Announcements
Men's
Breakfast—The next men's breakfast will be this
Saturday, January 19 @ 8.
Chili
Cook-off—Next Wednesday, January 23. See if you can
topple reigning champion Dewey French. (Let the church office know
if you plan to bring a pot of chili.)
New
Hope News
Church
Office Closed —This Monday for MLK day.
Sunday
School—This Sunday, the adult class will study
Luke's Gospel.
Prayer
Service—The Sunday night prayer services will
continue in February.
Pray
For:
All
those dealing with the flu
Our
new elders—Walt, Peter, Larrie & JoAn.
Pray
for those who do not know Christ.
Links
Keith's
Random Thoughts
Jesus Christ is Lord.
Everything else in this world can be
pretty confusing. I don't know what the best way to tackle gun
control is. I know we need to address the issue, but I'm not sure
what the most effective way to do so is. National debt? I've solved
it many times over in theory, but the reality of what effect those
cuts would make them difficult. I don't know how best to keep
our children safe, and I'm not exactly sure how best to combat the
decreasing attendance in mainline denominations. Heck, I don't even
know who to believe in the Manti Te'o and his fake girlfriend hoax.
But I know that Jesus Christ is
Lord. I know that Christ has been Lord since before God spoke a
creative word over the formless deep, and I know that Christ will be
Lord long after the sun has ceased to shine and the waves have ceased
their constant assault on the beaches and the mountains have fallen
into the sea. I know that Christ reigns in power, and that no one,
no thing, can dethrone him.
Of this I am certain.
Some days, that is all. But I also
believe that it is enough. If I know nothing else in this world,
that will get me through.
Jesus Christ is Lord.
Text
for this Sunday
Malachi
3:6-12
For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob,
have not perished. Ever since the days of your ancestors you have
turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me,
and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. But you say, ‘How
shall we return?’
Will anyone rob God? Yet you are robbing me! But you say, ‘How are
we robbing you?’ In your tithes and offerings! You are cursed with
a curse, for you are robbing me—the whole nation of you! Bring the
full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in my
house, and thus put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts; see if I
will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you an
overflowing blessing. I will rebuke the locust for you, so that it
will not destroy the produce of your soil; and your vine in the field
shall not be barren, says the Lord of hosts. Then all nations will
count you happy, for you will be a land of delight, says the Lord of
hosts.
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