---
title: 'The Old Rugged Cross'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'James Isaac Vance'
date: 1925-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Sermons'
- 'Personal Piety'
- 'Atonement'
scriptures:
- 'John 19'
- 'Philippians 3'
- 'Job 13'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/vance-1925-the-old-rugged-cross
---

# The Old Rugged Cross

Sermon urging Christians to embrace the rugged, sacrificial reality of the cross over sentimental images. Vance calls for sincere, costly devotion, duty, and readiness to suffer.

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