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

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (16-18DEC22 A.D.) 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 - Almighty God's unmerited favor - from our sins and from Hell: PRAISE THE NAME OF JESUS JESUS! No name so dear as His, O what a joyful sound! So full of mercy, truth and love, In Him all grace is found. The One the angels worshiped, Creator, Lord and King; When to this earth He came to save, His glories they did sing. JESUS! For guilty rebels came, Hopeless in sin we lay; He came to bring in righteousness, And wash our sins away! No One but Christ the Savior, Could save from death and hell; His blood has saved us evermore, O praise Emmanuel! JESUS! The holy Son of Man, Came down to save the lost; And by His sacrificial death, He paid redemption’s cost.

"Beloved of God, called to be saints." - Romans 1:7 [KJV] The very word  "saint"  has become, through man's perverseness and wickedness, a word of reproach and contempt. But God will honour it, let men dishonour it as they please. God has put a crown of glory upon it, let men despise it as they may. There is no privilege or blessing that God can confer so great and glorious as to crown you with the crown of saint. He might have given you titles without number; He might have showered riches upon your head in the greatest profusion; rank, fame, talent, beauty, health, all might have been poured at your feet; but what would all these be compared to making you a saint of God? But what is it to be a saint? It is to be sanctified by God the Father, set apart for Himself, to shew forth His praise. It is to be washed in the atoning blood and clothed in the justifying righteousness of the Son, and to be regenerated by the Spirit of God. It is to be introduced into a new