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  • The Daily Dose of Hope is a devotional intended to provide context and reflection to the New Hope Church Bible Reading Plan. It’s our goal to read the Bible in a year together as a family of faith. Five days a week we read. Two days a week we either rest or catch up. Reading the Bible is the number one way to grow in our walk with Jesus. We have to know God’s Word to live God’s Word. Now for our Daily Dose of Hope.
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The Daily Dose of Hope is a devotional intended to provide context and reflection to the New Hope Church Bible Reading Plan. It’s our goal to read the Bible in a year together as a family of faith. Five days a week we read. Two days a week we either rest or catch up. Reading the Bible is the number one way to grow in our walk with Jesus. We have to know God’s Word to live God’s Word. Now for our Daily Dose of Hope.
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  • November 4, 2024; Day 2 of Week 32

    November 4, 2024; Day 2 of Week 32
    2024/11/04

    Daily Dose of Hope

    November 4, 2024

    Day 2 of Week 32

    Scripture: Hosea 4-6; Psalm 58; Matthew 17

    Welcome back to the Daily Dose of Hope!

    In our Scripture for today in Hosea, we see both judgement against Israel and an unrepentant people. Remember, they don’t see anything wrong with how they are living. In their minds, there is no need for warning. Things are going well. There is food to eat. The land is flourishing.

    At the same time, the people’s hearts have turned from God. While they go through the religious motions, they are wandered far from God. They are not keeping the covenant, they are oppressing to poor, and they are worshiping other gods. They are prostituting themselves and there is no remorse. God seeks to call them back but they are in denial that there is even a problem at all. Y’all, this is a really scary place to be.

    In Matthew 17, we join Jesus, Peter, James, and John, on the mountaintop. This text is referred to as the transfiguration. They all trek up to the top of the mountain and Jesus “transfigures” right before their very eyes. For just a moment, put yourself in the position of these three men. They had only known the flesh and blood Jesus. We know Jesus as risen Lord and Savior. Thus, I think we would expect Jesus to wear dazzling white robes and be all shiny and glorious. But they didn’t. Then, right before their very eyes, they get a glimpse of Jesus’ glory, as they had never seen it before. Jesus was radiating the very presence of God and these three disciples got to be witnesses to it.

    Then, Moses and Elijah appeared before them and they were talking to Jesus. We don’t know why Moses and Elijah appear on the mountain with Jesus except that they were two Old Testament figures who anticipated the coming of Jesus, the final prophet to come and deliver God’s people once and for all. Their work, their ministries, are basically fulfilled by the person of Jesus. They were servants of God but they weren’t God. Jesus, on the other hand, is God and the disciples get a glimpse of that right here.

    But there is something about being confronted by the power and glory of God which can make us uncomfortable and even fearful. In awe, yes, but also frightened. Maybe you’ve been there. Peter is there. He struggles to simply rest in the presence of God’s glory. He doesn’t know what to do or say so he blurts out, “let’s set up three shelters–one for you, Jesus, and one for Moses and Elijah.” Now, Peter is referring to the festival of booths or tabernacles which faithful Jews participating in every year. They make structures in their yards as a sign of when God will tabernacle with his people. Thus, this might seem like a weird thing for Peter to say to us but it wasn’t too off the wall. He is like, “umm...I think God is tabernacling with us and we need to make the shelters.” He is kind of panicky. It seemed like a good thought at the time. What Peter doesn’t quite understand yet is that before his eyes God’s dwelling with humanity is present, for Jesus is the new tabernacle of God dwelling with humanity. The shelters aren’t needed. God is present with his people through Jesus Christ.

    There is something about mountain-top experiences–times in which we get a glimpse of the glory and presence of God in our lives. I’m hoping you have each had some kind of mountaintop experience in your walk with Jesus, times in which the veil is removed and you’ve gotten a taste of the presence of God. These are times in which we are confronted with God’s power and it can’t help but change us. You realize that Jesus wasn’t just a good, wise man who walked the earth 2000 years ago but rather was God himself, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords.

