Emphasis Preaching Journal

In one of his books, Dr. Leslie Weatherhead recalled a night when his ship sailed past the island of Stromboli, off the coast of Sicily. He saw the bright fires of the Strombolian volcano light up the black sky. "Just as the flash of the volcano reveals the fires forever burning in the mountain's heart," wrote Dr. Weatherhead, "so the incident [on the cross of Christ] on Calvary two thousand years ago shows the nature of the eternal God. (Leslie Weatherhead, That Immortal Sea, Abingdon: New York, 1953, p. 127.)

"I sometimes think about the Cross,