New Hope Church

THE GOSPEL Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain. For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, and then to the Twelve. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and…

ONLY LOVING OBEDIENCE BRINGS BLESSING! My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you; keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye; bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. —Proverbs 7:1-3 And now, O sons, listen to me: blessed are those who keep my ways. Hear instruction and be wise, and do not neglect it. —Proverbs 8:32-33 All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I…

BUILD UP AND DON’T TEAR DOWN! So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. —Ephesians 4:11-13 For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his paths. —Proverbs 5:21 There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed…

LOVE WITH GOD’S LOVE If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it…

FOR THE COMMON GOOD! To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good… But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose… Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. —I Corinthians 12:7, 18, 27             God’s Holy Spirit is manifested in each believer by “the fruit of the Spirit” and by the gifts of His Holy Spirit. The manifestation of the Holy Spirit in each believer’s life is for the common God of His Body, the Church. He has arranged you in the body and placed you where you are (Acts 17:26) and…

EXAMINE YOURSELF! Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died. But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged. But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world. So then, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another— if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home—so that when you come together it will not be for judgment.…

THE FOCUS OF TRUST Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation. When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish. Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God, who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, who keeps faith forever. —Psalm 146:4-6 He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names. —Psalm 147:4             Election year and what a strange/different year it has been since COVID19 became the focus world-wide. The political parties have lined…

I TRUST YOU, LORD, FOR GUIDANCE! Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul. Deliver me from my enemies, O LORD! I have fled to you for refuge! Teach me to do your will, for you are my God! Let your good Spirit lead me on level ground! —Psalm 143:8-10             This morning I am reminded of my Lord’s “steadfast love.” I am so glad that His love is not dependant on my feelings or circumstances. I will continue to trust You whether my emotions are up or down. I…

GOD HAS NUMBERED THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE!   Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. —Psalm 139:16               Your days are numbered… by our Lord God Almighty!  Even before you started to live life the numbers of days that you would have life on this planet were determined.  You have a birth date and a death date.  The dash in between those two dates is God’s plan for you and you will give account for the dash.                         It is amazing the fear that has gripped so many people because…

PRAY FOR GODLY LEADERS  May all the kings of the earth praise you, Lord, when they hear what you have decreed. May they sing of the ways of the Lord, for the glory of the Lord is great. —Psalm 138:4-5              Try to imagine a world where those leading governments were praising our Lord and singing about the ways of the Lord! Wow… what a different world this would be. It would be a wonder to see leaders in this world hearing His Word and then obeying it! Yes, what a different world this would be.            Unfortunately, here in America and the vast majority of the world, leaders are not praising our Lord.…