From The CRADLE To the CROSS

By Frederick Mundle

FROM THE CRADLE TO THE CROSS presents a collection of poems which speak to the birth of Christ in one batch and in the next batch capture scenes which uplift the cross on which He had been crucified. For the professing Christian, the hope of these humble efforts embodies this poet’s desire to further assure you that you have come to believe in the One He sent (John 6:29), and that is the most important aspect of your work. As one as God grants each one of us breath, I pray that we can continue to grow. For the one who has not yet surrendered his life unto the Lord, perhaps He can reach out to you in one of these many poems. To live eternally with the Lord Jesus Christ will prove forever that one had made the best of all right choices.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Apr 16, 2024
• ISBN: 9798369419625

Frederick Mundle

Frederick Mundle adds his third book of poetry entitled Naked Christians to his list of Christian publications with Xlibris. He addresses elements within the body of professing Christians which require being called out. His hope is to awaken the naked who do not realize that they walk about without the clothing of Christ. His desire combines the alerting and converting the otherwise spiritually dead to awaken them to eternal life in Christ. Most self-professing Christians do not realize that they parade around spiritually naked, not being clothed with Christ. It is Frederick's hope to through the power of the Holy Spirit in Jesus name to raise the spiritually dead before they actually physically die. There is no eternal life with Christ unless the foregoing occurs.

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CONTENTS

Introduction

Acknowledgements

Other Christian Publications By The Author

Youtube Addresses For The Author’s Christian Songs

The Birth

The Birth of Jesus

The Blueprint of Christmas

Christ Has Come

Christ Lives

Christ’s Birth (In Brief)

Christ’s First Advent

The Chronicle of Christ’s Birth

The Chronicle of Christ’s Coming

The Cross in the Star

The Fifth Cradle

Does Jesus Have a Christmas List?

God’s Blueprint

God’s Gift of Love

How Jesus Survived after Birth

Jesus’ First Coming

The Last Christmas

O God of Christmas

The Paths to Christmas

A Stir in Bethlehem

Three Births

Three Impossible Births

Won’t You Miss Christmas?

TO THE CROSS

The Door

Did Jesus Take Three Spikes for You?

From Carpentry to Crucifixion

Is Calvary for You?

The Empty Tomb

Emptying the Cross

From Carpentry to Crucifixion

How Thick the Blood of Jesus

How Pure the Blood of Jesus

Jesus’ Last Words

The Long Arms of the Cross

Mary Magdalene, First to Meet the Risen Christ

The Message of the Cross

On to Crucifixion

Palm Sunday People

The Praetorium Scene

Readied for the Cross

Redemption Paid

The Risen Christ

Resurrection Morn

Resurrection Morning

Resurrection Week

Three Spikes

Toward the Cross

The Thread of Blood

What Easter Is

While on the Cross

AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN

All in Jesus

Alfie Was in the Spirit

An Angel in My Midst

Baal Is in the Land

Bearing Much Fruit

To Believe or Not to Believe

The Best Seats

Binding and Loosing

Born Twice, Die Once

Calling His Spirit

Can God Save the King?

Child Sacrifice

The Classroom: A Womb Defiled

The Christian Frog

A Christian Phenomenon

Come to Life Now

Compassion, Mercy and Grace

Confession of Needs

Demon-Like Faith

Diagnostic Christians

Dictating to Jesus, As If!

Don’t Go Back to Babylon

Empower the Called

False Shepherds

For Our Idols

Free Will: The Curse of Most

God in a Box

God: The Matchmaker

Going to Grand Metis

Going Fishing

Grace Prayer

A Greater Anointing?

His People Use His Name

How a Mother Is Like Jesus

How Can Jesus Win?

How Far from Holy

How Pure the Blood of Jesus

How Your Soul Is Won

I Beg You Lord

If the Truth Were a Lie

Imagine You’re in Heaven

Isaiah’s Broadcast

Jesus Wants

John Henry Martin

The Key

A Lament for the Swayed

The Last Civilization

A Letter to God

Living Fruit

The Longest Bridge

Looking Back

Moms

Missing the Rapture

My Lord, My God

My Plea

My Plea for Normalcy

My Time of David

Newborns

Nine Prayers

The Non-Discipled: At Risk

None Should Perish

Of God and Mothers’ Days

Of Grace and Faith

Oh, God, My Heavenly Father

The One and Only Great Escape

One Leader

One More Day

The Pneuma of God

Prayer for the Baptism

Prayer of the Scientist

The Rapture

Release Me Or Increase Me

Repent! Is a Softer Word

Schools of Babylon

A Shepherd’s Prayer

Silas, The Friend of Christ

SOGI

A Sonnet for Our Saviour

Sunday Morning People

Take My Life

The Tale of Two Herods

Thoughts from the Bible

To Figless Trees

To Give Your Life

To God’s People

To the Lord of the Harvest

To Vendors of God’s Word

Today Is the Day of your Salvation

Tracing the Blood

The Tree

True Greatness

Two Adams

What Is Enough?

