The Father did not require the death of Christ to persuade Him to love us. Christ died because the Father loves us.
Sinclair B. FergusonWhere God is at the center of things, worship inevitably follows. Where there is no spirit of worship, there God has been dethroned and displaced.
Sinclair B. FergusonYou cannot open the pages of the New Testament without realizing that one of the things that makes it so 'new,' in every way, is that here men and women call God 'Father.' This conviction, that we can speak of the Master of the universe in such intimate terms, lies at the heart of the Christian faith.
Sinclair B. Ferguson