Yesterday, we looked at three ways that Christians define the gospel: Story for the Individual Story of Jesus Story of Creation to New Creation My online collection of “gospel definitions” has led me back to the New Testament, where I’ve spent significant time studying the way the word “gospel” is used. I’ve also compared New [...]
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3 Ways of Defining the Gospel
February 22, 2011 – 3:41 am
In February 2008, I began a blog series called “Gospel Definitions”, in which I posted (without comment) any and every definition of “the gospel” that I came across in books or online. Eventually, that series became the largest group of gospel definitions on the web. (See a full list or pdf here.) As I have [...]
Christ’s Anguish is Our Joy
January 16, 2011 – 3:48 am
Christ was all anguish that I might be all joy, cast off that I might be brought in, trodden down as an enemy that I might be welcomed as a friend, surrendered to hell’s worst that I might attain heaven’s best, stripped that I might be clothed, wounded that I might be healed, athirst that [...]
