Secret to Better Relationships: Fewer Friends!

Love and Acceptance! These are the two core pursuits of the human heart. We all want to be accepted for who we are and loved in spite of who we are. So we pack our lives with loads of social networks, in search of people who will love us and accept us. The problem for...

God is in Control!

When life is out of control, how do you respond? Some get angry. Attempting to control, some people apply downward pressure of persuasion or argumentation, writing their emails in ALL CAPS (digitally yelling) as they try to direct outcomes and people in the way they...

An Excellent Congregation

Dear New Hope, I’m sure there are a fair number of churches in our country where the pastor tolerates the people, and the people tolerate the pastor. By God’s grace, New Hope is not one of those! What a remarkable congregation you are! We regularly witness...

When Caesar Acts as Lord

Dear New Hope, There is no doubt that in Jesus’ day, Rome held supreme authority in the known world and Caesar acted as supreme “lord”. Even on their coins (as we saw last Sunday in Mark 12) Caesar Tiberius was known as both “High Priest” and “Son of the Divine God”....