Links for the Weekend (2026-04-03)

Each Friday, I’ll post links to 3–5 resources from around the web you may want to check out.

The Resurrection’s Centrality

Patrick Schreiner has written a nice article about the necessity of the resurrection in the gospel message.

A gospel message that does not include the resurrection of Jesus from the dead is no gospel at all. To quote another author, “At the heart of Christianity is a cross; and one of the most significant things about it is that it is an empty cross.”

Hell to Pay: What Truly Happened to Jesus on the Cross?

Understanding exactly what happened between the Father and the Son on the cross is not easy! Here’s an article by Nick Batzig with an attempt to explain.

Some have insisted that Jesus didn’t truly endure hell on the cross, because his human nature didn’t experience complete annihilation. Others have rejected the teaching that Jesus experienced the equivalent of hell on the cross because his sufferings were temporary rather than eternal in their endurance. The answer to both of these objections is, of course, found in the mystery of the union of the two natures of Christ.

A Sonnet for Easter Dawn

Our poem of the week: A Sonnet for Easter Dawn, by Malcolm Guite. This is a poem about the discovery of Jesus’s empty tomb. Here’s a bonus, seasonally-appropriate sonnet from Malcolm Guite: This Breathless Earth. This one is about Jesus’s appearance to the disciples in the Upper Room.

On the WPCA Blog This Week

This week on the blog we published an article I wrote called God’s Fleeting Gifts. If you haven’t already seen it, check it out!

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