Before we get into our first series on September 15, we’ll launch our new ministry year this Sunday with a single message in Isaiah 43:16-21 where God says to his people, Israel, “Behold, I am doing a new thing,” and that’s what we have in front of us: a new thing for 2024-2025. This will be our 24th ministry year launch, and we’re excited about what is in front of us over the next twelve months.

Single: Ministry Year Launch

Todd Dugard

Message: I am doing a new thing

Harvest Bible Chapel

Text: Isaiah 43:16-21

September 8, 2024

As we launch into a new ministry year, let’s clarify and commit to…

…the power behind it all (v. 16-17)

Prayer Night - Sunday, September 15 at 6 p.m.

…the past we’ve left behind (v. 18)

The past can teach, but it must not bind. The gaze must ever be forward to what God will yet do.

J. Alec Motyer

Let the grand past be overtopped by the more glorious future. Cultivate hope not remembrance.

H. C. Leupold

…the promise we’ve been given (v. 19)

…the people we’re to be (v. 20)

1 Corinthians 3:11

Ephesians 1:7

John 1:12

…the purpose we’re to fulfill (v. 21)

Harvest exists to glorify God by making more and better disciples of Christ who love God and love people.

Our roots go deep into the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century...What was God accomplishing back then? I think of it this way. [God] hauled the ship that we call the church into dry dock, scraped away 1,500 years’ worth of encrusted human traditions that were slowing it down, refitted that ship with fresh gospel understandings, and relaunched a seaworthy vessel that is still going strong. But reformation must never stop. Our constant tendency is toward rudderless inconsequentiality, and God is constantly getting us back on course to our true destiny. What then is reformation? Reformation is God renewing in our hearts a passionate clarity about his purpose for us. It is God reawakening in us a love for his truth and his standards. It is God preparing us for the display of his glorious salvation as we reshape every aspect of our lives and our churches to that end.

Raymond C. Ortlund Jr. and R. Kent Hughes

Isaiah: God Saves Sinners

My new ministry year personal commitment: (Check all that apply)

□ Become a follower of Christ and get baptized

□ Commit to regular Sunday worship

□ Give to the mission

□ Become a member

□ Read the Word and pray

□ Join a group

□ Get on a serving team

□ Invite others to meet Jesus