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Read Chapter 5 (“The Cost”). (1) What it costs to be a true Christian; (2) the importance of counting the cost; (3) helps and encouragements that the cost is worth paying for the sake of Christ.

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Chapter 4 — on “the fight” of the Christian life. Both super convicting and super equipping/encouraging to fight the glorious fight of the Christian warfare through faith in Christ, no matter what difficulties we may face.

Read Chapter 3 on “Holiness.” Ryle is a powerful and incisive, yet also tender and judicious, writer and pastor. His theological and practical writings most certainly carry the “light and heat” of the earlier Puritan tradition that he stands so much in the room of.