Hello There,......and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The 
mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6.

WHAT A WONDERFUL SAVIOUR!

CHRIST HAS FOR SIN ATONEMENT MADE, WHAT A WONDERFUL SAVIOUR!
WE ARE REDEEMED! THE PRICE IS PAID! WHAT A WONDERFUL SAVIOUR!

CHORUS:
WHAT A WONDERFUL SAVIOUR IS JESUS, MY JESUS!
WHAT A WONDERFUL SAVIOUR IS JESUS, MY LORD!

I PRAISE HIM FOR THE CLEANSING BLOOD, WHAT A WONDERFUL SAVIOUR!
THAT RECONCILED MY SOUL TO GOD; WHAT A WONDERFUL SAVIOUR!

HE CLEANSED MY HEART FROM ALL ITS SIN, WHAT A WONDERFUL SAVIOUR!
AND NOW HE REIGNS AND RULES THERE-IN; WHAT A WONDERFUL SAVIOUR!

HE GIVES ME OVERCOMING POW'R, WHAT A WONDERFUL SAVIOUR!
AND TRI-UMPH IN EACH TRY-ING HOUR; WHAT A WONDERFUL SAVIOUR!

TO HIM I'VE GIVEN ALL MY HEART, WHAT A WONDERFUL SAVIOUR!
THE WORLD SHALL NEVER SHARE A PART; WHAT A WONDERFUL SAVIOUR!

WE GOT THE BUS-I received a short e-mail from Them Bowmans. They have a bus 
(good used). And always that they love me. Did you have a part?

PRAYER NEEDS-A special friend here in Austin had surgery. They did well and 
are back at church and work. A single mom (not by choice) she needs your 
prayers. I received word this week that a dear friend is in the last 
stages of cancer. The hospital is giving hospice type of care only-massive 
doses of morphine to ease the pain. A reader's mother has been having 
physical problems most common in advanced years-you know the tale of moving 
out of home to rest home etc. Please care in prayer.

THEY KEEP ME TIRED-Dr. Wendell Kempton and Ruth keep me up with them as they 
travel.
After leading ABWE (Association of Baptists for World Evangelism) for more 
than thirty years, they leave home in rural Pennsylvania to minister 
worldwide. They wrote me from Stockholm, Sweden. A friend since my 
childhood, this gifted man has a message for today. They journey with you each week. 
They write me often. Whew! 

I GOT A PHONE CALL-From a person that I had not spoken to in years, I used 
to talk to him daily when I was his pastor. I became pastor in a situation 
following the founder after twenty years. This person was a leader in the 
church. He did many things to make the transition to me smooth. (Maybe you 
hadn't noticed that I am a tad strongwilled.) All of the leaders made a pact 
to care and never do anything without the knowledge of all the other leaders. 
Our daily talks were never trivia or gossip. He cared!! We neither one are 
living in that city any longer. He still cares.

KEEP PREACHING-My Michigan family went out of town last Sunday to hear a 
special missionary speak. My daughter's words, "It was a good sermon". 
Import?-The pastor of the church and the missionary were both in the youth 
group where I was pastor years ago. I guess that they did listen. They sure 
had me fooled,

SMELLS LIKE FALL-The recent years we seem to have skipped autumn entirely. 
This week has been cooler and crisp. When storms like Isidore stay far out 
in the gulf, we get dry and cool flows out of the Northwest.

DID I LEAVE-You hanging in my writing last week? Sometimes, in seeking 
brevity, I tend to leave blanks to be filled in by the reader. I wanted the 
illustration about loss of the "servants spirit" to impress on us all that we 
must not allow subtraction of good things as we move forward.

A SPECIAL GROUP-I need to send this and trust it to be passed on. I wish to 
thank those leaders who provide the weekly service at Adventureland, 
Consider me speaking for the entire family. Your care and concern is noted 
and appreciated

WE CALLED HIM DOC-With a sense of loving respect. Sadly, much of my ministry 
years were lived in an area where I did not have easy access to the man who 
exemplified the title"pastor". 

In one of my last visits, I had a question (I always did). "Doc, if you had 
it to do all over again, what would you change?" "Ronnie (he always did), "I 
would make the Christian life easier". 

"I saw many persons Redeemed. The joy of sins forgiven and the miracle 
involved never grows old." 

"I witnessed the ongoing miracle as God worked in Restoration in their life. 
Alcohol, drugs, family divisions, estrangements of all kinds."

"I taught as the third 'R', to Rejoice" And man, could he do that! He would 
take his jumbo Gibson guitar and like David of old he became a worship leader 
long before the term was ever used.

"I should have taught a fourth 'R'---Relax."

That is my word for you today. Take a deep breathe and a big drink from the 
spring of GRACE. You, and everybody around you, will feel better.

His,
Ron Krantz