The Carson Center Podcast

The God Who Loves (John 3:16–21)

Episode Summary

Don Carson explores the biblical understanding of God's love, emphasizing its purpose in salvation, contrasting it with common misconceptions, and highlighting its central purpose in offering life and salvation through faith in Jesus.

Episode Notes

In this lecture, Don Carson explores the multifaceted nature of God's love as presented in the Bible, contrasting it with both historical and modern misconceptions. Carson outlines the five aspects of God's love and emphasizes that Jesus is the ultimate measure of this love. Carson concludes by highlighting faith, gratitude, and humility as the appropriate responses to God's love, which offers life and salvation through Christ.

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