    Blessings,

    Pastor Vicki
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  • November 3, 2024; Day 1 of Week 32

    November 3, 2024; Day 1 of Week 32
    2024/11/03
    Daily Dose of Hope November 3, 2024 Day 1 of Week 32 Scripture: Hosea 1-3; Matthew 16 Welcome back, everyone, to the Daily Dose of Hope, the devotional and podcast that complements the New Hope Bible reading plan. Today, we begin the book of Hosea. Hosea was a prophet in the Northern Kingdom, probably active from about 750-721BC, when Jeroboam II was king of Israel until the time that the Assyrians conquered the Northern Kingdom. Like Amos, Hosea is considered a minor prophet – not because his message was less important, but simply because his book is shorter than the major prophets (such as Isaiah and Jeremiah). There are twelve minor prophets, including Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. Similar to Amos, things were going well for the people of Israel during Hosea’s time and they didn’t want to hear any kind of message of warning. Yet, this was a time in which the people were incredibly rebellious against God. They broke the 10 commandments, they oppressed the poor, and they worshiped other gods. They still worshiped Yahweh, they still went through the motions of worshiping in the temple, making sacrifices, and looking outwardly religious (theme in most of these minor prophet books) but they were hypocrites. They pretended to be faithful to Yahweh but their hearts were far from God. Hosea is the longest minor prophet book in the Old Testament and this book is a collection of his sermons and prophecies over the course of 25 years serving God obediently. Fair warning: It’s mainly in the form of poetry and it’s filled with metaphors. I’ll be honest, it’s kind of a weird book. In the first few chapters (what we read for today), God tells Hosea to marry a woman named Gomer who is a prostitute. Hosea’s life becomes what we might call a living parable. They have three kids together and Gomer cheats on Hosea repeatedly. When she does, God tells Hosea to go find her and seek reconciliation. This whole dysfunctional marriage is intended to be a metaphor for how Israel is behaving. God is the faithful husband and Israel is behaving like Gomer, the wife who continues to betray her spouse. The people of Israel continue to betray God over and over again but he will continue to seek them, continue to try to draw them back to him. Our New Testament passage for today is Matthew 16. Jesus has taken his disciples on a retreat of sorts, and they have traveled away from Judea, further north into Gentile territory. It could be to get away from the crowds or so they can speak more freely. But Caesarea Philippi is pretty far north in Israel. It was a quiet place at the headwaters of the Jordan River but also a place filled with idol worship and signs of Roman occupation everywhere. And it’s here that Jesus decides he is going to settle his identity with these men. He asks each of them, “Who do people say I am?” Over the two years that the disciples had been with Jesus, people had all kinds of thoughts about who Jesus was. Some thought he was the precursor to the Messiah, others (like King Herod) thought he was John the Baptist reincarnated, and others thought he might be one of the prophets returned. But Jesus presses them, “Who do you say I am?” Now, it doesn’t matter what the others say – who is it you say I am? That’s really the question for all of us, isn’t it? It doesn’t matter who others say Jesus is. If I were to do a man on the street interview right now, I’m sure I’d get all kinds of answers to who is Jesus? A teacher, a healer, a crazy person, Son of God, the Savior. But it doesn’t matter what others say, what matters is what you believe and what you say about Jesus. And that’s what Jesus is asking his disciples. What do you say about me? What are you willing to confess about me? This was really a rubber meets the road question for them, as it is for us. What are you willing to confess about me, to others, publicly? Jesus asked all of them but it was Peter who spoke up. And he says, “You are the Messiah, Son of the Living God.” The word Messiah means anointed one or God’s anointed. And the term “Messiah” was the Hebrew word for God’s anointed, the term “Christ” was the Greek word for it. Messiah and Christ mean the same thing, just in different languages. I know this might come as a surprise to some of us but Christ is not Jesus’ last name. It is a title. And Peter is giving Jesus this title, you are the Messiah, the anointed one. In ancient Israel, when someone was given a position of authority, oil was poured on his head to signify his being set apart for God’s service. I Samuel 10:1 is an example, Then Samuel took a flask of olive oil and poured it on Saul’s head and kissed him, saying, "Has not the Lord anointed you ruler over his inheritance? Kings, priests, and prophets were...
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  • October 31, 2024; Day 5 of Week 31

