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The death of Christ is a multidimensional accomplishment within a story that begins in the garden and ends in the kingdom.

Why the Book of Psalms Is for You - Your Daily Bible Verse - March 28

The scientific, health, and political debate over the true cost of ultra--processed has just gone mainstream....which is late.

Jeremy Treat talks about how the doctrine of atonement is often misunderstood by believers and unbelievers alike and about the impact that it should make on our day to day lives as followers of Christ.

This article is part of the Open Letters series. Dear Evangelical Church, Scripture speaks to us on many issues, but none so important, glorious, and central as our Lord Jesus Christ—and that is an understatement! Given who Jesus is and what he has done, he is the very heart and substance of the gospel, indeed all of Scripture, and thus the most important person in all of human history. Just think about three examples that demonstrate this point. First, it’s almost a truism to say that our...

God’s Blessing to the Church In the “new heaven” and “new earth,” God will give the blessing of his presence to all those who have faithfully followed the Lamb despite the hardship this has entailed (Rev. 21:1–8; cf. Isa. 65:17; 66:22). John’s description of this new universe recalls the accounts of creation and of life in the garden in Genesis 1–3, where God spoke directly with the first man and woman (Gen. 2:16–17; Gen. 3:9–19), walked among them (Gen. 3:8), and provided ...

How Discipleship Yields Restoration Transformation by the Spirit The Acts of the Apostles is basically an account of how the Holy Spirit, the powerful and personal presence of God, transforms the earliest followers of Jesus into the restored people of God, the beginnings of God’s new creation. “You will receive power,” Jesus tells his disciples at the story’s beginning, “when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and...