Taking a Closer Look
This is the picture of a peach tree branch that gives such beautiful flowers. Flowers full of color, full of life, promising fruit. We walk by this tree everyday, it is in our backyard, but to see...
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“Obedience always involves death. And death always produces the life that glorifies God” “The cross reminds us that Christianity is about God, not us. The cross reveals a radical orientation, unknown...
View ArticleA Cross where the Christmas Tree was
In the same place where we had our Christmas Tree, we now have the cross with art images . Jesus was born to die. He was born as a baby to grow and die; to atone for the sins of many. Reminders,...
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“Jesus journey to Jerusalem is our journey, and if he set his face to go there and die, we must set our face to die with Him” He Set His Face to Go to Jerusalem, a sermon by John Piper @ Desiring God....
View ArticleThe Road to Calvary
Jesus had to walk on the road to Calvary day by day, suffering, praying, seeking times of solitude. He had to face the cross. He had to drink the cup of wrath which God had set before Him. He walked...
View ArticleKeeping a Cross Centered Life in a Full House
Megan said “I don’t want to miss Him! I’m purposing to purposefully see Him in all and purposefully stop throughout the day to talk with Him about it” And this is exactly what has been in my heart…...
View ArticleThis Fathomless Love
This song says what is in my heart today as I gaze at the cross. May your day be filled with His amazing, fathomless love. May the Holy Spirit draw you to Him, and may His irresistable grace...
View ArticleFriday…Waiting
I am learning not to rush, Resurrection Sunday will come. Victory is near. The devil has been crushed. Today as we read the gospel, I read slowly, word by word, not in a rush, but as if it were the...
View ArticleWaiting in the Secret
“When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also was a disciple of Jesus. He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to...
View ArticleThe Tomb is Empty
“For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in...
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