New Life Baptist Church, College Station Texas

After 9 months in the Book of Exo­dus, it all comes down to this. We’ll be fin­ish­ing the book tonight in a mes­sage called “The Power of God’s Grace,” which cov­ers chap­ters 35–40. There are many pow­er­ful forces in our world, but none are as pow­er­ful as the grace of God. God’s grace is the only force pow­er­ful enough to change the sin­ful human heart.

This evening, we will learn:

1. God’s grace com­pels us to give generously.
2. God’s grace empow­ers us to obey fully.
3. God’s grace enables us to serve freely.
4. God’s grace moves us to fol­low faithfully.

We hope you can join us tonight for the Exo­dus series finale and as we kick-off Build­ing the Future.  See you at 5pm!

We have just two weeks left in our Exo­dus series after tonight, but this book is def­i­nitely not fiz­zling out. Tonight’s mes­sage is enti­tled “The Root and Fruit of Idol­a­try” and cov­ers Exo­dus 32. In this piv­otal chap­ter, the Israelites demand that Aaron make for them an idol because Moses was not com­ing back as quickly as they wanted or expected. Rather than rebuk­ing them, Aaron made them a golden calf. Then the peo­ple had a full-out pagan wor­ship fes­ti­val com­plete with a feast, danc­ing, and…well, the text leaves the reader to assume.

In this evening’s mes­sage, we’ll learn that the root of idol­a­try is unbe­lief in God and His Word, and when that root is allowed to grow, fruit is pro­duced. The fruit we see from idol­a­try in this pas­sage is the desire for con­trol, the fear of man, and the love of self. We hope you can join us tonight at 5pm for worship!

Tonight we are tack­ling seven (7? Yes, 7!) chap­ters of Scrip­ture. We’ll be cov­er­ing Exo­dus 25–31 in a mes­sage called “God-Honoring Wor­ship.” Most of us would agree with the state­ment that we are to wor­ship God, and many of us would even say that all of our lives need to be about wor­ship. But what is wor­ship? And more impor­tantly, what is God-honoring wor­ship? We’ll seek to answer those ques­tions this evening.

If you are new to New Life or have been vis­it­ing for a lit­tle while and would like to meet some of our mem­bers and church lead­ers, we invite you to stay for our Guest Din­ner imme­di­ately after the ser­vice. See you tonight at 5pm!

In tonight’s mes­sage (“God Demands Purity and Enables Wor­ship”), we’ll be cov­er­ing Exo­dus 23:20–24:18. Now that God has revealed Him­self and His Law to His peo­ple, the peo­ple will be required to respond. Any encounter with God requires a response, and this encounter is no dif­fer­ent. When peo­ple encounter God, they either respond by hard­en­ing their hearts (as Pharaoh did) or with repen­tance and faith (as Israel will). What will our response be?

We also hope that you will join us at 4pm for our first Cor­po­rate Prayer Meet­ing. Dur­ing that time, we’ll have Preschool care for chil­dren up to five years old, and Truth and Grace for kids four or five on up. See you tonight!

Prior to Spring Break, we saw God’s holi­ness on dis­play in Exo­dus 19, and learned of His holy stan­dard by focus­ing for two weeks on the Ten Com­mand­ments in Exo­dus 20. In tonight’s mes­sage, we will look at Exo­dus 21:1–23:19 in a mes­sage called, “Putting Skin on the Ten Commandments.”

In this long pas­sage of Scrip­ture, God helps Israel to under­stand how the Ten Com­mand­ments were to be lived out in every­day life. “Do not mur­der” is the over­ar­ch­ing com­mand, but what hap­pens when some­one is killed in an acci­dent? What hap­pens when someone’s ani­mal kills some­one else’s ani­mal? What if someone’s ani­mal kills a per­son — and the ani­mal had hurt some­one before?

All of these kinds of ques­tions are answered in Exo­dus 21:1–23:19. But what is most clear isn’t the ques­tions that are answered — it is the ques­tion that is raised. And that ques­tion is, “With all of the bad things that hap­pen in our world, how will things ever be made right again?” We’ll see that Jesus alone can restore our bro­ken world, other bro­ken peo­ple, and bro­ken peo­ple like you and me. We hope to see you tonight at 5pm!