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The Drama of Easter an anthology of royalty-free Easter plays for all ages By Rhonda Wray The Drama of Easter is an anthology of royalty-free Easter plays for all ages. Includes twenty scripts for: Lent, Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter in a variety of formats,including: Tenegrae Service, Sunrise Services Passion Play, Children's Programs Readings and Monologs. Featuring contemporary and traditional dramatic approaches. |
This is God's Beloved Son
This is God's beloved Son
Hanging on the cross
Crowned with thorns
Bloodied brow
It seemed all hope was lost
This is God's beloved Son
Lying in the tomb
Cold as ice
No hint of life
A big stone sealed His doom
The cross couldn't keep Him despite the nails
The tomb, the stone could not prevail
He could not be broken by the wounds though deep
But as proof of His suffering, the scars He did keep
This is God's beloved Son
Behold Him standing there
Nail pierced hands wounded side
Saying "Do not fear"
This is God's beloved Son
Seated at the Father's side
One prayer away
Call on Him today
He'll come in Spirit, to be your guide.
©2006 Mildred Chalmers
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To Fall In Love With God
To fall in love with God is the greatest of all romances To seek Him, the greatest adventure; To find him, the greatest human achievement.
Augustine
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Works And Biography
When I fall in love it will be forever.....
When I give my heart it will be completely...
Nat King Cole
Romans 5: 6-8 (NIV)
You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
1 John 3: 1 (NIV)
How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!
How great the love of God. He loved me long before I was aware of his true existence. He wooed me, chased me, enthralled me and captured my heart. The ultimate demonstration of his true affection for me and His desire that I be his beloved was not in a song, nor a box of chocolate, nor a message emblazed across the sky. There was no cozy dinner by candlelight, no long stemmed roses, yet there were thorns. Yes, there were thorns.
The gruesome death of Jesus Christ could never be described by any stretch of the imagination as a romantic gesture. Adjectives such as raw, desperate, savage, bloody and violent don't even start to paint the picture of that day. Yet that one single act captured my heart more completely than any earthly lover ever will. I am His and I will keep the Cross as a treasured memento in my heart for it is the place the Lover of my Soul truly ensnared my heart forever.
© 2006 Katherine Walden
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Biblical Account of The Betrayal of Christ, his death and his ressurection
Rejoice, O Christian, He Is Risen!!
"Come, see the place where the Lord lay," with joy and gladness. He does not lie there now. Weep, when ye see the tomb of Christ, but rejoice because it is empty. Thy sin slew him, but his divinity raised him up. Thy guilt hath murdered him, but his righteousness hath restored him. Oh! he hath burst the bonds of death, he hath ungirt the cerements of the tomb, and hath come out more than conqueror, crushing death beneath his feet. Rejoice, O Christian, for he is not there—he is risen.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The Spurgeon Archive
Precious Gift
Romans 5:18
Therefore just one man's trespass led to condemnation for all, so one man's act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all.
Through this precious gift from God, all past, present, and future sins are forgiven, what a glorious gift from our Father, by sacrificing his Son for our sins, through His wonderful Grace, after our death we go on living.
We are glorified through His Grace, he will forsake us never, by accepting Jesus Christ as our Savior, and living in his light, we are God's forever.
Our old self was crucified with Christ so that the body of sin was destroyed and we will be no longer enslaved to sin, so by accepting Christ as our savior, through God's Grace, our place in Heaven we will win.
God is there for us, waiting with open arms, and by giving us the most precious gift He could give, His Son to die on the cross so that you and I might live.
I am old, and many things I do not understand, but to walk away from an offer like this, would be the ultimate mistake, by a foolish, misguided man.
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Easter Morning
Friday was the day
It drug on so long
The amount He had to pay
It just seemed all wrong
His body, worn and beat
He stumbled with His cross
Hell's victory, His defeat?
or is it the Devil's loss
They took Him down
placed His body in cloth
the skies wore a frown
With Death, a binding troth?
Now the Sun smiled bright
The grave empty, without warning,
Victory o'r death crowned His fight
Celebrate, For He rose on Easter Morning
©2006 Stephen Wayne Modawell
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My Rights
When You walked into the garden to pray to the Father, You had every right to reject the cup being passed to You.
You had every right to say, "What have they ever done for Me", and absolutely refuse Your plight.
Instead, You said, "Not My will, but Thine be done".
After agonizing, only to return and find Your friends sleeping, You had every right to say, "O.K., forget it".
After all, weren't these the friends for whom You were about to die?
Upon returning a third time and finding these same friends still sleeping, You would have been expected to say, "enough is enough..."
Wouldn't that have been Your right?
When Judas gave You the kiss of death and handed You over to an angry mob, You had every right to call down a legion of angels to slay them all.
Instead, You addressed Judas as "friend" and followed peacefully.
And what about the time You were being mocked before the Sanhedrin, as they were trying to make You prove You were the Son,
All You had to do was snap your fingers and not only one, but many temples would have been raised up... instantly.
You had that right.
When You were being accused by the chief priests and elders, men supposedly of Your own belief - You, the Son of God, being accused of blasphemy,
You had every right to plead Your case.
Instead, You allowed them their day in court.
Then these people, these people for whom you died, released a real criminal in Your place.
They beat You and flogged You until you were hardly recognizable as a man. You were so nearly dead that You couldn't even carry Your own cross.
Couldn't You have just ended it there? Wasn't that Your right?
But no, You took it even one step further.
You allowed Yourself to be crucified... to hang naked and to be stripped of all dignity with the face of Your Father turned completely away.
Where were Your rights?
Since you were the King You did have rights, didn't you?
Yes, You did. You did have rights.
At the Father's right hand
for MY RIGHTS.
Philippians 2:21 - "For everyone looks after his own interests, not those of Jesus Christ." (NIV)
Galatians 2:20 - I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. (NIV)
Philippians 1:21 For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. (NIV)
©1998 Sabrina Polly
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