Posts Tagged ‘crucifixion’

Why Care About Easter?

Posted: March 30, 2013 in bereavement, cross, death, Easter, family, friendship, Health, heaven, life, love, music, pray, prayer, religion
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What does Easter mean to you?

For me Easter is all about sacrifice, the sacrifice that Jesus made for each one of us on the cross when he bled and died, just so we can all be forgiven of our sins. I find it almost impossible to truly understand the pain and agony Jesus suffered when he was crucified.

Can you imagine how God felt, giving up his one and only son, just so the world could be forgiven of every sin?

Personally I struggle to comprehend how God must have felt, but I am forever in God’s debt because He did allow Christ to die on the cross.

As with every Easter, I feel so inadequate and so unworthy of God’s love. However I am  also so thankful that God does love me unconditionally, and He is always by my side, guiding me and supporting me through each minute of every day, and challenge and problem life throws in my direction.

So if Easter has only ever been about two days off school or work and Easter eggs, I pray this Easter I have given you some food for thought about what Easter is really all about…

Easter is all about “The Cross” and the sacrifice God gave for you and for me.

Crucified
Laid behind a stone
You lived to die
Rejected and alone
Like a rose
Trampled on the ground
You took the fall
And thought of me
Above all

Never In Doubt

Posted: April 12, 2012 in cross, Easter, holiday, life, love, music, religion
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As far as I’m concerned, the reason we celebrate Easter has never been in doubt. However I do appreciate that for those of you who have never been told all about Jesus and how much He loves each one of us, you may still doubt why Christians celebrate Easter.

It’s all about love…

It’s all about God’s love for us…

It’s all about God’s Son, Jesus…

It’s all about a crown of thorns…

It’s all about a cross…

It’s all about His blood shed for you and for me…

It’s all about our forgiveness.

Do They Know It’s Easter?

Posted: April 7, 2012 in cross, Easter, family, friendship, heaven, holiday, life, love, music, religion, school, work
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You’re probably thinking, what a stupid questions, of course everyone knows it’s Easter! However I guess the question I’m really asking is do they know the reason why we celebrate Easter?

Have a think about all your family, friends, work/school mates and your neighbours, what percentage of them do you think are celebrating the Christ‘s resurrection this Easter?

If like me, you know and are in regular contact with many people who are either unaware of the real Easter message or are aware of the Easter message but do not celebrate it. As a Christian I recognise that this weekend, Easter weekend, is a good a time of year as any other, to tell those I’m in contact with that Easter is all about the cross, Christ’s crucifixion, His resurrection and ascension to heaven…and that was all for us!

Have you spread the message of Easter this year?

It’s not to late to do so now, because it’s never to late to come to the foot of the cross and seek Christ there.

At the cross I bow my knee
Where for me you shed your blood
There’s no great love than this
You have overcome the grave
Your glory fills the highest place
What can separate me now
 

His Hands

Posted: April 6, 2012 in blogging, cross, Easter, Health, holiday, life, love, music, religion
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Good Friday…why do we call today “good” Friday, when on this day we remember the pain and the agony Christ suffered for us when He died on a cross.

It’s a fabulous Friday simply because of that pain and agony Christ suffered for us when He died on a cross. After all, as I’ve said already this last week, if Jesus hasn’t been born, if He hadn’t been crucified and if He hadn’t risen from the dead, there would be no Easter, and we would not have been forgiven of all our sins.

His Hands by Kenneth Cope
 
His hands tools of creation
Stronger than nations
Power without end
And yet through them we find our truest friend
His hands sermons of kindness
Healing men’s blindness
Halting years of pain
Children waiting to be held again
 
His hands would serve his whole life though
Showing man what hands might do
Giving, ever giving, endlessly
Each day was filled with selflessness
And I’ll not rest until I make up my hands what they could be
’til these hands become like those from Galilee
 
His hands lifting a leper
Warming a beggar
Calling back the dead
Breaking bread, five thousand fed
His hands
Hushing contention
Pointing to heaven
Ever free of sin
Then bidding man to follow him
 
His hands would serve his whole life though
Showing man what hands might do
Giving, ever giving, endlessly
Each day was filled with selflessness
And I’ll not rest until I make up my hands what they could be
’til these hands become like those from Galilee
 
