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 …
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, …
…with apologies to Rodgers and Hammerstein. Kevin DeYoung offers three posts ‘Can Pietism and Confessionalism Be Friends?’ Part one Part two Part three DeYoung seeks to address the contention that: Pietism, it is said, emphasizes dramatic conversions, tends toward individualism, pushes for unity based on shared experience, and pays little attention to careful doctrinal formulation. …
Helpful thoughts from Ben Pfahlert for those of us pondering how to present the Gospel at Easter time to those who have heard the message many times before, but just don’t get it. I have been using a phrase over the last couple of years and, by God’s grace, I have noticed that whenever I …
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