1. We can’t predict the harvest. We can only sow.
  2. Some explanations are better than others, but they remain our explanations—except if we had some perspective from outside, above, and behind nature.
  3. To believe God is love and thus loves you is a miracle wrought by the Holy Spirit.
  4. His love for you is so deep that in his mercy, while you were yet a sinner, God sent his only begotten Son to die for you.
  5. “So loved,” then isn’t about how much but instead simply how.
  6. Love is pointing to Jesus who said, “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13).
  7. As the writer to the Hebrews affirms, what makes the Christian gospel so much better is that we are no longer dealing with “types and shadows."
  8. When we pray to Jesus, we pray to the King's right hand. We know one who has the Father's ear, respect and trust. And the one who intercedes for us is still one of us, with nail-pierced hands.
  9. Who would ever want all these screamers and haters? It turns out that Christ does.
  10. Let us rejoice, then, in this grace so that our glory may be the testimony of our conscience wherein we glory not in ourselves but in the Lord (2 Cor. 1:12).
  11. For with God we look not for the order of nature, but rest our faith in the power of him who works.
  12. A theologian is a passive receiver of God’s active revelation about Jesus Christ, his words, works, and ways.