“Peace and assurance come from a personal knowledge of the God who rules the times and the seasons. Church: if we have an inordinate desire to know how everything is going to fit together in what the bible is not clear about, then we need to come back to a knowledge of our personal Saviour. Because it is trust in Him that will give us the peace and hope and joy of the Christian life. Not that its wrong to nerd out a little bit and figure out what this might mean — but what will ultimately give us peace is the God of peace.”

“May we all join with Paul his prayer in Colossians 1:29: ‘For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me.’… And so church: May we each be equipped to walk in such a way that we would be considered worthy of the kingdom of God. May we each desire to experience the presence of the Lord and the glory of his might. May we be strengthened for steadfastness with the knowledge that God’s enemies will be afflicted with eternal destruction, away from all that is God’s goodness. May God make you worthy of his calling and fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by his power, so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.”