New Hope Church

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.” —Luke 19:10              Jesus was, according to John 1:1— Jesus left the glory of heaven to come to this sin infested planet so that “By His stripes you are healed” (I Peter 2:24).  Healed from what?  Healed from the serpent Satan’s snake bite of sin that took place in Genesis chapter 3.  Yes, “Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.  For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that…

“No one is good—except God alone. —Luke 18:19 Jesus took the Twelve aside and told them, “We are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written by the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled.  He will be delivered over to the Gentiles. They will mock him, insult him and spit on him; they will flog him and kill him. On the third day he will rise again.” —Luke 18:31-33 For you are great and do marvelous deeds; you alone are God. —Psalm 86:10              God is the only One who is good… all the time.  Are you good all the time?  I think not!  Nor am I,…

So here I (Caleb) am today, eighty-five years old! I am still as strong today as the day Moses sent me out; I’m just as vigorous to go out to battle now as I was then. —Joshua 14:10-11 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up…  However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?” —Luke 18:1, 8 Years ago, I read this verse— “Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures…” (Psalm 90:10).  So there is something to keeping our strength up and so that is one reason I…

For the Son of Man in his day will be like the lightning, which flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other.  But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.  “Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man.  People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.  “It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.  But the day Lot…

“There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day.  At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores and longing to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.  “The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried.  In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. So he called to him, ‘Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the…

When I saw in the plunder a beautiful robe from Babylonia, two hundred shekels of silver and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath… Joshua said, “Why have you brought this trouble on us? The Lord will bring trouble on you today.” —Joshua 7:21,25 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.” —Luke 16:13              Our choices don’t only affect ourselves, but others as well.  Achan, and all the…

Now the tax collectors and sinners were all gathering around to hear Jesus. But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them…” I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent… I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents…. But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.” —Luke 15:1-2, 7, 10, 32…

In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples. —Luke 14:33 In the way of righteousness there is life; along that path is immortality. —Proverbs 12:28              Are you still grasping the forbidden fruit— the desire to go your own way, do your own thing and not come to God His way?  Are you seeking to be the captain of your own ship/life, the determiner of your destiny?  Are you really hanging onto that which is so temporary and yet you think that is what life is all about?              Well, Jesus said, “those of you who do not give…

And Moses the servant of the Lord died there in Moab, as the Lord had said. He buried him in Moab, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, but to this day no one knows where his grave is…  Since then, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face… For no one has ever shown the mighty power or performed the awesome deeds that Moses did in the sight of all Israel. —Deuteronomy 34:5-6, 10, 12 As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.  —Joshua 1:5 Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and…

Now there were some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. Jesus answered, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way?  I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.  Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them—do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem?  I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.” —Luke 13:1-5              Death comes to people in a variety of ways.  These are two examples from…