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This is Part 5 of a 5-part series. No truth today seems more self-evident in our culture than the fact that God is love. But this is not understood in its biblical setting where John immediately defines the nature of this love by saying that Christ was sent “to be the propitiation for our sins” (I...

This is Part 4 of a 5-part series. Read Part 5 here , back to Part 3 here . In sanctification, it is God’s holiness that requires that we become separated from what is fallen in life and separated to God and his purposes. And yet this holiness works hand-in-glove with God’s love for love is the...

This is Part 3 of a 5-part series. Read Part 4 here , back to Part 2 here . Finding God Again In my God in the Whirlwind, I have developed what is the answer to our ailment. The indulgent God has done nothing good for the Church. It is time to return to the biblical God. But this is meaningless...

This article is Part 2 of a 5-part series. Read Part 3 here , back to Part 1 here . In the Eye of the Storm What the gospel does is to bring men and women who “did not know God” (I Cor. 1:21) into a saving knowledge in which they can declare that now they “have come to know God” (Gal. 4:9). They “...

This article is Part 1 of a 5-part series. Read Part 2 here . Today, we are living in the midst of one of the great transformations in Christian faith. What is changing is not, of course, its truth. What is changing is where this faith is living. For much of the last thousand years, it has found a...