"This is the heart of the gospel. This is the center of history. This is God dying in our place."

This message on Jesus’s passage from Luke 23 was preached by Gary Millar at TGC’s 2013 National Conference. When Jesus went to the cross, he was surrounded by weak, evil, and self-interested people. Yet he remained in control, steadfast in his trust of his father, all the way to death. His sacrifice is something we should never take for granted.

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“But God, being rich in mercy . . . made us alive together with Christ.” Nothing is more essential to Christianity than this truth from Ephesians 2:4–5. In this conversation recorded at TGC27, Ligon Duncan and Michael Lawrence explore the nature of Christian conversion, contrasting the historical trend in American Protestantism that reduced conversion to a personal decision with the biblical view: conversion is a divine work of God followed by human response through repentance and faith.

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