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

“ Christ took the form of a servant while He retained the form of God! It is exactly that which makes our salvation possible and achieves it. It was to SAVE sinners that Christ Jesus came into the world. He did not come to help them to save themselves, nor to induce them to save themselves, nor even to enable them to save themselves. He came to save them!” - Gospel report by preacher William Hendriksen

"My doctrine shall drop as the rain, M y speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass." - DEUTERONOMY 32:2 [KJV] We have in our text a regular scale: the dew, the small rain, the rain, and the showers. And this graduated scale of heavenly moisture shews that there are degrees of spiritual blessing. We must not expect all to be blessed to the same extent, nor all to receive the same measure. Yet all are of the same nature. Examine "the dew," it is water; "the small rain," it is water; "the rain," it is water; "the showers," they are still water. You cannot find any difference between the water of the dew, of the small rain, of the rain, and of the showers: they are all alike pure water, distilled from the alembic of the sky.  So it is with the blessing of God upon the soul. It may fall upon one as the dew, upon another as the small rain, upon a third as the rain, ...

O my reader, can you be satisfied with the cheap, easy-going religion of the day, which utterly ignores the clamant call of the Son of God, “ Agonize to enter in at the strait gate ” [LUKE 13:24 ] ? Can you rest content with the “smooth things” now being proclaimed from well nigh every pulpit, which assures those who are at enmity with God that they can become “Christians” more easily than a youth can join the Army, or a man become a “Free Mason” or “Odd Fellow.”         Can you follow the great crowd who claim to have “received Christ as their personal Saviour” when no miracle of grace has been wrought in their hearts, while the Lord Himself declares “ Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, that leadeth unto Life, and few there be that find it” [MATTHEW 7:14 ] ?       Dare you rest in some “decision” made when you were deeply stirred by some anecdotes addressed to your emotions?  Have you nothing more...