What My Lord Does

When God Gets Thanks

Where Are Our John the Baptists?

Where Have John the Baptists Gone?

Who Would Follow You?

Why Jesus Came #2

Will I Set Myself Apart?

Without Mothers

Without Prayer

Who Will Get to Heaven?

A Word for You

You

You May Have a Child in Heaven

Your Voice

Introduction

From the Cradle to the Cross embodies a series of poems relating to the coming or Jesus, His arrival, His trials as an infant, and among other things circa His birth, the struggles of His parents at the threatening hands of King Herod. As well, another special series of poems deals with Jesus path to the cross, His crucifixion, and among other poems, His resurrection.

All other poems in this collection relate to the Lord in one way or another. Some speak to salvation, the new birth, the second death which is not for true believers, and the great wonder which is uppermost in most Christian minds of today: Are we so near the end that the end and the wonderful catching up is more imminent that we can comprehend?

In closing, may the Lord quicken any reader unto the absolute truth of the gospel, so much so that God will empower that particular reader to do unto the Lord any and all that he/she bdcomes more willing to do. May God quicken unto you as a reader a message He has imbedded in whatever poem you read so that you can enjoy till He returns the essence of your first love: Jesus.

Acknowledgements

I acknowledge that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, born of a virgin, sent by the Father to become a blood sacrifice to save the souls of all who would come to believe in Him. That all who would come to believe in Him would not perish but would come to inherit eternal life. I acknowledge His healing ministry is still active today and that I have been healed by Him as well as delivered by Him. I have experienced His gift of salvation, His healing touches, seen some of His miraculous works with my own eyes. I have seen many of His nine gifts of the Spirit (if not all) at work in several ministries as well as in our own. I have also witnessed His enemy and my enemy, Satan, at work in modern-day ministries through the evil works of false Christians. My belief is such that His word as recorded in the Holy Scriptures is the holy, inerrant, infallible word of God. I also acknowledge that what I might not understand clearly since I see as through a glass darkly will be revealed to me in eternity. I understand and believe in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

In my secondary acknowledgements, I attribute honour and appreciation to my wife Sarah Ann Mundle and all the greatness that God has bestowed upon her.

I will till the day I die acknowledge that God’s grace will grant unto all of our children ample opportunity to be saved and that He has currently returned one and her entire family to the cross of Christ. They currently live a life of practicing Christians. I acknowledge that as a miracle of God who called them through His Son Jesus Christ.

Other Christian Publications By The Author

Poetry

Faithwalkers (Christian Poetry) Xlibris

Church What Are You Doing to My Bride (Christian Poetry) Xlibris

Naked Christians (Christian Poetry) Xlibris

The Way of Light (Christian Essays) Xlibris

Adult: Spiritual: Catch the Light Series of Devotionals whose subtitles are listed below.

The Valley Walker

While You Have the Light

Let Angels Rejoice

Two Kinds of Light

Where Will You Be in a Thousand Years?

Youtube Addresses For The Author’s Christian Songs

Multicoloured Soul

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YND2CDAZAIU&t=3s

Your Word

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeBBGWYlLWw&t=4s

The Christians are Gone - Fred Mundle - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdxFNOU3XUQ

Come Out of Babylon - youtube – Frederick Mundle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4xFJXXYtco

Apply The Blood - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JOLL4JNEm8

I’ll Look for You in Paradise

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGJzTdskVoVdYe3UOS9f25w

If My People

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltJQwQCv0Hk

The Latter Rain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLIw1Jzq9MA

NOTE: Type in youtube and the title of the song and/or the name: Frederick Mundle

The Birth

Long ago there came to man one born of virgin birth

Sent to work His Father’s plan to give us second birth

Isaiah saw with his own eyes long before His coming

This Son, the Saviour, on the rise as well, His second coming

Immanuel, God with us his name long past announced

When born they called Him Jesus His name was thus pronounced

Gabriel, God’s messenger bore from God His news

Suddenly surprising her ‘twas was Mary God did choose

The wise men found the manger in