Christ, Our Substitute

Alistair Begg on the necessity of seeing Christ's death on the cross as a substitutionary sacrifice:

Without substitution the death of Jesus is unintelligible.  Unless what we have [in the cross] is what is being described in 2 Corinthians 5:21, that he was made sin for us - not that he was a sinner for us - but made sin for us, then how else do you explain it? What possible justification could God have for crucifying the innocent unless in substitution he became all that we are in our sin and rebellion in order that, in the mastery and mystery of his grace, in him we might become the very righteousness of God?

Converted Men Are Singing Men

Check out this brief aside on men and singing at the beginning of Alistair Begg's sermon at Western Seminary (I appreciate a church member passing along this video clip to me).

If, for some reason, the clip doesn't start at the right place, skip to the 5:08 mark.

  

Drinking from the Same Fountain

"Perhaps all that is necessary to expose the shallowness of our songs and to cause us to praise God as we ought is for pastors and poets and musicians to drink from the same fountain. Then biblical exposition will issue in song and our hymns will be full of the gospel."

--Alistair Begg

Ferguson and Begg on The Beeson Podcast

Beeson Divinity School recently launched The Beeson Podcast, and the two most recent episodes are:

Preaching and Ministry with Sinclair Ferguson

The Shaping of a Pastor with Alistair Begg

Click here for more information or to listen.

Drinking from the Same Fountain

"Perhaps all that is necessary to expose the shallowness of our songs and to cause us to praise God as we ought is for pastors and poets and musicians to drink from the same fountain. Then biblical exposition will issue in song and our hymns will be full of the gospel."

--Alistair Begg