All posts for the month May, 2021

CrossReads Weekly Devotional: Verse of the Day and Devotional 5/31/2021

Send to Kindle May 31st, 2021 Scripture But Elisha said, “Hear the word of the Lord: thus says the Lord, Tomorrow about this time a seah of fine flour shall be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, at the gate of Samaria.” – 1 Kings 7:1 ESV  Devotion In 2 […]

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Creativity On Demand

by Staci Stallings Creativity is an odd animal. It has to be constantly fed, but there is no routine to its needed diet. You cannot coddle it nor coax it.  It will come out and play when it’s ready and not a second before that. Forcing it to do anything will result in […]

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CrossReads Book Spotlight: Captive Highland Heartbreak

Send to Kindle CrossReads Book Spotlight Captive Highland Heartbreak by Peggy McGee “Captive Highland Heartbreak” is a Christian-based historical Regency/Scottish romance novel set in the early 1800s Great Britain. Seventeen-year-old Emmaline Dalton finds her world turned upside down during her London Society debut when her father suddenly dies. She becomes the ward of her unscrupulous […]

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CrossReads Short Takes: Marriage, Murder & Small Town Schemes & Dangerous Persuits

Send to Kindle CrossReads Short Takes Marriage, Murder & Small Town Schemes A Katy Cross Cozy Mystery Book 6 by KC Hart Katy Cross has worked hard to make her daughter, Eudora’s wedding perfect. The church is decorated, the caterer hired, and the dress is gorgeous. Katy’s even arranged for Eudora to have her bridal […]

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A Triumphant Church 5/25/2021

by Suzanne D. Williams A minister I listen to often says we place all our faith in the rapture and very little in the gospel. How true this is. The church as a whole has placed all its hope in a future event. We’ve said to ourselves we’ll pace and struggle until Jesus sweeps us away […]

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CrossReads Weekly Devotional: Verse of the Day and Devotional 5/24/2021

Send to Kindle May 24th, 2021 Scripture No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. – Romans 8:37 ESV Devotion Christians face all sorts of trials, troubles, and tribulations in life. Satan is our enemy and he is trying to defeat us. Romans 8:38 lists some of the things […]

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The Gap 5/21/2021

by Staci Stallings So the other night my 16-year-old son, the light guy, sat in his chair in the living room perplexed beyond measure. His quandary?  He’d been working for a couple of weeks on a prototype for a new light design for the Christmas light show at our house in our yard.  […]

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CrossReads Book Spotlight: How to Worry Less and Pray More

Send to Kindle CrossReads Book Spotlight How to Worry Less and Pray More What to do when you worry too much (Bible Short Reports) Have you found yourself daily struggling to overcome worry and anxiety? Do you find it difficult obeying all the promises of God about you because you have allowed these two “enemies” […]

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CrossReads Short Takes: For the Love of Sam & Secrets of Favour

Send to Kindle CrossReads Short Takes For the Love of Sam Overcoming Adversity by Peggy McGee Fay was at her wit’s end. Her marriage to Joe was a disaster with his drinking, hoarding, ADD problems and it was now over in her mind. She had moved in with her mother and hoped to transition the […]

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PreOrder: A Groom for Purity 5/18/2021

by Parker J. Cole No one knows that rough, tough stagecoach driver Par Pen is really Purity Pennington. She ran away years ago to escape an unwanted marriage. So it’s a complete surprise to her when she receives a letter from a man stating he’d be glad to marry a kind, sweet, gentlewoman […]

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