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Podcast: How Do You Make Sense of the Wrath of God in John 3:36?
Learn and Turn. Greg discusses why the wrath of God is probably not an emotion of God but a way of describing the consequences built in to sin.
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Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: God's Wrath, Wrath
Verse: John 3
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