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The Death of Death
Brad Jersak is an author and teacher based in Abbotsford, BC, where he attends Fresh Wind Christian Fellowship and serves as Reader at All Saints of…
12 years, 4 months ago
A New Empire
Jesus was put to death by the Roman Empire (skillfully manipulated by the Sanhedrin). What the Roman Empire did (and every empire does) is shape the…
12 years, 4 months ago
God Is Dead
"God is dead." Friedrich Nietzsche made the saying famous. But Nietzsche borrowed it from Hegel. And Hegel took it from a line in an old Lutheran hy…
12 years, 4 months ago
Sympathy For The Devil... or Pilate
When Jesus and Pilate meet, it is one of the most epic moments in history. As it turns out, it’s not the trial of Jesus in the court of the Roman go…
12 years, 4 months ago
The Failure of Jesus
Success is an idol—the great American idol. Which emphasizes the scandal that Jesus died as a failure. Jesus died as an apparent failure in the eyes…
12 years, 4 months ago
Lamb of God (The Last Scapegoat)
The Cross isn't just one thing with a single meaning. Rather the Cross is where all that is wrong with humankind and the world we've built is dragge…
12 years, 4 months ago
How Did Jesus Understand His Death?
How did Jesus understand his own death? What purpose did he see in it? Did Jesus have a "theology of cross"? In fact, he did. A few days before Good…
12 years, 5 months ago
A Beautiful Gospel
Understanding that God is like Jesus is essential to our understanding of salvation. We must not think that salvation comes about because Jesus appe…
12 years, 5 months ago
Going With The Grain of Love
The universe has a flow and a telos, a purpose and an aim, a goal and a grain. And the grain of the universe is love. From the heart of God there is…
12 years, 5 months ago
Death of the Monster God
When we look at the death of Jesus on the cross in the light of the resurrection, we are looking at our salvation. But, what do we really see when w…
12 years, 5 months ago