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Why Doesn't A Loving God Stop Suffering? | God Is Love #4
If God is so loving, why doesn’t He intervene in human suffering? Yet God loves us in ways we do not understand. Pastor Lutzer confronts our expectations of love from Romans 8, giving hope in our suffering. As children of God, we are loved eternally, even as Jesus is loved. “For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”- … Read More >
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When Did God Begin To Love? | God Is Love #1
Society wants to believe any kind of “love” is God. But the true nature of God’s love is actually difficult when we try to reconcile it with what’s happening in the world. Pastor Lutzer explores the origin of the love of God to define it biblically. Can we really understand the complex love of God? This episode was originally published April 1, 2019 as “The Attributes of God | Week 13: Love.” “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does … Read More >
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Can A Loving God Clear The Guilty? | God Is Love #5
God’s attributes work together in harmony, but we don’t always understand His complexity. There is a tension between how God’s love is to be applied without justifying evil. Pastor Lutzer explores the tension in Exodus 34 between love, guilt, and forgiveness. What does extravagant love look like for a guilty party? This episode was originally published April 29, 2019 as “The Attributes of God | Week 17: Love.” “The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, ‘The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.’”- Exodus 34:6 Here are … Read More >
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Does God Love The Whole World? | God Is Love #3
What does it mean that God loves the “world”? The love of God is a difficult teaching, especially when we consider His hatred for sin and evil. Pastor Lutzer explores the deeper questions related to John 3:16. Each of us is invited to love God in return and be loved eternally. This episode was originally published April 15, 2019 as “The Attributes of God | Week 15: Love.” “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”- John 3:16 Here are all of … Read More >
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Day 18 – An Anguished Father
Today’s Reading: Mark 15:33-34Today’s Reference: John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” If Mary’s heart was wrung at the foot of the cross, how much more anguish was in the heart of the Father! This was the Son in whom He was “well pleased,” the Son with whom He had communed from before the beginning of time. Now the Father had to watch that Son die in agony.But … Read More >