As I was sitting on a log in the mountains of the Lebanon, my uncle explained to me, a fifteen year old, the gospel. It was the explanation of the cross that struck me and convinced me that I must trust Jesus as my Lord and Saviour. If he had loved me enough to pay the penalty for my sin, then I had to receive him. Since then I have sought to proclaim ‘Christ and Him crucified’ to everyone I can. It is sad that Pierced for our Transgressions has had to be written to defend the very heart of the Christian message, but I am delighted that the authors have produced a warm, biblical, thorough and endearing defence of Jesus’ great work on the cross. Whilst I would want to passionately argue that Jesus died for everyone, I commend this book and its great theme to all. As D. L. Moody said, ‘The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.’

Roger Carswell, Evangelist