New Hope Baptist Church Podcast

  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...

JOHN 14:25-27 (NIV) 25) “All this I have spoken while still with you. 26) But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. 27) Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” TAKEAWAYS The Holy Spirit...

  JOHN 20:1-18 (NIV) 1) Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. 2) So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!” 3) So Peter and the other disciple started f...

JOHN 12:12-24 (NIV) 12) The next day the great crowd that had come for the festival heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem. 13) They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, “Hosanna!” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Blessed is the king of Israel!” 14) Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, as it is written: 15) “Do not be afraid, Daughter Zion;  see, you...

JOHN 4:5-29,32,34,39-42 (NIV) 5) So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6) Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon. 7) When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?”8) (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) 9...

ACTS 15:1-14, 19-21, 30-31 (NIV) 1) Certain people came down from Judea to Antioch and were teaching the believers: “Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved.” 2) This brought Paul and Barnabas into sharp dispute and debate with them. So Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with some other believers, to go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and e...

  ACTS 14:1-20 (NIV) 1) At Iconium Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue. There they spoke so effectively that a great number of Jews and Greeks believed. 2) But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the other Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers. 3) So Paul and Barnabas spent considerable time there, speaking boldly for the Lord, who confirmed the messag...

ACTS 14:21-28 (NIV) 21) They preached the gospel in that city and won a large number of disciples. Then they returned to Lystra, Iconium and Antioch, 22) strengthening the disciples and encouraging them to remain true to the faith. “We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said. 23) Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting,...

  ACTS 13:42-52 (NIV) 42) As Paul and Barnabas were leaving the synagogue, the people invited them to speak further about these things on the next Sabbath. 43) When the congregation was dismissed, many of the Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who talked with them and urged them to continue in the grace of God. 44) On the next Sabbath almost the whole city gathered to...

ACTS 13:13-41 (NIV) 13) From Paphos, Paul and his companions sailed to Perga in Pamphylia, where John left them to return to Jerusalem. 14) From Perga they went on to Pisidian Antioch. On the Sabbath they entered the synagogue and sat down. 15) After the reading from the Law and the Prophets, the leaders of the synagogue sent word to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have a word of exhortation for t...

ACTS 13:4-12 (NIV) 4) The two of them, sent on their way by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia and sailed from there to Cyprus. 5) When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the Jewish synagogues. John was with them as their helper. 6) They traveled through the whole island until they came to Paphos. There they met a Jewish sorcerer and false prophet named Bar-Jesus, 7) w...

  ACTS 12:25-13:3 (NIV) 25) When Barnabas and Saul had finished their mission, they returned from Jerusalem, taking with them John, also called Mark. 1) Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch) and Saul.  2) While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit...

ACTS 12:18-24 (NIV) 18) In the morning, there was no small commotion among the soldiers as to what had become of Peter. 19) After Herod had a thorough search made for him and did not find him, he cross-examined the guards and ordered that they be executed. Then Herod went from Judea to Caesarea and stayed there. 20) He had been quarreling with the people of Tyre and Sidon; they now joined together...

ACTS 12:11-18 (NIV) 11) Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know without a doubt that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from Herod’s clutches and from everything the Jewish people were hoping would happen.” 12) When this had dawned on him, he went to the house of Mary the mother of John, also called Mark, where many people had gathered and were praying. 13) Peter knocked at the ou...