Love Crucified Arose.......

I have a YouTube playlist that I recently created, which contains some of my favorite Easter songs and Christian artists that I've grown up listening to. With only Easter 11 songs on this playlist, I often tend to put it on shuffle and let the songs play through in one continues loop, over and over, pretty much any time I have my computer open.

These songs bring back memories of Sunday afternoons and driving home from church. I have vivid memories of certain family members, (the most memorable of which was my dad) dancing to the tunes in the kitchen and all of us singing at the top of our lungs to old Michael Card cd's or the classics of Randy Travis.

The lyrics to some of those older Christian artists are so full of the gospel and seem to have much more of a solid theological message, which is deeper than what many Christian artists’ play on the radio today.


One song that never grows old for me is Michael Cards "Love Crucified Arose"

Long ago He blessed the earth
Born older than the years
And in the stall a cross He saw
Through the first of many tears
A life of homeless wandering
Cast out in sorrow's way
The Shepherd seeking for the lost
His life, the price He paid

Love crucified, arose
The Risen One in splendor
Jehovah soul Defender
Has won the victory
Love crucified, arose
And the grave became a place of hope
For the heart that sin and sorrow broke
Is beating once again

Throughout Your life You felt the weight
Of what You'd come to give
To drink for us that crimson cup
So we might really live
At last the time to love and die
The dark appointed day
That one forsaken moment
When Your Father turned His face away

Love crucified, arose
The One who lived the died for me
Was Satan's nail-pierced casualty
Now He's breathing once again

Love crucified, arose
And the grave became a place of hope
For the heart that sin and sorrow broke
Is beating once again

Love crucified, arose
The Risen One in splendor
Jehovah soul defender
Has won the victory

Love crucified, arose
And the grave became a place of hope
for the heart that sin and sorrow broke
is beating once again

Love crucified, arose
The One who lived and died for me
Was Satan's nail-pierced casualty
Now He's breathing once again.

Another favorite of mine is this song by Dallas Holm