His hands clasped in agony
As he lay pleading,
Bleeding in the garden
While just moments away
Other hands betray him
Out of greed, shameful greed
And then his hands are trembling
Straining to carry the beam that they’ve been led to
As he stumbles through the streets
Heading towards the hill on which he died
He would die
They take his hands,
His mighty hands,
Those gentle hands
And then they pierce them, they pierce them
He lets them, because of love
From birth to death was selflessness
And clearly now I see Him
With his hands calling to me
And though I’m not yet as i would be
He has shown me how i could be
I will make my hands like those from Galilee

Powerful, powerful words in this song. The words of which reminds us that Christ lives a selfless life and His hope for each one of us, is that His life, and His death, will not have been in vain.

Let’s give our lives for Christ today, by kneeling at the foot of His cross, and giving our hearts and our whole life to God.

The Most Important Event

Posted: April 4, 2012 in cross, Easter, friendship, life, love, music, news, prayer, religion
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John 11:25 (NLT)

Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life.[a] Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying.

Maybe I’ve read it somewhere, or someone has told me, but I seem to think I’ve heard that the resurrection of Jesus has been investigated and examined more times that many other events in history.

To me that tells me that people are either more desperate to prove Christ’s resurrection actually happened, or conversely, there are more skeptics who are willing to try to prove it all a huge hoax.

Either way, it gives the events of that first Easter more air-time and surely as Christians we should be happy for the opportunity to discuss and convince others who do not believe in Christ, that He did die at Calvary just so we could be forgiven.

Hank Hanegraaff said:

You see, without resurrection there is no hope. Indeed, without resurrection, there is no Christianity.

How true is that!

If Jesus hadn’t been born; if Jesus hadn’t been crucified; if Jesus hadn’t risen from the grave…just think what sort of state this world would be in!

It’s Getting Earlier

Posted: April 2, 2012 in blogging, children, cross, Easter, family, Food, friendship, holiday, life, love, religion
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Next weekend is Easter when I’m sure many of you will be enjoying the odd Easter egg. But have you noticed how as soon as Christmas is over these days the shops seem to start trying to get us to buy Easter eggs?

Do they think we’re going to buy Easter eggs in January, eat them then, then buy more nearer Easter? I’m sure some people do, but I hope that’s not what most of us do.

Looking at the other part of Easter, the real reason we celebrate it, do we start celebrating Easter earlier every year?

I hope that like me, you celebrate the real reason for Easter, Christ’s crucifixion and subsequent resurrection, all year round. After all Christ isn’t just a Christmas and Easter saviour, he’s a saviour for us all, every day of the year!

Nail Them!

Posted: August 30, 2011 in Bellshill, church, family, friendship, life, love, music, religion, Rutherglen, Salvation Army
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Galatians 5:24-25 (New Living Translation)

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there. Since we are living by the Spirit, let us follow the Spirit’s leading in every part of our lives.

This bible passage fits in very well both with what I said in yesterday’s blog post One Life, and also with my thoughts for today…

Since last Thursday I’ve found myself spending a lot of time contemplating where I am in my spiritual journey…Has my life stagnated, or am I more eager than ever to learn more about God, and pull the whole of my life into His hands?

My spiritual life has definitely not stagnated in the last few years, but has grown in strength during some very difficult times in my life. Though having said that, I was in the depths of despair for a long time, I thought God had deserted me…but unsurprisingly, He proved to me that He was there, He had always been there, and He always would be there for me.

But have I really nailed all my sins to the cross and left them there? Have I really given Him my whole life?

Truthfully, my answer must be “no”. However I believe God has helped me recognised this fact so that I can move forward in my relationship with Him by giving everything I have to Him.

How about you, have you nailed all your sinful passions and desires to the cross and left them there? Are you living every part of your life for Jesus, and Jesus alone?

Now is the time for you, and me, to start anew, and give our all to God.

I pray you will find blessing and inspiration to take your all to the cross, as you listen to the following song, To Thy Cross I Come, Lord by The International Staff Songsters of The Salvation Army:


Unbelievable

Posted: April 24, 2011 in bible, cross, Easter, family, friendship, Health, heaven, life, love, music, religion
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Resurrection:

  • The act of rising from the dead or returning to life.
  • The state of one who has returned to life.
  • The act of bringing back to practice, notice, or use; revival.
  • The rising again of Jesus on the third day after the Crucifixion.
Can you imagine going to visit the grave of a loved one, and finding that they were no longer there?