    October 31, 2024; Day 5 of Week 31
    2024/10/31
    Daily Dose of Hope October 31, 2024 Day 5 of Week 31 Scripture: Amos 7-9; Matthew 15 Welcome back to the Daily Dose of Hope, the devotional and podcast that complements the New Hope Church Bible reading plan. This Sunday is our Celebration Sunday at New Hope. We invite everyone to bring their commitment cards to church and we plan to take some time to lay them on the altar and dedicate them to Jesus. We also will have a time of celebrating baptisms at the close of the service. Please try to attend in person. This will be a Spirit-filled morning! To switch things up a bit, let’s start with the New Testament today. We are looking at Matthew 15. In this Scripture, we are talking about handwashing and cleanliness but it has nothing to do with germs. In fact, germ theory didn’t really become a notable thing until the 1800s. So what was the hand-washing ritual discussed in the first half of Matthew 15? To go deeper, we need to talk a little about 1st century Jewish life. Certain groups of Jews, such as the Pharisees and the scribes, affirmed two types of law. There was the written law (the first five books of the Bible) and the oral law (the traditions of the elders/rabbis). Basically, the written law didn’t have specific details so the rabbis, over the years, filled in those details with oral traditions. In today’s chapter, there were Pharisees from Jerusalem who sought out Jesus. We don’t know why these Pharisees had traveled some 80 miles from Jerusalem (a long trip in those days) but there is some speculation that they had come to check out this Jesus character, this man who was healing, teaching, and saying things that were questionable in their eyes. They were suspicious. Remember the Pharisees were a strict sect of Judaism that believed in following the law in the fullest sense. There were different standards for following the law for different groups of people (i.e. a day laborer would not be expected to follow the law in the same way that a scribe could do so.) But certainly, it would have been expected that a rabbi and his followers would follow both the oral and written law. The Pharisees noticed that Jesus’ disciples were not going through the ceremonial hand-washing rituals that were required before they ate. They asked Jesus about this. This was a dig, it was more like, why aren’t you properly teaching your disciples? Jesus has this interesting reply, he quotes Scripture from the prophet Isaiah: “These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me...” On the surface, there wasn’t anything wrong with what the Pharisees were trying to do. They had purity laws which they thought were very important in following God. But Jesus could see past their words, past their ritual, and into their hearts. He saw their insincerity, hollowness, and hypocrisy; it was all a facade. Thus, he sees this as a fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. Just as in the times of Isaiah, the Pharisees were giving lip service to following God but their hearts were far from him. They were concerned about the Sabbath being followed to the tee but they would cheat people in the marketplace. They were concerned about following specifics of the handwashing but they weren’t at all concerned about the widow and the orphan. Something was truly skewed here. They were all about piety but they had neglected compassion, justice, and love. But this issue goes even deeper. Being unclean and being defiled was a big deal in 1st century Judaism. If you couldn’t be clean (and let’s be real, a lot of regular people worked jobs or had lives that meant they couldn’t meet all the various regulations to stay clean). If you were unclean for whatever reason, then you were ostracized from the temple. You were basically shunned from religious life. So Jesus is making a huge point here. Jesus is saying, “You are shunning people, you are telling them they are unclean, you are ostracizing them from the community, based on the rituals they have done or haven’t done to be clean. But what you are missing is this: the things that really matter, the things that pose the greatest danger, are not external. They aren’t hand-washing. They aren’t meticulously keeping Sabbath. The things that matter most to God are internal.” What Jesus is saying to them is that God cares most about the heart. I think we will all should admit that, at times, the church has looked a lot like these Pharisees. We’ve been all about religious activity and less about trying to be like Jesus. We’ve been about the external and not the internal. We’ve cared about appearances. We are putting up this great religious front but then being horribly judgmental, angry, or bitter. Friends, God could care less about your religious busyness. He wants your heart. He doesn’t care about our ceremonial handwashing---he cares about if we are treating others with the love of Christ. And if we aren’t, ...
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    7 分

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