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What About the Lake of Fire?
Some of you asked me that very question after my Hell sermon for our Razing Hell series. I didn’t have time to write up a response and, lucky duck, Scot McKnight beat me to it: ———————————– The almost...
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Sermon Shout Out from Scot McKnight: Wrath Reconsidered
Scot Mcknight has this up over at his Jesus Creed site. This week Dennis continues our sermon series through Romans by looking at Romans 1.18-32 in which lists the symptoms of a creation suffering...
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God’s Not Angry, But Jesus Is PO’d
Here’s the homily from Sunday on Mark 1.40-45. You can listen to the audio below, on the sidebar to the right. You can download it in iTunes under ‘Tamed Cynic’ or, better yet, download the free mobile...
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Mark Driscoll in the Hands of an Angry Pastor
Mark Driscoll is in the news (again) for making cringe-inducing comments about women et al (again). Even I have a line so you’ll have to click here to read about his comments on the ‘pu#@%$#@ nation.’...
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The Bible’s Wrathful god Reveals More About Us than God
I’ve become convinced that its important for the Church to inoculate our young people with a healthy dose of catechesis before we ship them off to college, just enough so that when they first hear...
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§1 I Am Worthy of Salvation: Athanasius is Better than Hillsong
When it comes to Christ’s cradle and cross, we typically use words like ‘goodness’ and ‘worthiness’ in a very specific way. In a very particular direction. Jesus is the (only) one who is good. Jesus...
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A Wrath-Less God Has Victims
During Lent I’m writing a series of review essays of Fleming Rutledge‘s new book, The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ, at Scot McKnight‘s popular Jesus Creed site. Here’s a...
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Wrath Reconsidered: Christianity Isn’t Just About Forgiveness
This upcoming Sunday’s lectionary passage from Romans 5 includes verse 9: “Much more surely then, now that we have been justified by his blood, will we be saved through him from the wrath of God.” Like...
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The Transfiguration
Here’s my sermon from Palm-Passion Sunday on Matthew 26.36-46, Jesus in the Garden in Gethsemane. Every year during Passover week Jerusalem would be filled with approximately 200,000 Jewish...
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God’s Wrath is Only a Problem When You Cut the Cast of the Salvation Story
In many mainline congregations this Holy Week, the dominant motif with which scripture describes the meaning of the death of Jesus, substitution, will be judiciously avoided. Substitutionary atonement,...
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Episode #116 – Brian Zahnd: Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God
Fresh off the Camino, Brian Zahnd believes that while we are yet sinners, God loves us. In this new book, Sinners In The Hands Of A Loving God seeks to explain if God is primarily wrathful towards us...
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Modern Reformation Magazine: A Wrath-Less God has Victims
Modern Reformation Magazine has featured my essay on atonement and wrath about my friend Brian Stolarz’s work freeing Alfred Dewayne Brown, who is also now my friend, from death row in Texas. You can...
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