What a beautiful world we live in—colors, beautiful colors are everywhere. God’s creation is awesome. Everything has color—the sky, the grass, flowers, fish in the sea, animals in the forest, birds in the air, trees, and soil. Colors everywhere! On the sixth day of creation, he made man. Red, yellow, black, white, or brown—we are all God’s creation. All that he made, he said was very good. What do you see? God So Loved shows us how differences can be worked out through love, which is a gift from God and something that exists in all of us—and can bring us together. God has love for us, and we can use this love to accept the fact that while we are different, we are alike in more ways than we like to admit. God So Loved is about the greatest love there ever was—Jesus, God’s son, who left his home in glory and came to the earth to reconcile us back to the Father. Jesus is love. The love he has for us is the same love he wants us to have for one another. It is not hard; just give your heart to him, and the Holy Spirit will teach you how to love one another.

John 3:16 is perhaps the most popular verse in the entire Bible. It provides us with a concise description of God’s motivation and action that leads to the hope of the eternal, abundant life promised through Christ. It is the Gospel proclaimed in one brief sentence. In God So Loved ..., this powerful verse is broken down so that each concept of the whole can be examined, explored, and personalized. Author Steve Ink examines who God is, what God has done, and how we should live our lives in response. This book is written for those seeking to learn about and gain a better understanding of the good news of Jesus Christ. The main text of the book provides an overview of the Christian message as seen through Ink’s personal experiences. The notes provide supportive information for those who want to learn more.

FOR GOD SO LOVED...WHO? THE TRUTH CONCERNING THE MOST MISUNDERSTOOD, MISREPRESENTED AND MISUSED SCRIPTURE IN ALL OF GOD'S HOLY WORD.

For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son. Have you ever wondered what it really means that God loves the world? Have you ever wondered if He really loves you? Do you feel that you are able to receive this love? Does your theology match up with the Bible? Do you have questions regarding election and predestination? Do you want to know what the Bible says on the topic? For God So Loved the World offers easy to understand language about what the Bible has to say regarding election, predestination, hope, and God's will for you. Delve into this book and find the answers to your questions. Know what it means that God loved the world. Be assured of His love for you, and move deeper into a relationship with Him by realizing that Jesus is the Savior of the world.

The ministry of Phil and Fran Mortensen challenges God's people to be more effectively involved in inner-city ministries. (Christian)

In this volume the brilliant Fr. Spitzer probes in detail the major question that if an intelligent Creator God – manifest in logical proofs, scientific evidence, and near death experiences - who is the source of our desire for the sacred, and the transcendental desires for truth, love, goodness, and beauty, would want to reveal himself to us personally and ultimately. He then shows this is reasonable not only in light of our interior experience of a transcendent Reality, but also that a completely intelligent Reality is completely positive--implying its possession of a completely positive virtue – namely love, defined as agape. This leads to the question whether God might be unconditionally loving, and if he is, whether he would want to make a personal appearance to us in a perfect act of empathy – face to face. After examining the rational evidence for this, he reviews all world religions to see if there is one that reveals such a God – an unconditionally loving God who would want to be with us in perfect empathy. This leads us to the extraordinary claim of Jesus Christ who taught that God is "Abba", the unconditionally loving Father. Jesus' claims go further, saying that He is also unconditional love, and that his mission is to give us that love through an act of complete self-sacrifice. He also claims to be the exclusive Son of the Father, sent by God to save the world, and the one who possesses divine power and authority. The rest of the book does an in-depth examination of the evidence for Jesus' unconditional love of sinners, his teachings, his miracles, and his rising from the dead. As well as the evidence for Jesus' gift of the Holy Spirit that enabled his disciples to perform miracles in his name, and evidence for the presence of the Holy Spirit today. If this strong evidence convinces us to believe that Jesus is our ultimate meaning and destiny, and desire His saving presence in our lives, that evidence should galvanize the Holy Spirit within us to show that Jesus is Lord and Savior, the way, the truth, and the life. And our faith in him will transform everything we think about our nature, dignity, and destiny– and how we live, endure suffering, contend with evil, and treat our neighbor.

There is a new word surfacing within the landscape of our churches today. That word is "missional." This word "missional," used by authors and trainers within the church community, is intended to promote a renewed sense of awareness for the type of life believers should seek to live every day. While "missional" may be a new term used to describe the Christian lifestyle, it is not a new concept. It began with God. In fact, God Himself is the builder of the missional lifestyle. His mission, the same that He has handed over to Christians today, is people. From the very beginning of time, God's missional walk has been you and me. That missional walk was not without cost and, like our Father in heaven, our missional walk will also have cost. But will our "missional" costs ever be as great as God's? God begins teaching us what His missional cost for us would be, what He was willing to pay, through the lives of Adam and Eve, Abraham, and Isaac. It was His Son, Jesus. Joel Hunt is pastor of Floridatown Baptist Church in Pace, Florida. He has served as the Pastoral Ministries Director for the Santa Rosa Baptist Association, Santa Rosa County, Florida, and he attended Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (SEBTS) in Wake Forest, NC. Joel and his wife, Jane, have two children.

Explores how Jesus Christ demonstrates the love of God in the stories, images, and practices of the New Testament.

This expository treatment of the best known verse in the Bible, John 3:16, opens new vistas of meaning to Christian believers. Each message in this book points out and illustrates some pertinent aspect of the way of salvation.

This classic commentary series from one of the most creative and articulate expositors of the twentieth century is being reissued for a new generation.