It's About the Cross!

This song has really blessed me over the Christmas season!  It really brings out the true meaning of Christmas.  It is truly ALL about the cross.  My favorite line is "the beginning of the story it is wonderful and great but it's the ending that can save you and that's why we celebrate!"

This is a wonderful time of the year to once again witness to the lost and share with them the true meaning of Christmas!

"It's About the Cross"  by Go Fish

It's not just about the manger

Where the baby lay,

It's not all about the angels

Who sang for him that day.

It's not just about the shepherds

Or the bright and shining star,

It's not all about the wisemen

Who travelled from afar.

It's about the cross

It's about my sin

It's about how Jesus came to be born once

So that we could be born again.

It's about the stone

That was rolled away

So that you and I could have real life someday.

It's about the cross

It's about the cross

It's not just about the presents

Underneath the tree

It's not all about the feeling

That the season brings to me

It's not just about coming home

To be with those you love

It's not all about the beauty

In the snow I'm dreaming of

The beginning of the story is wonderful and great,

But it's the ending that can save you and that's why we celebrate

It's about the cross

It's about my sin

It's about how Jesus came to be born once

So that we could be born again

It's about God's love

Nailed to a tree

It's about every drop of blood that flowed from Him when it should have been me!

It's about the stone

That was rolled away

So that you and I could have real life someday

It's about the cross

It's about the cross!

God's Calling and You're the One...

"Do you see, do you see
All the people sinking down
Don't you care, don't you care
Are you gonna let them drown

How can you be so numb
Not to care if they come
You close your eyes
And pretend the job's done

"Oh bless me Lord, bless me Lord"
You know it's all I ever hear
No one aches, no one hurts
No one even sheds one tear

But He cries, He weeps, He bleeds
And He cares for your needs
And you just lay back
And keep soaking it in,
Oh, can't you see it's such a sin?

Cause He brings people to you door,
And you turn them away
As you smile and say,
"God bless you, be at peace"
And all heaven just weeps
Cause Jesus came to your door
You've left him out on the streets

Open up open up
And give yourself away
You see the need, you hear the cries
So how can you delay

God's calling and you're the one
But like Jonah you run
He's told you to speak
But you keep holding it in,
Oh can't you see it's such a sin?

The world is sleeping in the dark
That the church just can't fight
Cause it's asleep in the light
How can you be so dead
When you've been so well fed
Jesus rose from the grave
And you, you can't even get out of bed

Oh, Jesus rose from the dead
Come on, get out of your bed

How can you be so numb
Not to care if they come
You close your eyes
And pretend the job's done
You close your eyes
And pretend the job's done

Don't close your eyes
Don't pretend the jobs done
Come away, come away, come away with Me my love,

Come away, from this mess, come away with Me, my love." -Keith Green

O how marvelous!

I stand amazed in the presence
Of Jesus the Nazarene,
And wonder how He could love me,
A sinner, condemned, unclean.

O how marvelous! O how wonderful!
And my song shall ever be:
O how marvelous! O how wonderful!
Is my Savior’s love for me!

For me it was in the garden
He prayed: “Not My will, but Thine.”
He had no tears for His own griefs,
But sweat drops of blood for mine.

He took my sins and my sorrows,
He made them His very own;
He bore the burden to Calvary,
And suffered and died alone.

When with the ransomed in glory
His face I at last shall see,
’Twill be my joy through the ages
To sing of His love for me.

By Charles H. Gab­ri­el

Christ Is Risen!

Here the bells ringing
They're singing that you can be born again
Here the bells ringing
They're singing Christ is risen from the dead

The angel up on the tombstone
Said He has risen, just as He said
Quickly now, go tell His disciples
That Jesus Christ is no longer dead

Joy to the word, He has risen, hallelujah
He's risen, hallelujah
He's risen, hallelujah

Hear the bells ringing
They're singing that you can be healed right now
Hear the bells ringing, they're singing
Christ, He will reveal it now

The angels, they all surround us
And they are ministering Jesus power
Quickly now, reach out and receive it
For this could be your glorious hour