Christ’s Suffering and Death

The Shape of Christ’s Career

There’s a shape to Jesus’ life, and once you see it you can’t unsee it. Everything

All four written Gospels portray Jesus Christ as the world’s true Saviour,

Athanasius draws a direct line there from incarnation to suffering. To

The sufferings of Jesus were, at their heart, punishment — a penalty borne.

From the moment Adam and Eve sinned, the LORD God promised a programme of

The fatal blow struck against the serpent is foretold as early as Genesis

In the last article we identified five ways the victory of Christ reaches

The category of obedience helps us grasp what Jesus was doing in his life

Closely connected to Christ’s obedience, though bringing out the meaning

‘The concept of substitution may be said … to lie at the heart of both

Christ is the Lamb of God — the one to whom every lamb offered at Israel’s altar

Care must be taken in the wording of Christian songs and preaching to avoid

What was the death of Jesus for? That question keeps pressing.

Both the One Who Turns Aside the Anger and the One Whose Anger Is Turned

Our redemption in Christ does not involve the literal exchange of money.

Jesus’ death, an act of extreme violence, was a necessary act of service

The work of the Lord Jesus Christ is, likewise, a work of reconciliation.

‘God reconciled the world with himself, without its assistance, apart

The reconciliation accomplished at the cross cannot be understood as the

God’s love is certainly good news. But it doesn’t follow that the love of

The gospel of the kingdom proclaimed by Jesus is partly distinguished from

Three voices to close with — a confession, and two reformers — each setting

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