The Amazing Cross
Transforming Lives Today
1st Edition
Published on 17. December 2012
80 pages
978-1-84474-648-4 (ISBN)
Description
The cross of Christ is the heartbeat of Christianity. It is a place of pain and horror, wonder and beauty, all at the same time. It is the place where our sin collided gloriously with God's grace.
But do we really understand what the cross is all about? Or are we so caught up in the peripherals of the faith that we have forgotten the core? We need to ask ourselves:
How deep an impact has the cross made on my personality?
Do I live in the light of the freedom it has won for me?
Am I dying to myself every day, so that I can live for Christ?
Do I face suffering with faith and assurance?
Can I face death in the light of the hope of the resurrection?
The authors present us with a contemporary challenge to place all of our lives, every thought, word and deed, under the shadow of the amazing cross, and allow that cross to transform us here and now.
But do we really understand what the cross is all about? Or are we so caught up in the peripherals of the faith that we have forgotten the core? We need to ask ourselves:
How deep an impact has the cross made on my personality?
Do I live in the light of the freedom it has won for me?
Am I dying to myself every day, so that I can live for Christ?
Do I face suffering with faith and assurance?
Can I face death in the light of the hope of the resurrection?
The authors present us with a contemporary challenge to place all of our lives, every thought, word and deed, under the shadow of the amazing cross, and allow that cross to transform us here and now.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Nottingham
United Kingdom
Product notice
Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-84474-648-4 (9781844746484)
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Inter-Varsity Press
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Persons
Jeremy McQuoid is the Teaching Pastor at Deeside Christian Fellowship Church, Aberdeen, Scotland. He speaks at national and international conferences. Elizabeth McQuoid is a trustee of Keswick Convention and a speaker at women's events and has written several Bible studies. The McQuoids earned their Masters of Divinity degrees at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois. They have three sons.
Content
- Intro
- The Amazing Cross
- Contents
- Part One: What happened at the cross?
- Part Two: What difference does the cross make to me?
- Part Three: How can I live a cross-shaped life?
- Part Four: The resurrection factor
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Keswick and the cross
- Enduring truth
- Oberammergau
- The magnetism of the cross
- A drama in four parts
- Part one: What happened at the cross?
- 1 The passion of the cross
- The Father delights in his Son
- The Word became flesh
- 'Giving' at the cross
- Abraham and Isaac
- The moral issue
- A father's emotions
- The son's innocence
- The Father's pain
- What happened at the cross?
- The challenge
- Questions
- Passages for further study
- 2 The perfect storm
- The bull's-eye of the gospel
- The danger of God's holiness
- Holy, holy, holy
- Degrees of holiness
- A ruined prophet
- The beginning of the gospel
- Beautiful but dangerous
- Propitiation
- Wrath absorber
- A robust cross
- Real love
- The call to holiness
- The cleansing word
- Questions
- Passages for further study
- 3 The headless snake
- The reality of Satan
- Satan's defeat at Calvary
- Death defeated
- 'Now' but 'not yet'
- What is Satan doing now?
- Resisting Satan
- Satan's future
- Questions
- Passages for further study
- Part two: What difference does the cross make to me?
- 4 Justification: A righteousness from God
- Galatians and Romans
- Justification
- The religious
- Jesus our righteousness
- The wonder of justification
- Not performance-based religion
- No guilt in life, no fear in death
- Christ centred-gospel
- Questions
- Passages for further study
- 5 Redemption: Set free to become what we are
- Slaves to sin
- A new master
- Counting ourselves dead to sin
- Becoming what we are
- Pursuing holiness
- The bigger picture
- Taking the long view
- Questions
- Passages for further study
- 6 Reconciliation: Bridging the great divide
- Restored to God now
- Hope for the future
- Maintaining the peace
- Reconciled to one another
- Unity in practice
- God's vision
- It's personal
- Our ministry of reconciliation
- God's ambassadors
- Speaking for him
- The message of the cross
- Questions
- Passages for further study
- Part three: How can I live a cross-shaped life?
- 7 The crossed-out 'I'
- Take up your cross
- Saying 'yes' to Christ
- Give me all
- Living the cross-shaped life
- What does it mean for me?
- Money matters
- Time and talents
- What does it mean for my family?
- What does it mean for my church?
- Crossed-out-I life
- Questions
- Passages for further study
- 8 The fellowship of his sufferings
- The problem of suffering
- No easy answers
- A profound mystery
- Suffering and the cross
- The God who suffers
- Comfort from the cross
- The necessity of suffering
- Rejoicing in suffering?
- The fellowship of his sufferings
- The Wesley boys
- The 'Holy Club'
- Persecuted preachers
- Suffering leads to maturity
- Questions
- Passages for further study
- 9 The pilgrim's travel kit
- Baptism: a picture of Christ's death
- A picture of cleansing
- A picture of passing through judgment
- Does your life reflect your baptism?
- Easy believism
- Naked baptism
- Leave it all behind
- Bread and wine
- The pilgrim's travel kit
- The simplicity of communion
- The meaning of communion
- The marriage supper of the Lamb
- Questions
- Passages for further study
- Part four: The resurrection factor
- 10 'If Christ has not been raised...'
- The crucial importance of the resurrection
- Old Testament prophecies
- The sweep of Old Testament prophecy
- New Testament preaching
- Galilean realism
- An early creed
- A united church
- An invented resurrection?
- Confidence in the resurrection
- Don't retreat when the resurrection is questioned
- Be bold about the resurrection
- Proclaim the resurrection
- Be an advert for the resurrection!
- Questions
- Passages for further study
- 11 The hope of glory
- Resurrection power
- From frailty to glory
- You will have a heavenly body!
- From Adam's image to Christ's image
- From defeat to victory
- From dust to glory
- Cosmic renewal
- The full scope of redemption
- A new vision of glory
- Keep your eye on the prize
- Questions
- Passages for further study
- Notes
- 1. The passion of the cross
- 2. The perfect storm
- 3. The headless snake
- 4. Justification
- 5. Redemption
- 6. Reconciliation
- 7. The crossed-out 'I'
- 8. The fellowship of his sufferings
- 9. The pilgrim's travel kit
- 10. 'If Christ has not been raised...'
- 11. The hope of glory
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