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

  "Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom." -Luke 12:32 [KJV]   While some are disquieted and cavil at a God who does all His pleasure, for those who are the LORD’S, it is their delight and peace. It is with this very truth that the LORD Jesus calms the fears of His disciples, reminding them that they are His sheep, according to the Father’s good pleasure, and that irrespective of the trials and tribulations of this life, that the Father also brings them through, that these are but temporary troubles compared to the eternal kingdom that He has purposed to give them, because of Christ and His finished work at Calvary. Although but a ‘little flock’ (a double diminutive in the original, designed to point out their weakness and insignificance as sinners), yet Christ being their Redeemer and Justifier, they have no reason to fear, knowing that they are Christ’s by the Father’s eternal love and covenant of grace, and ther...

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands(01-03JAN21) 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: "There is nothing that will make a NEEDY SINNER look to Christ alone or a BELIEVER cling to, and rest in, Christ alone more than to realize that everything God is, everything that God requires, and everything that a sinner needs or will ever need is IN JESUS CHRIST (1 Cor inthians 1:30) . We are perfect in Him (Col ossians 1:21-22; Jude 1:24 ) ! He is perfect, and our being in Him makes us perfect (John 1:16-17; Col ossians 2:9-10) . This is not speaking of what we shall be, but what we are right now in Christ before God." -preacher Henry Mahan

  "Hold up my goings in T hy paths, that my footsteps slip not." -Psalm 17:5 [KJV] Without scrupulously or superstitiously observing "days, and  months, and times, and years," few of us altogether pass by so marked an epoch as the dawning of another year upon our path without some acknowledgment of it both to God and man. When we open our eyes on the first morning of the year, we almost instinctively say, "This is New-year’s day." Nor is this, at least this should not be, all the notice we take, all the acknowledgment we make of that opening year of which we may not see the close. When we bend our knees before the throne of grace, we mingle with thankful acknowledgment for the mercies of the past year, both in providence and in grace, earnest petitions for similar mercies to be experienced and enjoyed through the present. Last evening witnessed our confessions of the many, many grievous sins, wanderings, backslidings, and departings from the living Go...