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LEGEND OF THE DOGWOOD TREE

At the time of Crucifixion the dogwood had been the size of the oak and other forest trees. So firm and strong was the tree that it was chosen as the timber for the cross. To be used thus for such a cruel purpose greatly distressed the tree, and Jesus nailed upon it, sensed this. In His gentle pity for all sorrow and suffering Jesus said to the tree:
" Because of your regret and pity for My suffering, never again shall the dogwood tree grow large enough to be used as a cross. Henceforth it shall be slender and bent and twisted and its blossoms shall be in the form of a cross--two long and two short petals. And in the center of the outer edge of each petal there will be nail prints, brown with rust and stained with red, and in the center of the flower will be a crown of thorns, and all who see it will remember."

Three days after the death of Jesus of Nazereth, the chief wood gatherer got alarming news. "All of our finest trees are withering!" the messenger whispered. The wood gatherer hurried to the forest and saw that it was true.

Several years later, the chief wood gatherer heard that, every spring, many people visited the old forest that had once made his job so easy. Despite his advancing years, he set out to discover why. He saw the remains of forest, now like a salty bottoms, with only a few trees still standing tall, bare, lifeless and rotting.

But what was this? As he drew closer, his feeble eyes could make out the people walking among thousands of beautiful, flowering bushes. Seeing one of his own workers there, the old man said, "No one could ever make a cross out of this twisted wood. Our finest tree has gone to the dogs!" He noticed the beautiful white flowers, each blossom looking as if it had been burned from the touch of a miniature cross.

The pink dogwood is said to be blushing for shame because of the cruel purpose which it served in the Crucifixion.
The weeping dogwood further symbolized the sorrow.
The red dogwood, called the Cherokee, bears the color to remind us of the blood shed by our Savior.

 **********************************************In the Gospel of John you will see the importance of looking to Jesus alone for eternal life. God sent Jesus, His Son, to die on the Cross for our sins. When you believe in Him, you have eternal life and you can know that He will keep His promise never to lose you and that on the last day He will raise you up to live with Him forever.

We encourage you to read the Gospel of John and see if you have understood the message of Jesus. If you have believed that Jesus is telling the truth when He claims to be the Son of God who gives eternal life to everyone who believes in Him, then you can claim this precious promise from the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. Regardless of how you feel or what people may say, you have eternal life. As your love for him draws you nearer to Him you will know the joy and fruitfulness a close personal relationship with your Savior brings.

 In the Gospel of John you will see the importance of looking to Jesus alone for eternal life. God sent Jesus, His Son, to die on the Cross for our sins. When you believe in Him, you have eternal life and you can know that He will keep His promise never to lose you and that on the last day He will raise you up to live with Him forever.

We encourage you to read the Gospel of John and see if you have understood the message of Jesus. If you have believed that Jesus is telling the truth when He claims to be the Son of God who gives eternal life to everyone who believes in Him, then you can claim this precious promise from the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. Regardless of how you feel or what people may say, you have eternal life. As your love for him draws you nearer to Him you will know the joy and fruitfulness a close personal relationship with your Savior brings.

 

Jesus in Samaria

 ⁴ Jesus had to go through Samaria. ⁵ He came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, which was near the land Jacob had given to his son Joseph. ⁶ Jacob’s well was there. Jesus was tired from his journey, so he sat down at the well. It was about noon.

 ⁷ A Samaritan woman came to the well to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me some water to drink.” ⁸ His disciples had gone into the city to buy him some food.

 ⁹ The Samaritan woman asked, “Why do you, a Jewish man, ask for something to drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (Jews and Samaritans didn’t associate with each other.)

 ¹⁰ Jesus responded, “If you recognized God’s gift and who is saying to you, ‘Give me some water to drink,’ you would be asking him and he would give you living water.”

 ¹¹ The woman said to him, “Sir, you don’t have a bucket and the well is deep. Where would you get this living water? ¹² You aren’t greater than our father Jacob, are you? He gave this well to us, and he drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.”

 ¹³ Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, ¹⁴ but whoever drinks from the water that I will give will never be thirsty again. The water that I give will become in those who drink it a spring of water that bubbles up into eternal life.”  

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PLEASEPLEASEIn the Gospel of John you will see the importance of looking to Jesus alone for eternal life. God sent Jesus, His Son, to die on the Cross for our sins. When you believe in Him, you have eternal life and you can know that He will keep His promise never to lose you and that on the last day He will raise you up to live with Him forever.

We encourage you to read the Gospel of John and see if you have understood the message of Jesus. If you have believed that Jesus is telling the truth when He claims to be the Son of God who gives eternal life to everyone who believes in Him, then you can claim this precious promise from the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. Regardless of how you feel or what people may say, you have eternal life. As your love for him draws you nearer to Him you will know the joy and fruitfulness a close personal relationship with your Savior brings.