Category: Cross
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Take Up Your Cross
I have had the opportunity to walk the famed Via Dolorosa, the “Way of Suffering.” This was the path walked by Jesus through the streets of Jerusalem on the morning as he headed to the cross. It’s not a lengthy route, half of a mile, from Rome’s Antonia Fortress to the execution site called Golgotha. […]
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A Tree Of Liberty
“Jesus is Lord,” is one of those phrases that gets tossed around a fair amount, like “In God We Trust,” or “God Bless America.” With tremendous enthusiasm, it is warbled like a motto in our Christian prayers and worship, and it is printed on everything from t-shirts, coffee mugs, bumper-stickers, and refrigerator magnets. And most […]
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Fight Like A Butterfly
Decades ago, while speaking of an upcoming championship bout, Muhammad Ali constructed a poetic couplet of epic proportions. With glitzy words corresponding to his style both in and out of the ring, “The Greatest” claimed he would “Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee,” because his opponent’s “hands can’t hit what his eyes […]