Found here are fifty-seven expository messages that without fail will speak to the heart of every weary saint, wounded sinner, and thankful believer. Underlying each of the six sections—”The Amazing Cross,” “The Royal Sufferer,” “The Power of the Cross,” “Rejected of Men,” “Jesus in the Midst,” and “Man of Sorrows”—is a basic theme, a different view of the cross. As one reads these inspirational messages, he is compelled to see his own worthlessness and the absolute necessity of Christ’s cross, for his own salvation, and to seek refuge with the author in the shadow of the cross.
Joel R. Beeke: “The best one-volume twentieth-century work [on Christ’s sufferings] is Herman Hoeksema, When I Survey … A single, basic theme underlies each of six sections that were originally published as books of radio messages (1943-56)” (in Joel R. Beeke and Sinclair B. Ferguson [eds.], Reformed Confessions Harmonized [Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1999], p. 259).
“I have got Herman Hoeksema’s book When I Survey the wondrous cross, that is pure wonder to me.” – Lancashire, England
“Thank you for the book When I Survey. I cannot but be totally amazed at what I am reading, and above all seeing, in this book … Since starting to read this book, my spiritual warfare has become far more intense, which I take to be a good effect. Praise the Lord.” – England
