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1 week ago | 
crosswalk.com | Cindi McMenamin
Your phone is more addictive than you realize. And while we each justify our reasons for panicking when we are without it—or when we think it’s been lost or stolen—our reaction resembles addiction far more than we’d like to admit.
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1 week ago | 
gospel1190.com | Cindi McMenamin
They say opposites attract. Therefore, your introverted spouse is most likely very different from you. That's why sometimes it's difficult for an extrovert (like you and me) to live with an introvert. We tend to think our spouses communicate and respond like us, have the same preferences, and show and interpret love in the same way we do. After nearly 35 years of marriage to a genuine introvert, I've likely made every mistake a wife can make in trying to show love to her husband.
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1 week ago | 
crosswalk.com | Cindi McMenamin
Crosswalk PLUS Video DevotionalWelcome Crosswalk PLUS subscribers! These raw, uncut video takes on Scripture are brought to you ad-free from the hearts of your favorite Crosswalk contributors. We'll examine a Bible verse, application and prayer in five minutes or less as an encouraging way to start any day. Today's verse is Psalm 139:4 with Cindi McMenamin. Before a word is on my tongue you, LORD, know it completely.
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1 week ago | 
crosswalk.com | Cindi McMenamin
Crosswalk PLUS Video DevotionalWelcome Crosswalk PLUS subscribers! These raw, uncut video takes on Scripture are brought to you ad-free from the hearts of your favorite Crosswalk contributors. We'll examine a Bible verse, application and prayer in five minutes or less as an encouraging way to start any day. Today's verse is Psalm 111:10 with Cindi McMenamin. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his precepts have good understanding. To him belongs eternal praise.
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2 weeks ago | 
crosswalk.com | Cindi McMenamin
When Jesus went to the cross, He not only bore our iniquities and became the sacrifice for our sins, but He offered us a new life in Him…a life free of fear, worry, and anxiety. In Philippians 4:6-7 (NLT), we are told: “Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Then, you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand.
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3 weeks ago | 
crosswalk.com | Cindi McMenamin
Shame is a common human emotion. It either clings to us constantly, haunts us at certain times, or tries to nudge us into our minds when we remember something that hurt us or that we did to hurt someone else. Maybe you were teased about your body or shamed for something you said when you were younger. Or perhaps you were carelessly labeled by a parent or cruelly taunted by a bully in middle school, and you’ve let those stinging words define you.
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1 month ago | 
crosswalk.com | Cindi McMenamin
Releasing Control By Cindi McMenaminBible Reading:“You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.” - Isaiah 26:3 ESVIt took me a while, but I’ve finally come to the conclusion that you and I are not in control of our lives as much as we’d like to think we are. I learned this lesson in 2020 after experiencing a series of losses. Thankfully, I didn’t lose anyone close to me during the pandemic. But I did lose other things that hurt deeply.
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1 month ago | 
christianity.com | Cindi McMenamin
Life is full of struggles, difficulties, and seasons of loss and disappointment. Instead of crying out and saying, "Why God," blaming Him for the difficulties, or being upset that He would allow them, I have learned to cling to Him despite them. I now choose to trust His promises, like Romans 8.28-29:"And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.
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1 month ago | 
gospel1190.com | Cindi McMenamin
To some, worship might seem like the 20-minute prelude to the sermon each Sunday morning. Or perhaps it’s a synonym for the gathering of believers: “I’ll see you at the worship service.” “I’m not staying for worship.” “I’ll meet you just after worship.”Yet worship is not confined to music and singing, nor is it limited to a building or gathering of the saints. Worship is anything you and I do to esteem and magnify the worth-ship of God.
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1 month ago | 
crosswalk.com | Cindi McMenamin
God’s Perfect WaysBy Cindi McMenamin Bible Reading:“This God—his way is perfect; the word of the Lord proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.” – Psalm 18:30 ESVThis passage of Scripture tells us all God’s ways are perfect. I understand if there are times you question that. How can a delay, a diagnosis, or a disappointment be perfect?
