Today when we come to communion, we come to the cross. A song is sung. A passage read. Often we’re asked to remember Jesus and visualize Him hanging on the cross.
While we glamorize, romanticize, and celebrate the cross, the crucifixion was a shameful, humiliating, and painful means of capital punishment for the worst of criminals.
However, it’s also good to remember there were three crosses on Golgotha’s hill that day. Each has a message for us. Continue reading