![]() This book will bless and encourage you, give you hope, and help you live in the joy of your salvation and the riches of Christ that are yours. ![]() Learn about the riches He gives to all who are His. and as you walk may you be well reminded of that Old Rugged Cross and all it means to you and to me, we who have been saved by the work of Christ on that Cross (Ephesians 1:7).Ī Room with a View of Eternity-The Last Will & Testament of Jesus Christ Take a seat at the Master's table. Maybe the words speak to your heart and cause you to recall that at The Old Rugged Cross “Jesus suffered and died to pardon and sanctify me.” What would be a real shame is if. maybe you are humming the tune as you recall it, repeating its words. Maybe I’ve brought this great old hymn back from the storage area of your memory and made it to be fresh in your thoughts. and I guess I’m of the mind that that just shouldn’t happen. I will cling to the old rugged cross, and exchange it some day for a crown.”Īs I write these words I have a twinge of regret for it seems I have forgotten some of them.(refrain) So I’ll cherish the old rugged cross, Till my trophies at last I lay down.Then He’ll call me some day to my home far away, where His glory forever I’ll share.To the old rugged cross I will ever be true, its shame and reproach gladly bear.For ’twas on that old cross Jesus suffered and died to pardon and sanctify m.In the old rugged cross, stained with blood so divine, a wondrous beauty I see.For the dear Lamb of God left His glory above to bear it to dark Calvary.O that old rugged cross, so despised by the world, has a wondrous attraction for me.And I love that old cross where the dearest and best for a world of lost sinners was slain.“On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross, the emblem of suff’ring and shame.“Too bad for the church” I say, “Too bad they are missing out on the substance that went to make up the hymns of old, the hymns we used to sing”. They often are lacking in any solid doctrinal message that would cause one to ponder great biblical truths . They are usually meant to be upbeat, intended to get people clapping their hands and swaying to the beat of the music. ![]() In today’s church services the songs we sing are often made up of a few choruses that are repeated over and over, choruses that are, in this person’s opinion, often lacking in content. I am one that truly misses the singing of the old hymns. They took Jesus therefore, and He went out, bearing His own cross, to the place called the Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha.
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