New Arbor Sunday Messages

Psalm 127 A song of ascents. Of Solomon. 1 Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain. 2 In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat—for he grants sleep to those he loves. 3 Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring a reward from him.  4 Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are chi...

1 Corinthians 12:12-27 12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ.  13 For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.  14 Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many. 15 Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand,...

1 Corinthians 12:4-11 4 There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them.  5 There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord.  6 There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work. 7 Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.  8 To one there is given through the Spirit a message of w...

Acts 8:1b-24 8:1b: On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.  2 Godly men buried Stephen and mourned deeply for him.  3 But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison. 4 Those who had been scattered preached the word wh...

1 Corinthians 12:4-11 4 There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them.  5 There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord.  6 There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work. 7 Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.  8 To one there is given through the Spirit a message of w...

Matthew 1:18-23 18 This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.  19 Because Joseph her husband was faithful to the law, and yet did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly. 20 But after he had considered this, a...

Acts 4:1-12 1 The priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to Peter and John while they were speaking to the people.  2 They were greatly disturbed because the apostles were teaching the people, proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.  3 They seized Peter and John and, because it was evening, they put them in jail until the next day.  4 But many who heard th...

1 Corinthians 12 1 Now about the gifts of the Spirit, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed.  2 You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to mute idols.  3 Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 11:27-34 27 So then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord.  28 Everyone ought to examine themselves before they eat of the bread and drink from the cup.  29 For those who eat and drink without discerning the body of Christ eat and drink judgment on themselves.  30 That is why many a...

1 Corinthians 11:23-26 23 For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread,  24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.”  25 In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it,...

Joshua 2:1-24 1 Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim. “Go, look over the land,” he said, “especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there. 2 The king of Jericho was told, “Look, some of the Israelites have come here tonight to spy out the land.”  3 So the king of Jericho sent this message to Rahab: “Bring out the men who c...

Acts 2:22-32 22 “Fellow Israelites, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through him, as you yourselves know.  23 This man was handed over to you by God’s deliberate plan and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross.  24 But God raised him from the dead,...

1 Corinthians 11:17-27 17 In the following directives I have no praise for you, for your meetings do more harm than good. 18 In the first place, I hear that when you come together as a church, there are divisions among you, and to some extent I believe it.  19 No doubt there have to be differences among you to show which of you have God’s approval.  20 So then, when you come together, it is not th...

Psalm 5 NIV *For the director of music. For pipes. A psalm of David.* 1 Listen to my words, LORD, consider my lament.  2 Hear my cry for help, my King and my God, for to you I pray.  3 In the morning, Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait expectantly.  4 For you are not a God who is pleased with wickedness; with you, evil people are not welcome.  5 The arrog...

1 Corinthians 11:2-16 2 I praise you for remembering me in everything and for holding to the traditions just as I passed them on to you.  3 But I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.  4 Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head.  5 But every woman who prays or prophesies with her...

Genesis 37 1 Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan. 2 This is the account of Jacob’s family line. Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them. 3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had be...

Ephesians 1:15-23 NIV 15 For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God’s people,  16 I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers.  17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.  18 I pray that the eyes of yo...

Ephesians 1:11-14 11 In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will,  12 in order that we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory.  13 And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believ...

Mark 8:31-9:1 8:31 He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again.  8:32 He spoke plainly about this, and Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. 8:33 But when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter. “Get behind...

1 Corinthians 10:23-11:1 23 “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but not everything is constructive.  24 No one should seek their own good, but the good of others. 25 Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,  26 for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.” 27 If an unbeliever inv...

1 Corinthians 10:14-22 14 Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.  15 I speak to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say.  16 Is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ?  17 Because there is one loaf, we, who are many, are one body, for we all share the one...

1 Corinthians 10:1-13 1 For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea.  2 They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.  3 They all ate the same spiritual food  4 and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that ro...

Exodus 12:29-42 29 At midnight the LORD struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well. 30 Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone d...

Exodus 12:14-28 14 “This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the LORD—a lasting ordinance.  15 For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.  16 On the first day...

1 Corinthians 15:16-23 16 For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either.  17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.  18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. 19 If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied. 20 But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the first...