Good News Bible Church

o We must offer ourselves to God. • We must be willing to sacrifice. • We must be willing to serve without acclaim. • We must be willing to use our spiritual gifts. o We must offer praise to God. o We must offer our financial gifts to God.

Welcome to Good News Bible Church. We're a faith community focused on knowing God better and serving Him as a result. We pray our weekly messages provide encouragement & insights for living.

After years of slavery, freedom leaves the enchained handicapped. They step out in freedom briefly and return quickly to what they know... slavery. In some sense it can be said that they are dependent or even addicted to the reality that they have known all along. What happens when a slave hears that he can change that reality? How should he respond? What should he do? These are the confessions of...

And Ezra blessed the LORD the great God and all the people answered Amen Amen lifting up their hands. And they bowed their heads and worshiped the LORD with their faces to the ground. Nehemiah 8:6

“Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; 7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

And when all our enemies heard of it, all the nations around us were afraid and fell greatly in their own esteem, for they perceived that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God. Nehemiah 6:16 ESV

A window into Nehemiah's values: Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him. Psalm 14:31 ESV

Nehemiah’s response to opposition was prayer, work, vigilance against the enemy, and focus on the Lord. Ours should be the same: work, vigilance against Satan and his tactics, and a focus on our great and awesome God whom we serve.

Like the wall in Nehemiah, the church has been given a building project. Scripture tells us, “let all things be done for building up” (1 Cor. 14:26). This passage in Nehemiah gives us a picture of the building process. As we unpack this text in its original context, the question we ask ourselves in our context is this: what then does it look like to build up the church? As we observe the building...

Significant problems do not typically solve themselves. Rarely does God intervene in messy situations with dramatic and direct displays of supernatural power as in the Exodus with Moses. Most of the time, God uses people… faithful, available and obedient people like Nehemiah to accomplish his will on earth. He enables us and provides for us as we do His work.

When God shows us the condition of the church, He wants us to respond the way Nehemiah did: with a broken heart. Do we see the broken walls of sin and compromise in the church? Are there areas of our lives individually that we need to surrender to God: broken relationships, marriage, gossip, dissension, bitterness, or sexual immorality? Nehemiah’s response to the news of the broken wall is an exam...

When God shows us the condition of the church, He wants us to respond the way Nehemiah did: with a broken heart. Do we see the broken walls of sin and compromise in the church? Are there areas of our lives individually that we need to surrender to God: broken relationships, marriage, gossip, dissension, bitterness, or sexual immorality? Nehemiah’s response to the news of the broken wall is an exam...

Paul prays for the Colossian believers to be filled with the knowledge of God so they can live lives worthy of the gospel. This knowledge centers on the powerful redemptive work of God through his Son, Jesus Christ.

Scripture tells us that Jesus is praying for us. And the amazing thing is that John 17 lets us eavesdrop on one of his prayers. In this passage, we get to hear Jesus praying for his followers, including us. We get to hear a very short list of some of his priorities in prayer. In fact, he makes four requests for us. He prays for our enduring faithfulness, engaged holiness, extraordinary oneness, an...

After being told by the Jewish leadership to not speak in Jesus’ name, Peter and John returned to their people and reported the threat. The response of the believers was prayer. Before the people brought any petition to the Lord, they acknowledged God’s sovereignty, first by using the title “Sovereign Lord” (23) which was used of a slave owner and a ruler of unchallengeable power and authority. Th...

Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, “Sit here, while I go over there and pray.” Matthew 26:36

  You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29:13

Each of us faces trials and suffering that seem insurmountable. It may be family relationships, job, health issues, disappointments, or rejection. Each of us faces our own set of problems. It is important that we think biblically about our problems.

. As we come into contact with the these fears and trials, we may try to fix them ourselves, but we have to remember that God is greater than all of it. Hezekiah realized that God has provided for His people in the past so why would he leave them. When we look at the present fear we must remember the past blessings that God has provided for us. Hezekiah voices that he does not want to be saved jus...

Prayer is … a God-centered encounter that begins with listening and continues with obedience.

Because Christ died for our sins, was buried, and raised from the dead: Christ’s resurrection provides hope!

Christ warns the church at Laodicea about the deadening effects of trusting in material wealth rather than pursuing a strong faith relationship with Jesus Christ. It is a message that every church needs to hear. It is a strong warning to a church that is content with itself and feels that it has no need of anything. Satan and the world want us to think that the “good life” is all we want and need....

Christ warns the church at Laodicea about the deadening effects of trusting in material wealth rather than pursuing a strong faith relationship with Jesus Christ. It is a message that every church needs to hear. It is a strong warning to a church that is content with itself and feels that it has no need of anything. Satan and the world want us to think that the “good life” is all we want and need....

The letter to the church of Philadelphia is filled with praise. Christ has seen their faithful endurance in the midst of persecution and as a result is urging them to keep going. As a result we see five reasons why the church must persevere in the faith despite the persecution and temptations of the world around us.

The letter to the church of Philadelphia is filled with praise. Christ has seen their faithful endurance in the midst of persecution and as a result is urging them to keep going. As a result we see five reasons why the church must persevere in the faith despite the persecution and temptations of the world around us.