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Man of Sorrows, King of Glory: What the Humiliation and Exaltation of Jesus Mean for Us is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

bad sign, suggesting that we are more interested in theological notions than in fellowship with the Lord Jesus in person.6 Of course, good theology itself is not the problem, because good theology leads us to the person of Jesus. In fact, every benefit of our salvation is found in him. He is not a divine Father Christmas, dispensing gifts of salvation; he is the gift. As Stephen Charnock writes, “There is something in Christ more excellent and comely than the office of a Saviour; the greatness of
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