Circumstances in this life no matter how great a loss, cannot thwart the decreed promises of God.

It is both humbling and assuring knowing my Lord is immutably Sovereign.

How you view your life’s troubles reveals your view of God.

Defeat isn’t accidental, it is Providence, it is God’s glory.

Hardship is your friend, and this faithful friend exposes where your comfort rests.

Like the anchor of a boat, true faith in God keeps you from being tossed and keeps you secure

There are times when a person who says nothing, says the most

Are we sounding the voice of a stranger or the voice of the shepherd?” “Preach rightly the gospel, trust the gospel, not your presentation

You do not lack the evidence of the truth, you lack the eyes to see the truth and to understand it correctly

YHWH is our ultimate satisfaction for our misdirected desires, not the works of our hands

Stop desiring the gift, rather desire the gifter

Why would a Holy Creator create in us desires and affections that can easily stray us away?

The gulf of pain can also be the chalice of joy ~ Pastor Tom Patton

Maybe it’s not only that bad company corrupts good morals, but maybe it’s the lack of good company that we produce bad morals

We pray not because it changes God, but because it changes us – C.S. Lewis

” Obedience is the fruit, not the root of salvation”
Jan A.

” A defense for a free will is a defense to be free from God”

“The Golden calf of our time is the intellect of some”

“Many have placed their faith in human understanding, fashioning it into a modern golden calf.”

“Can we become so occupied with defending the faith that we neglect cultivating it?”

“We must cultivate communion with God.”

I can’t understand a lot of things. And you know what, it proves to me that no man wrote this Bible, because man will never have written a book with so many absolutely inexplicable mysteries. And the fact that we have those apparent paradoxes, which we can’t resolve, is one of the greatest proofs that God wrote the Bible.

Because whoever wrote this has a mind beyond my mind, I’m so glad I can’t understand everything in the Bible, if I could understand everything in the Bible that would mean it would be written by somebody like me, and we’d be in lot of trouble.

• John MacArthur

” There are those who claim to be defenders of truth, but are rather designers of deception” Tom Patton

” Let the obedience of Christ replace your disobedience” Mike Riccardi