The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to the Old Testament: Israel's In-Your-Face, Holy God

The Old Testament bears witness to an in-your-face, holy God—a God who gets down and dirty with creation and history; a God who gets in people's face with love and law, with power and purpose. Yet Israel's in-your-face God is also "holy"—too other, too raw, too intense to be handled without oven mitts.

Rolf Jacobson wrestles with this in-your-face God.

The Old Testament starts at the beginning, where God digs in the dirt to create humanity and then gets in the dustlings' faces when they sin. ...