"Salvation is of the LORD." -Jonah 2:9

• “ We are fully persuaded that a week’s debating is worth a year’s preaching.” – Alexander Campbell • “ Men through debating God will not know God in salvation, for that knowledge comes through preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ.” –Daniel Parks • “ For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.” –God, quoted by Paul, an apostle [I CORINTHIANS 1:21 ] – Posted by brother R.L. Vaughn 2016.1.21 on his website

"There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen." -J OB 28:7 [KJV]   Growth in grace is not progressive sanctification and fleshly holiness on the one hand, nor a false and delusive establishment on the other. The narrow path lies between these two extremes. On the one side is Seneh, and on the other side is Bozez [I SAMUEL 14:4 ] , Pharisaic holiness and Antinomian security; and between these two sharp rocks lies the "path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen." From dashing on either of these rocks a living man is kept only by the mysterious dealings of God with his spirit, and the internal exercises through which he continually passes. A constant acquaintance with his own vileness preserves him from a self-righteous holiness in the flesh; a daily cross and a rankling thorn keep him from careless presumption. His path is indeed a mysterious one, full of harmonious contradictio...