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

  Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (24-26DEC21) 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: "These things spake Jesus, and lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said ,  Father, the hour is come; glorify Thy Son, that Thy Son may also glorify Thee. As Thou hast given Him power over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as Thou hast given Him. And THIS IS LIFE ETERNAL, that they might know Thee THE ONLY TRUE GOD, AND JESUS CHRIST, whom Thou hast sent."  -John 17:1-3 [KJV] Let us look upon a crucified Christ, as the remedy of all our miseries. His cross has procured a crown —and His passion has expiated our transgressions. His death has disarmed the law —and His blood has washed a believer's soul. His death is the destruction of our ene

"Lo, I come." -Psalm 40:7 [KJV] What a longing had old testament saints for the Lord Jesus's coming! And what an earnest wish and prayer it is among new testament believers, for Jesus's coming by the visits of His grace, and the sweet influences of His Holy Spirit, from day to day! My soul, methinks I would realize by faith this day, even this very day, these words of thy Redeemer, as if He were now standing at the door of thine heart, and asking for admission. And shall I not say, under this sweet impression, "Come in, Thou blessed of the Lord, wherefore standest Thou without?"    Oh blessed Jesus, when I consider the many precious instances of Thy coming, set up from everlasting in Thy goings forth for the salvation of Thy chosen, Thy anticipation, in Thy visits before the season of Thy tabernacling in our flesh; Thy visits to the patriarchs and prophets; Thy manifestation openly to the people; Thy secret, sweet, and inexpressibly gracious visits now, and