In the past two Sundays someone turned in his/her communication card anonymously with the same message to the staff. The content of the person’s message was about his/her description of what he/she thinks he/she is hearing from Sunday messages and his/her desire to hear different kinds of messages. When I received the card the first time, I was a bit puzzled and wondered who the person might be. However, when I received the card for the second time in a row, I began to worry about the person’s state of mind and his/her spiritual condition. First of all, when we write things anonymously that are not positive or uplifting to others, it shows ...

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Our God is a God of order not disorder. Everything He has created is orderly and structured. We see this in nature. After a long dreary winter we can count on a warm spring coming because God made it that way. When the night is over the sun will rise and the morning will come because God designed it that way. Our God brings order out of chaos. We also see this in our personal life. Before we received Jesus into our lives as our Master and King and became His followers, our life was a mess. We didn’t know what to live for. We didn’t have healthy relationships. We didn’t know how to use our time and money properly. We did whatever we ...

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A typical church generally has about 5-10% of its members who are committed to world missions. They are the ones who pray regularly for missionaries and recruit others to get involved in missions work. Unfortunately they are also often seen as an “elite” group, more “mature and concerned about the Great Commission,” and the rest of the congregation as not quite living out their call and obeying Christ’s last command. Happily, this is not the case with us. At the present moment, New Life is made up of 35 house churches and all of them, except one that has just recently multiplied, are named after a mission field and are supporting a ...

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Acquiring and applying the basic fundamentals are essential in life if we are to succeed in anything. If we want to be a successful professional golfer, we must be committed to the basic fundamentals. If we want to be a successful musician, we must be faithful to the basics. If we want to be a successful business person, we can’t deviate from the basic fundamentals. The same is true for Christ followers. If we want to be successful Christ followers who bear much fruit and experience joy and fulfillment in our walk with Christ we must be committed to the basics. There is no other way. The basic fundamentals for Christ followers are called ...

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When we complete New Life Bible study classes or one-on-one discipleship Bible studies we have people share their testimonies during Sunday worship about how they are blessed or impacted by them. In order to help you share your testimonies well here are some guidelines. Sharing testimony is bragging about God. It is bragging about God who has given us much grace. Therefore, it is a right thing to share testimony with others when God has given us much grace. Your testimony should have three parts: your life before you took the class, how you have been blessed by the class and your life after the class. When you share about your life before the ...

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As we are getting used to and enjoying our new facility, I am hearing from you and also noticing things on my own that require some explanation and need all of your cooperation. We can’t meet all needs, but we will do the best we can to serve you. In regards to nursing roomsI would like to inform you that both the Prayer Room (Room #110) near the end of the long hall way between the Sanctuary and the Staff Offices and the Multipurpose Room (Room #202), which is being used for Sunday Morning Intercessory Prayer Meeting before worship, are available for nursing during worship since there should be no one there at that time. The Prayer Room will ...

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Last Sunday was the first regular worship that we had in our new facility. Even though there were some technical difficulties that we encountered during worship I was very thankful for and amazed at all the new things that we have and get to enjoy. I was particularly touched when I saw all of you interacting with one another in the fellowship hall after worship. It will take some time for us to become familiarized and get settled in our new building. So, lets be patient with each other and learn to use it well. In order to help all of us use the facility well as Gods good and faithful managers, I would like to remind you of some of the most basic ...

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