Hide the Word 5: The Word of the Cross

Thank you for considering purchasing The Word of the Cross! My goal is to make Scripture memorization easy and enjoyable, first for my own family, my church and myself, and hopefully for others as well. I've been a believer for over 30 years and have benefited immensely from memorizing Scripture, and I hope to continue doing so for the rest of my life.

The Word of the Cross features 20 more Scripture memory songs in a variety of styles of music. My personal favorites are the two written and recorded by my oldest son, Stephen. They are in an acoustic jazz/rock style.

I am really grateful for the gifted vocalists and musicians who helped me on the album--I think they did a wonderful job. Chris McCrea did vocals, keyboards and live drums on a number of the songs. Each year, Chris makes a couple trips to Pennsylvania from his home in Virginia to spend whole weekends working on Hide the Word projects-- he is really talented and brings a lot of creative ideas to each album. Rochelle Calvetti, Stacy Pomroy, Greg and Rochelle King, Phil Kim, Chris Wright and Ian Murphy contributed outstanding vocals. And once again, Roger Hooper really spiced things up with an amazing piano solo and string arrangements.

As requested by a number of people, The Word of the Cross includes some passages that are a little longer. All the Scriptures used in The Word of the Cross are from the ESV (English Standard Version), which is a very accurate and wonderful translation of the Bible.

Thank you for visiting the website! Memorize God's Word! Apply it to your life! Keep your mind stayed on the Lord and set on things above!

~ Mark

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Scriptures:

(Hyperlinked Scriptures linked to audio samples. Windows Media Player required.)

1. 1 Corinthians 1:18 For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
2. Isaiah 26:3-4 You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock.
3. Habakkuk 2:14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.
4. 1 Corinthians 2:1-2 And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
5. Colossians 1:13-14 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
6. Jude 24-25 Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.
7. Jeremiah 9:23-24 ..."Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the LORD."
8. Galatians 6:9-10 And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.
9. Philippians 4:8 ...whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
10. 1 John 3:2-3 Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
11. Isaiah 40:31 ...they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
12. Isaiah 66:2 ...this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.
13. Revelation 5:9-10 ..."Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation, and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on the earth."
14. Proverbs 4:23 Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.
15. 2 Timothy 2:24-25 ...the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth.
16. Matthew 7:7-8 "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened."
17. Galatians 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us-for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree."
18. Isaiah 55:10-11 "For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it."
19. James 1:19-20 Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness that God requires.
20. Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.