Go Home Justified
It’s the notion of mercy that leads us to the atonement, and it is the atonement that provides a foundational basis for the justification of sinners.
How does the cross work?
EPISODE #112: Ted asks how Jesus’ atonement and sacrifice on the cross works. Rod talks about several important books on the subject, about adoption, reconciliation, propitiation, imputed righteousness, how Melanchthon and Luther tangled on the subject, and what it means for sinners to be reckoned AS IF righteous in this life.
Rustling Leaves and a Guilty Conscience
Make no mistake, sinners are in fact being pursued by a most hideous beast called sin, death, and the devil, unleashed and striking continuously.
My God, My God, Why Have You ______ Me? Rethinking Psalm 22:1
The Messiah is exiled from God on the cross as Israel was. Forsaken as Israel was forsaken. Cast away from Yahweh as Israel was. Why?
What is the most important thing we learn about atonement from the Scriptures?
EPISODE #108: Ted asks about what the Bible tells us about Jesus Christ and atonement. Rod talks about what’s going on on the cross, what Jesus went though, why it needed to happen, and what makes Christianity Christianity.