Devotions

The latest devotions from Crossings Community Church pastors and staff

Lord, Help Us Remember

Marc Taylor | May 28, 2023

Lord, Help Us Remember

I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and y...

Serving Others

Maddie Flores | May 21, 2023

Serving Others

Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. - 1 Peter 4:10Devotion:Sundays at my house growing up were chaotic. It was a mess of brushing t...

Striving to Be Like Mary in a Martha World

Teresa Peden | May 14, 2023

Striving to Be Like Mary in a Martha World

Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth. - Psalm 46:10 Devotion:“As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha...

Give Generously

Jake Meyer | May 7, 2023

Give Generously

All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had. - Acts 4:32Devotion:Read Acts 4:32-37One of my sisters recently got married, so I ...

More than Comfortable

Beth DeGrace | Apr 30, 2023

More than Comfortable

Since Jesus went through everything you’re going through and more, learn to think like him. Think of your sufferings as a weaning from that old sinful habit of always expecting to get your own way. Then you’ll be able to live...

Cleansed

Taylor Rauschkolb | Apr 23, 2023

Cleansed

“Generous in love—God, give grace! Huge in mercy—wipe out my bad record. Scrub away my guilt, soak out my sins in your laundry.” (Psalm 51:1 MSG)Devotion:Like most moms, I’ve spent countless hours watching my kids’ activities...

Transformation Through Christ

Kimberly Dean | Apr 16, 2023

Transformation Through Christ

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” – 2 Corinthians 5:17Devotion:Like a lot of women I know, becoming a mother has transformed the way I see the world. I love chi...

Resurrection Sunday

Deidre Franklin | Apr 9, 2023

Resurrection Sunday

Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to him in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means Teacher). Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I ...

Palm Fronds and Fig Leaves

Skip McKinstry | Apr 2, 2023

Palm Fronds and Fig Leaves

The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them. They brought the donkey and the colt and put on them their cloaks, and he sat on them. Most of the crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the...

Signs of Life

Deidre Franklin | Mar 26, 2023

Signs of Life

The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the...

I Was Blind. Now I See.

Skip McKinstry | Mar 19, 2023

I Was Blind. Now I See.

“I do not know whether he is a sinner. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.” John 9:25 NLTDevotion:Read John 9:1-41Everyone was incredulous. This “man born blind” who now had sight simply did not fit their...

Living Water

Deidre Franklin | Mar 12, 2023

Living Water

Read John 4:1-42 – “The Samaritan Woman”Devotion:Allow me to set the scene for this beautiful gospel story. Jesus was sitting alone near Jacob’s well when a woman from the nearby village arrived to draw water. He was tired be...

Walking Away into New Life

Skip McKinstry | Mar 5, 2023

Walking Away into New Life

The Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you … So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. – Genesis 12:1-4aThere was a Phari...

The Annual Invitation of Lent

Deidre Franklin | Feb 26, 2023

The Annual Invitation of Lent

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin. Hebrews 4:15 NIVDevotion:Read Matthew 4:1-11.Christia...

Ash Wednesday and the Fellowship of Dust

Skip McKinstry | Feb 19, 2023

Ash Wednesday and the Fellowship of Dust

The LORD is like a father to his children,tender and compassionate to those who fear him.For he knows how weak we are;he remembers we are only dust.– Psalm 103:13,14, NLTAnd when you fast, don’t make it obvious, as the hypocr...

The Power to Love

Karlie Grubbs | Feb 12, 2023

The Power to Love

“God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.” —1 John 4:16Devotion:We need God to love God and to love others. When we place our trust in Jesus and declare him Lord of our lives, Jesus promised us his ve...

Love God, Love People

Michael Milligan | Feb 5, 2023

Love God, Love People

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he m...

Open to Opportunity

Cole Grubbs | Jan 29, 2023

Open to Opportunity

”Moses answered, ‘What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, “The LORD did not appear to you”?’ Then the LORD said to him, ‘What is that in your hand?’” – Exodus 4:1-2Devotion:Our daughter, Remi, is (way too qui...

Sharing Restoration

Pam Ingle | Jan 22, 2023

Sharing Restoration

Just as water reflects the face, so one’s life reflects the heart. – Proverbs 27:10Devotion:The human spirit is delicate; it can be influenced in various forms and fashions. The changes can be slow, like the erosion of a sand...

Fix Your Eyes on Jesus

Scott Bartlow | Jan 15, 2023

Fix Your Eyes on Jesus

Therefore since we are surrounded by such great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder...

Renewal

Jenny Brown | Jan 8, 2023

Renewal

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 2 Corinthians 5:17Devotion:Renewal. Even the mention of the word brings to mind new growth, fresh start, and spring f...

Rest

Paige Adams | Jan 1, 2023

Rest

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. 3 So God blessed th...

The Miraculous and the Mundane

Jill Poe-Thompson | Dec 25, 2022

The Miraculous and the Mundane

“The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood. We saw the glory with our own eyes, the one-of-a-kind glory, like Father, like Son, generous inside and out, true from start to finish.” John 1:14 (The Messag...

Something Special

Beth DeGrace | Dec 18, 2022

Something Special

I thank my God every time I remember you. In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy. Philippians 1:3 NIVDevotion:I was not on good terms with “joy” for most of my life. I wanted to know joy. I wanted to know wh...