Welcome to New Hope Baptist Church

April 18, 2012

newhopeWelcome to the online home of New Hope Baptist Church. New Hope Baptist Church exists to honor God by making and maturing disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ. We hope that this website will inform you about our church’s ministry and lead you to know and love our great God. If you would like to know more about becoming a disciple of Jesus, please click the “2 Ways to Live” link at the right of this page.

Current happenings at New Hope and our pastor’s blog can be found on this home page. Additional information about our church may be found by using the links provided at the top of this page. Thank you for taking time to find out more about our ministry. We hope to meet you in person at one of our services.


Reading and Preaching through the Bible in 2012

January 9, 2012

This year I am encouraging everyone in our church to make daily Bible reading a priority in 2012. I would be delighted if every one of us could read the Bible from cover to cover this year. I have made available a Bible reading schedule that will keep us all on the same page. You can download the schedule by clicking this 2012 Bible Reading Plan. There are a variety of worthy Bible reading plans that are available. This particular plan is arranged in canonical order from Genesis to Revelation. One of the advantages of this plan is that you can focus on the context of each reading by staying in one book at a time. In order to keep us accountable, motivated, and informed I will be preaching through the Bible in keeping with the schedule. Each Sunday, I will have a message (or messages) that relate to that week’s Bible reading schedule. These messages will take a variety of forms. On some Sundays I might preach an entire book of the Bible, focusing on the book’s main themes and theological message. Other Sundays I might bring an expositional sermon from one particular text from that week’s readings. I might also focus on a particular theme that arises in the readings and trace it through the Bible. I pray that our readings and the messages that I preach will drive us deeper into the Scriptures and thereby grow in our knowledge of our great and glorious God who delivers us from our sins and gives us new life through his Son, Jesus.


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