The crosses displayed in our online store start off as pressure treated 4x4 pieces of wood. After a few measurements and cutting the slates in them the words "He is Alive" or "He is Risen" is written between the pieces as they get nailed together forming the cross. I then take a torch and burn the wood. This represents us going through the fire. The wood begins to look like a stain has been applied to it. Highlighting the structure and beautiful imprints displaying the growth of years through the wood grain.

The washing process is next as I use a white towel and water to wipe down these crosses the Lord spoke to me one day saying. Even on your best days our sins are like filthy rags. Isaiah 64:6 [6] But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. It is true—gloriously true—that none of God's people, before or after the cross, would be accepted by an immaculately Holy God if the perfect righteousness of Christ were not imputed to us.     

 

Watching the water run down the cross almost as if it was representing his blood taking away the sins of the world. Me holding this rag I began to cry and weep. It was at that moment I began to understand the importance of what he did on that cross. Then he spoke Isaiah 61:3 to me. It signifies God's promise to console those who mourn by replacing their grief and despair with joy and a sense of hope. He trades beauty for ashes. The drying process begins next. Which is three days. After the wood is dried it's anointed with oil and we begin to pray over it for the place that the Lord has allowed it to go to. I not only pray over it but the family, wife, our two youngest boys and some of the ministry partners. We pray for the strongholds, burdens and chains to be broken.

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I then wrap a three strand rope commonly referred to as a twisted rope or a laid rope. It's made by twisting three strands of material together around the center of the cross. Me doing this the first time my wife walked around the corner seeing me crying she asked. What's wrong? I replied that the Lord spoke to me and told me to wrap each strand three times representing the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. The final process is the spraying it with a semi-gloss to seal in the anointment and to represent exactly what he does for us when we receive salvation. We are sealed with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.