The book takes off in the second half where Adrian begins to lay out the implications of the resurrection for Christian life: how the resurrection changes everything. He rates his chapter on prayer as the one that we’ll skip but which he considers most important. It’s a great call to pray to the risen Christ which is lively and inspiring. For me the most significant contribution of this book is to be found in chapters 15-16. In view of the... Read more
What do Christians lose when they lose sight of the Resurrection? Everything. Without the Resurrection, the Cross is a meaningless tragedy. Without the Resurrection, Jesus could not have been our Savior, and certainly was not divine. Without the Resurrection, we have no hope for our future. We would still be dead in our sins. We could not know the wonder of having the same power that raised Christ Jesus from the dead living in us. We would not know the... Read more
Crossway have this week released a rather neat Bible app. You can highlight text, make notes, favorite Bible verses, and browse the history of which passages you have been reading. It is a very nicely designed, easy to use interface. The app is free, and it stores the Bible offline. There is really no reason not to pop over right now to the iTunes store and buy the ESV Bible app for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Read more
This video gives a report of the recent Jubilee Church mission trip to Zimbabwe. Thanks to the generosity of Crossway we were able to donate 100 copies of Raised With Christ to the pastors there. You can see in this video the joyful reaction of the people to receiving this and other materials (which included battery-operated MP3 players full of sermons). Tope also speaks about the number of orphans and widows he met there. By Tope Koleoso14 Marchdownload video or... Read more
There was a time when the definition of an “evangelical” was someone who liked John Stott and Billy Graham. Today, perhaps one could suggest that Don Carson has a similarly defining role, alongside people like John Piper. Certainly Carson’s books are well known and sell widely. He is recognized as a gifted expositor of God’s word and a sought-after conference speaker. Scandalous is a short book closely based on a series of sermons Carson preached at Mars Hill Church in... Read more
There are short books, and there are really short books. From the Resurrection to His Return is a really really short book! This book is, however, a very engaging, but brief, exposition of some very important verses about how we should live in what the Bible calls “the last days,” i.e. the time before Jesus’ return. Jesus is coming and we must be Bible-focused people who pass on the unadulterated message of God to those who come after us. This... Read more
It’s great to see the full Lyric of PHATFISH song ‘There is a day’ printed in Adrian Warnock’s new book ‘Raised with Christ’. If you’re interested in getting hold of the song recording and/or sheet music click here. via Phatfish Blog. Read more
When you are writing a book, there is one fear that is hard to shake off. That is the fear that your work will turn out to reflect error rather than truth. This was certainly my experience writing Raised With Christ. It became even more pronounced when I learned that throughout church history no major heresy had arisen about the implications of the resurrection of Jesus. That is an extraordinary fact that goes a long way to explain our neglect... Read more
As I arrived at Waterloo today I pulled out my trusty iPhone, and on the way up the escalator checked my National Rail app. It showed me I had exactly one minute to catch the next train to my office, and told me which platform to run to. Without this app I wouldn’t even have found the station’s information board in time. So I ran. As I breathlessly got to my seat I pulled off my earphones and smiled at... Read more
A theology of the cross with no resurrection is a gospel of condemnation without forgiveness, of punishment that never becomes atonement, of a human Jesus but not a divine saviour, of a world condemned and abandoned but never redeemed and transformed.That isn’t the gospel of the apostles. Check out Acts, for example. Or look at Paul’s magnificent opening salvo to Romans:…the gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures regarding his Son, who as to his human... Read more
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