Messages from New Hope Assembly of God, NuMine, PA

Last week, we were reminded that God created us to bear good fruit; the fruits of the Spirit!  Jesus taught us that He is the vine and we, non-Jews who have accepted His salvation, are branches grafted into Him. Our role as His disciples is to separate ourselves from the sinful vines that ensnare us and to firmly place and position and graft ourselves into Him.  Jesus has promised to withhold no g...

The last few weeks, we’ve been learning how to deal with sin.  How do we overcome sin and temptation and take the way out that God always faithfully provides? One of the keys that enable us to do this is to choose to focus not on the lesser things that we are giving up, but to focus on the good things that we were created for. It’s tough for many of us to say, “No.”  However, when we keep in The p...

Happy Father’s Day!  Today, we celebrate you! Being a father is one of the most challenging, exhausting, and fulfilling roles that a man can have. God entrusts you to be the primary person to provide for, teach, train, equip, support, encourage, and guide the life of your children.  For better or worse, a father’s impact on their children is undeniable and inescapable.  Even to be completely absen...

Last week, we learned that ignorance is rarely bliss.  Although it can be very painful at the time to have certain truths revealed to us, it is ultimately for our good that we become aware of our reality. Sin is essentially misusing our lives.  God created us for one purpose, but we are using our lives for another. It never feels good to any of us to have our sin revealed to us.  Especially when w...

In opening, I feel that it is important to set the tone for the morning.  What we’re covering today really requires us to lean not into our own understanding, but to see things from God’s perspective. We call this repenting. What God is going to call us to do is not easy for any of us. It doesn’t feel good at the time. It doesn’t seem encouraging. However, if we trust God’s ways and place our fait...

Today is Pentecost Sunday! It’s the day when one of the greatest promises of God was fulfilled, when the gift that Jesus said to wait for came, when God took on flesh once again, when weakness became clothed in power, when the saved were sealed, when the baptism of fire fell, when God’s Presence flowed past the torn veil right to where it always belonged, oh and sooo much more! It is the day when...

It seems that warmer weather might finally be here to stay! Shorts and sandals, mowing and trimming, tilling and planting.  Spring is soon going to turn into summer! It’s not uncommon right now see a car heading down the road with their windows down and a dog sticking its head out with a big ole’ smile on its face into the breeze. Every time I see this, I can’t help but say, “Look at them just liv...

[The below text has been machine translated and may contain errors. Please listen to audio for original and integral translation] Okay, so we’re going to get into a little bit of something more. Steve took kind of my intro. I wanted to really make an acknowledgment of the moms. So first of all, surprise, I’m speaking today. Hope it’s a pleasant surprise, but here I am. So every year we kind of do...

We’ve recently been learning about our identity.  God purposefully left much about our own selves a mystery for us to discover and to have revealed.  Life is an adventure discovering ourselves and, hopefully, pursuing Jesus. We learned last week of one way that we discover ourselves; through relationships.  After all, we can’t truly know ourselves by ourselves. We also learned of our identity as s...

Last week, God encouraged us to have fun on the life-long adventure of discovering our true identities. Something that we must possess as we pursue our purpose in life is hope. Hope is an eager desire and a confident expectation of receiving something good. Hope is what keeps us pressing forward and onward and upward in life.  Hope is a placeholder in our lives that prevents discouragement and fea...

One life-long process that all of us experience, but few of us take the time to stop and consider, is our subconscious endeavor to discover and to define our identity. Who am I? What is my purpose? What do I like? What don’t I like? Who do other people think that I am? A lot of life decisions that we make, good, bad or indifferent, are attempts by us to try and answer these questions.  We have an...

We left off Friday as Jesus, the sinless Son of God, chose to give His life on the cross for you and I paying the price for our sins.  His body was then laid in a tomb, sealed, and guarded by Roman soldiers during the Sabbath day. Then… Matthew 28/Mark 16/Luke 24/John 20 When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go to anoint Je...

This morning is Palm Sunday, the day when we celebrate the day when Jesus rode into Jerusalem for the Passover to fulfill this prophecy of Zechariah. Zechariah 9:9-12 9 Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion!     Shout, Daughter Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you,     righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey,     on a colt, the foal of a donkey. 10 I will take away the chariots from Ephr...

The last few weeks, we have been learning about the church element of God’s provision.  Provision is truly the heart of God.  Beyond just the material necessities of life, God provides healing, comfort, deliverance, joy,  peace, restoration, wisdom, guidance, and so much more! God abundantly and freely provides all of these things, even to wicked and evil people still in their sin.  If this is the...

Today, we continue getting back to the small things which are the big things to God.  We’re getting back to the elemental parts of this amazing thing that Jesus created called church from the book of Acts.  Church Elements. So far, we learned about two pairs of foundational church elements, praise/prayer and persuasion/power. We started last week learning about a church element that often results...

Today, we continue getting back to the small things which are the big things to God.  We’re getting back to the elemental parts of this amazing thing that Jesus created called church from the book of Acts.  Church Elements. So far, we learned about two pairs of foundational church elements, praise/prayer and persuasion/power. Today, we learn of a church element that often results from our prayers...

Today, we continue getting back to the small things which are the big things to God.  We’re getting back to the elemental parts of this amazing thing that Jesus created called church from the book of Acts.  Church Elements. So far, we learned about the first two foundational church elements that often bond together and even flow in and out of each other; prayer and praise.  Prayer invites God’s Pr...

[The below text has been machine translated and may contain errors. Please listen to audio for original and integral translation] Well, one thing that is going to be very familiar to you is that I usually talk about the same thing. I don’t mean to, but it all goes back to the same root, which is our love relationship with Jesus Christ. So everything that we do, every gift that we have, every plan...

Today, we continue getting back to the small things which are the big things to God.  We’re getting back to the elemental parts of this amazing thing that Jesus created called church from the book of Acts.  Church Elements. Last week, we learned about the first foundational church element; prayer. Prayer fixes our focus and attention and hearts and minds on the Lord.  Prayer takes us straight into...

Today is a day set apart for taking some time as a church family to look back and reflect on the past year and, together, to seek out Jesus’ plans for us in the upcoming year. We’ve been going through a series learning how God is greater.  Greater than any of life’s highs and lows.  An intriguing part about God is not only how He is far greater than all, but how He does some of the greatest things...