“When they reached the place called The Skull, they crucified him there and the two criminals also, one on the right, the other on the left.”Luke 23:33-46

Yes, “the cross is still there;” Jesus’ death on Good Friday on that little hill that looked like a skull tells us so. That cross will forever be a sign and symbol of the unmeasurable and undying love that God has for every human being. It really does declare that “God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son” to die for all of us “… that the world through him might have life.” That is a truth that all of us can cling to regardless of what might happen to us in this life. We were marked for eternal life at the cross of Christ.

Luke compresses the account of Jesus’ death into 14 short, but packed, verses of his story about th…