The wisdom of the chess player is displayed more in winning over a capable opponent than a novice. The wisdom of the general is displayed more in defeating a superior army than in subduing an inferior one. Even more so, the wisdom of God is displayed when He brings good to us and glory to Himself out of confusion and calamity rather than out of pleasant times.

Don't believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word.

The pursuit of holiness must be anchored in the grace of God; otherwise it is doomed to failure

Love provides the motive for obeying the commands of the law, but the law provides specific direction for exercising love.

Because God is sovereign, He is able to answer. Because He is faithful to His promises, He will answer.

In His infinite wisdom, God allows trials in order to develop perseverance in us and to cause us to fix our hopes on the glory that is yet to be revealed... Our faith and perseverance can grow only under the pain of trial.

God intends that everyone who has embraced the gospel become a part of the great enterprise of spreading the gospel.