The Cross Was Not Only Christ's - It Is Yours.
Most Christians understand the cross of salvation.
Few understand the cross of transformation.
In The Cross in Your Path, Sonny Bradley and Gene Edwards explore the second cross - the one Jesus calls every believer to take up daily.
This is not a book about conversion. It is a book about maturity.
Through powerful biblical portraits - Rebekah, Job, Paul, Mary and Martha, the Ark, Gethsemane, betrayal, division, leadership failure - this book reveals how God uses suffering, disappointment, humiliation, and even church conflict to accomplish one central purpose:
To conform us to Christ.
Inside You Will Discover:
- Why suffering is not accidental in the Christian life
- How betrayal can become a doorway to spiritual fragrance
- The difference between serving Christ and loving Him
- Why ministry success can hinder intimacy
- How to forgive when vindication feels justified
- What God is doing when He seems silent
- Why brokenness produces spiritual sensitivity
This book challenges modern success-driven Christianity and calls believers back to:
- Daily surrender
- Death to self-life
- Union with Christ
- A deeper, quieter walk with God
It is not light reading.
It is not motivational religion.
It is a call to the way of the cross.
If you long for spiritual depth beyond surface Christianity -
If you have been wounded by disappointment and want to understand why -
If you desire true transformation rather than religious activity -
Then this journey is for you.
Welcome to the real Christian life.
SONNY BRADLEY has traveled extensively for several decades in Christian ministry, taking himfrom Japan to Eastern Europe as a conference speaker and counselor.He and his wife make their home in Florida.
Gene Edwards, one of the world's most beloved Christian storytellers, blazed new trails in the revelation of the mystery of Christ and His church. He authored over thirty books, translated into many languages, including his bestsellers, A Tale of Three Kings, The Divine Romance, and The Prisoner in the Third Cell. In his extensive biblical fiction are such titles as The Highest Life, The Secret to the Christian Life, The Inward Journey, the series The Chronicles of Heaven, and The First Century Diaries. During his seventy years of ministry, he traveled extensively to hold conferences and raise organic churches in the U.S. and other nations and helped them toward a deeper Christian life and experience of church as it originally was practiced in the first century.Gene went to be with his beloved Lord in December of 2022, leaving a profound literary and spiritual legacy that continues to inspire generations of believers.
