Announcements
$.02/meal--
Please
bring your money this Sunday!
Potluck--
Sunday, January 26th. Plan to stay for lunch!
Fruit
of the Spirit--
Plan
to join our study on the Fruit of the Spirit beginning Sunday,
January 26th. Please speak with Andy Sanislo if you have questions.
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 on the
bookshelf.
Plastic
Forks, Knives, Spoons
Dinner
Napkins
Heavy
Duty Sectional Dinner Plates
Dessert
Plates
New
Hope News
Sunday
School—We
push forward in
Matthew 10
this coming Sunday.
Wednesday
Suppers—Will
resume February 5.
Pray
For:
Norma
Capone
Christine
Dyer
For
Jessica and so many others wrestling with cancer
For
the families who suffer due to random violence. There seems to be an
epidemic of random shootings in this country... and the ones left
behind are devastated. So pray for peace.
Links
Keith's
Random Thoughts
The doctor asked me a
good question yesterday: How can epinephrine, sealed in a tube,
expire?
It's a good question.
To give you a little context, our son is allergic to nuts, and his
epi-pen expired, so the doctor was renewing the prescription. Two of
his sons have allergies, and we were both wondering if the 1 year
expiration on epi-pens means that it has truly expired, or if someone
just devised that to get you to pony up more money.
Then again, you don't
want to find out the hard way that an epi-pen isn't good any more.
No one wants to be out in a forest discovering that the expiration
date was actually valid, because you don't know if an epi-pen works
unless you inject it.
This got me thinking
about faith. Now, I don't think faith expires, but we do need to
renew our faith, right? A life in Christ isn't simply about a
momentary decision that we store away for the moment of death, in
which case we pull it out, dust it off, and use it to ward off the
devil. It's not just a one-time prescription in case the worst
should occur.
So we renew it. We
renew ourselves daily, and we demonstrate our faith to the world—our
selfless love, our service to others, our worship of Christ in all
things shows that our faith has taken hold of our hearts, that our
commitment to Christ is not just lip service designed to flatter God
enough to save us from hell.
Our
faith is a constant decision, made anew each day, to serve Christ in
all things. May we renew ourselves constantly, bathing in the
awesome grace of God.
Text
for this Tuesday, December 24
Acts
2:1-13
(ESV)
When
the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. 2
And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing
wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. 3 And
divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of
them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to
speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
5
Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every
nation under heaven. 6 And at this sound the multitude came together,
and they were bewildered, because each one was hearing them speak in
his own language. 7 And they were amazed and astonished, saying, “Are
not all these who are speaking Galileans? 8 And how is it that we
hear, each of us in his own native language? 9 Parthians and Medes
and Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia,
Pontus and Asia, 10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of
Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, 11 both Jews and
proselytes, Cretans and Arabians—we hear them telling in our own
tongues the mighty works of God.” 12 And all were amazed and
perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?” 13 But
others mocking said, “They are filled with new wine.”
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