#292 - Mark Hitchcock // Look at Life Through the Cross

The Daily Blade: Joby Martin & Kyle Thompson

Joby Martin & Kyle Thompson

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🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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We explore a simple daily practice: look at people, the past, and the future through the cross of Jesus. A vivid story of polar snow goggles anchors how a cruciform lens humbles pride, heals shame, and fuels purpose. • the cross as the believer’s lens for life • Paul’s focus on Christ crucified as a model • the snow goggles metaphor to prevent spiritual blindness • seeing nonbelievers with compassion not contempt • honoring fellow believers as blood-bought family • dismantling pride because ...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Blade.
0:03.4	The Word of God is described as the sword of the spirit, the primary spiritual weapon in the
0:08.5	Christian's armor against the forces of evil.
0:11.3	Your hosts are Jobi Martin and Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight.
0:17.6	Let's sharpen up.
0:20.3	Welcome back to the Daily Blade. I'm Dr. Mark Hitchcock. I'm the pastor of Faith Bible Church
0:25.3	in Edmund, Oklahoma. And I'm filling in this week for Kyle and Jolby, and I appreciate
0:30.5	so much the opportunity that I've given me to be with you. You know, everybody has in life
0:35.9	kind of a grid or a lens that they look at life through.
0:39.2	And it really determines all of life. It colors all of life. And I would say for the believer in Jesus
0:43.9	Christ, the most important thing for us to look at life through our lens is the cross of Jesus
0:49.6	Christ. So look at all of life through the cross. Really, when you think about it, as far as Christian
0:54.8	discipleship is concerned, half the battle, I think, is simply keeping the message of the cross
1:00.5	front and center in our minds. The Apostle Paul did that. The Apostle Paul in 1st Corinthians
1:08.2	1 in verse 18, he says, the word of the cross is to those who are
1:12.6	perishing foolishness. But to those who are being saved, it is the power of God. The very next
1:18.0	chapter, Paul says, when he came to Corinth, he says, when I came, he says, I determined to know
1:22.6	nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. At the end of the book of Galatians, in Galatians 614,
1:30.8	the Apostle Paul says to us in that beautiful passage, God forbid that I should boast or glory,
1:36.7	except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which I am crucified to the world and the world
1:42.6	and is crucified to me.
1:48.1	The cross needs to be our grid for all of life.
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