1. 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.
  2. “So loved,” then isn’t about how much but instead simply how.
  3. 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).
  4. This is an excerpt from “The Alien and the Proper: Luther's Two-Fold Righteousness in Controversy, Ministry, and Citizenship,” edited by Robert Kolb (1517 Publishing, 2023). Now available for purchase.
  5. Morons though we all have been, there is nothing we need that Christ hasn’t given us.
  6. This is an excerpt from “The Alien and the Proper: Luther's Two-Fold Righteousness in Controversy, Ministry, and Citizenship,” edited by Robert Kolb (1517 Publishing, 2023).
  7. The law had to have its way with the expert to bring him around (and back) to Abraham's response.
  8. 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."
  9. Who would ever want all these screamers and haters? It turns out that Christ does.
  10. For with God we look not for the order of nature, but rest our faith in the power of him who works.
  11. It all starts with God; and it all ends with God. He is the alpha and omega of giving and generosity.
  12. We don’t start with behavior and work toward Christ. We start with Christ and everything works out from there.