New Day Christian Church - Weston, WI

God's Purpose & Vision for Families

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Big Idea: Family is a good picture of even greater realities.

Action Step: Commit to pray for your family every day during the course of this series.

It Takes a Village

In the kick off to "Modern Family: learning to love well and live well", Communications Director Amy Auner gives a message about her perspective of leading in a single parent household.  

Key text: Deuteronomy 6:4-9 (NLT)

4 “Listen, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord alone.[a] 5 And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength. 6 And you must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands that I am giving you today. 7 Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up. 8 Tie them to your hands and wear them on your forehead as reminders. 9 Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

More than an Institution (New Day's Seventh Anniversary

Anniversary Service—More than an Institution

Philippians 2:1-2 (NLT) 1 Is there any ENCOURAGEMENT from belonging to Christ? Any COMFORT from his love? Any FELLOWSHIP together in the Spirit? Are your hearts tender and compassionate? 2 Then make me truly happy by AGREEING wholeheartedly with each other, LOVING one another, and WORKING together with one mind and purpose.

God’s will in the “one another” commands

·         John 13:34 (NLT) So now I am giving you a new commandment: LOVE EACH OTHER. Just as I have loved you, you should LOVE EACH OTHER.

·         Romans 12:16 (NLT) LIVE IN HARMONY with each other. Don’t be too proud to enjoy the company of ordinary people. And don’t think you know it all!

·         Galatians 5:13 (NLT) For you have been called to live in freedom, my brothers and sisters. But don’t use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature. Instead, use your freedom to SERVE ONE ANOTHER in love.

·         James 5:16 (NLT) CONFESS YOUR SINS to each other and PRAY for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results.

 Discovery Bible Study

[Read Galatians 3, 4:1-7 (page 891,892).  Write Galatians 4:4-7.]

 

National Debt

(Message recorded July 21, 2013)

Deuteronomy 8:10-11 (NLT) 10 When you have eaten your fill, be sure to praise the Lord your God for the good land he has given you. 11 But that is the time to be careful! Beware that in your plenty you do not forget the Lord your God and disobey his commands, regulations, and decrees that I am giving you today.

Deuteronomy 8 tells us to obey God's commandments. We do this by obeying God with... 

• OUR HEART By loving him more than any relationship, activity, achievement, or possession 

• OUR WILL By committing ourselves completely to him 

• OUR MIND By seeking to know him and his Word, so his principles and values form the foundation of all we think and do 

• OUR BODY By recognizing that our strengths, talents, and sexuality are given to us by God to be used for pleasure and fulfillment according to his rules, not ours 

• OUR FINANCES By deciding that all of the resources we have ultimately come from God, and that we are to be managers of them and not owners 

• OUR FUTURE By deciding to make service to God and man the main purpose of our life's work

--Life Application Study Bible.

KEY QUESTION: Do you love God’s blessings, or do you love God?

Discovery Bible Study

[Read Deuteronomy 8 (page 146).  Deuteronomy 8:6-10.]

Not of this World

(Message recorded July 14, 2013)

John 18:36 (NLT) Jesus answered, “My kindom is not an earthly kingdom. If it were, my followers would fight to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish leaders. But my kingdom is not of this world.”

1 Peter 2:11-12 (NLT) Dear friends, I warn you as “temporary residents and foreigners” to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against your very souls. Be careful to live properly among your unbelieving neighbors. Then even if they accuse you of doing wrong, they will see your honorable behavior, and they will give honor to God when he judges the world.[a]

Discovery Bible Study - 1 Peter 2 (page 935). 

Write out 1 Peter 2:13-17.

Independence Day

(Message recorded July 7, 2013)

Romans 6:16 (NLT) Don’t you realize that you become the slave of whatever you choose to obey? You can be a slave to sin, which leads to death, or you can choose to obey God, which leads to righteous living.

BIG IDEA: You can choose who you serve; you can’t control the consequences of your choice.

Discovery Bible Study

[Read Romans 6 (pages 861).  Write Romans 6:19-23.]

Noah's Ark

(Message recorded June 16, 2013) Genesis 6:9-10 (NLT) This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, the only blameless person living on earth at the time, and he walked in close fellowship with Noah was the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. BIG IDEA: Before Noah FLOATED in a WOODEN SHIP with animals, he WALKED in FELLOWSHIP  with God. Discovery Bible Study- [Read Genesis 6:9-9:17 (page 6-8).  Write Genesis 8:20-22.]

Jonah and the Great Fish

Message recorded June 9, 2013 BIG IDEA: If you want to learn a lesson THE HARD WAY, try RUNNING from God. Jonah 1:17 (NLT) Now the Lord had arranged for a great fish to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was inside the fish for three days and three nights. Matthew 12:39 (NLT) But Jesus replied, “Only an evil, adulterous generation would demand a miraculous sign; but the only sign I will give them is the sign of the prophet Jonah.” Discovery Bible Study [Read Jonah 4 (page 702).  Write Jonah 4:1-4.]

Daniel and the Lions

Daniel and the Lions (Recorded May 26, 2013)

Daniel 6:16 (NLT) So at last the king gave orders for Daniel to be arrested and thrown into the den of lions. The king said to him, “May your God, whom you serve so faithfully, rescue you.”

Daniel	Most of Us
Characterized by integrity	Characterized by compromise.
Loyal to God and to human authority.	Loyal to our own interests.
Doing the right thing landed him in a lion’s den for a night.	Doing the easy thing lands us on the wide road to hell for eternity.

KEY DIFFERENCE: Daniel recognized God as the true king of his life.

Jacob, Leah and Rachel

Back to (Sunday) School: Jacob, Leah and Rachel - Message used with permission from LifeChurch.tv

Genesis 29:16-18 (NIV) ¹⁶ Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. ¹⁷ Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel was lovely in form, and beautiful. ¹⁸ Jacob was in love with Rachel and said, "I'll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel." When you wrongly believe that marriage is the answer...

1. You COMPROMISE more than you should. 2. You become DEMANDING. 3. You will always end up DISSATISFIED.