1. 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.
  2. Do you confess Christ as God in the flesh, born, died, and raised to new life for you? Any answer of yes will do
  3. When we cry to the Lord in our trouble, he will send us a preacher with words that deliver us from destruction.
  4. It’s the notion of mercy that leads us to the atonement, and it is the atonement that provides a foundational basis for the justification of sinners.
  5. One of the primary reasons we do not have to fear the future is because the future is certain in Christ.
  6. Increasingly, to forgive is seen as winking at evil, as shrugging one’s moral shoulders, and as being complicit.
  7. The power of the Word of God is the power of God himself, for he is always faithful to his Word.
  8. A group of unassuming apostles was given a graphic illustration of how the Lord would use them to turn the world right-side-up through the upside-down logic of grace.
  9. Being the baptized just may be the last, great resistance.