This is a fun little cartoon that I received as an e-mail. Wish I knew who wrote/illustrated it originally so I could give them credit for it. Luke 9:23; Matthew 16:24; and Mark 8:34 all tell of Jesus’ call for us to deny ourselves, carry our crosses, and follow Him. It’s too bad we want our crosses to be “light.” Matt Redman wrote a song (Way of the Cross on the album The Friendship and the Fear) with a lyric that says, “I’ve crafted myself a more comfortable cross.” Anyway, this cartoon reminded me of all of this stuff.
Just click the first pic and then you’ll be able to click through the rest with the arrows.
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would you mind sending this to my email address? I’d like to print it and send it to my husband who could use the reminder sometimes in something simple to understand when he feels like giving up. Thank you!
http://www.thomsens.net/carrycross/alternate.html
more like the gospel, the message of the Bible
I like the alternate ending as well. In many ways it represents the gospel better but it also trashes the integrity of the original message – that the cross we carry daily is not supposed to be easy. It’s absolutely true that our efforts won’t save us though! Only the power of Jesus and His effort on the cross can do that!
THANK TO LORD FOR YOU. VERY GOOD CARTON TO EXPLAIN FOR EVERY BODIES DAILY CROSS.
Steve , I believe you posted this cartoon sequence, it reminds me of what I just went through in our church. I found myself involved in making all of our video presentation and almost gave up for the lack of help I was getting. Then I saw this. Ironically the theme of our Lenten devotions is “Facing the cross”, this is soooooo fitting. I don’t know if you have any copyrights to this because I like to use it in our next Sundays service. This is one of the best illustration I have seen in a long time. Like to hear from you, Kurt.