The Power of the Cross

These beautiful young peole write and sing such meaningful and beautiful music! I just love the lyrics, even without the music...They are so powerful and Christ centered. Just had to share it!

Dyma gariad fel y moroedd

 I guess this should be on the 'Lets Learn' page but I didnt want you to miss this!
Last year when we were studying Wales, I thankfully came across the man singing below; Huw Priday. The song he is singing developed out of the 1904 Welsh Revival. It is an amazing story and well worth researching! We were able to incorporate many 'subjects' in this study~ Geography, Music, we learned the song, language; we learned at least this ONE line of the Welsh language, history as it pertained to our Welsh ancestors...it is such a beautiful song and story I wanted to share it with you! As well, Mr. Priday and his wife have their own wonderful testimony..Let us know what you think!

Here is Love vast as the Ocean

Blessing my husbands vision...

I often warn Christian moms, and myself~to be careful not to build kingdoms
in their lives that don't include their husbands. It is a problem that I see time and time
again. One question I ask myself is , "How can I bless my husbands vision?".
First; recognize that he has one whether it is stated or not.
Second; realize that the Lord placed him over me ~I am
2nd in command not first.
Third; use all of my strengths, talents, and gifts to bless
and to advance his vision.
The Lord has given our husbands the perfect helpmeet! I totally believe that our
willingness to bless our husbands vision~will 'make or break the man'.
May the Lord give me grace to 'make the man', all that the Lord has intended
for him to be~insomuch as it depends upon me.

Contemplate

Here is the power of the cross; Jesus became sin for us....

You have saved the best until now

"Everyone brings out the choice wine first . . . But you have saved the best until now!" John 2:10

The world gives its best first--and the worst comes afterwards! 

It is so in all sinful pleasures: first exhilaration--and then bitter remorse. 

It is so in the chase for wealth, power, and fame: gratification first--and then painful disappointment. At first money brings gladness--a sort of satisfaction. But as time rolls on and wealth increases--cares multiply, anxieties thicken, burdens grow heavier, and at last--the rich man finds that in all his riches, he has less satisfaction than he had in the days when he was just a poor boy!

It is so in all mere worldly ambitions: the first cups of fame are sweet--but soon they pall upon the taste. 

This truth holds especially in the sinful life: we need not deny that at the beginning, sin is sweet--but bitterness is found at the bottom of the cup!

In grace, however, this is reversed--the good wine is kept to the last! Christ Himself first had humiliation, darkness, and the shame of the cross--and then exaltation, power, glory!

In the Christian life, the same law holds:
 
First there comes bitterness--but out of the bitterness, sweetness flows. 

There is first the deep sorrow of penitence--but this gives way to the blessed joy of forgiveness. 

First comes self-denial and cross-bearing--but out of these experiences comes a holy peace which fills all the heart. 

Sorrows are to be endured--but the good wine of comfort is poured into the emptied cup. 

There is also a constant progression in the blessings of the divine life. We never get to the end of them! Indeed, we never get to the best! There is always something better yet to come. Christ keeps the really best wine until the very last--in Heaven! As sweet as Christ's peace now is to the Christian--he will never know the fullness of the love of God, until he gets home to the Father's house! (J.R. Miller, "Daily Bible Readings in the Life of Christ" 1890)