Jay Bopp, conversing in the kitchen at 5:46 PM: I've learned this year, am learning, that selfishness never goes away. Selfishness is a crazy horse straining at the reins. More from Jay at 5:48: My mantra this year is, "Welcome inconvenience on behalf of others." I'm not able to do that every day, but I try.
Chuck Simmons, teaching with his wife, Beth, this morning in Sunday school: A close relationship costs me my selfishness.
The Power of the Cross
Words & Music by Getty & Townend
Oh, to see the dawn of the darkest day:
Christ on the road to Calvary.
Tried by sinful men, torn and beaten, then
nailed to a cross of wood.
Oh, to see the pain written on Your face,
Bearing the awesome weight of sin.
Ev'ry bitter thought, Ev'ry evil deed
crowning Your blood-stained brow.
Now the daylight flees, now the ground beneath
quakes as its Maker bows His head.
Curtain torn in two, dead are raised to life;
"Finished!" the vict'ry cry.
Oh, to see my name written in the wounds,
for through Your suffering I am free.
Death is crushed to death, life is mine to live,
Won through Your selfless love.
chorus (1-3):
This, the pow'r of the cross:
Christ became sin for us.
Took the blame, bore the wrath,
we stand forgiven at the cross.
chorus (4):
This, the pow'r of the cross:
Son of God, slain for us.
What a love! What a cost!
we stand forgiven at the cross.