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Evangelicals, rightly called “people of the cross,” look to Jesus’s death and resurrection as the central points of his earthly mission. However, many Christians have questions about these pivotal events and what followed—Why did Jesus rise from the dead? Why did he ascend into heaven? What is he doing now? In Man of Sorrows, King of Glory, Jonty Rhodes uses the traditional roles of Jesus as...

This has much to say to our understanding of church. Theologians of glory will naturally want a church that impresses the world: beautiful people, ideally a sprinkling of celebrities, worship styled after whatever happens to be “hot” right now, a preacher and sermon that fit hand in glove with contemporary culture—funny, chatty, nonconfrontational, nondogmatic. Theologians of the cross are content to trust God’s upside-down means: they know that the power and wisdom of God are found through the preaching
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