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Atonement

VIDEO – Ed Stetzer Interview – The Atonement and the Church Today

June 17, 2008

Today, we move on to speak about the atonement controversy and the state of the Church today.

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Replacing UK Evangelical Leader Joel Edwards

June 7, 2008

There is no doubt that it has been a difficult time in the Evangelical movement on both sides of the Atlantic in recent years. There have been numerous arguments about what the definition of an Evangelical should be and how closely we can work together with people who disagree with us about a range of [...]

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VIDEO INTERVIEW – John Piper On New Word Alive and Spring Harvest

May 18, 2008

UPDATEThe written transcript of this video is now available and can be accessed here. At the recent New Word Alive conference I was able to record a four-part interview with John Piper. John rarely gives interviews of any form, so it was a real privilege, and one that I hope you will enjoy. Dr. Piper [...]

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INTERVIEW – Wallace Benn on Penal Substitutionary Atonement

April 19, 2008

This is the second part of a three-part interview I did with Bishop Wallace Benn at the New Word Alive conference last week. You can read part 1 here. In this segment, the Bishop discusses his total commitment to the doctrine of penal substitutionary atonement, and gives some reasons why PSA “is central to a [...]

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NWA08 – Audio Response to John Piper’s Sermon on Suffering

April 9, 2008

Here are some interviews I recorded with people around the site here in North Wales to gauge the response to John Piper’s sermon on suffering. I end the clip with some of my own thoughts this morning after having slept on it overnight.

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My Most Read Blog Post Of All Time – My Interview With Mark Driscoll

March 4, 2008

Today I can finally reveal that No. 1 on the list of most-read posts on this blog appeared on April 2, 2006, and was my interview with Mark Driscoll, the pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Washington. Thanks to my friends at Crossway, a free copy of Mark Driscoll’s new book, Vintage Jesus, will [...]

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5th Most Read Post – Steve Chalke and "The Lost Message of Jesus"

February 12, 2008

No. 5 on the list of most-read posts on this blog appeared on November 21, 2004. I felt like a lonely figure back in 2004 with my strong criticism of Steve Chalke’s views on the atonement. I argued that his words were close to blasphemy at the time. John Piper would subsequently accuse Chalke directly [...]

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11th Most Read Post – The Atonement: Wright Attacks Both Sides of the Debate

January 28, 2008

No. 11 on the list of most-read posts on this blog appeared on April 23, 2007, and examined what is possibly the most controversial article Bishop Tom Wright has ever written. In it, I questioned his ability to criticize some who dismiss Penal Substitutionary Atonement while approving of Steve Chalke, stating his own support for [...]

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25th Most Read Post – PSA: Precious Gospel or Divine Child Abuse?

January 9, 2008

No. 25 on the list of the all-time most popular posts with readers of this blog appeared on July 2, 2007, and summarized some of my series on the atonement. It also included links to a number of other posts on the subject. There were many other posts within this series—the most popular of which [...]

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Review of the Blog – May to June 2007: More Atonement Wars and Terry Virgo

December 20, 2007

May was not as controversial a month as I reported yesterday that April had been. I continued with the following posts on the atonement and the resurrection throughout May and also into June. In fact, there were a few posts on the atonement which spilled into July, and I have listed them here also. If [...]

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Review of the Blog – April 2007: Atonement Wars

December 19, 2007

UPDATE – Steve Chalke has expressed his views more fully in a chapter in The Atonement Debate, and I have posted a response to this. Today I will continue my review of the last year’s blogging which we began yesterday. April was a very interesting month for me on this blog. So much so that [...]

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John Owen on the Atonement and Justification

November 30, 2007

You can count on John Owen to bring some light and clarity into a debate. The following lightly edited quote was sent in by a reader and is really helpful: “That which we affirm is that our sins were so transferred on Christ as that thereby he became responsible to God and liable to punishment [...]

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Driscoll on the Defeat of Shame and the Scotland MP3s

November 28, 2007

The MP3s of three talks from Mark Driscoll’s recent visit to Scotland are now online. The first one is the only one I was there for, and for which I wrote notes. God’s Plan for the Church in This City (right click to download MP3). Sex—A Study of the Good Bits from the Song of [...]

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Mark Driscoll Preaches on the Atonement in Edinburgh, Scotland

November 17, 2007

UPDATE The Audio of this talk is now available to download. —– Tonight’s event took place in an ex-cinema, so I felt at home! It is the home of Destiny Church, Edinburgh. Destiny is a family of churches across Scotland, and they have some churches elsewhere in the world as well. The audience that gathered [...]

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John Piper: Is N. T. Wright Preaching Another Gospel?

November 8, 2007

We are continuing to look at John Piper’s elegant exposure of the heart of the differences between his position and that of N. T. Wright’s. For those without the time to read massive volumes written by the current Bishop of Durham, Piper has done a great service. His scrupulous attempts to be fair to Wright [...]

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Piper and Wright: Does Justification by Faith Save Us?

November 7, 2007

So far in this series we have looked at the following: John Piper, N. T. Wright, and Gracious Discernment John Piper Challenges N. T. Wright on Justification Piper Explains the Classic View of Justification Versus N. T. Wright’s View Today I want to share a quote from The Future of Justification in which Piper responds [...]

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Piper Explains the Classic View of Justification Versus N. T. Wright’s View

November 6, 2007

Today I will take you further into Piper’s argument where he explains the long-held position, which Wright denies, that God cannot simply ‘forgive’ the guilty, but instead an exchange between guilt and righteousness must take place: An omniscient and just judge never “finds in favor” of a guilty defendant. He always vindicates the claim that [...]

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John Piper Challenges N. T. Wright on Justification

November 5, 2007

On Friday I introduced a series on John Piper’s response to N. T. Wright in The Future of Justification. We saw that to Piper the most critical difference between N. T. Wright and himself is that Wright does not believe that Christ’s righteousness is in any way transferred to our account. This is a vital, [...]

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John Piper, N. T. Wright, and Gracious Discernment

November 2, 2007

Bishop Tom Wright has long been the darling of many evangelicals. He is praised particularly for his work on the resurrection. But there is another side to Wright which is coming increasingly to the fore. His ability to woo evangelicals has, according to some observers, made it easy for him to subtly change some key [...]

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TRAVEL – Wheaton and Billy Graham – Proclaimer of the Resurrection

October 13, 2007

During a brief trip to the USA this past week, I had a layover in the Chicago area. I had an amazing few hours. I ate lunch with two great friends who I had never met in the flesh before. It struck me that the impression I had of them when finally meeting face-to-face was [...]

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