Hello, thank you so much for joining me today for Give Him 15.

Several years ago, my dad, Dean Sheets, wrote a wonderful devotional entitled The Gold That Washed a Shore.

The book is now out of print. We can't get you a copy.

In the book, I contributed a short quote from one of my books

for each day. Dad was old school in his sermonizing, building masterpieces of homiletic eloquence.

Each day this week, we've been reading one of his devotionals, adding a writing from one of my books.

The title of today's devotional from Dad is The Nails of Calvary.

I want to remind you before go any further that we will be receiving communion

together today. So if you were not aware or forgot and don't have your elements ready,

you may want to just pause the recording or reading now, get that ready, and then turn it back on.

The Nails of Calvary, Colossians 214,

blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us,

took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross.

That says of this, Calvary's nails are God's way of uniting suffering with love.

Oh, how he loves you and me.

His love for us was shouted out with every hammer blow that drove the nails

through his hands and feet. Those same blows swung open the gates of glory, now we have an entrance.

When we get to heaven, we will likely stand in all for a long time gazing at the nail scars of Jesus.

There was another nailing at Calvary I want you to rejoice in today.

Dad says, Jesus blotted out the grievances filed against us, nailing it to the cross.

Oh, the price that was on our heads, the law screamed its curses at us as one by one our sins were listed.

But Jesus took them all. With his mighty hammer, the word of his

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