Gospel Portions

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What is Gospel Portions?

Reminders of the gospel that was preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, that you may hold fast to the word preached to you.

Ryan Bush:

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and savior, Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works. Titus 2:11-15.

Ryan Bush:

Lord, I would stand with thoughtful eye beneath thy fatal tree and see the bleed and to see the die and think what love to me. Henry Francis Light.

Ryan Bush:

Did not Mary Magdalene immediately rise from the place where she was weeping when Martha said to her, the teacher is here and is calling for you? Happy that hour when Jesus calls us from tears to spiritual joy. How dry and listless you are when Jesus is not with you. It is vain and foolish for you to desire anything other than Jesus. To lose Him is to suffer a greater loss than to lose the whole world. What has the world to offer you without Jesus? To be without Jesus is a painful hell, but to be with him is a sweet paradise. If Jesus is with you, no enemy can harm you. Whoever finds Jesus discovers a wonderful treasure, a treasure above all others, and he who loses Jesus loses a great deal more than the entire world. The man who lives without Jesus is the poorest of the poor, but he who has Jesus as his friend is the richest of men. Whom will you now seek as your friend? Without a friend, you can hardly live your life. And if Jesus is not your friend above all friends, then indeed you shall be sad and lonely. You are a fool to place your trust in other men and to rejoice in them. You should be willing to have the whole world against you rather than offend Jesus. Of all those whom you hold dear, let Jesus alone be your most special friend. Thomas a Kempis.