Soldiers compelled Simon to carry the cross of Jesus, but the love of Jesus compels us to take up our cross and follow Him. In part 2 of Easter 2015, Pastor Dan Cox reads from Mark 15:16-41 and Matthew 16:24-27.
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A religious women upon waking up each morning would open her front door stand on the porch and scream, “Praise the lord.” This infuriated her atheist neighbor who would always make sure to counter back, “there is no Lord.”
One morning the atheist neighbor overheard his neighbor praying for food, thinking it would be funny, he went and bought her all sorts of groceries and left them on her porch. The next morning the lady screamed, “praise the Lord, who gave me this food.”
The neighbor laughing so hard he could barely get the words out screamed “it wasn’t the Lord, it was me.” The lady without missing a beat screamed “praise the Lord for not only giving me food but making the atheist pay for it!!”
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God, in Your goodness give me Yourself, for You are enough for me. And only in You do I have everything. Amen. – Julian of Norwich
[You know, when you think about it, there’s more truth than poetry here. Think about it…. Is He “showing through” in your life? – Rick]
One day on the way home from church a little girl turned to her mother and said, “Mommy, the preacher’s sermon this morning confused me.”
The mother said, “Oh! Why is that?
The girl replied, "Well, he said that God is bigger than we are. Is that true?”
“Yes, that’s true,” the mother replied.
“He also said that God lives within us. Is that true too?”
Again the mother replied, “Yes.”
“Well,” said the girl. “If God is bigger than us and he lives in us, wouldn’t He show through?”
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Is King Jesus the King of your heart? In part 1 of Easter 2015, Pastor Dan Cox reads from Matthew 21:1-11.
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by Max Lucado • March 26
Four soldiers. One criminal. One cross. Simon, a
farmer, stands among the crowd and can’t see the man’s face, only a head
wreathed with thorny branches. Jesus stops in front of Simon and heaves
for air, the beam rubbing against an already-raw back.
“His name is Jesus,” someone speaks. “Move on!” commands the
executioner. But Jesus can’t. The beam begins to sway. Simon
instinctively extends his strong hands and catches the cross. “You! Take
the cross.” Simon dares to object. “I don’t care,” the soldier says,
“Take up the cross!” And Simon did literally what God calls us to do
figuratively: take up the cross and follow Jesus. Luke 9:23
says, “If any of you want to be my followers, you must forget yourself.
You must take up your cross each day and follow me.”
From On Calvary’s Hill
