New Life Assembly: Recent Episodes
Keith McNamar
This week's message reminded us that each person's next step is unique to him, and no one else can take your next step for you.
Before we can really hear the good news of the sudden happy turn in the story, we must first confront the bad news that we are not as good as we think we are.
The mark of a good story is in its ability to get behind our walls and to cause us to feel, even for a moment, the overwhelming nature of truth. The Christmas story, when heard for what it truly is, does just that.
Every good story has a sudden, happy turn of events that catches our breath and brings us good news of great joy. The Christmas story is the perfect example of that sudden, happy turn.
Jesus' parable of the prodigal son reminds us that all of us - the ones who wandered away from faith and the ones who didn't - belong in relationship to our heavenly Father.
No matter where you come from, what you've done, or what anyone else has told you about how you might not fit in at a church, we want you to know that here at New Life we believe that YOU belong.
Pastor Nick Fatato closes our series with a message encouraging us to keep moving in the direction God calls us to go.
Week 2 of our What Moves You series in which we talk about the different ways different people in the church are moved to respond with compassion to the needs of the world around us.
Week 1 of a new series in which we ask how we might open the door and allow God to place his burden of compassion on our hearts.