December 30, 2018

Morning Worship Service

We Come and Worship (Realms of Glory)

# 502 Open My Eyes, That I May See

I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day

& How Many Kings

# 294 Have Thine Own Way, Lord

The Forever Sacrifice Hebrews 10:1-18

# 387 Blest Be the Tie

Evening Worship Service

# 147 And Can It Be

# 95 Go, Tell It on the Mountain

# 334 Blessed Assurance

Worship Through Testimonies & Prayer

# 15 Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing

Personal Goals - Philippians 3:14

# 134 Jesus Paid It All

BAPTIST CHURCH New Hope

Prayer for a New Year

By Billy Graham

This prayer from Billy Graham, written for The Saturday Evening Post in 2008, is just as relevant more than a decade later.

Our Father and our God, as we stand at the beginning of this new year we confess our need of Your presence and Your guidance as we face the future.

We each have our hopes and expectations for the year that is ahead of us—but You alone know what it holds for us, and only You can give us the strength and the wisdom we will need to meet its challenges. So help us to humbly put our hands into Your hand, and to trust You and to seek Your will for our lives during this coming year.

In the midst of life’s uncertainties in the days ahead, assure us of the certainty of Your unchanging love.

In the midst of life’s inevitable disappointments and heartaches, help us to turn to You for the stability and comfort we will need.

In the midst of life’s temptations and the pull of our stubborn self-will, help us not to lose our way but to have the courage to do what is right in Your sight, regardless of the cost.

And in the midst of our daily preoccupations and pursuits, open our eyes to the sorrows and injustices of our hurting world, and help us to respond with compassion and sacrifice to those who are friendless and in need. May our constant prayer be that of the ancient Psalmist: “Teach me, O Lord, to follow your decrees; then I will keep them to the end” (Psalm 119:33).

We pray for our nation and its leaders during these difficult times, and for all those who are seeking to bring peace and justice to our dangerous and troubled world. We pray especially for Your protection on all those who serve in our armed forces, and we thank You for their commitment to defend our freedoms, even at the cost of their own lives. Be with their families also, and assure them of Your love and concern for them.

Bring our divided nation together, and give us a greater vision of what You would have us to be. Your Word reminds us that “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord” (Psalm 33:12).

As we look back over this past year we thank You for Your goodness to us—far beyond what we have deserved. May we never presume on Your past goodness or forget all Your mercies to us, but may they instead lead us to repentance, and to a new commitment to make You the foundation and center of our lives this year.

And so, our Father, we thank You for the promise and hope of this new year, and we look forward to it with expectancy and faith. This I ask in the name of our Lord and Savior, who by His death and resurrection has given us hope both for this world and the world to come.

Amen.

© 2008 Saturday Evening Post Society.

Things You Should Know about the Lord's Supper

1 Corinthians 11:23-34.

1. The Lord's Supper is primarily (but not exclusively) designed to elicit or to stimulate in our hearts remembrance of the person and work of Jesus: “Do this in remembrance of me” (1 Cor. 11:25).

2. This remembrance is commanded. Participation at the Lord’s Table is not an option. Prolonged absence from it is spiritually unhealthy and willful neglect of it may be grounds for church discipline.

3. This remembrance entails the use of tangible elements: bread and wine. It isn’t enough simply to say, “Remember!” The elements are given to stir our minds and hearts.

4. It is a personal remembrance. We are to remember Jesus. The focus is Jesus. “Do this in remembrance of ME”

5. In this remembering there is also confession. In partaking of the elements we declare: “Christ gave his body and blood for me. He died for my sins.”

6. To partake of the Lord’s Table in an unworthy manner is to take it without regard to its true worth, not yours. To partake unworthily entails at least three things: (a) calloused disregard for others in the body of Christ; (b) an attempt to combine participation at pagan feasts with participation at the Lord’s table; and (c) flippant disregard for what the elements represent.

7. To be “guilty of the body and blood of the Lord”(v27) is to treat as common or profane something which is sacred. The Lord’s Supper is much, much more than wafers and juice.

8. We are to “examine ourselves” (v28). We are to test our motives and attitudes as we approach the table to be certain we are partaking for the right reasons and with the right understanding of what the elements represent.

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WEEKLY CAMPUS ACTIVITIES

Sundays

9:30 A.M. Media Center Open

9:45 A.M. Sunday School - Education Building

11:00 A.M. Morning Worship Service - Sanctuary

Kids’ Church K-5

6:30 P.M. Evening Worship - Sanctuary

Wednesday

5:00 P.M. Women’s Bible Study

6:30 P.M. Wednesday Night Live (TUPOS)

G.A.’s, R.A.’s, Mission Friends - Kids Bldg.

Women’s Bible Study

Prayer Meeting/ Bible Study - Ed. Bldg.

Counting Committee - January 2019 Kara Pretty, Helga Shackelford, Sandra Moore

USHERS of the WEEK DEACON of the WEEK

Giving Record

Budget Needs/Week ……….……………...$7,923.00

Tithes & Offering…………….……..………..$9,034.00

Difference………….……….….…………......$1,111.00

Designated……...……….………...…..……..$1,194.00

Meal Delivery:

Sue Mannery

Sunday Services

Nursery………………18

Morning Worship.171

Evening Worship...90

House & Grounds

Meeting 7PM 7pm Deacon’s Meeting

Dec 20- Jan 5

Kord Robertson 781-5383

Jan 6- Jan 12

Johnny Trammell 781-0444

Meal Delivery: MaryAnn Wilson

Bud Wilson Johnny Trammell Jonathan Benbow

Bobby Calves

Happy Anniversary! January 2

Park & Lyn Winter

6pm Stewardship

Meeting

Meal Delivery: Shirley Knight & Mary Bower

Youth Committee Meeting 7:30pm

Meal Delivery:

Susan Dick

Please be in prayer for the Pastor Search Committees

Senior Pastor Search Com:

Keli Bunch, Kim Benbow, Kyndall Robertson, Sandra Moore, Talmadge Albritton, Winston Smith

Youth Pastor Search Com:

Binky Graham, Connie Trammell, Daniel Moore, Krystin Chapman,

Murrell Winter

Our Goal: $6,500 Given to Date: $4,639

December 30 Win Graham

January 2

Brian Barker