BOOKS OF HOG-WASH KEEP PEOPLE FROM TRUTH Recently someone was talking about a book they were reading and how the author said something like “If we ever travel to a distant planet and find life there, we will ruin it by bringing sin there.” I immediately said, “The author is dead wrong. Sin has already affected the furthest places in creation.” Go to Pluto… sin has already affected it. Go to Canis Majoris… sin has already affected it. Go anywhere in all of creation and sin has affected it! That is the fact of the matter because God says through Paul that “I consider that our present sufferings are not…

BE COURAGEOUS! But Jesus immediately said to them: “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.” “Lord, if it’s you,” Peter replied, “tell me to come to you on the water.” “Come,” he said. Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, “Lord, save me!” Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. “You of little faith,” he said, “why did you doubt?” —Matthew 14:27-31 Peter started out walking on the water with courage, but then he focused on the situation he found himself in— walking…

HE’S ALIVE! They told him, “Joseph is still alive! In fact, he is ruler of all Egypt.” Jacob was stunned; he did not believe them. But when they told him everything Joseph had said to them, and when he saw the carts Joseph had sent to carry him back, the spirit of their father Jacob revived. And Israel said, “I’m convinced! My son Joseph is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.” —Genesis 45:26-28 When they heard that Jesus was alive and that she had seen him, they did not believe it. —Mark 16:11 Twenty two years had gone by since Joseph had been killed by…

SUFFERING AND FRUITFULNESS The second son he named Ephraim and said, “It is because God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.” —Genesis 41:52 How do we respond when we are going through suffering? God’s capability to bear fruit in our lives can happen at any time, whether in good times or suffering. So many times God works though suffering in our lives for fruitfulness to occur. Just take a look at the lives of some of the people in God’s Word. Noah— wow… that was a long time on the ark in those conditions! Abraham journeyed and made his home as a stranger in a foreign…

FROM REPULSIVENESS TO RIGHTEOUSNESS But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the Lord’s sight; so the Lord put him to death…. What he did was wicked in the Lord’s sight; so the Lord put him to death also. —Genesis 38:7, 10 What do you do with these verses? How do you respond to the Lord putting these two brothers to death for the wickedness? We do not grasp the awesome holiness and glory of God and so we wrestle with verses like these. How would you feel if you came to the dinner table and plopped down in front of you on your dinner plate was a very fresh and…

HATRED’S EVIL ACTIONS When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him. Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more. —Genesis 37:4-5 His brothers said to him, “Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?” And they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said. —Genesis 37:8 His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind. —Genesis 37:11 But they saw him in the distance, and before he…

GIVE IT TO JESUS! “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” —Matthew 11:28-30 Are you weary and do you have burdens? Do you just have a tiredness that won’t go away? Is there a burden you are carrying that just seems so heavy? There is an answer—- “take the yoke of Jesus on yourself.” Listen to Him and take to heart what He has to say.…

THE KING OF WRESTLING! Jacob said, “Please tell me your name.” But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed him there. So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, “It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.” —Genesis 32:29-30 We do not and cannot understand the glory of God! He is so far beyond us. So glorious is His glory that if He were to appear to us in His full glory we would instantly die (Exodus 33:20; I Timothy 6:16). Yet in veiled form He wrestled with Jacob as mentioned above. He had appeared to Abraham before that (Genesis…

AM I IN THE PLACE OF GOD When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister. So she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I’ll die!” Jacob became angry with her and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?” —Genesis 30:1-2 “Am I in the place of God?” It is God who enables children to be born or not. Satan became what he is because he desired to take God’s place and this ensured his forever fall. Satan wanted to be worshipped as God and he still does today. One way people worship…

Join us for: Dinner & A Movie! Pizza (6:00 PM) & Movie (6:30 PM) New Hope Church – Saturday, January 13 at 6:00 pm 34 Raymond Road, Nottingham, NH 03290 Official Trailer: https://youtu.be/rhe8KhSxWGo Synopsis: An investigative journalist and self-proclaimed atheist sets out to disprove the existence of God after his wife becomes a Christian. Based on a true story about former Chicago Tribune writer Lee Strobel.