This Week's Recommendations

  1. Hell to pay: what truly happened to Jesus on the cross? Nick Batzig says, “If Jesus wasn’t truly forsaken—if he didn’t really endure the equivalent of eternal punishment on the cross—then substitutionary atonement is a legal fiction.”

  2. Before the snow returnsAndrea Sanborn with a brief reflection on “false spring” and the resurrection. She says, “This is the tug-of-war between the new life and the old, the cold bite of disappointment wrestling with the hope of better. Of more. Of failure and forgiveness, of discouragement and hope, of worry and contentment.”

  3. What does the Bible say about demons? Robb Brunansky says, “In the New Testament, God sent His Son to battle with the demonic and declare His name throughout all the earth. Christ’s coming sends demons into a full-blown panic.”

  4. The six misconceptions that keep Christians spiritually immatureChristopher Cook says, “In other words, maturity emerges where truth is repeatedly appropriated into one’s everyday life circumstances. Said another way, time can expose us to God’s Word, but it cannot replace the process of submitting to it.

  5. Debunking misinformation about Easter and the resurrectionMike Kruger responds to objections of the resurrection.

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