Happy Wednesday, everyone.

For a few weeks, we have been looking at a two-part sermon series, Pastor John Delivered

in the spring of 2010, and today's episode is the final installment of clips from those

two messages.

Historically, this pair of sermons is really interesting because they come in the days

leading up to his eight-month leave of absence, which was time away from the pulpit to work

some things out in his own heart and in his own family as well.

We've talked about this leave, the lessons he took from it, particularly in three episodes

in this podcast, Mac and episodes, I think it was APJ 138, 220, and 1227, and as you know,

from those episodes, if you heard them, it was a defining season for him.

The precursor to that leave is these two sermons, and they're interesting because in them,

Pastor John explains what makes him tick.

Why does he do ministry the way he does it?

He actually explains this point in these sermons, as we saw on APJ 1769, and then we looked

at a related theme, God makes much of us. He does. He really does make much of us, so why does

God make so much of us? That was APJ 1772, and then we looked at how God makes much of us.

There's six or seven profound ways in which God makes much of his children, and Pastor John

explained that in APJ 1775. And that led to last week's conundrum. There we looked at whether or

not God ruins his love for us by loving us for himself and for his own glory.

A really key question to answer, and it was answered last time, last Wednesday in APJ 1778.

And today, we finished this little mini series of sermon clips by looking at how profoundly we are

loved by God. Oh, how Pastor John wanted his church to feel the gravity of God's great love to

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