Matthew 28:1-6 (The Message)

After the Sabbath, as the first light of the new week dawned, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to keep vigil at the tomb. Suddenly the earth reeled and rocked under their feet as God‘s angel came down from heaven, came right up to where they were standing. He rolled back the stone and then sat on it. Shafts of lightning blazed from him. His garments shimmered snow-white. The guards at the tomb were scared to death. They were so frightened, they couldn’t move.

The angel spoke to the women: “There is nothing to fear here. I know you’re looking for Jesus, the One they nailed to the cross. He is not here. He was raised, just as he said. Come and look at the place where he was placed.

Jesus had predicted He would rise from the grave, but did anyone really believe He would? I think most people would have found it hard to believe Jesus would rise from the dead, even although everything else Jesus had ever predicted had already come true.

In the same way that Jesus knew before His death that He would rise again, God has planned every moment of our lives before we were even born. All God asks in return is that we put our trust fully in him as He will be there to look after us during each minute of our lives.

 

Everyone Can Come

Posted: April 21, 2011 in cross, Easter, family, friendship, life, love, music, religion
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The cross is a universal sign for forgiveness and love. A deep love that God showed the world when He sent His only son to earth where He was crucified, just so you and I could be forgiven for every sin we’ve ever committed.

Do you feel as though God couldn’t possibly love you because of the all the things you’ve done in your life? Well you’re wrong, God loves each and every one of us, and He is ready and waiting to welcome every one of us into His arms. This is not just something I’m making up, but something that God has promised us through His son Jesus:

When he served as a sacrifice for our sins, he solved the sin problem for good—not only ours, but the whole world’s. (1 John 2:2 – The Message)

Today take the time to give all your sins to God, because He’s ready and waiting for you to reach out to Him.

Come To The Cross by Michael W Smith

Mourner, wherever you are
Wherever you are at the cross there is room
Tell your burdened heart
Your burdened heart at the cross there is room
Tell it in the Savior’s ear
Cast away your every fear
Only speak and He will hear

Hallelujah, everyone
Everyone can come to the cross
It doesn’t matter what you’ve done
Everyone can come to the cross

Sinner, come today
Come today, at the cross there is room
Blessed thought for everyone
For everyone can come to the cross
Now a living fountain, see
Open there for you and me
For rich and poor, for bond and free

Hallelujah, everyone
Everyone can come to the cross
It doesn’t matter what you’ve done
Everyone can come to the cross

Music Interlude

Tell it in the Savior’s ear
Cast away your every fear
Only speak and He will hear

The Message of the Cross

Posted: April 20, 2011 in Easter, friendship, life, love, music, religion
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Have you heard the message of the cross?

Whether you have heard the message of the cross before, or you’ve never heard it before, please listen and watch the following video which tells the message of the cross in a way I hope you can understand.

The Message of the Cross by Delirious

This is the message of the cross, that we can be free,
To live in the victory, and turn from our sin,
My precious Lord Jesus, with sinners you died,
For there you revealed your love and you laid down your life.

This is the message of the cross, that we can be free,
To lay all our burdens here, at the foot of the tree,
The cross was the shame of the world,
but the glory of God,
For Jesus you conquered sin and you gave us new life!

You set me free when I came to the cross,
Poured out your blood for I was broken and lost,
There I was healed and you covered my sin,
It’s there you saved me, this is the message of the cross.

This is the message of the cross, that we can be free,
To hunger for heaven, to hunger for Thee,
“The cross is such foolishness to the perishing,
But to us who are being saved, it is the power of God!”

You set us free when we come to the cross,
You pour out your blood for we are broken and lost.
Here we are healed and you cover our sin,
It’s here you save us,

You set me free when I come to the cross,
Pour out your blood for I am broken and lost
Here I am healed and you cover my sin,
It’s here you save me, this is the message of the cross.

Let us rejoice at the foot of the cross,
We can be free, glory to God.

Thank you Lord, thank you Lord,
You’ve set us free, glory to God.

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