1. 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.
  2. Logos theology is a theology of presence without division. It is a way of unification, of which the incarnation is the greatest visible example.
  3. Sometimes in hanging on to our useless guilt, we are idolaters. We believe our sin or conscience is more powerful than our God.
  4. 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.
  5. Do you confess Christ as God in the flesh, born, died, and raised to new life for you? Any answer of yes will do
  6. It seems to me that our greatest task is not that of seeking skills and methods whereby we can inject power into the gospel, but simply to beware lest we obscure the power that the gospel is
  7. The smallest amount of Holy Spirit-created faith defeats every antichrist belief we hold.
  8. God is consistently rooting us in reality—both what is seen and unseen—because that is where he is.
  9. To “trust in God in trial” means we fight our battles by kneeling and praying to “the Holy One of Israel,” who works out our deliverance by himself.
  10. Our challenge today is to inspire trust and curiosity so this generation will openly ask the question, who speaks the words of truth?
  11. Faith is like a horse with blinders because it only beholds God’s promise. It is obsessed with what God has already said.