“Expect little from self, but much from Christ. Look more to Jesus.” J.C. Ryle

If Christ be anything he must be everything. CHS

“Sweet is the affliction which gives us fellowship with Christ.” C. H. Spurgeon

This earned a follow.

Hey! Who is this? #ParishPres

“Only be very careful… to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cling to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.” Joshua 22:5

Love to see this from our daughter church.

“Love gives 𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 in obedience and all the duties of it.” John Owen 3:586

Beholding the glory of Christ is the means of sanctification. We become like what we worship.

”There is no book of the Bible which affords a better test of the depth of a man’s Christianity than the Song of Solomon.” Robert Murray M’Cheyne

“Men who are much conversant with the death of Christ—will be implanted into the likeness of it, and experience the death of sin continually.” John Owen 3:563

“In whomsoever the death of Christ is not the death of sin, he shall die in his sins.” John Owen 3:560

Every time you open your Bible, think, “The voice of my Beloved!” Song of Solomon 2:7-8

“Whatever God worketh in us in a way of grace, he prescribeth unto us in a way of duty, and that because although he do it 𝑖𝑛 us, yet he also do it 𝑏𝑦 us, so as that the same work is an act of his Spirit and of our wills as acted thereby.” John Owen 3:433

The struggle is real. “How difficult it is to keep up an even, fixed, stable frame of acting spiritually in spiritual things!” John Owen 3:254