Tag: God is Love
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God’s Passion
On September 22, 2026, I asked Chat GPT to tell me God’s number one passion based on Scripture. Here is the response I received. If I had to identify one thing Scripture most consistently portrays Yahweh as passionately pursuing, I would put it this way: Yahweh has a passion for restoring His creation to Himself—because…
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Wounded Love
There is a line in the song A Little Child Shall Lead Them that deserves more than a passing hearing: “The lost, the last, the least are gathered home by wounded love that never knows defeat.” Those two words, wounded love, contain much of the gospel. The Love That Would Not Let Us Go John…
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Torah Portion: Deuteronomy 29:9–31:30
The Covenant, the Return, and the Restoration of All Things Beginning With Moses When Yeshua walked with the two disciples on the road to Emmaus, Luke tells us something remarkable about the way He understood the Hebrew Scriptures: “Then beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, He explained to them the things concerning Himself…
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Torah Portion: Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19
Yeshua in Deuteronomy 21:10–25:19 and the Restoration of All ThingsMoses Was Testifying About Things Yet to Come Hebrews 3:5 says, “Now Moses was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken later.” The statement gives Christians an important way of reading Moses. The commandments…
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Torah Portion: Deuteronomy 11:26–16:17
The Hidden Teacher Is Revealed and Universalist Themes in Light of Isaiah 30:20 and Acts 3:21 Isaiah gave Israel a remarkable promise: “Although Yahweh has given you bread of privation and water of oppression, He, your Teacher will no longer hide Himself, but your eyes will behold your Teacher.” Isaiah 30:20 Believers have long understood…
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Saved From God, or Saved By God?.
Rethinking Romans 5:9 and the Wrath of God One of the most familiar expressions in evangelical Christianity is, “Jesus saves us from the wrath of God.” Many believers have heard this phrase so often that it has become almost synonymous with the gospel itself. Yet an important question deserves careful examination: Is this actually how…
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Romans 5:18–19: Does “All” Really Mean All? A Greek Look at the Passage.
“Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.” ESV And here is a supporting statement from 1…
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Perfect Love Don’t Leave You Afraid (1 John 4:18)
Now let’s just slow down and think about this a minute. The Bible says: “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment…” If you’re still afraid of God… afraid of punishment… afraid of what’s coming… Love ain’t finished its work in you yet. Fear and punishment go…
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Does 1 John 4:18 Refute Eternal Punishment because Perfect Love Casts Out Fear?
Few verses in Scripture speak as directly to the human condition—and to the nature of God—as 1 John 4:18 “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.” (NASB) This is not merely devotional language. It is a…
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God Is Love: Eternal Conscious Torment or Jesus Saves All?
“God is love.”— 1 John 4:8. That little three-word sentence may be the most powerful truth in the whole Bible. Not “God has love.” Not “God shows love sometimes.” Not “God loves when we behave.” God is love. And John doubles down later: “There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear…” (1 John 4:18)…