Hate Like God
If you’re going to hate, hate like God.
In preparation for 2025’s Exploring the Bible seminar on Reading, Understanding, and Responding to the BibleI was reading in the psalms and struck—as I have been in the past, but haven’t given as much time to it—by the way the psalmists talk about God hating not just things (like sin), but people. In particular, I was struck by this verse: “You hate all who do wrong.” (Ps 5:5, NIV)
A Walkthrough of Romans 8: Verse 3
Condemnation has been removed for those who are in Christ, but condemnation has not been removed for sin.
What John Bunyan Says About the Heart of Jesus Toward Sinners
Commenting on John 6:37, “All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.”
Fun with Greek (2)
One little word in Greek (and, then, a few words in English—depending on the translation) makes all the difference for how we understand a believer’s relationship to sin.
Exegetical Meditations (41)
In Hebrews we’re told that our high priest (Jesus) is able to know what we’re going through when it comes to temptation and sin because he went through it. We’re told that he was tempted in every way we are with one stark difference—he did not sin.