Comments on: “A heart without exits” http://tonywoodlief.com/?p=1851 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:18:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Ronald http://tonywoodlief.com/?p=1851&cpage=1#comment-6769 Ronald Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:46:44 +0000 http://tonywoodlief.com/?p=1851#comment-6769 Tony, I remembered this blog post as I read the following last night in my friend Ron Highfield's book, <i>Great is the Lord<i>: God's love is unlike any other: he gives being to those who are nothing; he establishes fellowship with the ungrateful; and, most amazingly, he loves godless rebels, forgives their sins, and takes their punishment on himself! God's love is revealed as sovereign and free of all restraints and all ends outside itself. His love is not determined in any way by its object. In creation God created the object of his love from nothing. In making covenant, God established a loving relationship that did not exist beforehand. And in reconciliation God loved us not because we were just, but in order to create a justified people. God is love! (p. 166) His love shapes our love, or should anyway. Tony, I remembered this blog post as I read the following last night in my friend Ron Highfield’s book, Great is the Lord:

God’s love is unlike any other: he gives being to those who are nothing; he establishes fellowship with the ungrateful; and, most amazingly, he loves godless rebels, forgives their sins, and takes their punishment on himself! God’s love is revealed as sovereign and free of all restraints and all ends outside itself. His love is not determined in any way by its object. In creation God created the object of his love from nothing. In making covenant, God established a loving relationship that did not exist beforehand. And in reconciliation God loved us not because we were just, but in order to create a justified people. God is love! (p. 166)

His love shapes our love, or should anyway.

]]> By: Laura’s Imperfect Blog » Blog Archive » Driving the thought home http://tonywoodlief.com/?p=1851&cpage=1#comment-6732 Laura’s Imperfect Blog » Blog Archive » Driving the thought home Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:13:32 +0000 http://tonywoodlief.com/?p=1851#comment-6732 [...] I found this quote over at Tony Woodlief’s blog. “My heart only has entrances. It doesn’t have exits. Whoever enters remains there. Whatever he [...] [...] I found this quote over at Tony Woodlief’s blog. “My heart only has entrances. It doesn’t have exits. Whoever enters remains there. Whatever he [...]

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