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I hope you will enjoy this challenging article as much as I did:<\/p>\n

\u201cI have learned something in recent years. People come to cherish words like atonement and justification when you expose them to other words like bloodguilt and reckoning.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve tried to teach gospel-centric words effectively as stand-alone concepts. It has produced a few amens, yet lives were not radically altered toward God and the good works he has prepared for us to do. I was serving coffee at breakfast, rather than arriving with cool water as people fled from within a burning building.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more at \u00a0Challenging the Powers of Death with the Gospel of Life \u2013 The Gospel Coalition Blog<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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