The Preaching of the Cross
The Preaching of the Cross is the daily weekday radio ministry of Pastor James W. Knox, featuring in-depth, expository Bible teaching.
Episodes
87 episodes
God of Creation: Weasels, Skunks, and Lions
A weasel can be ten inches long and still pick fights like it owns the woods. A lion can look regal and still be built for silent killing. That contrast drives today’s teaching as we keep studying the God of creation and what the natural world ...
God of Creation: Hormones and Radio Waves
The most powerful forces in your life may be the ones you barely notice. We start with a simple claim rooted in Romans 1: the invisible God makes Himself known through visible creation, so the world around us is not random noise but a witness. ...
God of Creation: Kangaroos, Bats, and Beavers
A blind, inch-long joey crawls to a pouch it has never seen, locks onto nourishment it cannot even draw in, and survives without choking. That’s not a cartoon of nature, it’s a real-world design problem with a real-world solution, and it sets t...
God of Creation: Whales
A whale looks like a fish until you notice what it has to do every few minutes just to live: surface, breathe, and refill an oxygen supply that keeps it from drowning. That single detail opens the door to a bigger question we explore today: wha...
God of Creation: Chromosomes
Life looks simple from a distance, but get close enough and it becomes staggering. We start with a strange, almost forgotten word, protoplasm, the living substance inside cells, and ask a blunt question: if the best minds can’t produce living m...
God of Creation: A New Creature
God doesn’t only show up in rainbows and orchids. We argue He’s present in the places we avoid, the messy corners of life, and even the “garbage can” moments that feel too ugly to matter. Brother James uses a striking chain of stories from crea...
God of Creation: Atmosphere and Atoms
Fourteen tons of air presses on your body at sea level and you don’t even feel it. That single fact opens a door into a bigger question we can’t ignore: are we living inside a carefully measured system or a lucky accident that somehow holds tog...
God of Creation: Are You Really You?
If every cell in your body is slowly being replaced, why do you still wake up certain that you are the same “you” who lived ten, twenty, even forty years ago? We start with that uncomfortable question and follow it where it leads: into metaboli...
God of Creation: Every Man a Miracle
Your next “miracle” might not be something you see on a stage, it might be your next heartbeat. Brother James takes a hard look at the human body and argues that ordinary physiology points to extraordinary intelligence. From the constant labor ...
God of Creation: Plant World (Part 3)
A tree can look like it’s dying in autumn while it’s quietly preparing for spring. That single detail opens a much bigger question: are the systems inside the natural world the product of chance, or the fingerprints of an intelligent Creator wh...
God of Creation: Plant World (Part 2)
Trees move water from soil to the topmost leaf without anything like household plumbing, and the deeper you look the stranger it gets. I’m Brother James, and in our God of Creation series we use the plant world as a window into the wisdom, powe...
God of Creation: Plant World (Part 1)
A green leaf is doing more chemistry than most labs, and you’re breathing the results. We follow the plant world from Genesis to everyday life and ask the question that keeps surfacing: can you really look at roots, stems, and photosynthesis an...
God of Creation: Waterworks
Water is so common that we forget how strange it is and how perfectly suited it is for life. We start with what you can see with your own eyes: dew that glistens, rain that sings, frost that shines, and the rainbow’s colors riding on tiny drops...
God of Creation: Bees and Plants
A beehive hums with more than motion, it hums with order. We start with honey bees and the shockingly coordinated life of the hive: specialized roles, perfect timing, and honeycomb architecture so efficient it makes you wonder where the “know-h...
God of Creation: Honeybees (Part 2)
A honey bee can turn honey into wax, build a heat-resistant vault for “liquid gold,” and run a nursery that feeds larvae hundreds of times a day. That kind of precision forces a question we cannot dodge: does a world this coordinated really com...
God of Creation: Honeybees (Part 1)
A honey bee is not just a bug with wings, it’s a flying bundle of precision tools. When you look closely at its antennae built for smell, its built-in “cleaning gate,” its pollen basket and packing spur, and the chemistry that turns watery nect...
When Heaven Opens: Part 6
Heaven opening in Scripture isn’t a vague symbol or a mood. It’s a pattern God uses to reveal something specific about Jesus Christ, and once you see it, the Bible’s storyline snaps into focus. We keep moving through the “opened heaven” moments...
When Heaven Opens: Part 5
Heaven opens, and a man dies praying to Jesus. Then heaven opens again, and a reluctant apostle finally lets the gospel cross a line his prejudice had drawn. We follow those two scenes straight through Acts 7 and Acts 10, because they expose wh...
When Heaven Opens: Part 4
A man is on trial for telling the truth about Jesus and the courtroom turns into an execution. But the most shocking part of Stephen’s story is not the stones, it’s where he looks while they fly: “Behold, I see the heavens opened.” We follow th...
When Heaven Opens: Part 3
Heaven doesn’t “open” in Scripture for small talk. When God pulls back the curtain, He moves history forward and He confronts the human heart. I’m Brother James, and this broadcast follows our series on the times in the Bible when heaven is ope...
When Heaven Opens: Part 2
A funeral has a way of stripping the noise away. I start with that kind of moment and a simple, weighty truth: Jesus Christ is not a Savior for one group, one color, or one nation. He is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, and ...
When Heaven Opens: Part 1
Heaven opens over the Jordan, the Spirit descends like a dove, and a voice from above declares, “This is my beloved Son.” That single scene raises a question most people skip too quickly: why would a sinless Jesus insist on being baptized at al...
Heroes of the Faith: Daniel Smith
Every day is a holy day, or it’s nothing at all. That’s where we start, and it’s where Daniel Smith’s life keeps taking us back again and again. He isn’t presented as a super-saint with rare gifts, but as a man who simply belongs to Jesus Chris...
Heroes of the Faith: C.J. Baker
We trace the life of C.J. Baker, a Chicago entrepreneur who met Jesus, built a thriving tent and awning business, and turned profits into preaching, rescue work, and global missions. His partnership with evangelist Donald Ross shows how Scriptu...
Once for All, Perfected Forever
What if the reason assurance feels out of reach is because the sacrifice you trust requires a do-over? We walk through Hebrews 9:28 and 10:1–14 to draw a bright line between rituals that never finish and the cross that already has. The law offe...