1. “So loved,” then isn’t about how much but instead simply how.
  2. Zephaniah has given us something more visceral to help us understand the love of God: the sound of salvation.
  3. This week we will take a closer look at God's love in Scripture.
  4. This sermon was originally given at Luther Seminary chapel on May 20, 1986.
  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. Christ our Word, as with a two-edged sword, burst the devil's belly.
  7. Morons though we all have been, there is nothing we need that Christ hasn’t given us.
  8. The law had to have its way with the expert to bring him around (and back) to Abraham's response.
  9. 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."
  10. Who would ever want all these screamers and haters? It turns out that Christ does.
  11. God is not calling us to “grow up.” He is calling us to dependence.
  12. For with God we look not for the order of nature, but rest our faith in the power of him who works.