1. To believe God is love and thus loves you is a miracle wrought by the Holy Spirit.
  2. 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.
  3. “So loved,” then isn’t about how much but instead simply how.
  4. Zephaniah has given us something more visceral to help us understand the love of God: the sound of salvation.
  5. This week we will take a closer look at God's love in Scripture.
  6. This sermon was originally given at Luther Seminary chapel on May 20, 1986.
  7. 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).
  8. This is an excerpt from “The Alien and the Proper: Luther's Two-Fold Righteousness in Controversy, Ministry, and Citizenship,” edited by Robert Kolb (1517 Publishing, 2023). Now available for purchase.
  9. This is an excerpt from “The Alien and the Proper: Luther's Two-Fold Righteousness in Controversy, Ministry, and Citizenship,” edited by Robert Kolb (1517 Publishing, 2023).
  10. The sign of the cross, according to the earliest centuries of Christians, is “the sign of the Lord,” and every baptized Christian was “marked” with it.
  11. Fullness, truth, reality – all this God gives us as his gift in Christ.
  12. God is not calling us to “grow up.” He is calling us to dependence.