It’s often said that the phrase, “Love the sinner; hate the sin” is from Gandhi. Mark Driscoll and Gary Breshears [...]
Love the sinner; hate the sin – where is this from?
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Archive : Love
Our responsibility. (Joshua 8, pt 3).
A number of weeks ago I spoke on Joshua 8, the destruction of Ai. I thought I’d post the talk [...]
Dear Consumer, Will You Be My Friend?
Dear Consumer, There are a lot of you in my life. You call when you want something, and when you [...]
I know the answer, but no one will listen to me!
Sigh. One of the ways sin manifests itself in me is an inordinate desire for recognition. I’m glad to say [...]
David Powlison is not happy with Gary’s Love Languages.
Julie Halitzka (cool name, huh?) summarises David Powlison’s critique of Gary Chapman’s Five Love Languages concept. Got to be careful, [...]
God loves sinners this I know, for the Bible tells me so.
I had a look at this blog a day or two ago and found a comment from Mitch on my [...]
Love/Glory…Arminianism/Calvinism…Nice God/Nasty God…
Ben Witherington has a post vigorously disagreeing with the idea that God’s primary motivation for everything is his own glory. [...]
Table Tennis, the Father and the Son.
Some time ago I wrote a little piece about the Father and the Son playing table tennis that I entitled [...]
Is Agape love God’s love?
Not necessarily. Read this. Before going on, we must pause to ask what is distinctive about Christian love, and to [...]
Love and glory: Love allows for degree.
This entry is part 6 of 6 in the series Love and Glory (incomplete)Lesser love can act like hate (Luke [...]
Love and glory – does love lead to glory?
This entry is part 5 of 6 in the series Love and Glory (incomplete)Well, it does, but not always. Scattered [...]
Love for Sinners?
Comment is being made about a video gospel presentation by a Pastor Francis Chan. I haven’t seen it – we [...]
Gossip: the desire for intimacy.
This entry is part 4 of 6 in the series Love and Glory (incomplete)Gossip is the desire for intimacy without [...]
Love and glory – Then what is love inspired by?
This entry is part 3 of 6 in the series Love and Glory (incomplete)Note the question: What is love inspired [...]
Love and glory – Is love inspired by glory?
This entry is part 2 of 6 in the series Love and Glory (incomplete)The answer is ‘No’. We’ve established that [...]
Love and glory – different or the same?
This entry is part 1 of 6 in the series Love and Glory (incomplete)The answer to the above question is, [...]
Love leads to Glorification
[Update: I've had to reverse the outcome of the table tennis match here.] Imagine, if you don’t see this as [...]
A Challenge!
To all my 1.4 readers out there, this is my challenge: Show me why the definition of love is not [...]