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Easter

My Dad’s Ashes: A Resurrection Reflection

April 21, 2019 by Randal

What does Christian resurrection mean? On April 3rd, my dad died at the age of 85. Three days later, an oven heated to approximately 1500 degrees Fahrenheit incinerated his body, reducing it to fine, grey powder. The father I had once known and loved was now vaporized, leaving behind a few pounds of ashen remains. […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Easter, resurrection

89. What did the cross achieve? Oliver Crisp on Atonement

March 25, 2016 by Randal

In 1973 the great Reformed theologian J.I. Packer delivered a very influential Tyndale Lecture titled “What did the cross achieve? The logic of penal substitution.” In that address Packer eloquently summarized and defended a theory of atonement which has been so influential in the western church that many Christians have simply identified atonement with penal substitution. […]

Filed Under: Podcast-The Tentative Apologist, The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atonement, doctrine, Easter, Jesus Christ, Oliver Crisp, penal substitution, theology

When the resurrection comes to Afghanistan and Wall Street: An Easter Reflection

April 24, 2011 by Randal

Over the last two days I watched two of the 2011 academy award nominees for best documentary: “Restrepo” and “Inside Job”. (“Inside Job” took home the little gold statue.) “Restrepo” follows journalist cum documentarians Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington as they spend a year with a battalion of Army troops in the notoriously violent Korengal Walley in […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Easter, Inside Job, Jesus Christ, new creation, Restrepo, resurrection

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