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| Colton Michael |
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| Colton Michael |
How grateful we are for the beautiful blessing of Colton Michael, first born son of our daughter, Tracy and her husband, Zac, born at 11:42pm on April 5, 2012, the day before Good Friday and Easter Sunday, as I was praying for each of them this morning, I was reminded of the wonderful lyrics of the song Because He Lives by Bill Gaither...
"God sent His son, they called Him, Jesus;
He came to love, heal and forgive;
He lived and died to buy my pardon,
An empty grave is there to prove my Savior lives!
How sweet to hold a newborn baby,
And feel the pride and joy he gives;
But greater still the calm assurance:
This child can face uncertain days because He Lives!
And then one day, I'll cross the river,
I'll fight life's final war with pain;
And then, as death gives way to victory,
I'll see the lights of glory and I'll know He lives!
Because He lives, I can face tomorrow,
Because He lives, all fear is gone;
Because I know He holds the future,
And life is worth the living, Just because He lives!"
“Easter
says you can put truth in the grave but it won’t stay there.”—Clarence W. HallHe lived and died to buy my pardon,
An empty grave is there to prove my Savior lives!
How sweet to hold a newborn baby,
And feel the pride and joy he gives;
But greater still the calm assurance:
This child can face uncertain days because He Lives!
And then one day, I'll cross the river,
I'll fight life's final war with pain;
And then, as death gives way to victory,
I'll see the lights of glory and I'll know He lives!
Because He lives, I can face tomorrow,
Because He lives, all fear is gone;
Because I know He holds the future,
And life is worth the living, Just because He lives!"
“Christ
the Lord is risen to-day,” Sons of men and angels say. Raise your joys and
triumphs high; Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply.”—Charles Wesley
“We
live and die; Christ died and lived!”—John Stott
“The
tomb of Christ is famous because of what it DOES NOT CONTAIN.”—Sam Morris
“The
stone was rolled away from the door, not to permit Christ to come out, but to enable
the disciples to go in.”—Peter Marshall
“The
resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start
over no matter what my circumstances.”—Robert Flatt
“The biggest fact about Joseph’s tomb was that
it wasn’t a tomb at all – it was a room for a transient. Jesus just
stopped there…on His way back to glory.”—Herbert Booth Smith
“Easter
is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless.”—Charles
M. Crowe
“The
resurrection proclamation could not have been maintained in Jerusalem for a
single day, for a single hour, if the emptiness of the tomb had not been
established as a fact.”—Paul Althus
“The
story of Easter is the story of God’s wonderful window of divine surprise.”—Carl
Knudsen
“The
joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world. Still
before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice. But the fact of Easter gives us
the spiritual power to do the work, accept the discipline, and make the
sacrifice.”—Henry Knox Sherrill
Jesus
said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will
live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never
die.”--John 11:25-26
What are you grateful for?
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