Good Friday

"This Blood can save the soul,
heal the sick,
mend the heart.
This Blood can give you access
to the very throne of God.
And it still can go the distance,
through the shame, to where you are.

This Blood is for you;
the Blood of the Lamb."

                                            (--Carmin, This Blood)


  "Words fall like drops of rain...
I say so many things, trying to figure You out.
But as Mercy opens my eyes,
my words are stolen away
by this breathtaking view of Your grace.

...What kind of Love could this be,
that would trade Heaven's throne for a cross?
...It's a Story that's too great for words.

...You have shown us
a love that leaves us
speechless."

                                           (--Steven Curtis Chapman, Speechless)


  50  Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, expired. 51   And behold, the vail of the temple was rent in two, from the top to the bottom: and the earth shook, and the rocks rent; 52  And the graves were opened, and many bodies of saints who slept, arose, 53   And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared to many.

                                                                                   Matthew 27:50 - 53



  "...As if heaven and earth were rendering the homage which they owed to their Creator. "

                                                                                --John Calvin