Thursday, January 16, 2014

January 16 E-News

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 SchoolWe push forward in Matthew 10 this coming Sunday.

Wednesday SuppersWill 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.


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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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