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“While the world changes, the cross stands firm.”
“To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who does not control his Son's suffering? But another sound can be heard: the shout of a God cryi...”
“In the Cross is salvation; in the Cross is life; in the Cross is protection against our enemies; in the Cross is infusion of heavenly sweetness; in the Cross is strength of mind; in the Cross is jo...”
“The gifts of the Master are these: freedom, life, hope, new direction, transformation, and intimacy with God. If the cross was the end of the story, we would have no hope. But the cross isn't the e...”
“He, the Life of all, our Lord and Saviour, did not arrange the manner of his own death lest He should seem to be afraid of some other kind. No. He accepted and bore upon the cross a death inflicted...”
“God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing else.”
“God has chosen to save the world through the cross, through the shameful andpowerless death of the crucified Messiah. If that shocking event is therevelation of the deepest truth about the characte...”
“I'll look to the crossAs my failure is lostIn the light ofYour glorious grace”
“Let the ruins come to lifeIn the beauty of Your nameRising up from the ashesGod forever You reign”
“All crosses had their tops cut and became T's. There was also a thing called God.”
“Suffering invites us to place our hurts in larger hands. In Christ we see God suffering for us. And calling us to share in Gods suffering love for a hurting world. The small and even overpowering ...”
“Crossing the limit is not my styleMy footsteps meander less than a mileI travel the world perhaps in a minuteYet a dream, to me, is never infinite!”
“Shame is embarrassment multiplied against itself until it dies under its own weight and we with it. Forgiveness is freedom multiplied against the Cross until it flies under its own liberation and w...”
“A man may indeed be an honest man; but the folly of sacrifice, of virginity, of devotedness, of martyrdom, arises only from faith in the folly of the Cross.”
“Jesus incarnation and ministry thus present us with the final critique of strategic religion; on the cross, where we see God almost deliberately lose as if duped into being strung up by a scheming...”
“Our work in the world calls for many hands at the wheel. Planet earth is crying out in pain, and Christians have to pick up their crosses and follow Christ, his apostles and saints. These were all ...”
“A leaders cross is the temporal pain they go through and his crown is the permanent gain when at last victory is achieved.”
“Prayer is meant to happen everywhere. After all, Daniel prayed in the lions den. Jonah prayed in a fishs stomach. Elijah prayed in the desert. And Jesus prayed on the cross.”
“Never let someone who draws a line and say you can't cross it intimidate you. Don't be discouraged when someone says you can't do it. You might have been the only one sent to do it.”
“He was without any comforts of God no feeling that God loved him nofeeling that God pitied him no feeling that God supported him. God was hissun before now that sun became all darkness He was w...”
