love – Cry Hard

22nd May 201922nd May 2019

Is God’s wrath a sign of God’s love?

Last week, Timothy Keller posted a number of tweets about God’s wrath and God’s love being inseparable. Here is one of them:

A god of less wrath than the God of the Bible is necessarily a god of less love. His anger is a product of his love.

They prompted quite a significant repose – including from myself.

1st February 20181st February 2018

The Interpretation of Love

“The difficulty, as I see it, is when we place the authority of our particular interpretation of the Bible … beyond question and above the gospel imperative to love.” This quotation comes from a letter published in the Church Times a couple of weeks ago. It leapt out at me as soon as I read it, and I have been wondering ever since whether I am alone in seeing a more fundamental ‘difficulty’ in this thinking. Continue reading “The Interpretation of Love”