A cross without offense to the world is a cross without power in the world.
We become like what we focus upon. Fix your eyes upon Christ and be conformed into His image.
With arms outstretched on the cross. Jesus took holy God in one hand and sinful man with the other and brought the two together.
Your faith depends on the strength of its object...a puny god just won't do.
Where God has put a period, the devil puts a question mark, casting doubt.
Hell is a real place, more real than the city in which you live, much hotter and more populated.