Love God
Love Neighbor

The incarnation of God among us means that ultimate reality is not cold, dark, space, but love. The Son of God came to us as the overflow of intra-trinitarian love. (John 15.9; Rom. 5.5) Dane Ortlund 9 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. (John 15:9) 5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit

He was born in Bethlehem. Out of the way, backwoods Bethlehem. We are freed to live and serve in obscurity. We don’t need the spotlight. He didn’t. (Phil. 2.3-9) Dane Ortlund 3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the

His blazing wrath upon the impenitent is matched by his gentle embrace of the penitent. Neither dilutes the other. He is not a one-dimensional Christ. (Rev. 19.15-16; 1 Pet. 5.10-11) Dane Ortlund 15 From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. 16 On his robe and on his thigh