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

"And he said, I will not let T hee go, except T hou bless me ." - GENESIS 32:26 [KJV]   What a strange intermixture there is in a believing heart of everything to cast down and yet of everything to encourage! How there is everything on the one side to perplex, to confuse, and put the soul to its wits' end, and yet how on the other there is everything to hold up its head, strengthen its faith, support its hope, and encourage it to hold on to the last gasp! Now this is that very trial of faith which is more precious than of gold that perisheth, for faith is not a dead, sluggish grace, and is never more active than when it is being tried as with fire. You cannot give up from what you have felt and experienced, for that is the grand evidence, the persuasion that you have the life of God in your soul, and compared with that how worthless and valueless all other things seem to be in your eyes, because to give that up is to give up all your hope. Here, then, i...

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands ( 08-10NOV 19) Heads-Up --- Please find enclosed encouragement in SO GREAT SALVATION by the perfect and finished work of our Lord Jesus Christ in saving poor, needy and wretched sinners by His sovereign free grace - God's unmerited favor - from their sins and from Hell: “ Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” - ACTS 4:12 There is no other SAVIOUR but Jesus Christ to look to for salvation (Isa. 45:21-22; Matt.11:25-28; John 14:6). There is no other SACRIFICE but Jesus Christ to cleanse us from all sin (1 John 1:7; 1 Peter 1:18-20). There is no other SUBSTITUTE but Jesus Christ to redeem us from the curse of the Law (Gal. 3:13; 2 Cor.5:21). There is no other SERVANT but Jesus Christ to honor and establish righteousness for us (Isa. 42:21; Matt. 5:17; Phil. 3:7-9; Rom. 4:6). There is no other SURETY but Jesus Christ to guarante...