All posts in category CrossReads Weekly Devotional

CrossReads Weekly Devotional: What is a Coach? 10/9/2023

Send to Kindle by Rebekah Beene If ever I took a career quiz, nothing would bring a result of “coach”. I’m not a sports person or a big enthusiast of those kinds of hobbies, careers, or pastimes.  So when I was asked to be a health coach, I just thought that nobody would want to […]

Share Button

CrossReads Weekly Devotional: Temporary Dwellings, Strangers, and Aliens 10/2/2023

Send to Kindle by Precarious Yates The Feast of Tabernacles marks the times when the Jews spent 40 years journeying through the desert.  During this time, they received supernatural provision. God provided food from heaven: manna. The word comes from the Hebrew for “What?” or “What is it?” This is a picture of how we […]

Share Button

CrossReads Weekly Devotional: Faith’s Checkbook: The Life-Giving Stream 9/25/2023

Send to Kindle by C. H. Spurgeon And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live”   (Ezekiel 47:9). The living waters, in the prophet’s vision, flowed into the Dead Sea and carried life with them, even into that stagnant lake. Where grace goes, spiritual life is the […]

Share Button

CrossReads Weekly Devotional: Gems from Pastor Jim 9/18/2023

Send to Kindle by Jim Hughes  Matt. 25:10 “But while they were gone to buy oil, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was locked.” If you know the story, you know that there were 10 bridesmaids who were invited to the wedding […]

Share Button

CrossReads Weekly Devotional: Remembering 9/11 9/11/2023

Send to Kindle by Rebekah Beene I remember the morning of 9/11. I was getting ready for work and was watching the news. Of course I thought what a terrible tragic accident that a plane crashed into a building. And then on the way to work I heard on the radio that another accident happened […]

Share Button

CrossReads Weekly Devotional: When the Storms Come 9/4/2023

Send to Kindle by Precarious Yates “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had […]

Share Button

CrossReads Weekly Devotional: Faith’s Checkbook: Out of Any Circumstance 8/28/2023

Send to Kindle by C. H. Spurgeon “As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me”   (Psalm 55:16). Yes, I must and will pray. What else can I do! What better can I do? Betrayed, forsaken, grieved, baffled, O my LORD, I will call upon Thee. My Ziklag is […]

Share Button

CrossReads Weekly Devotional: Gems from Pastor Jim 8/21/2023

by Jim Hughes  Ps. 84:10 A single day in your courts is better than a thousand anywhere else! I would rather be a gatekeeper in the house of my God than live the good life in the homes of the wicked. What kind of desire do you have when you gather with God’s […]

Share Button

CrossReads Weekly Devotional: About Thieves 8/14/2023

Send to Kindle by Rebekah Beene We were so tired of running squirrels away from our bird feeders that we quit putting feed in them for a while. But the other day I just wanted to see some birds, especially the little bluebirds that we have, so I put a scoop of seed in the […]

Share Button

CrossReads Weekly Devotional: Faith’s Checkbook: Perfect Purity 7/24/2023

Send to Kindle by C. H. Spurgeon “He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment”   (Revelation 3:5). Warrior of the cross, fight on! Never rest till thy victory is complete, for thine eternal reward will prove worthy of a life of warfare. See, here is perfect purity for thee! A few in Sardis […]

Share Button