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We just celebrated Easter, but the cross is an every day Truth. How do we respond to Jesus’ sacrifice for us? Take my life, Lord and use it.

1 Corinthians 15:12-20 (MSG) Now, let me ask you something profound yet troubling…  If there’s no resurrection, there’s no living Christ.  And face it – if there’s no resurrection for Christ, everything we’ve told you is smoke and mirrors, and everything you’ve staked your life on is smoke and mirrors.   Let me pose a…

Hebrews 6:9-10 (NLT) We are confident that you are meant for better things, things that come with salvation.  For God is not unjust.  He will not forget how hard you have worked for Him and how you have shown your love to Him by caring for other believers, as you still do.   I imagine…

Matthew 27:50-51 (NLT) Then Jesus shouted out again, and He released his spirit.  At that moment the curtain in the sanctuary of the Temple was torn in two, from top to bottom.  The earth shook, rocks split apart.   From noon until 3pm, as Jesus hung on the cross, the earth was dark “for the…

John 13:34 (NLT) So now I am giving you a new commandment:  Love each other.  Just as I have loved you, you should love each other.   Maundy Thursday.  The name comes from the Latin ‘commandment’ – this new commandment of love that Jesus illustrated in the washing of the disciples feet.  While knowing suffering…

Luke 19:41-42, 44 (MSG) When the city came into view, He wept over it.  “If you had only recognized this day, and everything that was good for you!  But now it’s too late…. because you didn’t recognize and welcome God’s personal visit.”   Matthew recounts another parable Jesus told in His final days – another…