by Andrew Hall | Apr 14, 2023 | CBC InTouch
When Justine Sacco, a PR executive for the internet giant InterActive Corp was heading overseas, she posted a tweet to her social media account on Twitter that was tongue-in-cheek: “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!”...
by Luke Burrow | Mar 31, 2023 | CBC InTouch
Part Five of the Atonement “For the wages of sin is death.” This is the first half of what the apostle Paul wrote in Romans 6:23, and it emphasizes the reality that sin is serious and carries serious consequences. We don’t spend a lot of time in our modern...
by Andrew Hall | Mar 24, 2023 | CBC InTouch
Part Four of The Atonement Not long ago I was speaking to someone about a court case that had come to completion. The verdict had been delivered, and the family commented that they were “satisfied” with the decision. The language struck me – to be satisfied with...
by Luke Burrow | Mar 17, 2023 | CBC InTouch
Part Three of the Atonement When we look back to the Old Testament, we see that God had a plan to save his people from the very beginning. In Genesis 3, God promised a Saviour would come from the seed of the woman to crush the head of the serpent. After that, he...
by Andrew Hall | Mar 10, 2023 | CBC InTouch
Part Two of The Atonement Why did Jesus come to die? This might sound like a simple question until you start to explore what the Bible has to say. For most people who are familiar with evangelical reasoning, the answer is simple: Christ died to forgive me of my sins....
by Luke Burrow | Mar 3, 2023 | CBC InTouch
Part One of The Atonement Having spent the last few weeks thinking about the law and the gospel, it would be very natural for us to ask a question in response: how was the gospel actually accomplished? The answer lies in the Cross of Christ, and, in theological terms,...
