God in the Whirlwind
How the Holy-Love of God Reorients Our World
Building on years of research, writing, and cross-cultural ministry, renowned author and theologian David Wells calls our attention to that which defines God's greatness and gives shape to the Christian life: the holy-love of God.
In God in the Whirlwind, Wells explores the depths of the paradox that God is both holy and loving, showing how his holy-love provides the foundation for our understanding of the cross, sanctification, the nature of worship, and our life of service in the world. What's more, a renewed vision of God's character is the cure for evangelicalism's shallow theology, with its weightless God and sentimental gospel.
Written by one of evangelicalism's most insightful minds, this book will help you stand firm in your faith despite the changing winds and raging storms of the modern world.
- Introduction
- Chapter 1
- The Center Of Reality
- God Is Out There, Somewhere
- A Paradox
- God Disappears Within
- Things Get Blurry
- Here We Are
- God As Holy Love
- The Center Of Our Attention
- Focus
- Chapter 2
- Where We Start
- A Dilemma
- Grace
- Abram
- A Different View
- The Reformation
- Faith
- Belief
- Commitment
- Christ
- Alone The Way
- Eternal Perspective
- God At Work
- Chapter 3
- What Changes
- Toward Christ
- Adam
- The Exodus
- David
- The Work Of The Holy Spirit
- Bottom Line
- Chapter 4
- Up The Down Staircase
- Up And Down
- It Has Always Been So
- God's Holy Love
- Love Revealed
- From The Old Testament
- The Trinity
- Christ
- Alone The Way
- Eternal Perspective
- God At Work
- Chapter 3
- What Changes
- Toward Christ
- Adam
- The Exodus
- David
- The Work Of The Holy Spirit
- Bottom Line
- Chapter 4
- Up The Down Staircase
- Up And Down
- It Has Always Been So
- God's Holy Love
- Love Revealed
- From The Old Testament
- The Trinity
- Christ
- The Patience Of God
- Amazing Grace
- Chapter 5
- What Holiness Means
- Majestic Otherness
- A Lost Vision
- Far But Near
- Moral Otherness
- Goodness
- Righteousness
- Wrath
- Through A Lense
- Chapter 6
- Born To Die
- Divine Sovereignty
- In Our Place, For Our Sin
- In Our Place
- For Our Sin
- Justification
- Different Meanings
- Alien Righteousness
- Imputation Disputed
- Reconciliation
- Double Alienation
- How Reconciliation Happens
- Conflict And Conquest
- Captivity
- Victory
- Incarnation And Cross
- Real Events
- God's Holy Love
- Chapter 7
- Roads And Ditches
- No Separation
- One With Christ
- Position And Condition
- Power
- Work And Grace
- No Confusion
- Holy Love
- Looking Further
- Ground Level
- Not So Fast
- Sound And Fury
- Chapter 8
- Prelude
- Worship Wars
- Call To Worship
- The Presence Of God
- Early Days
- Being Before God
- The Word Of God
- God Speaks
- Word And Worship
- Postlude
- Chapter 9
- A Thousand Ways
- Reformation Recovery
- Biblical Perspective
- A Different Angle
- Upside-Down World
- Sin And Culture
- Under New Management
- Counterculture
- Loosing And Gaining
- Powerlessness And Privilege
- Hostility And Joy
- Holy Love
- Love
- Holiness
- Seeing Tomorrow