1. Some explanations are better than others, but they remain our explanations—except if we had some perspective from outside, above, and behind nature.
  2. 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.
  3. To believe God is love and thus loves you is a miracle wrought by the Holy Spirit.
  4. Jesus stands before the disciples as the bridge between heaven and earth, and between Old Testament and New Testament.
  5. 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.
  6. “So loved,” then isn’t about how much but instead simply how.
  7. This week we will take a closer look at God's love in Scripture.
  8. 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).
  9. 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."
  10. All of Scripture, every last syllable of it, is meant to drive us to "consider Jesus," the One who comes to "make us right" by gifting us his righteousness.
  11. The gospel's message is the scandalous announcement that Yahweh has stooped to our frame, to where we are.
  12. 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."