New Life is honoring our Missionary call with a one-week event called: Yes To Missions.Starting October 3rd through the 11th, we will be having workshops, meals, bible studies, camp fires and more! Over 13 of our supported missionaries will be speaking. Please download the schedule by clicking here for important information. Faith Promise … trusting …
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New Life World Missions Week in October 2009
Posted Sep 24th, 2009 By Pete in Missionaries, Missions News Blog With | No Comments -
Faith Promise – Giving to Missions
Posted Sep 24th, 2009 By admin in Missions News Blog With | No Comments
Faith Promise … trusting God to provide …”they gave as much as they were able, and even beyond their ability.” 2 Cor. 8:3 Many of you may be familiar with Faith Promise, the title of choice for missions’ offerings in churches across America. Here at New Life, we will also use Faith Promise as the …
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Use of Leavend Bread in the Lord’s Supper
Posted Sep 18th, 2009 By Brian in Pastor Brian's Blog, Why We Do What We Do With | No Comments
The thoughtful reader of last week’s article will be tempted to raise the question, “If you are so concerned about getting it right with the wine, why do you fudge when it comes to the bread, using leavened bread?” In fact, I remember a visitor approaching me after communion one Sunday visibly upset because we …
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Use of Wine in the Lord’s Supper
Posted Sep 11th, 2009 By Brian in Pastor Brian's Blog, Why We Do What We Do With | No Comments
I could hear the giggles of the teenagers visiting our church after they unsuspectingly drank wine during communion. Like these teenagers, visitors from Low Church communions are often caught off guard when they find out that we serve wine during the covenant meal. Why do we serve wine during the supper while some churches insist …
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Lord’s Supper – Frequency
Posted Sep 3rd, 2009 By Brian in Pastor Brian's Blog, Why We Do What We Do With | No Comments
How often should we partake of the Supper? In some churches it is quarterly, in many monthly, some bi-monthly and in ours weekly. Such varied regularity is an indicator that we are lacking in a particular (“proof”) text to offer explicit guidance on the topic. Proof texts lacking, there are, nevertheless, good Biblical reasons for …
