" What I want to say is pretty simple: despite what postmodernity (whatever you may conceive it to be) says, there is TRUTH that can be KNOWN; there is a center that holds reality together; there is meaning and purpose; there is a destiny and a calling of epic proportions (though you may never be famous)."
--Timothy Stoner, The God Who Smokes
"...the love that wins is a holy love. The love that won on the cross and wins the world is a love that is driven, determined, and defined by holiness. It is a love that flows out of the heart of a God who is transcendent, majestic, infinite in righteousness, who loves justice as much as He does mercy; who hates wickedness as much as He loves goodness; who blazes with a fiery, passionate love for Himself above all things. He is Creator, Sustainer, Beginning and End. He is robed in a splendor and eternal purity that is blinding. He rules, He reigns, He rages and roars, then bends down to whisper love songs to His creatures.
His love is vast and irresistible. It is also terrifying, and it will spare no expense to give everything away in order to free us from the bondage of sin, purifying for Himself a people who are devoted to His glory, a people who 'have no ambition except to do good,' (Titus 2:14). So He crushes His precious Son in order to rescue and restore mankind along with His entire creation (Isaiah 53:10-12). He unleashes perfect judgement on the perfectly obedient sacrifice and then pulls Him up out of the grave in a smashing and utter victory.
He is a God who triumphs.
He is no Auntie. He is a burning cyclone of passionate love.
Holy love wins."
--Timothy Stoner, The God Who Smokes
Amen.
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