But that ONE Cross that Simon bore linked him to the opportunity for your salvation and mine! How true again those words of Thomas Sheppard: “The consecrated cross I’ll bear Till death shall ...

Your unexpected, unintended, even undesired cross-bearing moment will come! And your eternal impacting decision must be made. Remembering Simon the Cyrene, who carried the cross for Jesus on his ...

From the Gospel according to Matthew. 27:32; 16:24As they went out, they came upon a man of Cyrene, Simon by name; this man they compelled to carry his cross. Jesus told his disciples, "If any man ...

When Simon of Cyrene enters Jerusalem, he is intent on murder. The biblical witness doesn’t state this as a fact, but we need to pull a few threads to see how it all unravels. Simon is the ma… ...

Dear Simon of Cyrene, In the New Testament narratives of the Crucifixion, you make only one appearance, one that is brief but meaningful: you were selected to help Jesus carry his cross.

Simon didn’t offer to help Jesus carry the cross. The Gospel says that Simon was “pressed into service to carry his cross.” The cross was forced on him, he was made to carry it.

“And as they led Jesus away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it behind Jesus.” (Lk 23: 26) Points for reflection: ...

The Fifth Station: Simon Helps Carry the Cross. READER 1: “As they were going out, they met a Cyrenian named Simon; ... Lord Jesus, our Way of the Cross devotion is done.

As we embrace the multifaceted historical realities of Black History Month, it is not irony but ethnic reality that calls our attention to those passages of scripture in Mark 15:21 and Luke 23:26 ...