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John 3:16
The Best Present Ever!
For God so loved the world that he gave
The Gospel of John - 3:16
his only Son, that whoever believes in himshould not perish but have eternal life.
For God so loved…
“If people believe in God at all today, the
overwhelming majority hold that this God--
however he, she or it may be understood--is a loving being. But that is what make the task of
the Christian witness so daunting...
...the love of God in our culture has been
purged of anything the culture finds
uncomfortable. The love of God has been
sanitized, democritized, and above all
sentamentalized.”
For God so loved the world….
“There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love to me is
utterly realistic, based at every point on prior
knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery now can disillusion him about me,
in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself,
and quench His determination to bless me.”
…that He gave His only Son…
“…the Son of God,who loved me and
gave himself for me.”
~ The Apostle Paul in Galatians 2:20
Sidewalk Prophets
But you love me anywayIt’s like nothing in life that I’ve ever known…
I am the thorn in Your crownbut You love me anyway
I am the sweat from Your browbut You love me anywayI am the nail in Your wristbut You love me anyway
I am Judas’ kiss but You love me anyway…O God, how You love me
…should not perish…
“The world today is full of sufferers from the wasting
disease which Albert Camus focused as Absurdism (‘life is
a bad joke’), and from the complaint which we may call
Marie Antoinette’s fever, since she found the phrase that
describes it (‘nothing tastes’).
“These disorders blight the whole of life:
everything becomes at once a problem and a bore, because nothing
seems worthwhile.”
…should not perish, but have
eternal life.
“And this is eternal life, that they may know you the only
true God, and Jesus Christ whom
you have sent.” ~ Jesus of Nazareth in The Gospel of John - 17:3
…that whosoever believes in Him….
“…knowing God is a relationship calculated to thrill a man’s heart.”
The best present ever is the gift
of God’s presence.
“God is love. In this the love of God was made
manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, that we
might live through him….~ The Apostle John in 1 John 4
“So we have come to know and to believe the
love God has for us.”
~ The Apostle John in 1 John 4
Could we with ink the ocean fill and were the skies of parchment made
were every stalk on earth a quill and every man a scribe by trade,
to write the love of God above would drain the ocean dry.
Nor could the scroll contain the whole though stretched from sky to sky
~ FH Lehman, “The Love of God”
I want to know Christ….
”~ The Apostle Paul in Philippians 3:10
“
May you know and experience Jesus
as the best present ever.
“For God so loved the world that he have his only Son,
that whoever believes in him may not perish but have
eternal life.”#BestPresentEver!