Incoming GOOD NEWS Report!
Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (26-28NOV21) 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: Blind Eyes Opened One of the many promises concerning God’s servant is that He would open the eyes of the blind. In the Lord’s parable of the Pharisee and the Publican who both went into the temple to pray we have an excellent example of what this means (see Luke 18:9-14). The Pharisee’s eyes had not been opened and thus he prayed: “I thank Thee that I am not as other men.” A person whose eyes have not been opened is blind to his sinfulness, that his righteousness is [in God’s sight] like filthy rags and as Solomon said “the plague of his own heart.” The publican’s eyes had been opened and thus he prayed: “God be merciful to me a sinner.” The word translated “m