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. Even as he was dying, the heart of God poured itself out for the sake of sinners.
  4. 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."
  5. Who would ever want all these screamers and haters? It turns out that Christ does.
  6. For with God we look not for the order of nature, but rest our faith in the power of him who works.
  7. We live again, not so that we will now pay our debt, but to proclaim that we live because our debt was paid!
  8. We don’t start with behavior and work toward Christ. We start with Christ and everything works out from there.
  9. Even though All Saints is a day for remembering the dead, it is not a day of mourning.
  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. 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.
  12. This is an excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2022). Now available for purchase!