Luther on Children

May 24, 2009 by Joel Radford

I’m taking a break in our series on the proofs of Christ’s humanity this week because I am on holidays enjoying being a father for the first time. But I could not resist echoing the words of Martin Luther written in a letter almost exactly 480 years. On the birth of his second child, a […]

The humanity of Christ: The human body of Christ

May 17, 2009 by Joel Radford

Over the last few weeks we have seen that it was necessary for Jesus to become human for several reasons: to be our representative obedience, to be a substitute sacrifice, to be an example for us and also to be able to fully sympathise with us in our weaknesses. For the next few weeks I […]

The humanity of Christ: Necessary for full sympathy

May 10, 2009 by Joel Radford

This week we are once again looking at the impact of God the Son becoming human. We have seen it was necessary that Jesus come as a human so that he could be our representative obedience, so that he could die the human death we need for our sin and also so that he could […]

The humanity of Christ: To be an example for us

May 5, 2009 by Joel Radford

Over the last two weeks we saw that it was necessary for Jesus to be human in order that we could have the human obedience credited to our account and so that he could die the human death required for our sin. Yet these are not the only reasons Jesus came as a human. This […]