Cross Talk

Author: Steve Dennis

  • Monday Meditation: James 5:13

    This week’s meditation is on James 5:13: Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise.

  • Sunday Morning Praise Song: ‘Jesus Paid it All’

    Sing to the Lord, all the earth! Tell of his salvation from day to day. (1 Chronicles 16:23 ESV) This week’s praise song is “Jesus Paid it All” by Kim Walker-Smith.

  • The Parable of the Dishonest Manager

    The parable of the dishonest manager comes to us in Luke, and for me this was one of the hardest parables to understand. I kept asking myself: why would Jesus be commending or praising the manager’s immoral behavior and dishonesty?…

  • Throwback Thursday: Receive the Kingdom of God Like a Child

    Originally published on August 22, 2025 Skeptics like to use this verse as an ad hominem attack against Christians, saying you have to be simple-minded and just blindly follow religion without rationalizing or thinking about it.

  • Wednesday’s Watch: How to Answer ‘Science Disproves God’

    In this week’s Wednesday’s Watch is Frank Turek answering a Christian’s question on how to answer a person who believes science disproves God.

  • Monday Meditation:

    This week’s meditation is on Isaiah 58:11: And the Lord will guide you continually     and satisfy your desire in scorched places     and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden,     like a spring of water,     whose waters do not…

  • Sunday Morning Praise Song: ‘Flowers’

    Sing to the Lord, all the earth! Tell of his salvation from day to day. (1 Chronicles 16:23 ESV) This week’s praise song is Phil Wickham and Jamie MacDonald singing “Flowers.”

  • The Stormy Sea and the Safety of the Shore

    A young man began his journey on the Sea of Life like so many of us do. He left his father and his mother, stepped into his Life Boat and struck out on his own with his new wife. Everything…

  • Throwback Thursday: I Lay it Down of My Own Accord

    Originally published on June 20, 2025.

  • Wednesday’s Watch: How to Address ‘Problems’ with the Resurrection

    Last week I said I would try to post the next part of an interview with J Warner. This is another video from the same interview, however I don’t think this is the next video in the series. In this…