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In the midst of a troubled world, Christians believe in a good God who, as the Creator, has never lost interest in His broken creation. The key evidence for, and the chief symbol of, this divine commitment is the cross of Christ. This God, revealed in Scripture, has a project. Central to the divine strategy is Christ, His coming, and His cross. The troubles and calamities will end. The...

According to Scot McKnight, ‘We cannot discuss atonement until we define the problem that atonement remedies.’1 That problem is multifaceted. For the purposes of this book, however, I shall sum it up as the need for peace—given the way Paul uses the concept so globally in Colossians 1. I am not talking about peace understood merely as a state of mind. Living outside Eden as we do, our great need is peace in the rich
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