Exiled Preacher

  Banner of Truth Trust , 2016, 250pp At the Banner of Truth Ministers' Conference it is customary for speakers to recommend titl...

From Heaven He Came and Sought Her : Definite Atonement in Historical, Biblical, Theological and Pastoral Perspective  Edited by Davi...

For thus we say that He both suffered and rose again, not as though God the Word suffered in His own Nature either stripes or piercing...

Wretched is the loss of one's good name in the public courts, wretched, too, a monetary fine exacted from one's property, and wretch...

Top marks to Gary Benfold (see comments on Name that theologian #1 ). It was Joseph Ratzinger, not Karl Barth, A. W. Tozer or P. T. Forsyth...

The Ordinary Hero: Living the cross and resurrection by Tim Chester, IVP, 2009, 221pp The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ lie at the...

An Easter message on 1 Peter 3:18 The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ lie at the heart of the Christian gospel. Everything centres ar...

[See here for Part 1] 4. Jesus is mocked by his enemies In films like The Passion of Christ , the sheer physical brutality of crucifixion i...

We perhaps tend to think that we should look to the Gospels for an historical description of the cross and to the Epistles to give us the me...

Pierced for our Transgressions: rediscovering the glory of penal substitution, by Steve Jeffery, Mike Ovey and Andrew Sach, IVP, 2007, 373p...

Steve Chalke infamously wrote that the penal substitutionary view of the atonement is tantamount to, ‘child abuse – a vengeful Father punis...

John Owen, author of The Death of Death in the Death of Christ In a recent post, Defining Heresy , Chris Tilling reflected on David Bentley...

God Crucified: Monotheism & Christology in the New Testament, 1998, Eerdmans, 79pp, by Richard Bauckham In this gem of a book, Bauckh...

Don Carson recently said that the internet represents a "triumph of pooled ignorance". But there is some good stuff out there in ...

"Throughout my 63 years as an evangelical believer, the penal substitutionary understanding of the cross of Christ has been a flashpoin...

1. The one who hung on the cross was the incarnate, sinless Son of God. 2. Christ's death is described using number of complementary mod...