2018 Commencement Program

For our graduate students, you have persevered through your coursework while maintaining full-time jobs, family responsibilities, and ministries within your church and community. We are proud of your diligence and are confident that your hard work will pay off vocationally as well as in Kingdom impact. So graduates, my encouragement to you on this last day of your Cedarville experience is the verse that carried me through my first year here — “ Only be strong a n d very courageous, b ein g carefu l to do accord in g to a ll the law that Moses my servan t comm an d ed you . Do not turn from it to the righ t han d or to the left, that you may have g o o d success w h erever you go. This Book o f the Law shall not depart from y o u r mouth, bu t you shall m editate on it day a n d night, so that y o u may be carefu l to do accord in g to a ll that is w ritten in it. For then you w ill make y o u r way prosperous, a n d then you w ill have g o o d success. Have I n ot comm an d ed you ? Be strong a n d courageous. Do n ot be frigh ten ed , a n d do n ot be dismayed, f o r the LORD y o u r God is w ith you w herever y o u g o ” (Josh. 1:7—9). Come back to see us and know that we will always be here for you, praying that you will stand with compassionate conviction for the Word of God and the Testimony of Jesus Christ. In Christ Alone, Thomas White, Ph.D. President, Cedarville University