The Preaching of the Cross

The Preaching of the Cross is a weekday Bible-teaching program with the structure and pressure of old-fashioned radio preaching. It is measured, explicit, and doctrinally direct. Episodes commonly open with a gospel-centered greeting before moving into a long argument built from Scripture, historical example, and moral application. The show does not treat the Bible as a source of loose inspiration. It treats it as evidence. In the Exodus lessons, the program follows the text through Moses, the tabernacle instructions, the aftermath of the golden calf, and the meeting with God on the mountain. In prophecy teaching, it links Zechariah, Revelation, Daniel, John, Genesis, Isaiah, Micah, Deuteronomy, Numbers, and the Gospels into claims about the Messiah, the church, Israel, heaven opened, and the tribulation. The movement is slow but cumulative. A passage is read, compared, argued, clarified, and then pressed toward response. The biographical episodes widen the frame without leaving the pulpit. George Wagner is remembered as a man condemned for beliefs about Scripture, Christ, and baptism. The Scottish Covenanters are described with respect and caution, their suffering honored while their entanglement with warfare is named rather than hidden. That balance gives the historical material an unusually severe edge. It is not nostalgia. It is a test case for conviction. Even the creation series on bees and plants becomes theological argument, using pollination, clover, bumblebees, mice, and farming as signs of ordered design rather than accidental cooperation. Across subjects, the show returns to salvation by Jesus Christ, the authority of the Bible, the seriousness of sin, and the question of whether professed faith would survive pressure. It favors listeners who want sustained Baptist exposition and are comfortable with direct appeals about judgment, redemption, and public witness. Its pace is not hurried. Its aim is persuasion through repetition, cross-reference, and consequence. The appeal lies in its seriousness: each lesson is built as if doctrine matters because eternity, conduct, and courage depend on it.