Category: Resurrection
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Ransom and Participation: Two Ways of Understanding the Atonement

The Ransom Theory of Atonement and the Participation Theory of Atonement are different ways of explaining what Jesus accomplished through His incarnation, death, and resurrection. Yet they need not compete with each other. In fact, they fit together remarkably well. Ransom emphasizes our liberation from bondage, while Participation emphasizes our union with Participation emphasizes our…
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Torah Portion: Deuteronomy 33:1-34:12,

Torah Deuteronomy 33:1-34:12, Prophets Joshua 1:1-18, and Gospel Acts 1:1-14 Yeshua in the Final Torah Portion: From Moses to Joshua to the Restoration of All Things The Story Does Not End With Moses Deuteronomy 33:1–34:12 brings us to one of the most moving moments in all the Torah. Moses, the servant of Yahweh, has reached…
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Torah Portion: Yom Kippur and Yeshua

TORAH: Leviticus 16:1–34PROPHETS: Isaiah 57:14–58:14GOSPEL: Matthew 12:38–45; Matthew 25:31–46 Yom Kippur: A Day About Removing Sin Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, takes us into the heart of the biblical story of sin, judgment, cleansing, forgiveness, and reconciliation. Leviticus 16 describes the one day each year when the high priest entered the Most Holy Place…
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Wounded Love

There is a line in the song A Little Child Shall Lead Them that deserves more than a passing hearing: “The lost, the last, the least are gathered home by wounded love that never knows defeat.” Those two words, wounded love, contain much of the gospel. The Love That Would Not Let Us Go John…
