I love this song, because it reminds me that Jesus is God’s Son, and how much it must have broken God’s heart to see His Son suffering and dying like that. It also shows the power of love – God’s love. This is from the Newsong album “People Get Ready”. You can read it like a poem story. Arise, My Love Not a word was heard at the tomb that day. Just shuffling of soldiers feet as they guarded the…
Parts of this are a reprint from March 25, 2005 An African-American spiritual, “Were You There?” Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Oh! Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble. Were you there when they crucified my Lord? We sang that song in choir. The deep, low notes of the “tremble, tremble, tremble” part always make me shiver. Two Good Friday/Easter hymns that I love: When I Survey the…
It was a delightful trip but seemed too short. Paul and I, along with Lewis and Ebony, drove back to Atlanta last night. We are so glad to be home. I wasn’t feeling all that well, so we stopped at exit 5 and checked out the $3 bookstore. That made me happy and I felt much better afterwards. I picked up a book about a subject on which I am intending to write a blog post in the near future….
I pause from Christmas celebrations to remember the reason why we are celebrating… About that time Caesar Augustus ordered a census to be taken throughout the Empire. This was the first census when Quirinius was governor of Syria. Everyone had to travel to his own ancestral hometown to be accounted for. So Joseph went from the Galilean town of Nazareth up to Bethlehem in Judah, David’s town, for the census. As a descendant of David, he had to go there….
Greetings from warm, sunny, HUMID Florida! :-p I completely misprepared for my trip and only brought shoes and no sandals. It’s so warm here that the thought of stuffing my feet in socks just makes me want to shudder. However, I have enjoyed being with my family, and of course being with Paul. I have been showing him all the Christmas memories I grew up with (like Peter Spier’s Christmas), which has been fun. Last night I got to see…