What does “separation from God” mean? Inasmuch as all are created through Christ, by Christ, for Christ and in Christ (Colossians 1:16-17)...

Adam blew it. Christ renewed it. Recapitulation.  Recapitulation as atonement is a very biblical idea. Paul speaks of it expressly as the pl...

The Cross was not about a debt paid or a penalty satisfied, though some have taken passages such as Colossians 2:14, as teaching such. But...

Why is there evil and suffering in the world? Here is a different take that comes to me the more I meditate on how central Christ crucified...

At the cross, the Lord Jesus Christ, through whom, by whom and for whom all things were created, and in whom all things hold together, and ...

(adapted from Colossians 1:15-20) Christ is all-encompassing, In every dimension and every degree. The fullness of Christ in al...

From now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. (2 Corinthian...

Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the ...

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. (1 Corinthians 15:56) Last time, we looked at the question of what Paul me...

Therefore, just as sin entered into the cosmos through one man, and death through sin, so also death pervaded all humanity, whereupon al...

Recently, I came across this quote by J. C. Ryle , who was an Anglican bishop (the first one in Liverpool, England, according to Wikipe...

Good Friday and what God was doing in Christ: On this day, God demonstrated his own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ...

For much of my life as a Christian, I accepted the theory known as “Penal Substitutionary Atonement.” There are three aspects to that: ...

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole.” ...

Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making ...

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29) John the B...

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’...

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on them. (John ...

Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! (Romans 5:9) In my previo...