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Let the Light In

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Let the Light In

by Colin McCartney

Do you feel like God is angry at you? Or at least disappointed?

Our view of God shapes our minds, behavior, and relationships. What happens when we view God as a furious, frustrated deity? What changes when we glimpse a God who looks like Jesus?  

Building upon personal experience, biblical study, and recent discoveries in neuroscience, pastor and ministry coach Colin McCartney warns of the dangers of viewing God as a judgmental, angry dictator. Such a negative view of God poisons the mind and produces alienation from God and others. In its place, McCartney lays out a strong case, rooted in Scripture, for a more accurate image of a God that is Love. Healing from distorted images of God is one of the primary tasks of the maturing Christian, and McCartney gently leads readers on this healing journey. He also refuses to shy away from difficult topics as God’s wrath, hell as eternal punishment, and violent depictions of God in the Bible. By sharing the beliefs of the early church fathers and mothers and pointing to a Christ-centered hermeneutic, McCartney inspires readers with the truth of a God who is extremely involved and deeply in love with every one of us.

What if the boundless love that we see in Jesus Christ isn’t just one of many traits of God? What if that infinite, absolute love is, well, everything?
 

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Foreword
Introduction   
 
Part One: God Loves You                                                                                                       
  1. Does God Love You or Just Tolerate You?
  2. Why We need to believe in a God of love
  3.  A Christ like God                                                                   
  4. How God sees you                                                                 
 
Part Two: How to Read the Bible to Find a God of Love       
  1.  The confusion of scripture                                        
  2.  How to read the Bible                                                                                   
  3.  How Jesus and Paul Read scripture
  4. Jesus, not the Bible, is the word of God
  5. Reading the Bible through a Jesus lens, part one
  6. Reading the Bible through a Jesus lens, part Two                                         
Part Three: Applying a Jesus Lens to Tough Passages that Question the Love of God
  1. Understanding the Wrath of a Loving God   
  2. How to Deal with Violence and the Love of God
  3. The End Times and the Love of God                  
  4. Hell and God’s Love                                                   
15. Where Is God’s Love in Our Suffering?         
16. Did God Kill Jesus?
17. From Deconstruction to Reconstruction       
     
The Author                                               
 

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