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J. I. Packer on the Atonement

July 3, 2007

I received the following two articles from the communications director of the UCCF, and they have been kind enough to give me permission to republish them here. The first article is by J. I. Packer, and the second one is by Richard Cunningham, and were originally published in a UCCF magazine. Penal Substitution RevisitedJ. I. [...]

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The Atonement – Jesus’ Death Is Not Repeated at Communion

June 30, 2007

In our churches these days we have people coming from all kinds of backgrounds. I know that I probably have readers of the blog who feel the Mass or Communion in some way is a repetition of Jesus’ sacrifice. I wanted, therefore, to take this opportunity to share some verses which, to my mind, settle [...]

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The Atonement – Don’t Forget the Blood of Christ

June 29, 2007

A number of years ago I remember watching an evangelism training video. It had a laughable sketch where someone went up to a total stranger and asked, “Have you been washed in the blood of the lamb?” In our squeamish culture, it probably isn’t the best question to ask someone at the very beginning of [...]

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Are You Still A Sinner?

June 24, 2007

One of my commentators didn’t like my last post when I said that God really does change us when we become a Christian. I am not going to get into the philosophical arguments he does. As O don’t think the Bible All I can say is that when God declares someone to be righteous, in [...]

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Atonement – Jesus Thought He Was Fulfilling Isaiah 53

June 11, 2007

There has been a certain amount of reaction to yesterday’s post on the atonement. Clearly there are two issues here -1. Do we accept that Isaiah 53 teaches us about Jesus’ death or is the suffering servant somebody else?2. If we accept that Isaiah 53 is about Jesus, does it teach Penal Substitution? The answer [...]

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The Atonement – What Happened to Jesus on the Cross?

June 5, 2007

As we discuss the atonement, it is vitally important that we come directly to the cross itself. There are two things for us to consider which, by necessity, require penal substitution. The first is that the cross is absolutely essential in the purposes of God to save us. We have hinted at this previously, but [...]

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John Piper Friday – Christ’s Obedient Life and Death Entwined

May 18, 2007

In an article posted just this week, John Piper writes about how the cross has efficacy because Jesus lived an obedient life. In the debates about the atonement, some people criticise us for over-emphasising the cross at the expense of the incarnation or resurrection. I have been arguing in my series on the resurrection that [...]

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Atonement – The Angry God of the Bible

May 6, 2007

Over at Coffee and Bible, I came across this — the whole article is well worth a read. (HT Dave Bish) Penal substitution has to be “central” for me because I read my bible. That may sound like a ridiculously blank statement, so I’ll explain what I mean. When I read my bible, I am [...]

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The Atonement – If Jesus Was Not a Sinner, Why Did He Die?

April 25, 2007

Last week we looked at “The Terrible Problem of Sin.” It is very important that we do this — that we spend time thinking about sin and what sin has caused to happen in our world. The Bible is very clear — before sin there was no death; death was foretold as being the result [...]

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The Atonement – Does the Cross of Jesus Matter?

April 6, 2007

Yesterday I began a series inspired by Article 6 of the Together for the Gospel Statement. The atonement is not a new subject for my blog. This series is based on teaching I first gave at Jubilee Church. If you want a sneak preview of what is coming you can download the audio (you may [...]

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Loving God – A Guide for Beginners

April 4, 2007

Today we draw to a close our series on the attributes of God—which has been inspired by the T4G Statement—by publishing an article which, in an abridged form, has already been published in the online Comment magazine. The article addresses the nature of God, but focuses on the fact that we need to learn to [...]

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T4G Articles 5-6 – The Attributes of God and the Trinity

March 30, 2007

The next two articles in the Together for the Gospel Statement discuss the nature of God. The concept of the Trinity is so entwined with God’s attributes and who He is I have decided to roll these two articles into one. I have already posted an extensive set of notes and an audio on the [...]

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T4G Article 4 – Rick Warren on the Point of Preaching

March 22, 2007

This continues our series on preaching, which is based on the fourth article of the Together for the Gospel Statement. The previous post in this series described some of the stereotyped differences in preaching between black and white preachers and what each can learn from the other. In the article I wrote for SermonCentral on [...]

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SERMON – The Reviving Power of God’s Word

March 15, 2007

The following is a full set of notes, including background information and quotes I used whilst preparing my sermon entitled, “The Reviving Power of God’s Word,” which was preached at Jubilee Church on the 11th of March 2006. This sermon was the third part of a series on Revival. The earlier messages, “Revival” and “Reviving [...]

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REMOTE BLOGGING – The Resolved Conference

February 21, 2007

Tim Challies gets to live-blog more and more conferences. Soon it seems he will just live at a conference permanently. I have only ever done this with one conference — Together On A Mission 06. Live-blogging is simply sharing notes and reflections of the sessions. I have made it something of a tradition that I [...]

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INTERVIEW – Wayne Grudem, Part Five – Must a Woman Always Remain Silent in Church?

December 11, 2006

This interview is being serialised over several days. So far I have published part one, which focused on personal issues, and part two, in which we discussed Systematic Theology. In part three, we explored Grudem’s charge that feminism inevitably leads to a denial of Scripture’s authority. Part four honed in on the “trajectory” arguments used [...]

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AUDIO – The Attributes of God: What is God Like?

November 28, 2006

At Jubilee we have been doing a series of talks this autumn, each one lasting about an hour, during which we attempt to instruct the hearer to a greater extent than is possible in our Sunday morning sermons. One of the ones I did – which was on the subject of “What is God Like?” [...]

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DG06 – Session 1 – David Wells

September 30, 2006

Challies Dot Com is working again, and longtime readers of my blog know the score – Tim and others get to live-blog, and I get to find some interesting paragraphs and reproduce them here. I call it “remote blogging,” and this one is a corker of a quote: “Christianity is only about this kind of [...]

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Desiring God Conference Day 1

September 30, 2006

DG06 – Session 1“And here I am, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at my second Desiring God National Conference. This convention center is a great deal busier than it was last year. The room is nearly packed from front to back with the 3130 people who are …” Challies Dot Com And that is all I can [...]

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AUDIO – Sermons by C. J. Mahaney

September 13, 2006

C.J. Mahaney is well-known as the acceptable face of charismaticism. Until recently, C.J. was pastor of Covenant Life Church. After handing over this responsiblity to Josh Harris, some were led to ask the question I tried to answer in a previous post, “What is C.J. Mahaney?” If you’ve heard about Together For The Gospel, but [...]

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