Here is a unique style and exceptional message from my wonderful friend, Shirley Spellerberg, the lady who tricked me into hearing the Gospel 46 years ago. Please read it completely for there is great truth here.
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My Christmas message this year comes in the form of excerpts from hymns of the faith which bring joy to our hearts and peace to our souls. Enjoy! Shirley Spellerberg
‘I was sinking deep in sin far from the peaceful shore… sinking to rise no more, but the Master of the sea heard my despairing cry, from the waters lifted me, now safe am I… When nothing else could help, Love Lifted Me.’ I John 4:10
‘To God Be the Glory great things He has done, so loved He the world that He gave us his Son, who yielded His life an atonement for sin and opened the lifegate that all may go in. Oh perfect redemption the purchase of blood to every believer the promise of God. The vilest offender who truly believes, that moment from Jesus a pardon receives. Praise the Lord, let the earth hear his voice.’ John 3:16
‘Amazing Grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me, I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see.’ Ephesians 2:8-9
‘Thanks to God for my Redeemer...Thanks for storms that I have weathered…Thanks for joy and thanks for sorrow, thanks for heavenly peace with thee…Thanks for grace that none can measure, thanks for love beyond compare…Thanks for hope in the tomorrow, thanks for all eternity.’ Ephesians 5:20
‘Because He Lives I can face tomorrow, because He lives all fear is gone, because I know He holds the future and life is worth the living just because He lives.’ John 14:19
‘When Christ shall come with shout of acclamation, and take me home what joy shall fill my heart! Then I shall bow in humble adoration and there proclaim, my God How Great Thou art!’ John 14:2-3
‘My sin—oh, the bliss of this glorious thought—My sin—not in part, but the whole—is nailed to the cross and I bear it no more, Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul…it is well, It Is Well With My Soul.’ Rom. 6:23
‘When the Roll is Called Up Yonder I’ll be there!’ 0:-) Hope to see you there!
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“And this is the record that God has given to us (freely) eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.” I John 5:11-12
Jesus is the reason for the season. Without Christ’s birth there would be no Christmas!
Without Christ’s death, burial and resurrection, there would be no salvation. {Jack}
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Jack,
Well, I’d like to see my 30s again — that’s for sure.
AOW,
Fifty years ago????.. Thought y’all were only in your thirties — 😉
We appreciate hearing from y’all.. take care — and we will pray for you both as we all think on that time when God became Flesh — “Behold, the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world.”. John 1:29
In Jesus Christ eternally, Jack
“Love Lifted Me” was the song I first sang after I was born again. I remember that service as if it were yesterday — and, yet, I came to the Lord over five decades ago.
Jack,
Christmas blessings to you as we rejoice in the Child born to be our propitiation for our sins.