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wooden cross is a religious symbol made of wood in the shape of a cross. It represents Christianity and is often associated with Jesus Christ's crucifixion.
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When word came that the pope was visiting they built a huge
wooden cross in honor of his visit to be used in his mass.
The stained - glass windows and the
huge wooden cross top the list of visual symbols held most dear.
He carried a fresh -
made wooden cross, painted white and dipped blood red at the tip.
I found this
pretty wooden cross in the craft department there, brought it home and painted it with the gold chalk paint I had on hand.
Christian Arab worshipers carry a
large wooden cross as they enter the Church of the Holy Sepulchre during the Good Friday procession in.
Would you want future archeologists concluding that christians worshiped wood as god because of the large, hollow
wooden crosses behind the pulpits in church buildings?
I have found that it is mostly younger Christians that do this sort of thing, I did when I first became a Christian in the 70's and I wore a
big wooden cross on the side of my pants and carried my bible everywhere I went.
I've used this technique on a
small wooden cross with cheap brown Walmart craft paint turned out amazing!
For example, the day before I wrote the blog, I was driving home from a jail visit when I looked out the car window and saw a guy toting an enormous
wooden cross down the street.
This is great, but if you really want to see what what God's love looks like, look to Jesus dying on a cross for the sins of the world, including the sins of those who are whipping his back and legs until his skin is gone and then laying that back on a rough and
splintery wooden cross to crucify him, and continuing the torture until he's unrecognizable as a human being.
For example, thieves were nailed to
wooden crosses until they died from dehydration or loss of blood; men and women were herded into dens of hungry lions, to be mauled or eaten alive; some were burned alive.
First, an 11 -
foot wooden cross was stolen from Saint John's Lutheran Church in Arroyo Grande, California.
Had the boys looked closely, they might have seen the white,
wooden crosses staked into the ground to remember the family of six that was killed right there in a 1997 collision.
Another is Reverend John who lugs a 10 - foot - tall
wooden cross along Ben's route in the hope of attracting congregants to the institution he founded, the First Church of the Desert Cross, «denomination unknown and unimportant.»
Just a few minutes walk, lies Magellan's cross — a large
wooden cross given to the locals by the Portuguese conquistador to mark their conversion to Christianity.
Image: The Way Things Are Going, 2015 Installation of 13 neon lightning bolts and 13
wooden crosses Photo: Will Ragozzino / scottruddevents.
In 2010, she was commissioned to paint a 2.1
metre wooden cross for the thanksgiving ceremony in Rome that marked the sainthood of Australian nun Mary McKillop.
In an online campaign, church leaders in the eastern province of Zhejiang have called on Christians to craft hundreds of
small wooden crosses, paint them red, and display them at home or on their cars.
With signs, brass instruments and
large wooden crosses, some of them danced, blew whistles and sang.
I do go to church three
wooden cross in Augusta, Kansas we have team roping...
NOTE: Christ was crucified in the customary Roman manner, the hands and feet being pierced by huge spikes which fastened the body to
the wooden cross.
A wooden cross that survived the tornado inside St. John's Hospital in Joplin, MI....
While season three of Rev. included a poignant, modern - day rewrite of the Passion story, with the disgraced central character carrying
a wooden cross through the streets, the series halts when Smallbone commits an act of moral failure.
He lived a perfect life, but was beaten, mocked, spit on, and hung on
a wooden cross to die a cruel death.
I had my moments of faith: at the little Catholic church down the road on Good Friday, pressing my forehead into
the wooden cross at the front of the sanctuary and silently praying, «God, I don't understand this, but I believe, and I am thankful.»
But brothers and sisters there will come a time when if we do not make a choice to accept the free Gift that hung on
that wooden cross then we will be separated from that Precious One for all eternity and that is OUR choice not God's.
In Jesus» time, that risk was properly and graphically represented by
a wooden cross.
They hung
a wooden cross on the wall and settled back into their more or less comfortable routines, remembering their once passionate devotion to God the way they remembered the other enthusiasms of their youth.
a wooden cross means nothing in the world to me, but i understand that it means something to others.
There was also
a wooden cross at the front of the room, with the Bible turned to the scripture that was supposed to be read on the day of the attack.
I went in a church in nowhere, OH recently and counted no less than 18 dead guys nailed to
a wooden cross.
In this place of desolation Jesus is fixed to
a wooden cross.
The Gospel account begins with Jesus carrying
a wooden cross to the place where he will be put to death.
I was only a baby when Jesus died on
the wooden cross.
The grave is marked only by
a wooden cross planted in the earth by her great - granddaughter Sam Johnson, who has recently discovered the family connection.
Attendees passed
a wooden cross as they arrived at a candlelight vigil for the victims of the Florida school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
are removing historical dating Outrage as crematorium takes down
wooden cross that's been in place for more than 50 years because it might offend non-Christians.
But the film has the woman turning near - crazy on Jerry, making him swear on the salvation of his soul, using
a wooden cross knickknack as an idol, that he will find the killer.
Growing his hair long, wearing robes and hanging out on a large
wooden cross all day seems to anger his uncle, who believes such behavior unfit for a man of his nobility.
A wooden cross marks an unidentified U.S. Army grave at Fort Laramie, Wyo., as pictured in 2009.