It is our response to our circumstances rather than the degree of difficulty that determines whether or not we are discontent

If we are going to learn to trust God in adversity, we must believe God will allow nothing to subvert His glory so He will allow nothing to spoil the good He is working out in us and for us.

We are 100 percent responsible for the pursuit of holiness, but at the same time we are 100 percent dependent upon the Holy Spirit to enable us in that pursuit. The pursuit of holiness is not a pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps approach to the Christian life.

We need to call sin what the Bible calls it and not soften it with modern expressions borrowed from our culture.

We all want Grace, but we cannot enjoy Grace when there is an attitude of comparing.

God makes provision for our holiness, but He gives us the responsibility of using those provisions.

Giving thanks to God for both His temporal and spiritual blessings in our lives is not just a nice thing to do - it is the moral will of God. Failure to give Him the thanks due Him is sin.