Do We Hate What God Hates?

Love is personified in God, thankfully, and there is not doubt to that as expressed by the word of God (1 John 4, verse 8), and, yet, God clearly hates certain behaviors which are unloving. We, too, should despise those behaviors and work to counter them with other godly qualities.

Tim Martens is the pastor of the Northwest Arkansas and Springfield Missouri congregations. Prior to becoming a pastor, he has had successful careers in business and education as well as being a newspaper columnist.