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

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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!