Love of God (224)
  1. Your loving Lord is not oblivious to your pain and sadness.
  2. We cannot love first. Therefore God comes, takes hold of the heart, and says: "Learn to know me."
  3. This is the patient love of God. He is stubborn about the salvation of sinners. He will not be rushed even if his name is mocked, and the trustworthiness of his promises are called into question.
  4. Love turns out to be not simply a thing or action, but a characteristic of God himself.
  5. The Word of Yahweh is not a trifling thing that can be visited only when it’s convenient. It’s a book of life, for all of life, that imparts life to those who believe in it and the God of it.
  6. We won’t use the right words, but the Holy Spirit is interceding with and for us, as we pray.
  7. Our experience with good fathers – even when they are not our own – can point us to God the Father.
  8. Wilson reminds his reader over and over again that, in his love, God accepts sinners as they are so that we may be delivered from the self-acceptance, self-worship, and self-justification of our selfish definitions of love.
  9. Christ has taken our failures and defeats and exchanges that yoke for his own.
  10. The goal of language in the mouth of a Christian isn’t to hold power for ourselves but to give it.
  11. This spiritual giant of the Middle Ages is worth considering on this anniversary of his death.
  12. Dr. Paulson and Caleb continue to outline Luther’s response to Erasmus.
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