CONNECT, GROW, SERVE!
Welcome
WELCOME TO New Prospect
823 Highway 334, Oxford, MS - 662.234.365WE
Our SUNDAY SCHOOL is at 9:30 and Worship is 10:30 am
Sunday Nights are at 6 pm
A Recent “Buster Blog” from our pastor:
So, let’s talk about the MOST Important issue in life:
What is the most important issue in life, you may ask? How about KNOWING that your name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life (Rev. 20:15)!
In Revelation 20:15, it says, “And whosoever was not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the Lake of Fire”! That’s pretty sobering wouldn’t you say?
So, if you don’t want to one day die and face the judgment just to find that your name isn’t in the Book of Life, and then get cast into the Lake of Fire, you need to work really hard to make sure your name is in THAT Book!
What does it mean to have your name written in the Lamb’s Book of Life?
In church parlance it means to be “saved”. It means to be “born again”. To be right with God. To have your sins forgiven and to receive the gift of everlasting life! That’s what it means.
So, do you know how to be certain, assured that has happened to you? Let’s go to the Bible to see what God says about that.
FIrst of all, we are all classified by the Bible as sinners. That’s because we are ALL born in the direct linage of Adam and Eve. They were created perfectly and yet they disobeyed God and fell from perfection with God into sin. Therefore, anyone who is a descendant of Adam and Eve are sinners just as they were.
God did not want to lose mankind in this way. So, He became a man Himself! Literally, without putting off His deity, He became the God/Man, Emmanuel, God with us!
As the God man, He was able to then die, because the wage or penalty of sin was death. As the God/MAN Jesus Christ, He was able to actually die and pay the sin wage for us in our place.
Now, God has said that if you and I would just receive Jesus and what it is He did for us by dying on the cross for our sins, He will give us the right, the authority to become Children of God (John 1:12). I know that “believe” is too simply a condition for many, but look at exactly what God has said Himself in His Word:
”For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16
“Verily, Verily I say to you, He that he who hears my Word and believes on Him that sent me, has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death to life”. John 5:24
”And this is the will of Him who sent me, that everyone which sees the Son and believes on Him, may have everlasting life; and I will raise Him up on the last day”. John 6:40
”Verily, Verily I say to you, he that believes on Me (Jesus) has everlasting life.” John 6:47
Jesus paid to all. He took away the sin problem for all of us. He will forgive ALL of your sinfulness and change you with His everlasting Life! Will you simply turn to God by BELIEVING on His Son, Jesus, for the gift of everlasting life?
If you will, your name WILL BE written in the Lamb’s Book of Life!
That’s a promise from God!
Prayer requests: Check Back Often
Alice Hodge
Please pray for Alice Hodge who is recovering from leg surgery and will be in rehab for quite a while.
Buster and Cherry Renfrow
Buster is doing his best to live at home. Cherry is in a nursing home in Grenada. Please keep them both in your prayers.
Mary Percell, Kitty Silas, Robby Harris, Claudean White, and Quay Daniels
Mary Percell, Kitty Silas, Robby Harris and Claudean White and Quay Daniels are all in nursing `homes in Water Valley and Oxford, respectively. Please pray for them and visit as often as allowed. Write letters too.. Plus we have a few who are pretty much shut in at home, like the Renfrow’s and Betty Robertson.
Barbara King
Barbara King recently had surgery in Memphis for what was a cancer scare. BUT, praise God, she had the growth removed and there was NO CANCER! No further treatments are required, either. She is home and recouping.
Brother Les Buchanan
Brother Les was in the Hospital in Germantown/Memphis. He is now home doing some better dealing with heart issues. Please keep him in your prayers.
Ross Robertson
Ross is recovering nicely from his recent shoulder surgery. Please keep him in your prayers.
Please keep Luke Vanlandingham in your prayers
Luke recently had to go back to LaBonner for his unbalanced chemical issues. He's home now. He is a fantastic young teenager who needs our prayers for God's strength, health and wholeness. Please keep him on the top of your list.
Please keep all who are sick and physically down in your prayers
There is so much flu and RSV going around. Our God is the great Physician. Let's pray that He will keep everyone in our Church community well.
The Ministry Philosophy at NPBC!
CONNECT - GROW - SERVE
This phrase defines the purpose and function of NPBC.
(These are all the more important as we walk through this current world!)
Our first desire as a church is to CONNECT, first with Jesus and then with each other.
Then, we are to GROW in our knowledge of God and our relationships with each other.
Then finally, we are to SERVE each other, our Church, and to reach out and serve the world!
This phrase defines the FUNCTIONS that we do as a Church and WHY we do them:
We CONNECT with God in our worship services.
We GROW in knowledge and relationships in Sunday School.
We SERVE through Ministry Teams and Gospel Outreaches.
PICK A POINT IN THIS SIMPLE PHRASE TO SEE WHERE YOU ARE IN YOUR SPIRITUAL JOURNEY.
