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We have two choices when we are experiencing worry and anxiety. We can carry it alone or cast it on Jesus and share it. Toddlers carry all their anxiety alone and try to do it themselves. Mature Christ followers share the burden. Cast your burden on ...

Dealing with Difficult People - The Crosswalk Devotional - October 12

I spent two years at the bottom of a pit called clinical depression. The people of the church helped me climb out of that pit. God's Word tells us how we can help the depressed, but the church's people put God's healing plan into action. Here are seven wa...

We not only have to receive grace, but we've got to rehearse grace because we quickly default back to a perverted vision of what grace is. We don't fully realize what grace is, so we have to rehearse it. Grace is not natural to us. I don't know about you,...

When God makes a plan, God also makes a way. That is who our Father is. That is what our Father does. We can look back at moments of crisis and pain and see how God showed up. So let's take this one step further....

And because this is a practice, it will feel clunky and impossible when you first start. And you will make excuses as to why this may work for others but will never work for you. Then, you will try it and say it doesn’t work, because some days it doesn’t....

Mary Southerland is also the Co-founder of Girlfriends in God, a conference and devotion ministry for women. Mary’s books include, Hope in the Midst of Depression, Sandpaper People, Escaping the Stress Trap, Experiencing God’s Power in Your Ministry,...

5 Ways to Win the War With Temptation,Mary Southerland - Read more about spiritual life growth, Christian living, and faith.