All posts tagged devotional

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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Faith’s Checkbook: Like Palm and Cedar 9/19/2023

Send to Kindle by C. H. Spurgeon “The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon”   (Psalm 92:12) These trees are not trained and pruned by man: palms and cedars are “trees of the LORD,” and it is by His care that they flourish. Even so it is […]

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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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Why Do You Go To Church? 9/12/2023

by Robin McKinley Is going to church with the wrong motive right or wrong? The answer should be pretty simple. Here goes, it all depends. Maybe we should ask, it all depends on what? What reasons do you have for attending church? Let us meet together inside the Temple of God and bolt […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Faith’s Checkbook: Love and Seek True Wisdom 8/22/2023

by C. H. Spurgeon “I love them that love Me; and those that seek Me early shall find Me” (Proverbs 8:17) Wisdom loves her lovers and seeks her seekers. He is already wise who seeks to be wise, and he has almost found wisdom who diligently seeks her. What is true of wisdom in […]

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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 […]

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Our Christian Faith Should Embrace Honesty 8/15/2023

by Robin McKinley Throughout the Bible, God has revealed many devastating events. We’ll find most of them in the Old Testament, but the New Testament has its share also.  One of those events happened in Acts chapter 5. This story is about a man called Ananias along with his wife Sapphira. Chapter 4 […]

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