From the beginning of the sermon to its end, the all engrossing force of the text and the God who speaks through that text must dominate our whole being. With the burning power of that truth on our heart and lips, every thought, emotion, and act of the will must be so captured by that truth that it springs forth with excitement, joy, sincerity, and reality as an evident token that God’s Spirit is in that word. Away with all the mediocre, lifeless, boring, and lackluster orations offered as pitiful substitutes for the powerful Word of the living Lord. If that Word from God does not thrill the proclaimer and fill [him]...with an intense desire to glorify God and do His will, how shall we ever expect it to have any greater effect on our hearers.
Walter Kaiser

The Old Rugged Cross

On A Hill Faraway Stood An Old Rugged Cross:
The Emblem Of Suffering And Shame:
And I Love That Old Cross
Where The Dearest And Best
For A World Of Lost Sinners Was Slain
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So I’ll Cherish The Old Rugged Cross
Till My Trophies At Last I Lay Down;
I Will Cling To The Old Rugged Cross
And Exchange It Some Day For A Crown

Oh The Old Rugged Cross,
So Despised By The World,
Has A Wondrous Attraction For me
For The Dear Lamb Of God Left his Glory
Above To Bear It To Dark Calvary
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In The Old Rugged Cross,
Stained With Blood So Divine
A Wondrous Beauty I See
For ’twas On That Old Cross, Jesus Suffered
And Died, To Pardon And Sanctify Me
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