Crosswalk PLUS Weekly

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  What Is the Key to Purposeful Living? Strangely enough, the key to the self-fulfillment we all seek is the exact opposite of what we may think it is. Our natural instinct is to fill ourselves up with the things that we think will make us happy.
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  4 Ways to Weaken Your Doubts When You Just Don't Understand Over the years, God has brought me out of more pits than I can count, and I have been attending church since the day I was born. My faith in God should be unwavering and I should never doubt or question Him...
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  5 Powerful Verses for When You’re Struggling with Fear We can find strength from the truth that His word never changes. We can find faith over the stronghold of fear that tries to defeat us in overwhelming worry. We have an anchor in Jesus to hold us secure in...
• Lies about Forgiveness, and How Christians Ought to Respond Forgiveness is hard. It’s something we try to teach children from a young age, but often struggle as much with it then as we do as adults. Forgiveness can be especially difficult when the person you need to...
• 4 Ways Christians Discourage Non-Believers from Accepting Jesus This command by Jesus to share the gospel and make disciples is one that should be a cornerstone of every Christian’s faith. In Matthew 28:19-20, Jesus says, “Therefore, go and make disciples of all...
• How to Understand and End Racism within Ourselves “There is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male and female; since you are all one in Christ Jesus.” (Galatians 3:28) A question continues to bumble through my brain, sometimes falling away only to later...
• 4 Hope-Filled Prayers for Your Future Spouse For those like me who hope for a spouse, we can keep hope alive through knowing God’s Word, and especially through prayer. Here are 4 hopeful prayers for your future spouse.
• Go for the Gold: How to Make Spiritual Goals Surround your goals and plans with prayer and ask the Lord to bless you as you work toward each one. We need to order our lives in a more conscious way. Set forward-focused, spiritually sound goals and be...
• 5 Ways to Become a Courageous Parent The majority of my greatest and most enduring anxieties have come with parenting, and speaking with other moms, I know I’m not alone. Our hearts are inextricably tied to our kids, as they should be. God has...
• How Intentional Rest Empowers Us to Live for Christ I am famous for trying to cram 36 hours of living into 24. I can do it short-term, but it always catches up with me. In the meantime, my very familiar companions wreak havoc in my life. Exhaustion. Too many...
• How Christianity Helps Us Overcome the Victim Mentality Sometimes life is what we make it, for better or for worse. One thing I know for sure is that I don’t know everything there is to know. So, my story doesn’t stop at the perceived notion of myself being a...
• Do You Find Yourself Deconstructing or Building Up? We are instructed to build each other up, and we know that building one another up is better for all involved, but we live in a culture that makes it much easier to tear down. It takes little effort to tear...