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I like a tranquil, even-keeled, self-controlled God. A God who doesn't fly off the handle at the least provocation. A God who lives one step above the fray. A God who has that British stiff upper lip even when disaster is looming. When I read my Bible, though, I keep running into a different God, and I'm not pleased. This God says he "hates" sin. Well, he usually yells it. Read the prophets. It's just one harangue after another, all in loud decibels. And when the shouting is over, then comes the pouting. ... When all else fails, he throws himself in front of the car.

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The Christian life does not just evolve. It also requires specific decisions and public commitments to deepen our faith and obedience.

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The Old Testament does, in fact, seem to make a distinction between the life of a child and the life of a fetus.

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The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith.

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The road to hell is paved with reasonable religion with a non-anxious god. Most days, I'm pretty happy driving down that road. But I keep running int…

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As is typical of this God [of Israel], he calls his people into freedom in the most unlikely place.

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As Wade Clark Roof noted in his study, the 'weightlessness' of contemporary belief in God is a reality...for religious liberals and many evangelicals.

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