BIBLE NEWS: The Cross vs ISIS

The world is scary today with terrorism and wars happening all over the Middle East.  ISIS has been murdering Christians left and right, and glorying in their deaths.  Why is the cross so offensive to them?  The reality is, it has always been an offense to those outside our faith.

The ISIS barbarians were actually quite right in entitling their video "A Message Written in Blood." Up and down the centuries, tyrants and their lackeys have thought that they could wipe out the followers of Jesus through acts of violence.But as Tertullian observed long ago, the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. And they were furthermore right in sending their message to "the Nation of the Cross." But they should know that the cross taunts them.