The Cross (111)
  1. No, when the Lord is ready for battle, of all creatures, he commissions Mary’s little lamb.
  2. That man you see on the tree—he is the re-Genesis of the world. He has come to remake us alive and free and beautiful on the Friday of his crucifixion.
  3. Cindy’s tragedy was that she was blind to the Christ from whom all her good gifts came.
  4. 700 years before the first Noel, the prophet Isaiah prophesied that Christ would bear our grief and deliver us in grace. Scholars often refer to Isaiah 52:13-53:12 as the "fifth gospel" because it describes both that Christ was crucified and why Christ was crucified with incredible detail.
  5. We are like the spoiled children of kings who spit in the face of paupers on the street. We have been given so much, yet we treasure so little.
  6. There has only been one baptism in the history of the world: the baptism of Jesus. “One Lord, one faith, one baptism.”
  7. Whether she realized it or not, this Egyptian woman was at war with the Lord of Israel. Her will was pitted against His will. Her desires were battling God’s desires. Joseph was caught in the crossfire.
  8. Over the course of her career, Madonna has demonstrated an incredible commitment to reinvention, keeping herself relevant under the critical eye that accompanies the culture of constant change in the world of music and art.
  9. Jesus was not killed in Bethlehem as a baby, or in Galilee or Samaria as an adult. He couldn’t be, for it was necessary for him to die in Jerusalem, where Moriah is.
  10. In front of us, in the past, is the hill upon which God has already defeated every foe we might face. On that bloody beam the heel of Christ crushed the head of the lying serpent.
  11. The more law-centered a church becomes, the more it and the world become kissing cousins.
  12. And there was heard, all round the world, the boom of a pounding hammer. And there resounded, all around the world, the cry of a righteous man who prayed for an unrighteous world.
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