In Reflections of the Times Carla has it dead right. There simply isn’t a more important issue facing the church today than the atonement. It is absolutely critical that more of us examine this matter more fully and become clear about what we believe that bible says and why we believe that. Go and read her post and all those she links to right now!

• The Atonement – Romans 6-7 and Penal Substitutionary Atonement
• THE ATONEMENT DEBATE – Steve Chalke Argues Against Penal Substitutionary Atonement
• The Atonement – Romans 4-5 on Penal Substitutionary Atonement
• The Atonement – Romans 1-3 and Penal Substitutionary Atonement
• Please Pray for Duck Who Unwittingly Prompted our Atonement Debate and is Not a Christian
• THE ATONEMENT DEBATE – Steve Chalke’s Further Arguments Against Penal Substitution
• The Atonement – Penal Substitutionary Atonement Defined
• Martyn Lloyd-Jones Monday – The Doctor on the Atonement
• The atonement: No punishment required?
• L – Limited atonement (Five Points of Calvinism, Part 3)
• The Atonement – If Jesus Was Not a Sinner, Why Did He Die?
• BLOGDOM TODAY – The Atonement, Church Membership, and Godly Attitudes
• Atonement – Jesus Thought He Was Fulfilling Isaiah 53
• Arguing about the atonement
• Atonement – The Angry God of the Bible