But many of us don’t know our God and don’t understand His gospel of grace. For many, God sits up there like a Buddha, impassive, unmoving, hard as flint. Calvary cries out more clearly than any theology textbook: We do not know our God. We have not grasped the truth in the First Letter of John: “In this is love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” The cross reveals the depth of the Father’s love for us: “For greater love than this no one has than that he lay down his life for his friends.” The disciple living by grace rather than
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