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No
Potluck—We'll skip the potluck this coming Sunday,
due to the abundance of potlucks in October.
New
Hope News
Sunday
School—This Sunday, the adult class with study the
book of Nahum.
Men's Breakfast—Next Saturday, November 10th @ 8 am. We've got something exciting to talk about!
Men's Breakfast—Next Saturday, November 10th @ 8 am. We've got something exciting to talk about!
$.02/meal—Please
bring this in if you forgot!
Pray
For:
Ron
Young
The
crossing guard at Hunter Middle School was hit by a car today.
Please pray!
Pray
for those who do not know Christ.
Links
How
to respond to Hurricane Sandy
(Also,
why the Hurricane means you may not want to go to NYC for a while)
The
Grateful Gobbler is November 22. (Monies raised
go to support Chattanooga Regional Homeless Coalition.
Keith's
Random Thoughts
I was tested for allergies yesterday. To sum up the results, I'm
allergic to almost everything the good Lord has made, except rabbits.
Trees, molds, weeds, grass—you name it, my body doesn't like it.
(And by 'doesn't like it', I mean it really
doesn't like it, and that was the longest 15 minutes of my life. It
felt like someone was making S'mores on my back, only I didn't get to
eat any.)
Now, I never would have expected
such drastic results. I have allergies, but I didn't realize it was
that serious. It was a bit of a surprise.
But isn't life like that? Ministry,
too—we never suspect something, and then, all of a sudden,
something happens that teaches us something about ourselves. We
learn that we have resources deep inside of us, gifts we never knew
about, until they are revealed to us. We learn that God spent years,
decades, preparing us for some task, and we never suspected that God
was at work.
Friends, be patient with God. Trust
in him. Wait on him. Be still before him. While God is at work
within your lives, God is also doing things that you can't see, that
you don't recognize, that you won't understand until many years down
the road. It will all be clear then, but just because it isn't clear
now doesn't mean that God isn't at work. God loves you and has plans
to use you for his kingdom.
Trust God.
Text
for this Sunday
1
Kings 19:9b-18
Then the word of the
Lord came to him, saying, ‘What are you doing here, Elijah?’ He
answered, ‘I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts;
for the Israelites have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your
altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and
they are seeking my life, to take it away.’
Elijah
Meets God at Horeb
He said, ‘Go out and
stand on the mountain before the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass
by.’ Now there was a great wind, so strong that it was splitting
mountains and breaking rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord
was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord
was not in the earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire, but the
Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a sound of sheer
silence.
When Elijah heard it,
he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood at the
entrance of the cave. Then there came a voice to him that said, ‘What
are you doing here, Elijah?’ He answered, ‘I have been very
zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts; for the Israelites have
forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your
prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are seeking my
life, to take it away.’
Then the Lord said to
him, ‘Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus; when
you arrive, you shall anoint Hazael as king over Aram. Also you shall
anoint Jehu son of Nimshi as king over Israel; and you shall anoint
Elisha son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah as prophet in your place.
Whoever escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu shall kill; and
whoever escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha shall kill. Yet I will
leave seven thousand in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to
Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.’
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