Announcements
School
Supplies--
Thank
you for all the generous school supply donations! You all are
amazing! This will be the last week of the drive. THANKS!!!!
Kleenex, Clorox Wipes, #2
pencils, white copy paper, block erasers, scissors, crayons (24
pack), yellow highlighters, baby wipes, spiral notebooks, backpacks
(w/out wheels), post-it notes, 3x5 index cards, paper towels, glue
sticks.
Community
Kitchen Spot
There are a lot of hungry and
homeless children of God and the community needs some help feeding
them. If you would like to help out, please bring the following
items to church this Sunday & put them in the grocery cart.
Spaghetti Noodles
ZIPLOCK SANDWICH BAGS
BROWN PAPER LUNCH BAGS
# 10 CANS VEGETABLES
COFFEE CREAMER
CEREAL
CANNED TUNA
NAPKINS
METAL FORKS / SPOONS
New
Hope News
Sunday
School—This Sunday, the adult class will finish our study
of Revelation. We'll pick up in chapter 19.
Pray
For:
Norma
Capone
Mary
McMillan & John L. Wright
Egypt.
Pray for wisdom & discernment. Pray for peace. Pray for
guidance. Just pray.
Links
Anybody
want to see the history of the world in
a chart?
Keith's
Random Thoughts
Wow. Chattanooga just announced
this morning that there is going to be an Ironman here, starting
in 2014, for the next five years (I think it might take me 5 years
just to do it once). I'm genuinely excited for the city—it will be
an exciting event and a great economic boon for Chattanooga.
Personally, though, if I was going to go for a 112 mile bike ride
before running a marathon, I'd want to do so in a place just a wee
bit flatter. At least the 2.4 mile swim is downstream. You've got
that going for you...
I once thought I wanted to do an
Ironman. What I realized is that I just wanted to be able to say I'd
done an Ironman. The actual experience of traveling 140.6 miles in
one day without using a car isn't something I'm very interested in.
I've done a couple of Olympic distance races, and those three hours
were quite enough.
Life changes. Goals change.
New things come into the picture and old things fade away. We're
constantly growing and being stretched and often discovering that we
don't stretch the way we want or the way we imagine or the way we
think we should. But life keeps changing.
And I believe God is right in
the middle of it all. God is leading us through this life, day after
precious day, and we are seeking to follow the leading of the Holy
Spirit. The closer we cling to him, the better we understand this
will. Just because we follow Christ, that doesn't mean we won't get
anything wrong, and it doesn't mean we'll never have to change. Look
at the life of Moses and Peter and David and countless other Biblical
figures. All of them went through times of change throughout their
lives. Things were rarely static. They were often challenged and
pushed and forced to evaluate things. God calls us to grow in
completely new directions, and he uses our past experience to make us
stronger in the future.
So let us be flexible and not
hold too tightly to anything but Christ. In doing so, we prepare
ourselves for the journey of faith, wherever it leads, and we can be
confidant that God will be with us no matter what happens.
Text
for this Sunday
9
You should pray like this:
Our
Father in heaven,
help
us to honor
your
name.
10
Come and set up
your
kingdom,
so
that everyone on earth
will
obey you,
as
you are obeyed
in
heaven.
11
Give us our food for today.
12
Forgive us for doing wrong,
as
we forgive others.
13
Keep us from being tempted
and
protect us from evil.
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