According to God's Sovereignty

Here is an excerpt from Richard D. Phillips' What So Great About The Doctrines of Grace? regarding the sovereignty of God (Purchase it here: Click Here! or Click Here!):

"By sovereignty, we mean that God actively governs everything. By everything, we mean all things that happen, from the greatest to the least of occurrences. 'Are not two sparrows sold for a penny?' asked Jesus. 'Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father' (Matt. 10:29, NIV). So sovereignty means 'according to God’s sovereign will.' God’s sovereignty in salvation means that believers are saved for this sole ultimate reason: 'according to God’s sovereign will.' Or as Paul wrote, our salvation was 'predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will' (Eph. 1:11). That sums it up about as well as possible: we are saved according to God’s sovereign purpose, by God’s sovereign working, according to God’s sovereign will. Salvation truly is 'from him and through him and to him' (Rom. 11:36). When this truth breaks into our minds and hearts, we glory in God forever" (2-3).