New Year

Resolving to Renew the Broken Pieces of Our Culture

Resolving to Renew the Broken Pieces of Our Culture

If you and I are “immersed in” Jesus across the new year, we can be catalysts for the moral and spiritual renewal our broken culture needs so desperately. But only then.

Top 10 Headlines of 2023

Top 10 Headlines of 2023

Crosswalk Headlines Top 10 Headlines of 2023! News from a prayerful perspective.

How to Maintain Our “Holiday Spirit” All Year Round

How to Maintain Our “Holiday Spirit” All Year Round

What if we decided that the holiday treatment we restrict to a season would become year-round? What would our communities, families, and lives look like then?

New Year's Resolutions for American Politicians

New Year's Resolutions for American Politicians

I stopped making New Year’s resolutions for myself a few years ago. I found them to be pointless goals that I was not going to chase just because the calendar flipped. Instead, I use the New Year to examine my weekly rhythms and routines to see what I need to change.

My personal disavowal of New Year’s resolutions does not extend to other people. No public figures are coming to me for advice, but if they were, these are the New Year’s resolutions I would recommend.

An Empowering Mantra for the New Year

An Empowering Mantra for the New Year

The best way to prepare for the hard times sure to come is to place our lives in God’s hand today and each day as each day comes.

Will God Lead Me into My Best Life in the New Year?

Will God Lead Me into My Best Life in the New Year?

We find thousands of examples of his kindness and compassion throughout the Bible, encounters where his miraculous mercy and benevolent grace carved his name on the hearts of his followers. We can remember scores of times when he answered our prayers, forgave our sins, and met our needs as well. And yet, if you’re like me, there is this nagging doubt in the back of your mind, this unstated but persistent question: Will he do it again? Will God do for me in the future what he has done for us in the past? Will he meet my needs in the new year, whatever they turn out to be? Will he lead me into my very best life? Will he redeem my struggles and faults? Will he carve his name on my heart in love?

Some Potential Resolutions for Our Government Agencies and Elected Leaders

Some Potential Resolutions for Our Government Agencies and Elected Leaders

As we close out 2021 and get ready to start 2022, I would like to suggest some new year's resolutions for some of our government leaders and agencies. If they follow my advice, I think they – and the rest of us – will have a much better 2022.

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