The Sacrifice of Jesus
The center of everything — in eight short chapters.
This is a short book about one thing: the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Why was a sacrifice necessary at all? What does His sacred blood mean? What did He actually do — in the garden, on the cross, and on the morning He rose? And why is it essential that we understand it?
Those are not questions for scholars only. They are the questions underneath every other page of this site, underneath every day of the year’s readings. Take the walk slowly — one chapter in a sitting, or one chapter a day for eight days. Every chapter is short, and every chapter ends with one thing to carry with you.
Begin with Chapter 1 — The Wound
Every chapter has a Listen button at the top of its page — press it and the chapter is read aloud to you.
The eight chapters
Chapter 1 — The Wound
Before you can understand the sacrifice, you have to understand the wound.
Chapter 3 — The Person
Here's the question that changes everything: who was on that cross?
Chapter 6 — The Morning
If the story ended at the cross, it would be the noblest tragedy ever told — and it would save no one.
Chapter 7 — The Essential
Now the question this whole book has been building toward: why is understanding this essential?
Walking the year-long journey too? Today’s reading is here.