Crosswalk PLUS Weekly

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  Are You Following Science or Following Christ? What will we choose to believe in this age of science? Where will we find the truth? When we are afraid, where will we go?
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  How to Be a Joy-Giver If you want joy, invest your life in others. Look for a need and meet it. We were created to need each other. We were created to share the load. A shared load is a lighter load!
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  Why White Christians Should Be Pursuers of Racial Reconciliation As white Americans, seeing people that look like us in the media, books, and our skin color is not a factor in our lives. But this is not true for all people. We can’t let our privilege hold us back from...
• 4 Ways to Know You’ve Truly Found a Friend Friend. We all know the word. We all have at least one. We see them when logging into social media, going to work, in our neighborhoods, gyms, restaurants, everywhere. We use that word to refer to most...
• Why Ezra 7:10 Is a Verse Every Believer Should Know I have several verses that I would consider among my ‘favorites’, and Ezra 7:10 is one that I am always drawn back to for a lot of reasons.
• 5 Questions to Consider before Celebrating Halloween Yet, if we are to be more like Jesus every day, then this is a question we need to ask constantly. If you’re a believer celebrating Halloween this year, do you know the reason for your celebration? If not,...
• Is It Just a Coincidence, or an Answered Prayer? It may have seemed presumptuous to ask God to withhold rain because of a little league baseball game, but we prayed for it anyway. The funny thing is, God answered that prayer.
• Is Social Media Bad for Your Health? The recently released results also state that Instagram makes “body image issues worse for one in three teen girls” and that “teens blame Instagram for increases in the rate of anxiety and depression.”
• Should Christians Avoid or Embrace the Horror Genre? So why can’t Christians and horror movies get along? Is this an issue of horror movies portraying sin? Well, the Bible gives us stories of flawed people living flawed lives. We learn from their mistakes....
• Did You Know Jesus Appears throughout the Old Testament? The Old Testament doesn’t merely ‘lay the groundwork’ for the new, but the person of Jesus is visibly present throughout the entire Old Testament account. The ‘story of Jesus’ doesn’t start in the New...
• Can You Be a Christian and a Hypocrite? Does hypocrisy find its natural conclusion when we can turn the mirror, see ourselves, and think, Something needs to change? I’m not certain. What I can say with much more clarity is that though I am a...
• 7 Fresh Ways to Re-Engage with the Celebrating Halloween Debate Spooooooky! Depending on what you think about Halloween, you either did or did not smile just now. Halloween makes October an especially awkward month for Christian communities. To celebrate or not? Why or...