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

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (10-12APR20) 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 our sins and from Hell: “ For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty.” - GALATIANS 5:13 [KJV] We have been called by God’s Sovereign Grace according to His purpose ( Rom ans 8:28) . We have been called out of darkness into light ( I Peter 2:9) . We have been called through the Gospel, and by the preaching of the Gospel ( II Thes salonians 2:14) . We are called to be sons, children of God ( I John 3:1) . Because of our calling we have liberty in Christ, Freedom in Christ! We are freed from the power of death, freed from the bondage and penalty of sin, and freed from the law. Now we have liberty to freely serve our brethren in love, and to freely serve our Lord in lo...

"I will rejoice in the L ORD , I will joy in the God of my salvation.” -HABAKKUK 3:18 [KJV] If ever, as we pass through this wilderness, we feel one drop of solid joy, of true happiness, it must flow, it can flow only from one source—the manifestation of Christ to our souls. This joy may be very transient: we may have to look upon it through a vista of many years; and doubts and fears may becloud the mind whether we ever rejoiced truly in Christ, or whether our joy might not have been "the joy of the hypocrite" that perisheth. And yet we are brought to this point—we can find joy and peace in Him alone. Sin, the world, the things of time and sense, business, amusement, pleasure so called, afford now no joy; there is an aching void, a feeling of dreariness and misery connected with everything short of communications of mercy, favour, and love. So that though we may not be enabled to say, 'we greatly rejoice at all times, in all places, at all seasons,...