Doctrine

  “What must I do to be saved?” Each of us knows, whether we are willing to recognize it or not, that humanity is plagued with a great moral problem. No matter what we do, no matter how hard we try, no matter how many laws we enact, we just keep sinning. We know we need to be saved, saved from ourselves if nothing else. The secular world will answer this question many … [Read more...] about Justification’s Root and Fruit: Balancing Paul and James

Overcoming the World with a Hammer   Justification by faith is a hill to die on. Christ did. It was on Golgotha’s hill, the place of the skull, where Christ began to purchase our justification. It was purchased not with coin, but with blood. It was on that hill that our sins were put on Christ as the righteous judgment and wrath of God hammered down from Heaven, … [Read more...] about Overcoming the world with a hammer

Penal substitutionary atonement is the very heartbeat of the gospel, yet it has been, and continues to be, under great assault. For this reason, it is my aim to briefly show in the words below that that atonement is penalty absorbing in nature and efficaciously accomplishes a certain thing for a particular people. Broadly speaking the atonement is, according to John Piper, the … [Read more...] about The Heart of the Gospel: Penal Substitutionary Atonement