1. “So loved,” then isn’t about how much but instead simply how.
  2. 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).
  3. 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."
  4. Who would ever want all these screamers and haters? It turns out that Christ does.
  5. For with God we look not for the order of nature, but rest our faith in the power of him who works.
  6. We don’t start with behavior and work toward Christ. We start with Christ and everything works out from there.
  7. Even though All Saints is a day for remembering the dead, it is not a day of mourning.
  8. The reason that God’s commandments are not burdensome is that Jesus has fulfilled them.
  9. The love mentioned in 1 John 4:15-21 fourteen times (!) is a love that needs no apology but is determined at all times to sacrifice for the other.
  10. Logos theology is a theology of presence without division. It is a way of unification, of which the incarnation is the greatest visible example.
  11. We can appreciate what we have received from God, we can receive it all as free gift, but only when we stop investing in fool's gold.
  12. To say that whoever loves has been born of God is also to say that those who are born of God are recipients of love. They do not have God because they love but because they are loved.