New Beginnings Family

If you could go back and live your younger days again, how might you live differently?  Would you make better financial decisions?  Would you spend more time with your family?  Would you have chosen different friends?  Would you have avoided certain situations?  When you cross from this life to the next, how do you think you'll wish you had lived while on earth?  Usin...

Working with the Holy Spirit is more than important…it’s vital to our lives as Christians.  Without it, we will grow spiritually dry and when we get dry, it’s only a matter of time before cracks start to form. Have any of you been in a place in your life where you were spiritually dry?  What happened?  We stopped working with the Holy Spirit in some way.  We stopped praying. &n...

Little things, done consistently, over time, lead to very, very big things.  When we actually do the will of God…what Jesus gave practical examples of in his "sermon on the mount"…small changes happen in our lives that add up over time.  The end result is amazing.  In this episode, we'll look at this powerful principle and discover that the small things are actually a lot bigger tha...

The best part of discipleship is that we don’t do it alone. We don’t just grow, but we grow together. We are helped by others who have been down the same road we are walking. We help others who are walking where we’ve already walked. We are bound to one another in Christ in a way that this world just can’t fully understand. We are one.  To be a disciple is to be joined to Jesus and through be...

From the moment you were conceived, God was forming you in your mother’s womb. From that moment until now, God has been working to form you into the person He created you to be…a masterpiece. You are God’s workmanship. He is seeking to make you into something marvelous. This incredible process, by which God teaches us to be more like Jesus, and the process by which we pass on those lessons to othe...

How can I become a Christian?  How do I get to heaven?  The answer to those questions was never supposed to be complicated, yet for millennia, people have added so many things to it that the message has become confusing and burdensome.  In this episode, we are going to answer two questions.  What does a person need to know to become a Christian?  What does a person need to...

Talking to non-believers about Jesus can be a scary thing, but there are a couple of things that can help.  In this episode, we'll look a simple prayer that the early church prayed in order to get themselves ready.  We're also going to explore one often overlooked truth about being "fishers of men" that should make the prospect seem a lot less intimidating.  God has given you everyt...

"Why do we have to do that? What about live and let live? What about letting each person find their own path? Why can’t we just let everyone believe what they want to believe? What about letting every person just choose a religion and they can be that and I can be this one and let God just work it out in the end? Why do I have to bother people with what I believe?"  In this episode, we're goi...

When Jesus called his first disciples, he didn’t promise to make them famous, smarter, holy, more spiritual, a better husband, wife, richer, or more organized.  The call of Jesus was a simple one.  Follow me and I will make you fishers of men.  To be a follower of Jesus is to fish because followers fish.  We are called to do for someone else what someone else has done for us. &...

Your story is not over just because you achieve a success. Success is not the end of the story. Your life is about much more than a singular moment. What’s more, success can actually sabotage your future if you aren’t careful. Success is wonderful, but without the proper perspective, success can actually be the setup to massive failure. For many, a place of success is one of the most dangerous pla...

The chances are very good that you have experienced loss in one form or another…the loss of a loved one, the loss of a dream, the loss of a marriage, the loss of a relationship, the loss of a job, the loss of security, the loss of trust, the loss of faith, the loss of direction...you get the idea. Loss, sadly, is a part of life. It can be painful and can even have effects that last our entire live...

Maybe you have been betrayed by someone close to you.  Maybe your brokenness has led you to betray the trust of someone you care about and you've hurt them deeply.  Regardless of which side you are on, betrayal isn’t the end of your story.  God is fully able to revive, restore, redeem, and rebuild.  Using the example of Daniel, we'll examine how betrayal hurts both parties and...

The best stories follow the same formula, and our life stories do as well.  Just like in any good story, the darkest moments are just the set-up for the greatest triumphs.  What if what you have been through was not the entire story? The ending of a career, the ending of a marriage, the ending of a friendship, the loss of someone special…what if the end of those things was not the ending...

What is wisdom?  Where does it come from?  What if there were two very different kinds of wisdom, from two very different places, that lead to very different outcomes?  In this episode, we'll explore the two different kinds of wisdom, as laid out by James, the half-brother of Jesus.

When we go through hardships, trials, learning experiences, trauma, temptations, loss, etc. and get to a place of victory, we are never quite the same again. We don’t see others quite the same again. We know ourselves better. We are stronger. We are better equipped for the next mountain. Our prayers don’t sound the same. Our faith is not the same. Our relationships are not the same. Our daily habi...

As Moses looked at Mount Sinai, that had all the characteristics of an active volcano, and knew he was going to be climbing it, he had one perspective. This was the perspective from the ground, among the people, looking up at a cloud that obscured the glory of God. When he got to the top, he had another perspective that affected the way he saw both the people of Israel and how he saw God, Himself....

Mountains are strong, large, powerful, and ancient. They are places of struggle and hardship, but they are also places of great triumph and clarity. Climbing a mountain requires that we prepare, fight, and endure difficulty, but that climb also gives us strength that would otherwise be impossible. The mountaintop is a place of sacrifice and pruning, yet it is also a place of vision and closeness t...

For years, you might have heard that you need to “find your calling" or "discovering your calling.”  What if you were to be told that, as popular as this phrase is, it’s not a biblical one.  The Bible is full of examples of people who were called by God to something big, but in every case, that call found them because they were ready for it, not because they had "found" or "discovered" i...

This is a very special episode that begins with Pastors Joshua Scroggins, Randy Scroggins, and Bob Scroggins talking about fatherhood followed by a series of stories about Joshua's relationship with his son, Asher, and how those different stories act as parables (or fables) that show us a little more about how God is our father.

As we conclude this series, we are going to be looking at the ultimate examples of people who were more than just fans.  These people were followers of Jesus to the absolute end and gave their lives for him.  In this episode, we'll be discussing the martyrs and how their sacrifices actually emboldened those who witnessed their deaths to follow Christ like never before.

In this episode, we are going to be looking at two different stories.  Both of the men in these stories is given the same opportunity to follow  Jesus and to become a follower of his.  Their responses illustrate two different views on Jesus that still exist in this world today.  One of  these men was a fan of Jesus.  One of them became a follower.  Their stories...

There are so many people in this world who are fans of Jesus.  They like  certain things he taught, they like certain things they heard about him  while they were growing up, they like that he loved people, they  especially like that he didn’t seem judgmental towards sinners…they are  fans.  They wear the team colors, but they aren’t followers.  They might  ...

This is a special episode featuring three women and closing thoughts about the importance of being bold from Pastor Josh

Two mothers.  One, the mother of a daughter who is demon possessed.  One, a single mother of two boys...a widow.  Both of these women show powerful examples of motherhood.

Every path has a destination.  This is a rule that is as old as time, yet we often ignore it and suffer as a result.  The choices you make now, the actions you take today, and the words you speak this week are all part of a path you have chosen and that path has a destination.  Will the path you are on right now take you to your desired destination?