Happy Thanksgiving! Of all that we have to be thankful for, the Gospel surpasses them all.

It is all about HIM, it is always about HIM and it is only about HIM!

Quite literally a new channel must be cut through the desert of our minds to allow the sweet waters of truth that will heal our great sickness to flow in. We cannot grasp the true meaning of the divine holiness by thinking of someone or something very pure and then raising the concept to the highest degree we are capable of.

GOD'S holiness is not simply the best we know infinitely bettered. We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensible and unattainable. The natural man is blind to it. He may fear GOD'S power and admire HIS wisdom, but HIS holiness he cannot even imagine."

A.W. Tozer - The Knowledge of the Holy

The Gospel presses on. Paul and Silas, Barnabas and John Mark head out in different directions to get the news out.

Paul and Silas make it to Philippi and the find some women praying by the river.

Lydia and her family believed what Paul said and were baptized, becoming children of GOD.

This Gospel saves folks from the penalty of sin, saves folks from the power of sin, saves folks from the presence of sin - This Gospel just doesn’t happen and it is over … this Gospel is happening all of the time in our lives.

From a man named Kevin Turner, “The Gospel of CHRIST is inherently a missionary gospel. It is a message that changes a life, changes a course, changes affections, changes values, changes worldview, changes love, changes loyalty, and should change either our giving or our going - or both. But the Gospel cannot leave you as you are, the way you are, and where you are, or it cannot possibly be the Gospel you have received."

The Message hasn't changed.

The Mission hasn't changed.

From the late British evangelist Gipsy Smith, “There are five Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and the Christian, and most people will never read the first four.”

It’s been said by Ravi Zacharias that ... “the single greatest obstacle to the impact of the Gospel has not been its inability to provide answers, but the failure on our part to live it out.”

The strength does not come from us, but from HIM working in and through us.