In this book, The Cross, you will discover that the cross of Jesus Christ is everything to man. As an indispensable part of our Christian life, there can’t be any child of God that ought to glory in anything save in the cross; thus, it is the hallmark of the church and the crux of the Gospel. This inspirational and expository study shows how the cross was in the mind of God long before man invented it. The cross is the reason God sent his one and only Son into the world to save mankind from sin and death. In Christianity, the cross became not only a symbol of the shameful death of Jesus Christ as a criminal but also of his subsequent resurrection to eternal life and of his promise of salvation to Christian believers. “There is a crossless Christianity which hinders a deeper dimension of consecration . . . responsible for the carnality we see in the church today . . . Richard Kema, in this book, helps us to appreciate the power of the cross as the only way to salvation, deliverance, and restoration.” —Dr. Steve Ogan