Tag: judgment
Cover to Cover Reading: 2 Samuel 12:1-14:24 Focus: 2 Samuel 12:1-10 How easy is it for us to look around at the world around us and condemn it, judge it, for all its faults. We get on our high horses, we speak as though we see things clearly and things should be as we say. We so quickly point out the weaknesses and character flaws of others… yet in all these things, we fail to see the problems of our own neighbourhood, families and ourselves.
Cover to Cover Reading: Joshua 10:16-13:33 Focus: Joshua 11:20 One of the greatest difficulties that people have wrestled with in regards to the character of God is his wrath. In hope to reconcile this God of wrath and judgment, many people have attempted to reject or re-interpret these actions recorded, particularly, in the book of Joshua. Some have attempted to separate the Old Testament God from the New Testament God, to separate the God of wrath and the God of love. Yet, then you begin to move into the realm of dualism, which is completely contradictory to the position of…
