354 Take Up Our Cross

Curtis Stephan, Sarah Hart and Marc Byrd

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1. Be - hold the wood that bears our name;
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1. the death by which we’re born a - gain.
We take up our cross
2. by blood and thorn we are re - deemed.

© 2008, Blue Raft Music and Meaux Mercy, both administered at EMICMGPublishing.com, and Curtis Stephan and Sarah Hart, both published by Spirit & Song, a division of OCP.
All rights reserved. Used with permission.

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 354—Take Up Our Cross (2)

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and fol - low him; we lay down our lives that we might live.

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We car - ry the hope of Christ with - in; we take up our cross

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Lift him high, We take up our cross

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Lift him high, We take up our cross

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