Thursday, January 17, 2013

1/17 E-News


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.

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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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