God's wrath is not an implacable, blind rage. However emotional it may be, it is an entirely reasonable and willed response to offenses against his holiness. But his love . . . wells up amidst his perfections and is not generated by the loveliness of the loved. Thus there is nothing intrinsically impossible about wrath and love being directed toward the same individual or people at the same time. God in his perfections must be wrathful against his rebel image-bearers, for they have offended him; God in his perfections must be loving toward his rebel image-bearers, for he is that kind of God

If you want to see what judgment looks like, go to the cross. If you want to see what love looks like, go to the cross.

All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists.

There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.

If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.

If it is hard to accept a rebuke, even a private one, it is harder still to administer one in loving humility.

A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.