1. We can’t predict the harvest. We can only sow.
  2. Some explanations are better than others, but they remain our explanations—except if we had some perspective from outside, above, and behind nature.
  3. When I finished this book, I loved the Bible, and the Bible’s author, even more. And I can’t imagine a better endorsement than that.
  4. A Christian is a man who desires to enter heaven not through his own goodness and works, but through the righteousness and works of Christ.
  5. To believe God is love and thus loves you is a miracle wrought by the Holy Spirit.
  6. Jesus stands before the disciples as the bridge between heaven and earth, and between Old Testament and New Testament.
  7. 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.
  8. “So loved,” then isn’t about how much but instead simply how.
  9. This week we will take a closer look at God's love in Scripture.
  10. 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).
  11. Forty days after giving birth, Mary, along with her husband Joseph, presented their firstborn Son at the temple and "bought" him back with a sacrifice of two small birds. This is known as the "Presentation of Our Lord."
  12. Christ our Word, as with a two-edged sword, burst the devil's belly.