Cross of New Life

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The Cross of New Life is a great gift for a special birthday, wedding, wedding anniversary, or housewarming. The silver-nickel finish of this solid bronze cross symbolizes the saving truth that the cross – once an instrument of humiliation, torture, and death – now has been transformed and “re-purposed” into a symbol of Christ’s definitive victory over death.

A Solid Bronze Cross with Silver-Nickel Finish

This solid bronze cross measures 9 inches high and 7 inches wide. The notch on the back of the cross ensures easy hanging on any wall at home, school, or office. This lovely cross was designed and cast in bronze in a monastery foundry in Germany. The Cross of New Life is an heirloom-quality gift for that special someone in your life.

The Cross of Jesus – A piece of jewelry or home decor?

We are simply much too familiar with the Christian cross. Most of us have grown up with a cross hanging on our bedroom walls, prominently displayed in our churches, and adorning the necks of our friends and family members. Familiarity can breed indifference. We placidly ignore the disturbing fact that the cross was originally an instrument of pure evil, designed specifically only for torture and death, and especially popular and effective as a means of quelling rebellious peoples in occupied lands. The actual cross of Jesus was anything but a “lovely” piece of home decor or jewelry! The cross of Jesus was an ugly, obscene, bloody, violent thing, designed only to lengthen and intensify Jesus’ agony. Yet now this ugly, obscene, cruel instrument of suffering and death has indeed been transformed – “re-purposed” – by Christ’s Resurrection from the dead and definitive defeat of death. We now prominently display “beautiful” crosses in our homes and hang “lovely” crosses around our necks. We can do so because the death’s sway over us has been definitively destroyed by Christ’s Resurrection! Now with Saint Paul we even dare to mock and scorn death: Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting? (I Corinthians 15:55)

The Old Rugged Cross

Text: George Bennard, 1873-1958
Music: George Bennard, 1873-1958

1. On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross,
the emblem of suffering and shame;
and I love that old cross where the dearest and best
for a world of lost sinners was slain.

Refrain:
So I’ll cherish the old rugged cross,
till my trophies at last I lay down;
I will cling to the old rugged cross,
and exchange it some day for a crown.

2. O that old rugged cross, so despised by the world,
has a wondrous attraction for me;
for the dear Lamb of God left his glory above
to bear it to dark Calvary.
(Refrain)

3. In that old rugged cross, stained with blood so divine,
a wondrous beauty I see,
for ’twas on that old cross Jesus suffered and died,
to pardon and sanctify me.
(Refrain)

4. To that old rugged cross I will ever be true,
its shame and reproach gladly bear;
then he’ll call me some day to my home far away,
where his glory forever I’ll share.
(Refrain)

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