits of Getting Your Kids Involved in Volunteering The most important aspect of getting kids excited about volunteering is teaching them why? Does God care when we do something for someone else? Yes! God chose that we would live in community with one...
• 3 Things to Consider before Allowing Your Children to Sleep Over at Other People's Houses Like many other things in parenting, I wish the Bible provided more straightforward black-and-white answers.
• 10 Things All Churches Can Learn From The Secrets of Hillsong Documentary Again, no church is perfect, and we'll always get some things wrong this side of heaven. But when this many people have been publicly hurt by a church system–by its focus on money, power, and reputation–you...
• 4 Changes to Make if You Struggle with People-Pleasing If you struggle with people-pleasing, then here are some changes you can start making in your lifestyle today.
• How to Consider Others Better Than Yourself We are to see others as made in his image, valuable, worth encouraging, and most of all worth serving. We are not meant to always be at the center of our own lives. You can be confident and humble. Humility...
• Is a Physical Bible Better Than the App? Whatever your preference is, the ultimate goal is to invest regular time in Scripture. The world’s perennial best-seller deserves to be shared.