1. Some explanations are better than others, but they remain our explanations—except if we had some perspective from outside, above, and behind nature.
  2. To believe God is love and thus loves you is a miracle wrought by the Holy Spirit.
  3. 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.
  4. “So loved,” then isn’t about how much but instead simply how.
  5. 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).
  6. Even as he was dying, the heart of God poured itself out for the sake of sinners.
  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. Who would ever want all these screamers and haters? It turns out that Christ does.
  9. The lesson of Malachi reveals God’s love for his people. When the people ask for proof of God’s love, he reminds them of their election.
  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.