Tag Archives: Love of God

Love, Understanding, and Participation in the Life of God

Posted on May 23, 2023 by Mark Love

Just thinking out loud here, and trying to reverse engineer the bigger project I’ve been working on. So, you are generous to audit my raw notions. The author of 1 John insists that the deal is not that we love … Continue reading →

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What has to be true

Posted on June 2, 2014 by Mark Love

I know the measure of the gospel is not my ability to believe it. It doesn’t stop being good news because I don’t believe it. But it does have to sound like good news to me for me to believe … Continue reading →

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Taking the Name of the Lord in Vain: the dangers of simple cause and effect logic

Posted on January 1, 2013 by Mark Love

A theological pet peeve of mine is the easy indictment. By this I mean that causation is assigned to either God or Satan with a bare reading of the circumstance. Children get killed in a Connecticut school and easy assertions … Continue reading →

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