All posts in category CrossReads Weekly Devotional

CrossReads Weekly Devotional: Faith’s Checkbook: Heavenly Alchemy 11/27/2023

Send to Kindle by C. H. Spurgeon “Your sorrow shall be turned into joy”   (John 16:20). Their particular sorrow was the death and absence of their LORD, and it was turned into joy when He rose from the dead and showed Himself in their midst. All the sorrows of saints shall be thus transmuted, […]

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CrossReads Weekly Devotional: Gems from Pastor Jim 11/20/2023

Send to Kindle by Jim Hughes  Ps. 94:17-19 Unless the LORD had helped me, I would soon have died. I cried out, “I’m slipping!” and your unfailing love, O LORD, supported me. When doubts filled my mind, your comfort gave me renewed hope and cheer. Have you ever felt like you were slipping? Sometimes life […]

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CrossReads Weekly Devotional: Be Persistent and Don’t Stop 11/13/2023

Send to Kindle by Rebekah Beene Yesterday while we were working inside and out of the house, our fur baby,Rocky saw his opportunity to run out the door. Fortunately, he headed straight for the car, thinking he was going to get a ride. I got him back in the house. But a few hours later […]

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CrossReads Weekly Devotional: Gems from Pastor Jim 10/30/2023

Send to Kindle by Jim Hughes   Ps. 89:15 Happy are those who hear the joyful call to worship, for they will walk in the light of your presence, LORD. Worship is not confined to one day a week. Worship happens whenever we turn our hearts and mind to the Lord. Worship does not depend […]

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Faith’s Checkbook: Plead His Own Promise 10/23/2023

Send to Kindle   by C. H. Spurgeon “Thou, O LORD God, hast spoken it: and with Thy blessing let the house of Thy servant be blessed for ever”   (2 Samuel 7:29). This is a promise pleaded, and so it yields double instruction to us. Anything which the LORD God has spoken we should […]

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CrossReads Weekly Devotional: Gems from Pastor Jim 10/16/2023

Send to Kindle by Jim Hughes    Ps. 115:1 Not to us, O LORD, but to you goes all the glory for your unfailing love and faithfulness. We are not as careful as we should be about accepting the praise and adoration of others. We like the attention and sometimes let it go to our […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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