The Cross: Crucified with Christ, and Christ Alive in Me

J. C. Ryle

Nov 2019 · Aneko Press

About this ebook

I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. – Galatians 2:20

I want to tell you what perhaps the greatest Christian who ever lived (the Apostle Paul) thought of the cross of Christ. Believe me, the cross is one of deepest importance. This is no mere question of controversy; this is not one of those points on which men may agree to differ and feel that differences will not shut them out of heaven. A man must be right on this subject, or he is lost forever. Heaven or hell, happiness or misery, life or death, blessing or cursing in the last day – all hinges on the answer to this question: “What do you think about the cross of Christ?”

Let me show you:

1.      What the apostle Paul did not glory in.

2.      What Paul did glory in.

3.      Why all Christians should think and feel about the cross like Paul.

Ratings and reviews

I truly enjoy reading literature from the 1800's, hearing the thoughts, perspectives & experiences of how lives lived in CHRIST JESUS felt like, how they expressed what the HOLY SPIRIT led them to do & write. The leadings, their journeys, their revelations from GOD. I think of my own walk in the LORD & it's true, I fall short of the glory of GOD. But, my hope rests in HIM, my faith abounds in my pain & tribulations, the joy of the LORD is my strength. I know He went to prepare a place for me & I can't wait

This book written in lucid language.Cross is the emblem of Love of our God and Grace of our Lord christmas where we find peace, love & comfort.I Pray this book to be printed and circulated and be kept in common place to evangelise.

A short encouragement for readers to always and only looked at the Cross of Jesus and His work of Redemption. I thank God for this free eBook and I thank God for such a great Pastor, Minister, Theologian like J C Ryle. Let God be Glorified!

About the author

John Charles Ryle (1816-1900) graduated from Eton and Oxford and then pursued a career in politics, but due to lack of funds, he entered the clergy of the Church of England. He was a contemporary of Spurgeon, Moody, Mueller, and Taylor and read the great theologians like Wesley, Bunyan, Knox, Calvin, and Luther. These all influenced Ryle’s understanding and theology. Ryle began his writing career with a tract following the Great Yarmouth suspension bridge tragedy, where more than a hundred people drowned. He gained a reputation for straightforward preaching and evangelism. He travelled, preached, and wrote more than 300 pamphlets, tracts, and books, including Expository Thoughts on the Gospels, Principles for Churchmen, and Christian Leaders of the Eighteenth Century. Ryle used the royalties from his writing to pay his father’s debts, but he also felt indebted to that ruin for changing the direction of his life. He was recommended by Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli to be Bishop of Liverpool where he ended his career in 1900.