THEN COME, PLUG IN TO JESUS WITH US AT NPBC!
A Special “Buster Blog” Message From Our Pastor
Answering the questions of Culture and Life from the WORD OF GOD!
So, let’s talk for just a minute about this issue of transgenderism
I know it’s a very controversial subject, but why should it be? The issue of gender is just a matter of science! There are two genders. There is male and female in the human species. This is decided by our chromosomes and by our DNA. This is science; this is not politics. This is not some social construct or social positioning. This is simply factual science.
The problem with the WHOLE transgenderism issue is that it is one more opportunity for mankind to rebel against God and His established order.
He created us male and female. The Bible says that God created man as male and female. Male and female created He them, is how it’s recorded in Genesis chapter 1. Just to say that there is more than male or female, or that male and female is not enough, is to launch a direct attack against God, and His established, created order. This is the same issue with homosexuality of which transgenderism is a sub-variant. Homosexuality is not the created order of God. God created male and female so that they could have families, have a home, have babies and replenish the population of the Earth. Homosexuality comes along and destroys that established order and takes away the possibility of replenishing mankind, because two men cannot have babies, regardless of what people insist on today.
In the same way, transgenderism attacks the biblical order of God’s established creation. There’s a part of me that believes that desire of the left and the world system, the “new” world order, to reduce the population of mankind drastically, plays a role in this as well\. This is something that they have stated publicly! The famous Georgia Guide stones which are no more because someone blew them up, once had as one of its major tenants that the population of the Earth should be no more than 500 million. The reduction of population is a major goal of the left, of the world system of the new world order. With fewer people on the Earth, resources are not used up as quickly, the elite have an easier time of ruling a smaller group of people. It is also an opportunity for the left and the elite in the new world order to establish strict dominance over the smaller population.
So to accomplish this, what do they do?
They push something called abortion! They push abortion all the way to birth! And they also push homosexuality, transgenderism and any opportunity to keep men and women from being able to procreate and carry on the human population! These people are part of what I would call a “death cult”. They are all about death! You can’t say anything other than that when you have over 4000 abortions every day in America alone.
It’s absolutely insane that people are pushing the transgender issue today as they are. Especially when discussing things like, “gender, affirming care“ to minors, and even without acquiring their parent’s consent!
For over 5000 years IF men and women would cross dress, do drag shows, make up and act like the gender that they were not assigned by God at birth, they would have been seen as having a sickness, a mental illness or disorder. In fact, all the way until 2012, the American Psychological Association referred to these lifestyles as a mental illness and disorder! But now, it is being pushed on us as that which we MUST accept, what we must embrace and approve!
When we look at the Word of God, God’s position on these issues is quite clear. Paul‘s teachings in Romans 1 are devastating to the LGBTQIA+++ movement! He says, “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men…” (vs 18); Because they, “hold the TRUTH in unrighteousness”! (Vs. 18). The TRUTH, that which is undeniable (like God created only two genders….) is undeniable and when denied, it’s held in “unrighteousness”!
He goes on to say, “Profession toe be wise, they became fools,”! (Vs 22). I’m led to think about the man, a local city counsel member in a a northern state, that just ‘came out’ as a woman, a lesbian and a person of color. He is NEITHER a woman (and thus cannot be a lesbian), nor is he a person of color. He is a WHITE MAN. He was self congratulating online his “breaking the glass ceiling and women’s barriers”! Professing himself to be wise, he demonstrated just how much of a fool he actually is!
Paul says that they, because of their lusts and uncleanness of heart, dishonored their own bodies (Vs 24). They changed the TRUTH OF GOD into a LIE! And by doing so, showed themselves to be worshipping the creation (themselves) over God (vs 25)!
There are other places in God’s Word that clearly address the foolishness of today! Check out Leviticus 18; Romans 1; 1 Cor. 6; 1 Tim. 4 and 2 Tim. 3. Keep yourself in a systematic, regular study of God’s Holy Word and you will have discernment to recognize these foolish doctrines of demons that are punctuating our world today!
Well, I would prefer to stay with the science! I’d prefer to stay with the Bible, and I would prefer to stay with the fact that you were born either as a male or a female.
I’m sorry Google: there aren’t 72 different genders.
There are only two.
And that is a fact
Just a glance of Life at NPBC & OUR COMMUNITY!
WORSHIP AT NPBC
Here are the current Services and times at NPBC. Thank you so much for worshipping the Lord Jesus with us! There is NO SUBSTITUTE for the in-person fellowship of the Body of Christ!
Sunday School - LIFE UNIVERSITY:
9:30 am
Morning Worship:
10:30 am
Sunday Evening Worship:
6 pm
Wednesday Night Activities:
AWANA and STUDENT MINISTRIES: 5:30-7:30
Supper: 5:30
Adult Bible Study: 6