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Taking Hell Seriously

traditional doctrinal emphasis

Jesus spoke about hell more often and more vividly than many modern preachers do. Whatever else is debated about the details, the seriousness with which He treated final judgment is hard to dismiss. A gospel that has no room for the possibility of being lost is not the gospel He preached.

How you’d preach it

For the weight of Jesus’ own warnings. Hell is not a marginal idea in the teaching of Christ.

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