Reflections on the loving kindness of the Triune God
Fear holds a paradoxical status in Scriptures—it is regularly treated both as a positive and a negative; as fruitful and as destructive. Positively, wisdom is a crucial moral outcome for those who “fear the LORD”. On one occasion in Genesis God is even personified as “fear” when Jacob twice addressed his hostile father-in-law, Laban, …
Read More On fear, faith, and loveIt is my pleasure to introduce a second guest entry by Dr Peter Mead of OM, in London. His first posting, published here on January 4—“Preaching and Affective Hermeneutics”—was a compelling call to engage any given Bible text with a lens of spiritual and personal affectivity in order to capture and then to offer the …
Read More Preaching and the Great CommandmentThe heart is mentioned throughout the Bible—used as a term that summarizes the motivations of both God and humanity. Anyone who reads through the Bible very boldly, say in five to six weeks—or less—will be struck by the role the heart plays in God’s conversation with his people. So much so that when I encourage …
Read More Out of the HeartCreativity is a gift. And everyone is gifted with creation. The two are united in expressing God’s overflowing goodness. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. This through the Son’s creative work: In the beginning was the Word and the word was with God and the Word was God. He was …
Read More The Gift of Creation