Jeff Walton

Dependent on Christ • Husband • Father trying to parent 4 kids • Author of #togetherthroughthestorms • @tayloru Alum • EMAT • Acts 20:24

[Jeff Walton @Walton4J]

I am excited to share for the first time our book trailer video for our soon to be released book #togetherthroughthestorms please help spread the word and share our video and would you consider preordering it today!

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“It is not the intensity of our faith, but the object of our faith that saves us.”
- D.A. Carson

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“Fear of man is always a story of God’s grace being forgotten” Timothy St John

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@TrojansFBL @bryce_rode @Berlin_Bears_FB O-H!!

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“Real burdens lead to praying for each other” -David Powlison

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Waiting on God is living on what I know to be true about God, when I don��t know what’s true about my life.

-Mark Vroegop

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Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.
-CS Lewis

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“If you are not firm in faith, you will not be firm at all.” Isaiah 7:9

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God is greater than our heart.

“By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him; for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything.” 1 John 3:19-20.

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@BradHambrick Very well said Brad. Thank you for writing this.

[Justin Taylor @between2worlds]

David Powlison (1949–2019) once inverted Psalm 23 to portray what life feels like and looks like whenever God vanishes from sight. He called it AntiPsalm 23.

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I’m on my own.
No one looks out for me or protects me.
I experience a continual sense of need. Nothing’s quite right.
I’m always restless. I’m easily frustrated and often disappointed.
It’s a jungle—I feel overwhelmed. It’s a desert—I’m thirsty.
My soul feels broken, twisted, and stuck. I can’t fix myself.
I stumble down some dark paths.
Still, I insist: I want to do what I want, when I want, how I want.
But life’s confusing. Why don’t things ever really work out?

I’m haunted by emptiness and futility—shadows of death.
I fear the big hurt and final loss.
Death is waiting for me at the end of every road,
but I’d rather not think about that.
I spend my life protecting myself. Bad things can happen.
I find no lasting comfort.

I’m alone . . . facing everything that could hurt me.
Are my friends really friends?
Other people use me for their own ends.
I can’t really trust anyone. No one has my back.
No one is really for me—except me.
And I’m so much all about ME, sometimes it’s sickening.
I belong to no one except myself.
My cup is never quite full enough. I’m left empty.
Disappointment follows me all the days of my life.
Will I just be obliterated into nothingness?
Will I be alone forever, homeless, free-falling into void?
Sartre said, “Hell is other people.”
I have to add, “Hell is also myself.”
It’s a living death,
and then I die.

[Jeff Walton @Walton4J]

“Anything God reveals about himself, whether in words or actions, simultaneously reveals something about us.” David Powlison

[Jeff Walton @Walton4J]

If your marriage is going to make God look glorious, then you must find more satisfaction in God than in your marriage.
-John Piper

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Many pleasing things the Lord may withhold, but no ‘good thing’. He is the best judge of what is good for us.
-Charles Spurgeon

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“Pride is an enemy of the soul that is so insidious it will stalk you down no matter how many outward strategies you devise to avoid it. The battle against pride must be fought mainly at the inward, unseen, spiritual level of the heart.” —John Piper

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People change when biblical truth becomes more vivid and louder than previous life experience. People change when they have ears to hear and eyes to see what God tells us about himself.
-David Powlison

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Psalm 51:16-17

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Come, Lord, to convince and comfort me, to humble and direct me, to chill my affections to the world, and to warm them toward the Lord Jesus.
-Robert Hawker

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I beg you to form my mind in the image of faith. Do not let me misunderstand grace, measuring my growth in grace by a natural yardstick.
- Phillip Doddridge