All preachers know you can’t have too many devotional inputs during Easter week. Here’s a piece from Jared Wilson on what he calls the -ations (not the stations) of the Cross. Mediation — There is a gulf between us and God, held in tension by his justified wrath owed to us for our sin. At …

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Some helpful clarification. With emphasis and reformatting by Michael Johnson of the Desiring God blog. We strongly reject, therefore, every explanation of the death of Christ which does not have at its centre the principle of ‘satisfaction thorough substitution’, indeed divine self-satisfaction through divine self-substitution. The cross was not: —a commercial bargain with the devil, …

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