"Salvation is of the LORD." -Jonah 2:9

How oft, alas, this wretched heart Has wandered from the Lord! How oft my roving thoughts depart, Forgetful of His Word. Yet sov’reign mercy calls, ‘Return!’ Dear Lord, and may I come? My vile ingratitude I mourn! O take this wanderer H ome! And canst Thou, wilt Thou yet forgive, And bid my crimes remove? And shall a pardoned rebel live, To speak Thy wondrous love? Almighty grace, Thy healing pow’r How glorious, how divine! That can to life and bliss restore So vile a heart as mine! Thy pard’ning love, so free, so sweet, Dear Savior, I adore; O keep me at Thy sacred feet, And let me rove no more! - Hymn, Amazing Grace

"NEITHER DO I CONDEMN THEE." - JOHN 8:11 These are the priceless, life-giving words spoken by our Saviour to the woman taken in adultery. This poor creature was discovered in the actual act of fornication and dragged before Jesus by those who thought themselves righteous. These men knew full well Christ´s love and compassion for poor sinners and had no doubt heard His blistering denunciations against the Pharisees. But here was a case in which they were convinced Christ would be compelled to condemn this miserable woman. There was no denial on her part. It appears she had nothing to say; … she was guilty. And like all of us when at first we stood guilty before God, we had no reason to give as to why a swift sentence should not be passed. These men, the poor woman´s accusers, depended for their salvation upon their strict fulfilment of the ceremonial law and were judged accordingly. In other words, they relied upon themselves and their works. But when convic...

"We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work Thou didst in their days, in the times of old. How Thou didst drive out the heathen with Thy hand, and plantedst them; how Thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out. For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but Thy right hand, and Thine arm, and the light of Thy countenance, because Thou hadst a favour unto them ." - P SALM 44:1-3 [KJV]   It is one of the best and strongest of all arguments, when pleading for the renewals of divine love, to put the Lord in remembrance of past mercies. It is as if we should say, Shall we despond now, when the Lord hath blessed so often? Shall our hope fail when God’s mercies fail not? Reader! think what an additional argument the church hath now to bring on this ground, since God’s dear Son came down from heaven. -Gospel report by preacher Robert Hawker (1753–1827 A.D.)