August 16, 2020
This is New Hope Christian Fellowship.
We’re a non-denominational body of believers
who focus on Jesus and what Jesus taught.
May the Lord bless you here today.
--Pastor Tom
Sunday School: 9:30 AM
Worship Service: 10:30 AM
Shepherding Groups, Wednesdays
~Women’s Bible Study: Thursdays, 10:00 AM
Men’s Saturday Breakfast: 7:00 AM
Jail Visits: Saturday 9:00 – 11:00 AM (postponed) Staff Meeting at Pastor Tom's, Monday, 8/17, 4:30 pm.
Anyone in our congregation who feel the need to be tested can do a so at CVS Pharmacy by appointment).
If you choose not to attend services, can still view the services on our YouTube channel at bit.ly/newhopecf (enter in address line), or our website at nhcfservices.com.
We'll be having a fifth Sunday singspiration at the Truck Stop in Wagon Wheel on August 30th from 4:30 to 7:00 pm. Please take note on your calendar. Any proceeds from food and beverage sales will go to WMCAH, and donations are encouraged to help the homeless ministry.
God is blessing the Transitional Housing program. WMCAH has made an offer on a piece of property off of 27th Place, across from Hatch Motors. Funding has miraculously accumulated to where WMCAH could make an offer. PTL! You may want to help with this effort. Please contact Lee Copeland or Roger Brown.
We welcome Lee Larson today as our new NHCF deacon. He has been duly appointed to this position according to Act 6.3; 14.23 and Titus 1.5 by your Church Board. Pray for Lee as he assumes his role in serving our body with love and care.
Our Shepherding Group meetings are on Wednesday nights. Each group has liberty to decide their meeting time and place and their plan of Bible Study. The groups are Lee Copeland's (480) 518-1178;
Roger Brown's (520) 241-9289; at the church 928) 243-1864.
New groups will be added as the need arises.
Be praying for our nation that we will return to God and His moral teachings, and that we'll not be deceived by the evil forces seeking to overcome us.
August 16, 2020
Pulpit Greeter: Terry Lowry
“Handwriting on the Wall”
"But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons"
(1 Tim 4.1).
Pastor Tom Brown
Attendance: 68
Offering: $5,713.00
WMCAH: $650.00
Suzanne: $100.00
Women’s Bible Study: $10.00
Thank you for your faithful support.
It's finally not what's real, or even what's true, but how you perceive it that determines your response. That can be said of many things but in particular it can be said of this virus scare.
Magicians play upon our perception to work illusions that mystify us. Politicians do the same. In fact, Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's henchman, said, "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeat ing it, people will eventually come to believe it."
Jesus pointed out this failing of human perception when He said, "The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard, a friend of tax gathers and sin ners!' Yet, wisdom is vindicated by her deeds" (Matt.11.19).
Perception finally gets what it expects. What do you expect? What do you perceive to be really true?
The life of faith pays little attention to the perceptual field. For the most part "we walk by faith and not sight" ( 2 Cor.5.7). This means that while everyone around us is shouting "peace and safety," and trying to protect themselves from perceived dangers, the faithful are trusting God.
Such trust is not foolishness; it's spiritual perception which says, "For s ince in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was well pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believed" (1 Cor.1.21). It's never been "seeing is believing." Perception fails. Rather it's "believing is seeing." Phjilip said to Jesus, "Lord show us the Father, and it is enough for us" (J o hn 14.8). Jesus told him that the one "who has seen Me has seen the Father" (
The life of faith believes God; it does not trust the
world, nor the things of the world.
Pastor Tom
Roger and Karen Brown will be out of town this Wednesday and that Shepherding group is moving to Jim Powell’s home at 640 N 42nd Drive behind the small Circle Hwy 260.
Google will take you right to his front door. The time will be at 5:00 pm.
The church now has a variety of “READERS”
To borrow for church or for bible studies!
(200 to 300 strengths)
