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Hail, King of the Jews!

Hail, King of the Jews!

‘Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole garrison around Him’ (Matt. 27:27). Word quickly gets round that ‘the prisoner’ is here, and no ordinary prisoner – this one’s [...]

God’s necessary gift

God’s necessary gift

A few weeks ago our door-bell rang at two o’clock on a Sunday morning. Naturally, brave as ever, I went to answer it. I peered boldly round the heavy wooden door, holding it firm as protection [...]

The condemned King

The condemned King

In order to establish the doctrine of penal substitution we are not dependent on a few isolated proof-texts here and there in Scripture. The doctrine is woven indelibly into the very fabric of the account of [...]

Reincarnation or Resurrection?

Reincarnation or Resurrection?

On a return flight from a recent overseas trip I was sitting to the left of a chatty eleven-year-old who had just entered secondary school. His more self-conscious older brother sat quietly to his right while [...]

Bloodgate

Bloodgate

The rugby union world has been rocked in 2009 by the scandal at Harlequins Rugby Club. The controversy centred around the shedding of blood, or not, as it turned out. In an important Heineken Cup quarter-final [...]