Holidays

How to Focus on Heaven, Not Self, This Holiday Season

Do you easily get caught up with to-do lists or find yourself focusing on stuff rather than God or others around the holidays? Here are some helpful reminders.

What’s in a Name: The Powerful Names of Jesus

Taking time to meditate on the many names of Jesus can enrich your worship.

History Starts and Ends With Jesus

Jesus, our Alpha and Omega, existed before Creation and will return to rule forever. He is the consistency for which our hearts long.

Rescue is Right Around the Corner

When anxiety or discouragement creeps in, I try to remind myself that rescue is just around the corner. This gives me peace and hope.

God With Us

Contemplating Immanuel which means “God with us” gives me a reason to hope in the midst of a world beaten down and burdened.

Celebrate a “First” This Christmas

This Christmas, you can introduce someone to Jesus in a fresh way.

Feeling Alone This Christmas?

A military wife shares her struggles and a hopeful reminder.

12 Ideas to Show Christ’s Love This Christmas

Make sure to spend your holiday the way God would want. Here are some ideas to get you started.

4 Ways to Prepare Your Heart for Christmas

Christmas isn’t just about gatherings and to-do lists, it’s also about our hearts. Here are some ideas to help you prepare your heart and mind for the season.

12 Ideas for Christmas

The Christmas season is a great time to serve others and share about the hope we have in Christ.

Unwelcome Delays or Divine Interruptions?

What if instead of viewing interruptions this Christmas as unwelcome delays, you strive to see them as divine opportunities for inviting others into conversations of some spiritual significance?

A Welcome Form of Evangelism

Going door-to-door with a Bible may be taboo any other time of the year, but during Christmas Season, singing the gospel is still captivating.

How to Share Hope at Christmastime

Do you long to have conversations around the gospel but don’t know how to bring them up? Here are four creative ways to help people know the peace and hope of Christ this holiday season.

How to Talk about Christmas

Here are 5 questions related to the topic of Christmas that you might find of value.

The Other Christmases

Understandings and celebrations of Christmas differ around the globe. Read how Cru staff members celebrate in Japan, Bulgaria, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Silent Night, Lonely Night

Lessons from Siberia on how to survive, even thrive, in dark days.

After-Christmas Conversations About Jesus

Just because Christmas is over doesn't mean you have to stop talking about the greatest gift God has given us in Jesus Christ.

A Different Take on a Beloved Carol

Jesus did not come to liberate us from suffering, but to free our spirits as we go through the suffering that is part of life. He makes it possible for us to connect with God — to know Him personally.

How My Husband's Death Changed the Way I See Easter

A young woman’s perspective on resurrection changed after she suddenly became a widow.

Experiencing Easter Through Your 5 Senses

How do we make the Easter message relevant without diluting it? Try these refreshing ideas incorporating all 5 senses.

Why I Wore Flip Flops to Easter Sunrise Service

Try this easy outreach in your neighborhood this Easter.

10 Easter Outreach Ideas

Here are 10 outreach ideas for you to use this Easter from staff members of Cru.

Prepare Your Heart for Easter

Move beyond the candy and bunnies and prepare your heart for the true meaning of Easter.

Killing lambs? Making sense of the Passover meal

Learn what the Passover meal, the setting of the Lord’s supper, means to us today.

Bringing Easter Back From the Dead

Why does candy sometimes seem more real to me at Easter than the Resurrection?

8 Things That Can Help When Mother’s Day Hurts

Mother’s Day can be difficult if you have a broken or strained relationship with your child. One mother shares how she faces the holiday in the midst of her pain and disappointment.

What to Put On and Off in the New Year

As the New Year begins, I have been thinking about how we are reminded to take off our old selves and clothe ourselves in our true identity in Christ. We are invited to put on our new identity and then to clothe ourselves with things that suit our new identity, such as compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.

Angola

Burundi

Cameroon

Chad

Cote d'ivoire

Congo

Ethiopia

Ghana

Kenya

Liberia

Malawi

Namibia

Nigeria

Rwanda

South Africa

Tanzania

Togo

Uganda

Zimbabwe

Hong Kong

India

Japan

Macau

Mongolia

Philippines

Singapore

South Korea

Taiwan

Thailand

Lebanon

Nepal

Pakistan

Albania

Austria

Belgium

Bulgaria

Estonia

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Ireland

Italy

Latvia

Lithuania

Moldova

Netherlands

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Slovakia

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

UK

Ukraine

Argentina

Brazil

Chile

Colombia

Ecuador

El Salvador

Guatemala

Latinoamérica y El Caribe

Mexico

Panama

Paraguay

Peru

Puerto Rico

Venezuela

Trinidad & Tobago

Canada

United States

Australia

New Zealand

Fiji

Holidays