However, at least eight passages in Isaiah (41:8-9, 44:1-2, 21 [2 references], 45:4, 48:20, and 49:3) identify the whole nation of Israel as God’s servant, and so we focused primarily on the ...

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So for God to show up on the cross is crazy. It’s become so ubiquitous and part of our culture and heritage that we don’t think twice about it, but it is the strangest place to find God.

On the cross we see how humble, how self-giving, how perfectly generous and compassionate the living God is. That is why Luther wanted all thinking about God to be done in the shadow of the cross.

Paul says, " [T]he message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God" (1 Cor. 1:18).

By Dean Kelly, Meet Me At The CrossYou truly believe you could fry an egg on the concrete in your yard. As soon as you walk ...

And the cross is a scandal, a stumbling block, for Jews. They were awaiting the Christ of God, the anointed of God, and yet to die on a tree was to be accursed (Deuteronomy 21:22-23).

The cross represents the very worst that humans could do to another human, even to God,” said Father John Rice, pastor of St. Francis Xavier Church, 532 Market St., Parkersburg.

God's witness was left in the lurch by the God to whom he had witnessed. The mockery at the foot of the cross, reported in a variety of ways, underlines vividly this wordless, helpless, miracle ...

A God who allows suffering is a mystery, but so is a God who suffered. “Stations of the Cross: Jesus and Simon of Cyrene,” by Giandomenico Tiepolo, (1745-1749).Credit...Scala/Art Resource, NY ...