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CARRY THE GOSPEL OF GOD WHEREVER YOU GO. IT SHOULDN'T DEPART FROM YOUR DISCUSSIONS

"All desire for God die out where sin reigns." — Charles Spurgeon

“Too many Christians think they can have Jesus without the church. They want the head without the body.” — Kevin DeYoung, Don’t Be True to Yourself, 24-25.

“Begin with implicit trusting. Cast aside your faithless backwardness to take the Lord at His word. Come and roll yourself, your soul, and your sins upon your gracious Savior. Begin with simple believing, and all other things shall soon be added to you.” — J. C. Ryle

"Enough for me that Jesus saves, this ends my fear and doubt; a sinful soul, I come to him, he’ll never cast me out." My Faith Has Found a Resting Place

“Joy is the serious business of heaven.” - C.S. Lewis

It often is not a lack of faith that holds you back. It’s your lack of obedience.

"The union of Persons in the Trinity is in the Catholic faith set forth & believed...to be so inseparable, that whatever is done by the Trinity must be regarded as being done by the Father, and by the Son, and by the Holy Spirit together." - Augustine

Every day, every hour, nay, every moment at your present time hath an influence into your eternity. Do you believe this? What! And yet squander away precious time so carelessly, so vainly! —Puritan John Flavel, Works 1:397

"The gospel is all about Christ from beginning to end." – Charles Spurgeon

The purpose of the Bible is to bring men to Christ, to make them holy, and prepare them for heaven. -A.W. Tozer -

As a follower of Jesus, you literally have nothing to be afraid of. If you live today, you get Jesus. If you die today, you get Jesus. Win, win!

“The inward witness, son, the inward witness; that is proof, the strongest proof of Christianity.” — Samuel Wesley

"The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy, which can ever engage the attention of a child of God––is the name, the nature, the person, the work, the doings, and the existence of the great God whom he calls his Father!" –– Charles Spurgeon

"... the fruit of the Spirit is both informational and relational––not just a matter for private experience... these character qualities have a definite outward focus toward other people." –– Jerry Bridges

"God justifies the ungodly, not because they are worthy, but because Christ is worthy." Edward Fisher, (The Marrow of Modern Divinity, p. 90)

One cannot complain that the “gate is narrow” who stands amazed that the gate is 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯.

“… the good news is just as much for believers as it is for unbelievers.” —

J. Garrett Kell, Pure in Heart, 16.

In vain we oppose reasonings, arguments, and resolutions, to beat down our corruptions, and to silence our fears; but a believing view of Jesus does the business. - John Newton

It is an eternal honor to any soul to be in the friendship of God. Why are people ashamed of being thought religious? Because they know nothing of religion. He who knows his Maker may glory in his God, for w/out him what has any soul but disgrace, pain, shame& perdition? -Clarke

"The grace of Christ is not to be bought by our performances but is freely given to us in Christ." (Edward Fisher, The Marrow of Modern Divinity, p. 64)

Everything lost that we place in the hands of God isn’t a forever loss. God took Adam’s bone. He gave him back the gift of a woman. God took Jesus through a brutal crucifixion. He gave back salvation to the world. Loss is never the end of the story with God.

Kind bowels yearning in the eternal Son, He left his Father's court, his heav'nly throne: Aside he threw his most divine array, And wrapt his Godhead in a veil of clay. —Ralph Erskine, Gospel Sonnets, Section II, Redemption through Christ

You were put here to be a self and to live fully as a self. The worth of the self—your self—is inestimable, and God’s intent for you is that you become a fully realized self as you make the grace-fueled movement from the old self to the new

We could lose it all — our 401k’s, our jobs, our personal liberty — but in Christ we’re still: Chosen, Predestined, Justified, Renewed, Regenerated, Adopted, Accepted, Loved, Saints, Complete, Redeemed, Forgiven, Sealed, Empowered, Secured, Enlightened, Fruitful, Conquerors, Overcomers

Seasons vary, circumstances change, feelings fluctuate, friendships cool, and friends die but Christ is ever the same! ⏤ Octavius Winslow

Wherever the fame of the name of God may be spread, men will know that he is worthy of the highest praise. — John Calvin, Psalm 48:10

It is quite useless to ask a man to adopt the Christian view of the gospel unless he first has the Christian view of sin. —J. Gresham Machen

“Being Spirit-filled starts with being Scripture-saturated.” —John MacArthur

"When men become the men that God designed them to be, it liberates women to flourish into the women that God designed them to be" — A.R. Bernard