God Behaving Badly: Is the God of the Old Testament Angry, Sexist and Racist?

Yahweh is both stubborn and flexible: stubbornly inflexible about his commitment to bless his people, which is good news, and graciously flexible about showing mercy to repentant sinners, which is great news.

God is predictably flexible, constantly changeable and immutably mutable, at least in regard to showing mercy toward repentant sinners.

Would you want to follow a God that wasn’t passionate about his relationship with you?

If it is okay for women to compose sections of the Bible, perhaps we should let them teach it?

Love for people can lead to anger over a broken relationship. Love for people can also lead to anger about injustice.

hesed is the best kind of love one could imagine.

When our systematic theology comes into conflict with the Bible, the former needs to be modified, not the latter.

Most people think of themselves as good, so they assume that in a just world they deserve good things and are troubled when bad comes their way. But Scripture informs us that from God’s perspective no one is good (Ps 14:3; Rom 3:23).

When God seems distant in the midst of crises and pain, we can pray the psalms of lament. As we follow the pattern of the lament—from doubts and despair to prayer and petition—we eventually arrive at a place of hope, trust and praise.