By Elizabeth Prata

I used to think that God was ineffectual. I didn’t want to worship Him because He had failed in His plan (something about sin, whatever that was) and Jesus ended up dying. Other times I thought that God had to make a Plan B with Jesus dying on the cross because Plan A had failed. These were the thoughts of a lost person. But that was how it looked to me.

Then by His magnificent grace, I was saved. The cross is so central to everything, absolutely everything in life. It splits history. It divides between lost and saved. It demarcates eternal destinations. It is glory or doom, lawlessness or holiness. It is pain and joy, wrath or welcome. O, the wonder of the cross!

By Elizabeth Prata

This summer there is a free, online-only conference that I encourage you to ‘attend’. It will be live but also recorded so if you miss it you can see it later on American Gospel TV, again for free. The line-up of women speaking is solid, the topic is relevant, and the material will be edifying. The founder of this conference, now in its second year, is Brooke Bartz. In just a year, the conference has gained the backing of Media Gratiae, The Master’s Seminary, and American Gospel TV, which will broadcast it! For the second year, CityAlight will perform the music!

Brooke Bartz is the founder of the “Open Hearts in a Closed World” online Women’s conference, bringing together biblically based solid women teachers to encourage and exhort women to live Christ honoring lives from the scripture.