Matt Morrison

“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

“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

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

“Flatter not yourselves. Some of you are ‘old disciples;’ have a great abhorrency of sin; you think it impossible you should ever be seduced but, ‘Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed less he fall’—Remember Peter!” John Owen, 6:150-151

Young men, this is the way. “Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.” 2 Timothy 2:22

“Though the lowest degree of grace may bring salvation to you, yet it will not bring much glory to God. It was not a 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘬 of love, which Christ commended in Mary—but 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 love; "she loved much.” Thomas Watson, A Body of Divinity

“To believe that he will preserve us is a means of preservation. We are to pray for what God hath promised.” John Owen, 6:125

“Call the Sabbath a delight.” Isaiah 58:13 “If the head be heavy and slumber in the things of grace, if the heart be cold in duties, evil lies at the door.” John Owen, 6:122

“Kiss the Son, lest he be angry and you perish…blessed are all who take refuge in him.” Psalm 2:12 “You gave me no kiss, but from the time I came in she has not ceased to kiss my feet—Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven—for she loved much..” Luke 7:45