1. “So loved,” then isn’t about how much but instead simply how.
  2. 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).
  3. Even as he was dying, the heart of God poured itself out for the sake of sinners.
  4. The further up and further into the season of Epiphany we get, the bigger the grace of God in Christ is, the brighter the Light of Christ shines, and the more blessed we are in Jesus' epiphany for us.
  5. Repentance is meaningless unless we are willing to acknowledge who we are: sinners needing mercy.
  6. 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."
  7. In Memory of My Friend, James Arne Nestingen
  8. Who would ever want all these screamers and haters? It turns out that Christ does.
  9. For with God we look not for the order of nature, but rest our faith in the power of him who works.
  10. You are the friend in low places. It’s only from this place that you are free to look outside yourself for the remedy to the issues that plague you and humanity.
  11. We live again, not so that we will now pay our debt, but to proclaim that we live because our debt was paid!
  12. We don’t start with behavior and work toward Christ. We start with Christ and everything works out from there.