The story of the flood is not about God's wrath or anger. God expresses sorrow, disappointment, and regret. God grieves because God loves. God does not stand in an indifferent or remote relationship to what has happened, but personally enters into its brokenness and works on it from within. This covenant faithfulness comes at a cost to God. »more
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The story of the flood is not about God's wrath or anger. God expresses sorrow, disappointment, and regret. God grieves because God loves. God does not stand in an indifferent or remote relationship to what has happened, but personally enters into its brokenness and works on it from within. This covenant faithfulness comes at a cost to God. »more
In the Song of Songs - just as in the opening chapters of the Bible - we encounter a man and a woman in a garden, naked and unashamed. Just as in Eden, God pronounces a blessing on the delightful and fulfilling love of eros. Our human experience of eros is a faint glimpse of God's passion for us. Only eros can communicate the intensity of divine love. »more
Eros is passionate love. The deep feelings that accompany eros are often exclusively associated with sexuality, but eros is not limited to it. Though eros is motivated by self-interest, one should not conclude that eros is always selfish. Eros, when rightly ordered with the other loves, is a deeply spiritual expression of love. »more
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The story of the flood is not about God's wrath or anger. God expresses sorrow, disappointment, and regret. God grieves because God loves. God does not stand in an indifferent or remote relationship to what has happened, but personally enters into its brokenness and works on it from within. This covenant faithfulness comes at a cost to God. »more
In the Song of Songs - just as in the opening chapters of the Bible - we encounter a man and a woman in a garden, naked and unashamed. Just as in Eden, God pronounces a blessing on the delightful and fulfilling love of eros. Our human experience of eros is a faint glimpse of God's passion for us. Only eros can communicate the intensity of divine love. »more
In the heart of the Old Testament is a song that celebrates the goodness and beauty of eros - passionate and fulfilling love. The song is identified by the superlative title, "The Song of Songs" - a Hebraic way to say that this is the greatest song of all. The best song in the Bible is a love song that exults in the joy and delight of eros. The goodness and beauty of eros allow us to recognize that eros has its source and goal in the Author of eros. God is a passionate God and we are objects of God's passion. Indeed, only eros can fully communicate the intensity, power, ecstasy, exclusiveness, and demand for mutual response that God's love possesses. Eros reminds us that religion is about passion, and not just the intellect
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Song of Songs 1:2-4a, 13-16; 2:5-6, 13-14; 4:9; 5:16; 6:3; 7:10; 8:6-7 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine, your anointing oils are fragrant, your name is perfume poured out; therefore the maidens love you. Draw me after you, let us make haste... My beloved is to me a bag of myrrh that lies between my breasts... Ah, you are beautiful, my love; ah, you are beautiful; your eyes are doves. Ah, you are beautiful, my beloved, truly lovely. Sustain me with raisins, refresh me with apples; for I am faint with love. O that his left hand were under my head, and that his right hand embraced me! ... Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.... let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely... You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride, you have ravished my heart with a glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace... This is my beloved and this is my friend... I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine... I am my beloved's, and his desire is for me. Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, passion fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a raging flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If one offered for love all the wealth of one's house, it would be utterly scorned. »more
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Song of Songs 1:2-4a, 13-16; 2:5-6, 13-14; 4:9; 5:16; 6:3; 7:10; 8:6-7 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine, your anointing oils are fragrant, your name is perfume poured out; therefore the maidens love you. Draw me after you, let us make haste... My beloved is to me a bag of myrrh that lies between my breasts... Ah, you are beautiful, my love; ah, you are beautiful; your eyes are doves. Ah, you are beautiful, my beloved, truly lovely. Sustain me with raisins, refresh me with apples; for I am faint with love. O that his left hand were under my head, and that his right hand embraced me! ... Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.... let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely... You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride, you have ravished my heart with a glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace... This is my beloved and this is my friend... I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine... I am my beloved's, and his desire is for me. Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, passion fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a raging flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If one offered for love all the wealth of one's house, it would be utterly scorned. »more
Eros is passionate love. The deep feelings that accompany eros are often exclusively associated with sexuality, but eros is not limited to it. Though eros is motivated by self-interest, one should not conclude that eros is always selfish. Eros, when rightly ordered with the other loves, is a deeply spiritual expression of love. »more
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