- Pastor Eric to be able to help other churches through house church ministry
- Each house church to be able to help one seeker to be saved
- Upcoming Sunday worship to be God-honoring, uplifting, and refreshing
- Family members, friends and co-workers to know and receive Jesus
- New Life Missionaries (house church missionaries, their families and ministries)
- Upcoming events: Upcoming Classes, Short Term Missions Team, VBS
- Family needs: health, finances, relationships, work
Balaam and Balak
Dear Parents,
God’s people, the Israelites, were in the wilderness.
They had arrived at the promised land decades earlier, but the people had
rebelled—refusing to trust God to give them the land. They believed it would be
better to die in the wilderness than follow God (Num. 14:2), so God sent them
into the wilderness for 40 years (vv. 28-29). In time, all of the adults died
except for Joshua, Caleb, and Moses. The children grew up and more children
were born. The Israelites disobeyed God time and again, but God still provided
for them. He planned to keep His ...
The Bronze Snake
Dear Parents,
Last week, kids learned that the Israelites believed
the discouraging report of the land of Canaan instead of Joshua and Caleb’s
good report. As a result, God punished the Israelites for their lack of faith.
The Israelites had been wandering in the wilderness when they complained to
Moses and to God. God had done some pretty amazing things for the Israelites—He
rescued them from the hand of Pharaoh, He parted the Red Sea so they could
safely cross, and He provided manna for them to eat. But to the Israelites,
this wasn’t enough.
God disciplined ...
Joshua and Caleb
Dear Parents,
Your kids have been learning about the Israelites—former slaves in Egypt—as they moved toward the promised land. Before God rescued His people from slavery in Egypt, He promised to bring the Israelites back to the land He had given to Abraham so many years before. (Ex. 3:8) From Egypt, the Israelites crossed the Red Sea and traveled toward Mount Sinai. When they were hungry and thirsty, God provided food and water. (See Ex. 16–17.) Israel spent one year at Mount Sinai, where Moses received God’s law, including the Ten Commandments.
Time
and ...
My Sabbatical and Vote of Confidence
On
November 30, 1994, my family (Lynette, Enoch, Caleb in Lynette’s womb and I)
left Watertown, MA to come to Houston and serve as a youth pastor at Seoul
Baptist Church. We loaded our belongings into a Budget rental truck while it
was snowing, towed a white Honda Accord LX, and drove 1,850 miles in four days
and three nights. We made stops to sleep in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and
Alabama. We arrived in Houston on Saturday, December 3. The church helped us to
find an apartment on Jones and West Rd. Several deacons and their wives from
the church helped us unload our ...
The Tabernacle Was Built
Dear Parents,
Thirteen of the last sixteen chapters of the Book of Exodus contain instructions for building the tabernacle. The word tabernacle means “dwelling place.” The tabernacle was a portable tent where God met with His people. God wanted to dwell among them. (See Ex. 29:45-46.)
Moses had been on the mountain talking with God for 40 days. God wrote the Ten Commandments, the words of the covenant, on tablets. When Moses returned to the camp, he called all of the Israelites together and gave them the instructions God had given him. (Ex. 24:3-4)
God’s ...
The Golden Calf
Dear Parents,
God led His people into the wilderness, but He did not leave them there alone. The Lord was with His people. He provided meat, bread, and water. He guided them to Mount Sinai, where He met with their leader, Moses. The Lord came down on the mountain in fire, and He spoke through thunder. The Israelites could not have ignored His presence.
But when Moses went up on the mountain and did not return for several weeks, the Israelites felt abandoned. They appealed to Moses’ brother, Aaron: “Come, make gods for us who will go before us because this Moses, ...
Biblical Explanations and New Life’s Stance on Tithing
We take the
Bible very seriously at New Life. If the Bible says it is, then it is. If the
Bible says do it, then we do our best to do it. This is the spirit of the New
Testament church.
Since we
teach what tithing is through Class 201 and Living Life Bible Study, I will not
go in detail to deal with it. But just briefly, all throughout the Bible,
tithing is used to do mainly three things. One, to express our gratitude to
God. Two, to demonstrate our faith in God. And three, to protect us from
worshipping and idolizing money. Therefore, tithing does all these three ...