Tag: bible
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Complete in Christ—2 Peter 1:1-10
If you have ever driven by my house, you may have noticed a red Volkswagen Van sitting there in my driveway. Madison and I purchased this van and a 1990s model Subaru Outback several years ago. We pulled the engine out of the Subaru and intended to put that motor into the Volkswagen Van. “Why…
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Daily Bread—Give Us Today Our Daily Bread
Here we are in week 3 of our series, Daily Bread, where we are looking at how Jesus taught the disciples how to pray. We are focusing on Jesus’ model prayer in Matthew 6. In case you haven’t been with us the last two weeks, let me just say again, that this prayer in Matthew…
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Daily Bread—Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
This is week 2 in our series Daily Bread. We are taking about six weeks to examine what we should learn from Jesus when He teaches the disciples how to pray. Jesus shows the disciples, and us, a blueprint or a model for prayer. Many of your Bibles probably title this section of Matthew 6…
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Daily Bread—Our Father in heaven, your name be honored as holy.
One of the things Olivia said she is looking forward to the most is some good connection with the Lord during her ride. It can be many, many miles of just you, your horse, and the open space. There are no phones, no appointments to get to, no crowds of people, and no list of…
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The Romans Road
We dropped Olivia off at the airport yesterday morning. She is en route to Mongolia as we speak. She is currently at the Incheon International Airport in South Korea. She lands in Mongolia about 3 pm our time. Her journey to ride in this Mongol Derby has been a multi-year, multi-dollar, multi-person effort. Pretty much…
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Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff—Romans 14:1-15:13
In twenty days, my daughter, Olivia, will leave for Mongolia, where she will ride in a 600-mile horse race that will take place over 10 days. They call this race the longest & toughest horse race in the world. If you want to follow Olivia, I’ll post a link where you can see her progress…
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Romans 13:1-7—Good Citizens
An old man was driving down the highway at 35mph when a highway patrol officer pulled him over. He asked the man if he knew why he pulled her over. He said, “I have no clue, officer. I’m sure I was obeying the speed limit…” The officer said, “Sir, you were traveling far too slow…
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Romans 12:9-21 —The Actions of Love
“It can be complicated to make something simple, but very simple to make something complicated.” That can be true of so many areas of life. We often make things that are actually pretty simple, complicated, especially in today’s fast-paced, technology-driven culture. Maybe it’s complicated because we tend to overthink things or because of a lack…
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Romans 12:3-8—Humility Through Service
When I was 16 years old, a friend of my whose dad was the pastor at a local church, asked me to lead worship one Sunday morning. I was very involved in music at my High School, but had never led worship for a congregation before. I definitely had more confidence than skill in this…
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Conformed or Transformed? Romans 12:1-2
Today is the beginning of the end….of our study in Romans. In case you are new to New Hope, back in August of last year, we started a series through Paul’s letter to the church in Rome. We’ve been away from our study this spring as we focused on some other things, now we are…
Chris Hankel 