The cross was the centerpiece of Paul’s theology. It wasn’t merely one of Paul’s messages; it was the message. He taught about other things as well, but whatever he taught was always derived from, and related to, the foundational reality that Jesus Christ died so that sinners would be reconciled to God and forgiven by God.
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It was not guilt that froze me. I had taught myself never to feel guilt. It was not a ghast... KURT VONNEGUT JR. The gospel of Jesus Christ is good news, glad tidings, and much more. It is the message of salvation... DIETER F. UCHTDORF He lived the Christian life he was taught so that he was a true example to the children of the schoo... ELAINE HERALD Holy Saturday When Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross, it was not the blood of a martyr; o... OSWALD CHAMBERS Continuing a series on the person of Jesus: Jesus Christ suffered and died to sanctify death and s... BLAISE PASCAL started to tell his friends that he had not been the inventor of the ideas about infinity that he ha... GEORG CANTOR God bless Brad Jones, he feels about as badly as he can feel. The first 30 days I represented him, I... CARL CORNWELL Salvation belongs to the sinner. Jesus already has bought the salvation of the worst sinner, just as... KENNETH E. HAGIN He taught us with his actions as well as his words -- he taught the power of nonviolence for human d... WALT BLOMBERG Every time they saw him, they recognized him and knew him and expected things of him. And every time... CASSANDRA CLARE Romans 3:19-26. To help us examine that passage, I will quote it here in its entirety. Now we know t... JERRY BRIDGES In Him we have . . . the forgiveness of sins . . . —Ephesians 1:7 Beware of the pleasan... OSWALD CHAMBERS The gifts of the Master are these: freedom, life, hope, new direction, transformation, and intimacy ... STEVEN JAMES It does not make a very great difference what side of Christ's work attracts us and appeals to us mo... JAMES HASTINGS RASHDALL The most violent expression of God's wrath and justice is seen in the Cross. If ever a person had ro... R.C. SPROUL Concluding a series on the person of Jesus: Jesus' good news, then, was that the Kingdom of God ha... MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE But that's not how God views the cross, Jake. His wrath wasn't an expression of the punishment sin d... WAYNE JACOBSEN AND DAVE COLEMAN Divinity is great enough to be divine; it is great enough to call itself divine. But as humanity gro... G.K. CHESTERTON Could it be that God was an extra-terrestrial? What do we mean when we say that heaven is in the clo... ERICH VON DäNIKEN The glory of the cross is bound up with the effectiveness of its accomplishment. JOHN MURRAY [He said] that it was a great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other ... BROTHER LAWRENCE Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres... J. B. PHILLIPS It is not that God's help and presence must still be proved in our life; rather God's presence and h... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the k... CHARLES DICKENS It was by faith, nothing wavering, that Joseph saw God our Eternal Father and Jesus Christ, His Son. THOMAS S. MONSON Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven. MATTHEW SIMPSON I do not know you, my friends, not individually, most of you, but this is the wonderful thing about ... D. MARTYN LLOYD-JONES Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373 Human and human-minded as men were, t... ST. ATHANASIUS He believed that he must, that he could and would recover the good things, the happy things, the eas... SAUL BELLOW He would have to trust God for that, for he was helpless to do anything about it himself. His grandf... ROBIN LEE HATCHER God has ways of shaking the world when He is at work. He literally caused the ground to quake when J... CHARLES STANLEY He taught us that to stand and be counted was the way to be. 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BILLY GRAHAM ...that people often say about Him: "I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't... C. S. LEWIS Pun was just a natural-born genius with music, and he basically taught me so many tricks on how to m... FAT JOE My difficulties lay deeper. It was more than I could believe that Jesus was the only incarnate son o... MAHATMA GANDHI God our Heavenly Father knows us by name. Jesus Christ lives; He is the Messiah. He loves us. The At... DIETER F. UCHTDORF Jesus taught and demonstrated the life changing principles of the kingdom of God SUNDAY ADELAJA And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed t... CHARLES DICKENS The most wonderful thing of all about the cross is that it reveals the love of God to us. It is not ... D. MARTYN LLOYD-JONES Matthew lists Rahab as one of the ancestresses of the Lord Jesus Christ (Matthew 1:5), and that may ... FREDERICK BUECHNER Jesus was a perfect example of following authority. He was subject to His earthly parents; he subjec... MONICA JOHNSON Some revelations have been reserved for the last days for God to accomplish His original plan. PST ADELAJA SUNDAY The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY
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