New Hope Baptist Church Podcast

ACTS 20:13-38 (NIV) 13) We went on ahead to the ship and sailed for Assos, where we were going to take Paul aboard. He had made this arrangement because he was going there on foot. 14) When he met us at Assos, we took him aboard and went on to Mitylene. 15) The next day we set sail from there and arrived off Chios. The day after that we crossed over to Samos, and on the following day arrived at Mi...

ACTS 20:1-12 (NIV) 1) When the uproar had ended, Paul sent for the disciples and, after encouraging them, said goodbye and set out for Macedonia. 2) He traveled through that area, speaking many words of encouragement to the people, and finally arrived in Greece, 3) where he stayed three months. Because some Jews had plotted against him just as he was about to sail for Syria, he decided to go back...

PSALM 90 (NIV) 1) Lord, you have been our dwelling place  throughout all generations. 2) Before the mountains were born  or you brought forth the whole world,  from everlasting to everlasting you are God. 3) You turn people back to dust,  saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.” 4) A thousand years in your sight  are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night. 5) Yet you sweep pe...

EPHESIANS 2:1-10 (NIV) 1) As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2) in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3) All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, w...

ACTS 19:23-41 (NIV) 23) About that time there arose a great disturbance about the Way. 24) A silversmith named Demetrius, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought in a lot of business for the craftsmen there. 25) He called them together, along with the workers in related trades, and said: “You know, my friends, that we receive a good income from this business. 26) And you see and hear how this...

ACTS 19:17-22 (NIV) 17) When this became known to the Jews and Greeks living in Ephesus, they were all seized with fear, and the name of the Lord Jesus was held in high honor. 18) Many of those who believed now came and openly confessed what they had done. 19) A number who had practiced sorcery brought their scrolls together and burned them publicly. When they calculated the value of the scrolls,...

ACTS 19:1-13,15-16 (NIV)   1) While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul took the road through the interior and arrived at Ephesus. There he found some disciples 2) and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?”  They answered, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.” 3) So Paul asked, “Then what baptism did you receive?”  “John’s baptism,” they replied. 4) Paul said...

ACTS 18:18-28 (NIV)   18) Paul stayed on in Corinth for some time. Then he left the brothers and sisters and sailed for Syria, accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila. Before he sailed, he had his hair cut off at Cenchreae because of a vow he had taken. 19) They arrived at Ephesus, where Paul left Priscilla and Aquila. He himself went into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews. 20) When they asked...

ACTS 18:9-17 (NIV)    9) One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: “Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent. 10) For I am with you, and no one is going to attack and harm you, because I have many people in this city.” 11) So Paul stayed in Corinth for a year and a half, teaching them the word of God. 12) While Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews of Corinth made a united attac...

ACTS 18:1-8 (NIV)   1) After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. 2) There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to see them, 3) and because he was a tentmaker as they were, he stayed and worked with them. 4) Every Sabbath he reasoned in the synagogue, trying to...

ESTHER 9 & 10 (NIV) 1) On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the edict commanded by the king was to be carried out. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but now the tables were turned and the Jews got the upper hand over those who hated them. 2) The Jews assembled in their cities in all the provinces of King Xerxes to attack those determined...

ESTHER 7 & 8 (NIV)   1) So the king and Haman went to Queen Esther’s banquet, 2) and as they were drinking wine on the second day, the king again asked, “Queen Esther, what is your petition? It will be given you. What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be granted.”  3) Then Queen Esther answered, “If I have found favor with you, Your Majesty, and if it pleases you, grant me...

ESTHER 5 & 6 (NIV)    1) On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the palace, in front of the king’s hall. The king was sitting on his royal throne in the hall, facing the entrance. 2) When he saw Queen Esther standing in the court, he was pleased with her and held out to her the gold scepter that was in his hand. So Esther approached and touched the tip o...

  ESTHER 4:1-17 (NIV) 1) When Mordecai learned of all that had been done, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the city, wailing loudly and bitterly. 2) But he went only as far as the king’s gate, because no one clothed in sackcloth was allowed to enter it. 3) In every province to which the edict and order of the king came, there was great mourning among the Jews, wit...

ESTHER 3:1-15 (NIV)    1) After these events, King Xerxes honored Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, elevating him and giving him a seat of honor higher than that of all the other nobles. 2) All the royal officials at the king’s gate knelt down and paid honor to Haman, for the king had commanded this concerning him. But Mordecai would not kneel down or pay him honor. 3) Then the royal officials...

PROVERBS 4:1-27 (NIV)    1) Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction; pay attention and gain understanding. 2) I give you sound learning, so do not forsake my teaching. 3) For I too was a son to my father, still tender, and cherished by my mother. 4) Then he taught me, and he said to me, “Take hold of my words with all your heart; keep my commands, and you will live. 5) Get wisdom, get understan...

 ESTHER 2:1-12;15-18;21-23 (NIV)      1) Later when King Xerxes’ fury had subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what he had decreed about her. 2) Then the king’s personal attendants proposed, “Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king. 3) Let the king appoint commissioners in every province of his realm to bring all these beautiful young women into the harem...

ESTHER 1:1-22 (NIV) 1) This is what happened during the time of Xerxes, the Xerxes who ruled over 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush: 2) At that time King Xerxes reigned from his royal throne in the citadel of Susa, 3) and in the third year of his reign he gave a banquet for all his nobles and officials. The military leaders of Persia and Media, the princes, and the nobles of the province...

ACT 17:24-34 (NIV)    24) “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. 25) And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. 26) From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out th...

ACT 17:13-21 (NIV)  13) But when the Jews in Thessalonica learned that Paul was preaching the word of God at Berea, some of them went there too, agitating the crowds and stirring them up. 14) The believers immediately sent Paul to the coast, but Silas and Timothy stayed at Berea. 15) Those who escorted Paul brought him to Athens and then left with instructions for Silas and Timothy to join him as...

ACT 17:1-15 (NIV)    1) When Paul and his companions had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue. 2) As was his custom, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures, 3) explaining and proving that the Messiah had to suffer and rise from the dead. “This Jesus I am proclaiming to you i...

Proverbs 31:30 (NIV)   [30] Charm is deceptive, and beauty is  fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Proverbs 31:10-29(NIV) [10] A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. [11] Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks  nothing of value. [12] She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life. [13] She selects wool and flax and works...

ACTS 16:25-40 (NIV) 25) About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. 26) Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everyone’s chains came loose. 27) The jailer woke up, and when he saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and was...

  ACTS 16:12-24 (NIV)  12) From there we traveled to Philippi, a Roman colony and the leading city of that district of Macedonia. And we stayed there several days. 13) On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there. 14) One of those listening was a woman from the city of Thya...

ACTS 16:1-12 (NIV) 1) Paul came to Derbe and then to Lystra, where a disciple named Timothy lived, whose mother was Jewish and a believer but whose father was a Greek. 2) The believers at Lystra and Iconium spoke well of him. 3) Paul wanted to take him along on the journey, so he circumcised him because of the Jews who lived in that area, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. 4) As they t...