New Hope Chapel

This week in the Changed series we are going to talk about one of the most unusual characters that experienced God's transforming power. Listen and hear about Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and…

We all put hope in the fact that God is not finished with us yet. He continues the process of transformation throughout our lives, molding and conforming us into the image of Christ. There are many e…

We all put hope in the fact that God is not finished with us yet. He continues the process of transformation throughout our lives, molding and conforming us into the image of Christ. There are many e…

Have you ever been told to mind your own business? Have you heard someone say, “Judge not!”. This is probably the most quoted and misquoted scripture used by nonbelievers and sometimes even by some b…

This week's passage, Matthew 6:25-34, sure seems a lot like singing with Bobby McFerrin, "Don't Worry Be Happy," which is easier said than done (amiright?). So there must be more to it than that. Tow…

Jesus instructed His disciples to have a "good eye" and not a "bad" one. What was he talking about? He is using what would have been familiar language to His first listeners. They knew exactly what H…

The Lord's Prayer is a favorite text for millions of people who recite it every day. It is simple, yet profound. If we were to follow Jesus' instruction to "Pray like this...", how would our prayers …

God's kind of love, the love the Lord pours into your hearts and mine, through the Holy Spirit, is so rich and full that it stretches us. We grow in the capacity to love as God loves. But what does t…

This week we continue in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. With a few short sentences, He brings God's perspective on fulfilling (or even making) vows and then turns His listeners' ideas of justice upside …

This week, we are back to looking at the Sermon on the Mount. Matthew says that when Jesus finished, the crowds were utterly shocked, astounded, and amazed at his words. What was so shocking about th…

Dr. Bill says, "So far, in our study of The Sermon on the Mount, we’ve heard about the beatitudes and how the very things we might consider to be negative are actually blessings. 

Then we touched on h…

After the rich poetry of the Beatitudes, it feels like Jesus is switching gears and speaking in riddles. What does Jesus mean about being the salt of the world, or the light of the world? Well, one c…

Jesus came to bring the Kingdom of God down to earth. So where is it now? Listen and learn about the first four Beatitudes, where Jesus lays down foundational principles for every citizen of His King…

Matthew’s Gospel is often called the teaching Gospel because Matthew concentrated on what Jesus taught, and arranged his material kind of like a catechism. After establishing Jesus’s credentials in t…

In Matthew’s Gospel, we have already learned a lot about Jesus. His genealogy is robust. His birth, miraculous. The visit from the magi, unexpected. Last week we heard about the testing he underwent …