The week that we remember as "Holy Week" starting with Palm Sunday and culminating on Easter Sunday is the most amazing, dramatic, gut wrenching, redemptive, awe inspiring, love communicating week in all of history. It is a week that has inspired more artwork than any other. From DaVinci's "Last Supper" to U2's "Sunday Bloody Sunday", with the line "and the battles' just begun, to bring the vict'ry Jesus won" the images of this very short period of history shout to all subsequent generations. This week is the greatest of all love songs, the most beautiful of paintings, the most dramatic poem, the most spectacular play. But it was and is real. As real as anything ever was. And that is why we try to re-create it. We write songs, paint, write dramatic pieces all in hopes of communicating the indescribable. We so hope to understand what Jesus did for us and to help others gain that understanding. Is it the love, the self-sacrifice, man's violence towards man, God becoming man and then giving up His life, the power struggle within Jerusalem and Rome that most draws us to the story. Is it the lack and longing within our own souls? Is it the great faith in what Christ accomplished on the cross or is it a lack of understanding that has us asking more questions? It really is all of that.
For me this week I am so praying to hear all of those things because I hope that all of the pieces that we put in next Sunday's Easter service meet people in all of those places. So as a team at CCM we are looking for the elements that will worship God, tell of our great thanks for what Jesus did and help those who are unsure of the message of the Cross understand the deep meaning and great love of it all.
Up on a Hill - Three Trees
Two of them wrong - one of them King
One comes to save our lives
One of them speaks - mocks the just one
The other believes - he is now set free
One comes to save our lives
Up on a hill - there is one who they choose to kill
The deed it is done - but it is our victory tht is won
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