Cross

When we feel abandoned, disheartened, or confused, God is listening. The Father is listening. Be encouraged my dear friend, whether whispering or screaming, he is listening to your every word.

As you look to him, high and lifted up, it is here your burden falls. And tumbles down the hill, to be gone forever.

His very eyes tell us that he understands, and his outstretched hands let us know that he has come to help. The scars from the nails remind us just how far his love goes. Here is One in whom we will find rest for our souls.

This is the first session from the teaching series “Weakness Our Strength: Learning from Christ Crucified” by John Hindley.

“While the law reveals the righteousness of God, the gospel brightens the revelation of his righteousness and adds the revelation of his grace. While the law imprisons the sinner, the gospel liberates him, yet liberates him according to law. While the law shows the malignity of sin and dooms the sinner to death, the gospel assents to both, but conquers the one and counteracts the other.” Christmas Evans

Simon Gathercole examines Paul's theology of atonement, focusing on the classical context of Paul's thought and Romans 5:6–10.  

Paul Blackham briefly looks at Revelation in the first of five talks on the cross. 

Glen Scrivener walks us through how Irenaeus and Athanasius saw creation and salvation as intimately related purposes of God. 

Melito of Sardis writes on the death of Jesus in the form of a Passover haggadah (retelling).  

John Newton's sermon on John 1:29 displays the grace of Jesus the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.