“We often excel at understanding and teaching the meaning of Christ’s death—its significance for accomplishing our salvation. Sometimes, we are less adept at grasping the significance of Christ’s resurrection, at least beyond how it signals retrospectively the effectiveness of the cross. We may struggle to explain why Christ’s resurrection itself matters, what the resurrection specifically contributes to our salvation.”
“Mark tells us this story not merely as background to the crucifixion, but as a window into its meaning. And the longer we look through that window, the more we recognize ourselves in it.”
Join Logos’s Word Together: He Is Risen study to access my brief teaching on 1 Corinthians 15.
What should make of Jesus’s cry from the cross, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Does this signal a rapture in the Trinitarian relationship between Father and Son? Does it reflect the Son’s experience of the Father’s wrath? Or do these read more into the text than is actually there? And how does Jesus’s quotation of Psalm 22 inform his words?
Tom McCall joins me on What in the Word? to discuss.
Follow the show on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more.
In this episode of Logos Live, I sat down with Nancy Guthrie to talk about what theologians call the “intermediate state.” We ask, “Is going to heaven when you die” the full picture? Join us for a conversation about life after death, the resurrection, and the new creation.
Check out the full episode and accompanying article.
Kirk E. Miller 