Day 4: Persistence despite opposition

Day 4: Persistence despite opposition

Reading: The Cross of Christ, pg. 45-50 22 For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of...
Day 4: Persistence despite opposition

Day 3: The Apostles’ emphasis

Reading: The Cross of Christ, pg. 38-45 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.  1 Peter 2.24 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also...
Day 4: Persistence despite opposition

Day 2: The Perspective of Jesus

Reading: The Cross of Christ, pages 31-38 31 And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again. 32 And he said this plainly. And...
Day 4: Persistence despite opposition

Day 1: The Centrality of the Cross

Further reading The Cross of Christ, pages 23-31 18 For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 1 Corinthians 1.18 ESV The Christians’ choice of a cross as the symbol of their faith is the more...