EASTER GREETINGS

[JEM]

GREETINGS THIS AND EVERY EASTER
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Each year for several decades Christians in Saffron Walden have participated in a Good Friday Procession from the War Memorial to the Market Place to the Parish Church

Some churches may have services earlier in the morning, and there is one at the Baptist Church at 9.30am

Then the March commences outside the Baptist Church next to the War Memorial at 10.30am

The procession then follows a Cross. For many years this was a large one made by a local carpenter and now a smaller cross is in use as that one fell to pieces after much use.

There is a short stop on the Common [ Until 2007 it was in the Market Place near where the old Market Cross used to be, ] where the Bible account of Good Friday is read, prayers are said and a hymn sung and then the procession moves to the nave of St Mary’s Parish Church where Walden people have worshipped for centuries and before them is another cross high up above the choir screen with the figure of Jesus the Christ, the son of God, crucified.

There is then a closing Act of Worship and the crowd disperses for hot cross buns. Then some of them stay for a 3 hour service of meditation and reflection upon what happened on that most solemn day in the human history of our planet. The day God sacrificed himself to rescue us humans from ourselves, and provide us access to Heaven.

There was no other good enough to pay the price of Sin
He only could unlock the gates of Heaven to let us in

THE MEANING OF THE CROSS.

The cross it takes our sins away. Yours. Mine. Everyone’s What is sin? Any thing that hurts my fellow humans, Anything that springs from my own personal selfishness, Anything wrong I am responsible for. Add that to what everyone else is responsible for, and the legacy of the sins and failures of the millions who have lived and died before we got here and we get a huge international mess. This accounts for all that is evil in our world. Humanly speaking there is no solution.

We all share it to some extent and we all suffer the consequences. Sometimes we call it man’s inhumanity to man. Humans are flawed. Everyone of us

We all need to be forgiven and we all need go learn to and exercise forgiveness to those who wrong us. God created humans to live in harmony with one another and fulfil His purpose for this planet. Alas we have all
contributed to a failure of his plan but through the life, example and teaching of Jesus Christ, God has shown us how to live with every one else and then to correct our flaws, mend our faults, eliminate our sins while saving us.

God achieved that by allowing Jesus Christ to suffer the agony of a severe whipping of his body that shredded his skin, laid bare his flesh, caused great loss of blood and much pain, and then allowed him to be nailed to a wooden cross through his hands
and feet and hung out to die. So the greatest man who ever lived died to rescue us and reconcile us with God our Creator, Father, Owner and Friend.

BUT THAT WAS NOT THE END OF THE STORY

This same Jesus Christ, God raised from the dead and gave him new life and he appeared to his many friends for the next 6 weeks before leaving this planet promising one day long years into the future that he would return and when that happens he will rule the whole world and every nation and tribe and people will obey him and fulfil God’s plan.

His defeat of the power of death was proof that life continues beyond the death of our human bodies, and can exist without them in other forms and places.


Jesus lives on with God the father, and His Holy Spirit who has been sent to Earth to live within all who trust and serve God and accompany them to Heaven when they die. That should and can include all of us including you.

Jesus died for you Jesus rose from death for you Jesus lives for you

What will you do for Him? Will you accept his offer, trust him and live your life to please him, serve him, and share with him in his plans for the world and the future.?

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son
I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THIS JESUS HOW?
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For more information
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You can use our Seeking Christians in Safron Walden for links to Churches thre or we commend to you any of the following

www.rejesus.co.uk
www.christianity.org.uk
www.becomingachristian.com
www.viamagazineonline.com

If you don’t have a computer
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write to Christian Enquiry Agency FREEPOST WC2947 South Croydon CR2 8UZ and ask them anything you want to know and ask them to help you.
or phone [phone]

or write to us for a free copy of The Gospel of John in modern English to
Lighthouse Ministry 35 Four Acres Saffron Walden CB11 3JD UK

[JEM]

Greetings,

Have you a Friend.? Visit Him often for thorns and brushwood obstruct the road which no one treads,

Jesus Christ - the Saviour King- came to show us the way
It is not an easy way but he's leading
It is the way to life
It is the way to access to God
It is the way of truth about life
It is God's way of life and of living
Jesus said "Narrow is the way that leads to life and few are they who find it"
Jesus said "I am the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father except through me."
There is only one way. His Way. We are followers of the Way

3 poems with my Easter Greetings.
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Say not, my soul. "From where
Can God relieve my care?"
Remember that Omnipotence
Has servants everywhere.

God's help is always sure'
His method seldom guessed;
Delay will make our pleasure pure
Surprise will give it zest,

His wisdom is sublime,
His heart profoundly kind;
God never is before His time,
And never is behind,

Have you assumed a load
Which few will share with you
And are you carrying it for God,
And shall He fail to notice?

Be comforted at heart
You are not left alone
Now, you the Lord's companion are
Some day you will share His throne

(Originally written by Thomas T Lynch
with word modernised)


HE MAKES NO MISTAKES
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My Father's Way may twist and turn
My heart may throb and ache
But in my soul I'm glad that I know
He makes no mistakes.

My cherished plans may go astray
My hopes may fade away
But still I'll trust my LORD to lead
For He does know the way.

Though night is dark and it may seem
That day will never break;
I'll pin my faith, my all, to Him
He makes no mistakes

There is so much now I cannot see
My eyesight's far too dim;
But come what may, I'll simply trust
And leave it all to Him.

For by and by the mist will lift,
And plain it all, he will make,
Through all the way, though dark to me
He made not one mistake.

( Author: A M Overton)

In 1 Corinthians 1 v 18, Paul says to us "I know very well how foolish the message of the cross sounds to those who are on the road to destruction, but we who are being saved recognise this message as the very power of God"

THE WORLD'S CROSSROADS
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Not where cross the crowded highways
Nor where country lanes converge
Not some busy intersection
Where all traffic seems to merge
Not where East meets West in handclasp
Not where man would have it be
No, not there the world's crossroads
Which divides humanity

It's a cross that looms before us
Where the Prince of Glory died
There, all kindred, tongues and nations
Gather, only to divide
Some to everlasting judgement
Some to know etermal bliss
Some to walk the Kingly Highway
Some, the way to Heaven to miss

Where the Cross of Christ is lifted
For humanity to see
Some will scoff in bold derision
Saying "It's foolishness to me!"
While a few will stop and ponder
In a humble sort of way
And by simple faith receive Him
As they pause to kneel and pray

"And I if I be lifted up
Will draw all men to me"
Thus, the loving Saviour reasoned
Contemplating Calvary
It's His Cross that marks the crossroads
Of the surging human tide
There humanity converges
Meeting, only to divide.

(Author J R Hamlin)

TELL JESUS
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Tell Jesus when life's burden seems to great for you to bear
Go! Lay it at the feet of Christ, and know that He will care
And tell Him all the little things that come to cloud your way.
The trials and perpexities that trouble you today

Tell Jesus all there is to tell --about your daily needs
About the dim uncertainties through which your pathway leads
About the cherished hopes that lie crushed at your feet
The golden dream left unfulfilled -- the labour incomplete

If you could know how tenderly He makes your cares His own
You would not stand apart again and bear your pain alone
You would not miss the joy and peace of walking at his side
Of finding tempest changed to calm, and sorrow sanctified.

"If you truly seek His guidance you will know His way, which is above and beyond our ways"
"If with all your heart you truly seek Him, you will ever truly find Him"

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