Some one said to Helen Keller: "What a pity you haven't sight." To which she replied: "Yes, but what a pity so many have sight but cannot see."

Man is lost, not just because he has sinned, but because he has refused God's remedy for sin.

When Handel composed "The Messiah", for twenty-three days he completely withdrew from the things of this world. So immersed was he in his music that the food brought to him was often left untouched. Describing his feeling when the "Hallejuah Chorus" burst on his mind, Handel said, "I did think I did see all Heaven before me, and the great God Himself." (From "Time Magazine")

"EXCRUCIATING"

The manner of nailing the criminal, or the victim, to the cross was simple. The cross was laid upon the ground, and the one to be crucified was stretched upon it and spiked there. The hole for the cross was previously dug. Then the cross was carried to the hole and dropped into it. This, of course, drew every nerve and muscle into tension and produced the greatest imaginable suffering.
The crucifixion was SO painful that a new word had to be created. "Painful" or "agonizing" didn't quite capture it. So great was this pain that a new word was necessary. Hence, today, we have the word "excruciating".
"Ex" is the suffix meaning to come out of or to come from.
"Cruc" is the root part of the word meaning "the cross".
The amazing thing, which no Bible bashing people can explain, is how King David in the 22nd Psalm (and Isaiah in the 53rd chapter of the book bearing his name) could describe in very descriptive detail how Christ would suffer more than a thousand years later. The form of torture (crucifixion) described in Psalm 22 was not invented until 900 years later by the Romans.
"I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint." (verse 14)
"they have pierced my hands and my feet." (verse 16)
You see, in David's day and age, death penalties were carried out by stoning people to death! Only God can prophesy such events thousands of years before their time.
Jews, today, avoid reading Isaiah 53 and Psalm 22 for the very fact that "scary things" happen when these passages are read in synagogues. People make the connection to Christ and end up putting their trust in Him.
May such "scary things" happen not only in synagogues but throughout the entire world as people come to realize that THEIR own soul was redeemed on the cross and that God has left the witness of His Holy Word as a testimony to this unequaled event in the history of mankind!

It must seem awful strange to non-Christians for us Christians to call the day Jesus died "good" but it was there on the cross that Jesus BECAME our sin and only through His death have we been reconciled to God. "Good"...no! AMAZINGLY WONDERFUL!