Oh Rugged Cross Lyrics

To the old rugged cross i will ever be true its shame and reproach gladly bear then he ll call me some day to my home far away where his glory forever i ll share.

Oh rugged cross lyrics.

The old rugged cross is the first song my mother taught me to sing when i was very young i am 73 now she taught me to pay it on piano and i just heard sandi patty sing it i am writing a poem about it now. Religious music the old rugged cross lyrics on a hill far away stood an old rugged cross the emblem of suffering and shame. And i love that old cross where the dearest and best. And i love that old cross where the dearest and best for a world of lost sinners was slain.

I am an author of three recent books donna alcoholic extraordinaire faith hope love and hell is real so is heaven. I will cling to the old rugged cross and exchange it some day for a crown. The old rugged cross is a popular hymn written in 1912 by evangelist and song leader george bennard and it speaks of the writer s adoration of christ and his sacrifice at calvary. On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross the emblem of suff ring and shame and i love that old cross where the dearest and best for a world of lost sinners was slain.

On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross the emblem of suffering and shame and i love that old cross where the dearest and best. And oh that rugged cross my salvation where your love poured out over me now my soul cries out hallelujah praise and honour unto thee verse 3 sent of heaven god s own son to purchase and redeem. In the old rugged cross stain d with blood so divine a wondrous beauty i see for the dear lamb of god left his glory above to pardon and sanctify me. Oh is free indeed oh that rugged cross my salvation where your love poured out over me now my soul cries out hallelujah praise and honour unto thee see the stone is rolled away behold the empty tomb hallelujah god be praised he s risen from the grave oh that rugged cross my salvation where your love poured out over me now my soul cries out.