“If you have a God who is nothing but wrath, and if you have little understanding of what happened on the cross, you’ll be a driven person. You’ll try very hard to be moral . . . but you will always feel unworthy. It will be hard to grow into a loving person, because fear […]
“God is not merely sad nor merely angry — because he is not merely holy nor merely loving. He is angry over the offense and violation of sin but mourning over its effects over what it is doing to the creation and the human race he loves. It is important for our purposes to see […]
“Redemption is never the end but a means to the ultimate end: Adoption. Attachment. Salvation by God is ultimately for attachment to God. Everything on the way, or in the way, is making a way to be soul-attached to the One who is the Way, who can do nothing less than carry you through every […]