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The Cross of Christ
These powerful words pierce straight to the heart of our deepest spiritual need. What does it mean to embrace, to live by, and to daily bear the cross of Jesus Christ? Why does God ask His children to bear this cross? As our modern world shifts and shakes, a generation of earnest believers is coming face to face with a deeper reality of our call to bear the cross of Jesus Christ. Murray meets us where we are with gentleness and passion, calming our quaking fears and guiding us into the mystery of the shadow of the cross.
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40 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 6, 2017
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Andrew Murray
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Murray was Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Murray became a noted missionary leader. His father was a Scottish Presbyterian serving the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa, and his mother had connections with both French Huguenots and German Lutherans. This background to some extent explains his ecumenical spirit. He was educated at Aberdeen University, Scotland, and at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. After ordination in 1848 he served pastorates at Bloemfontein, Worcester, Cape Town, and Wellington. He helped to found what are now the University College of the Orange Free State and the Stellenbosch Seminary. He served as Moderator of the Cape Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church and was president of both the YMCA (1865) and the South Africa General Mission (1888-1917), now the Africa Evangelical Fellowship.
He was one of the chief promoters of the call to missions in South Africa. This led to the Dutch Reformed Church missions to blacks in the Transvaal and Malawi. Apart from his evangelistic tours in South Africa, he spoke at the Keswick and Northfield Conventions in 1895, making a great impression. upon his British and American audiences. For his contribution to world missions he was given an honorary doctorate by the universities of Aberdeen (1898) and Cape of Good Hope(1907).
Murray is best known today for his devotional writings, which place great emphasis on the need for a rich, personal devotional life. Many of his 240 publications explain in how he saw this devotion and its outworking in the life of the Christian. Several of his books have become devotional classics. Among these are Abide in Christ, Absolute Surrender, With Christ in the School of Prayer, The Spirit of Christ and Waiting on God.
Murray was Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Murray became a noted missionary leader. His father was a Scottish Presbyterian serving the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa, and his mother had connections with both French Huguenots and German Lutherans. This background to some extent explains his ecumenical spirit. He was educated at Aberdeen University, Scotland, and at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. After ordination in 1848 he served pastorates at Bloemfontein, Worcester, Cape Town, and Wellington. He helped to found what are now the University College of the Orange Free State and the Stellenbosch Seminary. He served as Moderator of the Cape Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church and was president of both the YMCA (1865) and the South Africa General Mission (1888-1917), now the Africa Evangelical Fellowship.
He was one of the chief promoters of the call to missions in South Africa. This led to the Dutch Reformed Church missions to blacks in the Transvaal and Malawi. Apart from his evangelistic tours in South Africa, he spoke at the Keswick and Northfield Conventions in 1895, making a great impression. upon his British and American audiences. For his contribution to world missions he was given an honorary doctorate by the universities of Aberdeen (1898) and Cape of Good Hope(1907).
Murray is best known today for his devotional writings, which place great emphasis on the need for a rich, personal devotional life. Many of his 240 publications explain in how he saw this devotion and its outworking in the life of the Christian. Several of his books have become devotional classics. Among these are Abide in Christ, Absolute Surrender, With Christ in the School of Prayer, The Spirit of Christ and Waiting on God.
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April 23, 2017
Andrew Murray is always a wonderful antidote to fluffy Christianity. I read this booklet in preparation for Easter and appreciated his many insights into the cross and how Christ's finished work there applies to our lives in the here-and-now.
[After the fall] "man became a creature possessed of a strange, unnatural worldly life. The will of God and heaven, and holiness, for which he was created, became darkened and lost to him. The pleasures of the flesh, and of the world, and of self, which are all the dark accursed workings of the Evil One, became natural and attractive. Man sees not, knows not, how sinful, wretched, and deadly he is – alienated from God, and bearing within himself the very seeds of hell." (location 65)
"The cross and the world are diametrically and unchangeably opposed to each other. (232) The difference between the two kingdoms is irreconcilable. However much the world be externally changed by Christian influence, its nature remains the same. When the cross is fully preached with its revelation of sin and curse, with its claim to be accepted and borne – the enmity is speedily seen." (199)
This book has rich truths on every page and should be read slowly, meditatively and prayerfully.
[After the fall] "man became a creature possessed of a strange, unnatural worldly life. The will of God and heaven, and holiness, for which he was created, became darkened and lost to him. The pleasures of the flesh, and of the world, and of self, which are all the dark accursed workings of the Evil One, became natural and attractive. Man sees not, knows not, how sinful, wretched, and deadly he is – alienated from God, and bearing within himself the very seeds of hell." (location 65)
"The cross and the world are diametrically and unchangeably opposed to each other. (232) The difference between the two kingdoms is irreconcilable. However much the world be externally changed by Christian influence, its nature remains the same. When the cross is fully preached with its revelation of sin and curse, with its claim to be accepted and borne – the enmity is speedily seen." (199)
This book has rich truths on every page and should be read slowly, meditatively and prayerfully.
July 12, 2017
Fantastic devotional material. There's a lot to chew over and consider.
April 11, 2020
A Great Christian Classic from Andrew Murray.
Sometimes, after reading what I refer to as Christian classics, I am left wanting to hear such 'straight talking' about God - from myself and some pulpits again.
Sometimes, after reading what I refer to as Christian classics, I am left wanting to hear such 'straight talking' about God - from myself and some pulpits again.
July 2, 2017
Holy Spirit does not need yielding before entering the believer
Service in humility and willingly to your neighbour, forgiving all including the enemy is the best evidence that the Holy Spirit has taken control of the elect.
Service in humility and willingly to your neighbour, forgiving all including the enemy is the best evidence that the Holy Spirit has taken control of the elect.
December 21, 2024
Short but great explanation of the Cross of Christ in the life of the believer. Murray does a great job of showing the offense of the cross to those who have not accepted Christ, the use of the cross in the life of the believer at salvation, and then the Holy Spirit's continuing work of using the cross in the life of the believer in their sanctification. All in all, this short book is a great reminder of the Gospel to saints of young and old.
January 28, 2015
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October 13, 2012
I still refer to this book to this day for devotional. A deep and sincere observation of our Lord and what salvation means coming from the cross.
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