1. 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.
  2. Reading includes, on some level, striving. Hearing, on the other hand, remains passive.
  3. To believe God is love and thus loves you is a miracle wrought by the Holy Spirit.
  4. 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.
  5. “So loved,” then isn’t about how much but instead simply how.
  6. Zephaniah has given us something more visceral to help us understand the love of God: the sound of salvation.
  7. This sermon was originally given at Luther Seminary chapel on May 20, 1986.
  8. We too are God’s baptized, beloved, blood-bought believers. And no one can ever take that away from us.
  9. 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).
  10. Predestination, Jim knew, is no longer a frightening doctrine of mystery when you understand that God makes his choice about you in the simple word of God, given from one sinner to another.
  11. Morons though we all have been, there is nothing we need that Christ hasn’t given us.
  12. The law had to have its way with the expert to bring him around (and back) to Abraham's response.