Book Revoew: The Cross Shaped Life

 

The Cross-Shaped Life

Taking on Christ's Humanity

by Jeff Kennon

Pub Date 21 Sep 2021

 Abilene Christian University Press & Leafwood Publishers,  Leafwood Publishers 

 Christian  |  Religion & Spirituality

I am reviewing a copy of The Cross Shaped Life through Abilene Christian University Press & Leafwood Publishers,  Leafwood Publishers  and NetGalley:

One of the oldest questions is who are we?  And the bottom-line answer is that we are created in the image of God. But when we ask what it means to live in the image of God, we cannot forget the cross.   We cannot forget the Cross because God came, took on our likeness, and died on the cross. So what does it mean to live in the image of a God who is willing to die on a cross?

Despite the fact that the Cross is a well known symbol in Western Society we are not prone to think of the cross as the key to our identity.  But in order to discover the heart of God, and therefore who we are to be as his image bearers, it is to the cross that we must turn.

The Cross Shaped Life takes readers into the story of God from creation to salvation, but it culminates in Paul’s words found in Philippians 2:5–11. It’s in these few verses that readers will discover that though our Western culture tells us that in order to find ourselves we must continue to acquire more prestige, power, and possessions, the truth is that we only discover who we truly are when we live lives of humility, service, and sacrifice on behalf of others.  

I give The Cross Shaped Life five out of five stars!

Happy Reading!