New Life UMC

“Sovereign God is at work and has invited me to be a player here in the most important activity in the universe. How can I not fish? How could I refuse that? Why wouldn’t I harness my fear and speak boldly? How can I not speak boldly, if there is a Sovereign God who is active in this world and has invited me to participate with Him?

We have to fish, because the message of salvation is not an intuitive message. The message of salvation is grounded in history, not experience. The message of forgiveness is not a message that you can go sit under a tree and come to all on your own.

Next few weeks we are going to delve into how, the why and the what it looks like, feels like, sounds likeIts Hard, Intimidating and to some offensive. We follow Jesus because we want him to make us something we are Not. His Goal is for us to follow and for us to in the lives of someone else what someone did for us. What someone took the time and did for us.

Finding Friends – today we are going to take a closer look at finding friends. Throughout scripture friendship is valued as much if not more than. That probably has to do with the fact that we choose our friends. Friendships are wonderful but delicate and we often struggle to share our faith with our friends.

Enough – tonight is the final week of our sermon series “Enough” based on the book of the same name by Rev. Adam Hamilton. We live in a world in financial crisis. A few years ago the economy broke and we have been trying to recover ever since. Enough is all about “discovering joy through simplicity and generosity.” Using wisdom from scripture I hope we can all come to a place where we want less, save more, and give until it stops hurting.

Enough – tonight is the third week of our sermon series “Enough” based on the book of the same name by Rev. Adam Hamilton. We live in a world in financial crisis. A few years ago the economy broke and we have been trying to recover ever since. Enough is all about “discovering joy through simplicity and generosity.” Using wisdom from scripture I hope we can all come to a place where we want less, save more, and give until it stops hurting.

Pray to God to find your Life's Purpose. Set short and long term goals to help acheive it. Jeff shares his story of how the Treadmill of "Keeping up with the Jones" impacted his life.

Enough – for the next several weeks our sermon series is “Enough” based on the book of the same name by Rev. Adam Hamilton. We live in a world in financial crisis. A few years ago the economy broke and we have been trying to recover ever since. Enough is all about “discovering joy through simplicity and generosity.” Using wisdom from scripture I hope we can all come to a place where we want less, save more, and give until it stops hurting.