Dan Greenfield

Category: Atonement

  • The Act of the Death of Christ

    William Ames (1576-1633), Puritan theologian, powerfully says that Christ’s death was an act of Christ and not a mere matter of enduring because he met and endured it purposely. John 10:11, “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for his sheep,” and 10:18, “No man…

  • Hark! the Voice of Love and Mercy

    We learned and sang this hymn this past Sunday to this tune (but not at quite that tempo): Hark! the voice of love and mercy Sounds aloud from Calvary; See it rends the rocks asunder, Shakes the earth and veils the sky: “It is finished! It is finished!” Hear the…

  • Sin in the Light of God’s Holiness

    “All approach to God is on the ground of shed blood. The atonement has its deepest demand in the holiness of God. Any doctrine of the atonement that sees its need only in the necessity that man be influenced by a mighty motive, or in the necessities of governmental expediency,…