{"id":24,"date":"2012-01-27T21:38:50","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T21:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2014-01-20T17:23:42","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T17:23:42","slug":"another-cross-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/27\/another-cross-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2012-01-27_11-39-41_281-e1327699831669.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-20 alignleft\" title=\"Locating the cross\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2012-01-27_11-39-41_281.jpg?resize=349%2C187\" width=\"349\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a>At the end of a week speaking to one group of boys after another about the cross, we located and fixed a 7 foot cross on the exterior wall of the new college chapel.\u00a0 What a wonderful climax to a series of addresses.\u00a0 Actually, we have had four weeks during which over a thousand students have repeatedly heard the message of the cross.\u00a0 Now as staff and students make their way from one end of the site to the other they will have before them this reminder of the Lamb of God.<\/p>\n<p>How relevantly Christ speaks to those who will hear Him:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0 When we are burdened with guilt and a conviction of sin, we hear the same voice that has spoken down the centuries: <em>Father, forgive them&#8230;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>When we are\u00a0wearied in well-doing and\u00a0succumbing to the\u00a0lure of the world and the temptation to &#8216;do something for yourself&#8217;, we see the compelling example of self sacrifice.<\/li>\n<li>When it feels as if everything is going wrong or the whole\u00a0world is against us, Christ seems to say from the cross, &#8220;I know; I understand;\u00a0 I have been there and done that.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is\u00a0an important observation: unlike what is pictured above,\u00a0the way to the cross of Christ is not barred; it is open to all who will come to receive forgiveness and healing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of a week speaking to one group of boys after another about the cross, we located and fixed a 7 foot cross on the exterior wall of the new college chapel.\u00a0 What a wonderful climax to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/27\/another-cross-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-secondary-school"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2d1Zf-o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}