1. To believe God is love and thus loves you is a miracle wrought by the Holy Spirit.
  2. Jesus stands before the disciples as the bridge between heaven and earth, and between Old Testament and New Testament.
  3. 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.
  4. “So loved,” then isn’t about how much but instead simply how.
  5. Zephaniah has given us something more visceral to help us understand the love of God: the sound of salvation.
  6. This week we will take a closer look at God's love in Scripture.
  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. 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."
  9. Even as he was dying, the heart of God poured itself out for the sake of sinners.
  10. I think the problem with the idea of eternity is that we do not have any direct experience of it, but we encounter enough of its possibility to be unsettling.
  11. 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.
  12. The usual acclamation when one becomes King is: “Long live the King!” But this King of kings, this son of David, has come to die.