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

"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path." -P SALM 119:105 [KJV] O what a change takes place in the soul's feelings toward the word of God when God is pleased to quicken it into divine life! Nor, indeed, need we wonder why there is such a marked revolution in our feelings toward it; for it is by the power of God's word upon the heart that this wondrous change is effected. "Of H is own will begat H e us with the word of truth" (J AMES 1:18) . Other books may instruct or amuse; they may feed the intellect, charm the imagination, and cultivate the mind. But what more can they do? I do not mean by this to despise or set aside every other book but the Bible, for without books society itself, as at present constituted, could not exist; and to burn every book would be to throw us back into the barbarism of the Middle Ages. Let, then, books have their place as regards this life; but what can they do for us as regards the life to come

“ True worship is the response of the regenerate heart to the glory of God in our salvation by His grace through the Lord Jesus Christ. It is to delight in the truths that identify and distinguish the greatness of Christ’s Person as God-Man and the power of His accomplished redemptive work to put away our sins forever and ever. It is to be lifted up as He is exalted in our prayers, our hymns, and in the preaching of the Gospel and the whole word of God. When preachers stand before congregations and boast in men, men are worshiped. When preachers stand up and boast of and in Christ, God is worshiped. When preachers spend their time preaching man’s righteousness, pride will always be the result. When preachers spend their time preaching Christ and the righteousness of God in Him, humility will follow in the hearts of God’s people. Let us all resolve to glory in nothing save Christ and Him crucified!” -Gospel report by preacher Bill Parker Eager Avenue

NOTE : For any who are under the false illusion that they are somehow growing in perfection and holiness, consider carefully the following excerpt taken from a letter by John Newton to a friend, written on Nov. 23, 1774 A.D. “I have no idea of any permanent state in this life, that shall make my experience cease to be a state of warfare and humiliation. At my first setting out, indeed, I thought to be better, and to feel myself better, from year to year. I expected, by degrees, to attain everything that I then comprised in my idea of a saint. I thought my grain of grace, by much diligence and careful improvement, would, in time, amount to a pound. That pound, in a farther space of time, to a talent, and then I hoped to increase from one talent to many, so that supposing the Lord should spare me a competent number of years, I pleased myself with the thoughts of dying rich. But, alas! These golden expectations have been like South Sea dreams. I have lived hither