“Brethren, let us cut out of our sermons everything that takes men’s minds away from the cross.
One look at Jesus is better than the most attentive gazing at our gems of speech.
Christ must ever be in the foreground, and our sermons must point to him, or they will do more harm than good. We must preach Christ crucified, and set him forth like the sun in the heavens…
I gather that there is no such thing as a progressive word of the cross, but that the gospel is the same gospel today as it was when Paul in the beginning proclaimed it…
God had but one Son…and he sent him here below to take our nature, that, being found in fashion as a man, he might die on our behalf, made sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
‘God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him might not perish, but have everlasting life’ [Jn 3:16]. The word of the cross is, ‘God is love’; he willeth not the death of the sinner, but that he turn unto him and live…
‘Let the cross speak for itself.’”
Portions from:
Hold Fast Apologetics 