Thoughts from Boyden convention

• Following where God leads will promote faith and trust and further obedience.

• The Lord is laboring night and day for the salvation of our souls.

• We adorn the doctrine of God by our obedience to it.

• Everyone has a clean future.  Because of Jesus, God's people have a clean past.

• Lies take many forms, but the author of every lie is the same.  Lies don't start with the lips.

• The purpose of an unjust weight or balance is that we would get more than we give.

• Doing what we know to do will keep us from being a hypocrite.

• Until we love what we should love, we can't help but do the things we hate.

• Don't let your feelings control how you treat others.

• What we permit, we promote.

• Our enemy tries to appear like he's not the enemy.

• There's a tendency when there's an abundance of something to be careless with it.  There's all provision for our sin, but don't be presumptuous.  Don't misuse it.

• Jesus got victory in the same setting we're in.  He always availed Himself of the help that was available to Him.

• God created us to give us the best.

• Resistance is the only thing that limits God.

• We make ourselves miserable by not repenting.

• Meekness is the virtue of not rising in self-defense nor accusing another when falsely accused.

• Sin isn't just doing wrong.  It's knowing what God wants us to do and not doing it.

• If we don't love the truth, what we do love will overcome us.

• The conclusion that John came to after walking with Jesus was "God is love."

• With love comes service.

• It's not about including God in our plans; it's about yielding to God's plans.  God's plans happen the way He plans them.  They work.  That's why we can trust Him.

• The emblems remind us that redemption's work is done.

• Be careful what you allow today because it could become the standard of tomorrow.