Daily Bible Reading - May 7th, 2020 | American Bible Society

Daily Bible Reading - May 7th, 2020 | American Bible Society: Hebrews 11:1-22: Today’s reading provides us with a listing of people of great faith and the actions and risks they took in response to their faith. The account begins with Abel and continues to Joseph. We learn that faith is the way to please God.

Daily Bible Reading - May 6th, 2020 | American Bible Society

Daily Bible Reading - May 6th, 2020 | American Bible Society: Hebrews 10:19-39: The Lord’s followers are encouraged to keep their hearts pure and their consciences free from evil as they help each other prepare for the day when the Lord will return.

Daily Bible Reading - May 4th, 2020 | American Bible Society Hope Church

Daily Bible Reading - May 4th, 2020 | American Bible Society: Hebrews 9:1-22: Rules Shalom. Salaam. Peace. Paz. In Hebrew, Arabic, English and Spanish, we wish you peace. Shalom is the Hebrew word for peace, but it means more than the absence of conflict. Shalom means: God, creation, and all creatures webbed together in right relationship and mutual delight.

We pray for and seek shalom for our neighbors, shalom for strangers, sojourners, and refugees, shalom for creation, shalom for those with broken spirits or mental illness, shalom for families, and shalom for those of other faith traditions. In our experience, Jesus Christ embodies, teaches, and accomplishes God’s will for shalom.

Our Values

We frame our life together around the themes of worship, community, education, and service. Those themes are rooted in Philippians 2:1-11, and serve as the basis for our values which guide us in all that we seek to do.

WORSHIP

We value worship that intentionally awakens us to the presence of God through the preaching of the Word and the celebration of the sacraments.

We use the voices of the congregation in liturgy, music, prayer, and proclamation.

We expect preaching to be biblically-grounded, thoughtful, engaging, challenging, relevant, and responsive to the movement of the Spirit.

We try to develop well-crafted and participatory liturgies, including music that is thematically of one piece with the liturgy.

We seek a balance of music that represents the best of Christian hymnody while intentionally including new forms of worship music.

We want worship to be authentic to our experience while being hospitable, accessible, and inclusive to a broad sweep of worshippers.

We strive to worship in a manner that inspires, encourages, and sends us out to love and serve God and neighbor.

Daily Bible Reading - May 3rd, 2020 | American Bible Society

Daily Bible Reading - May 3rd, 2020 | American Bible Society: Hebrews 8:1-13: God gave Moses the plans for building the first Sacred Tent (Exodus 25:40—26:37). Israel’s priests offered sacrifices at this tent and later at the Temple. Both the Sacred Tent and the Temple are imperfect when compared to the real place of worship in heaven.

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Reaching One Billion Souls for Jesus | Blog | News | American Bible Society: Charles Spurgeon said,

Daily Bible Reading - April 19th, 2020 | American Bible Society

Daily Bible Reading - April 19th, 2020 | American Bible Society: Hebrews 1:1-14: The Letter to the Hebrews is a teaching sermon that is designed to help explain what the new Christian faith is all about. Today’s passage explains that the ancient prophets spoke God’s message to his people, but now God has sent Jesus to tell God’s message, achieve forgiveness for humanity’s sins, and rule over all creation forever.

Daily Bible Reading - April 18th, 2020 | American Bible Society

Daily Bible Reading - April 18th, 2020 | American Bible Society: John 21:15-25: After sharing a breakfast of bread and fish with seven of the disciples, Jesus calls upon Peter to follow him and to care for Jesus’s lambs and sheep. John’s Gospel concludes by saying that there were many other things that Jesus did, and that not enough books could be written to contain them all.