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Weekly Reminders

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In a historic moment is our church history, the Advisory Council and the Pulpit Committee will present candidates to our congregation for the purpose of selecting a successor to the former Founder and Pastor. It is a great opportunity for us to glorify the Lord our God, bless the collective body and operate in obedience to the scriptures by setting those things of leadership in order (I Cor 14:40, Titus 1:5). This Church meeting, scheduled for Saturday, March 25th, 2023 beginning at 9:00 am is for all eligible members. Please make your plans to attend and if you have any questions or concerns, contact your respective Deacon. Thanks, and we’ll see you Saturday.

In the meantime, continue to pray, asking the Lord for wisdom, direction and grace in our decision making.

God has called us unto a holy calling to preach Christ in all nations, baptize those who believe on the lord Jesus and to training those who will follow Jesus’ doctrine and teaching. Our role and responsibility is to faithfully obey Him. We are looking excited about participating in “The Great Commission” to be discipled and trained to the word of God, to share in fellowship of the saints and to encourage and share with one another in love. “And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works” Hebrews 10:twenty-four

Our Daily Bread Devotional

All In-Person events and services will observe our Safe Fellowship Protocol

TUESDAY BIBLE STUDY & DISCIPLESHIP TRAINING AND PRAYER

  • Current lesson series through the book of Romans at our weekly in-person Tuesday Bible Study. This week’s memory verse is Romans 5:1 and the reading is Romans 3

WEDNESDAY VIRTUAL BIBLE STUDY & PRAYER

Virtual Women’s Bible Study via ZOOM every Wednesday beginning at 7:00 pm

Our Men’s ministry invites men of all ages to pray, fellowship and be both encouraged and challenged to be the man God is searching for (Eze. 22:30). Virtual meeting Wednesdays on ZOOM Login: 875 7229 6913 PC: 1711

SUNDAY’S PULPIT POINTS

Pulpit Points is an audio and video collection of preached messages from the pulpit of New Berean Baptist Church. You can listen again or download the message and listen as you see fit from the comfort of your home, vehicle or while working out in the fitness center. 

"Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal." II Corinthians 4:16-18
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New Berean Baptist Church will resume in-person JUNIOR CHURCH and the ACTS 17:11 TEEN DISCIPLESHIP CLASS
– Time: 9:30 AM
– When: 1ST, 2ND & 3rd Sundays
– Where: Fellowship Hall & Classrooms 5-6
– Youth – 1st through 6th Grade – Teens – 7th Grade through High School

Be encouraged by the daily devotional from Our Daily Bread

Thank you whole-heartedly for your faithful and consistent giving which keeps us serving you, our leaders and missionaries serving to the glory of the Lord.

COMING SOON

Ladies, join our Women’s Fellowship for a time of fellowship and encouragement at our “Ladies Friendship Tea” coming in May.

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Our worth as individuals are defined by the Lord in his word (Ps. 139:14) word of God. We are many members but of one body with the potential of reaching the multitudes who need to be saved. Share, serve and love is what we do as we search the scriptures daily. Thank you for being a blessing

PREACH TO THE LOST, BAPTIZE THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND DISCIPLE THOSE WHO WILL FOLLOW

MEET THE CANDIDATE

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Below, we have captured some preached messages by our respective candidates. If you have any questions, please contact us.

Pastor Antonio Harris – Highland Avenue Baptist Church,

Minister Donald Franklin – Little Grove Baptist Church

Experience:
Senior Pastor – Highland Avenue
Baptist
2014 – Present
Church Planter – North American
Mission Board
2010 – 2014
Clinical Chaplin – University of Cincinnati Medical Ct

Family Status:
Married: Samantha Harris (31 yrs.)
Children: Darius, Jair, Destiny.

Experience:
Associate Pastor – Little Grove
Baptist Church
2006 – Present
Associate to the Pastor (Volunteer) – Little Grove Baptist Church
1996-2005

Family Status:
Married: Lisa Felton (22 yrs.)
Son: Courtney

Selected Messages

Click on the links below

Rev. Tony Harris

Dealing With Pain

A Message from Tony Harris

A Message From Tony Harris

A Message from Tony Harris

THE GOSPEL OF LOVE – Today, guest Minister, Antonio Harris delivered a timely message to encourage the hearer of the deep penetrating impact love that is God I John 4:7-11

  • The Love of God is Defined as God
  • The Word of God is Love Made Flesh
  • The Love of God was Preached on the Cross

Donald Franklin (message begins 53:54 mark)

Donald Franklin (message begins at 22:53 mark)

Donald Franklin (message begins at mark 46:15)

Donald Franklin (message begins at mark 25:00 minutes

Donald Franklin (message begins at the 33:35 mark)

SERVING TO WIN – God’s messenger, Minister Donald Franklins that the Lord wants us to be like the Apostle Paul in his willingness to reach the lost. Our calling to salvation is a call to service by remembering that servants are bound to their masters and free to serve. Taken from the context found in I Corinthians 9:19-23, we find in Paul, the example that will make us intentional and a people of purpose.

• God Wants Us To Be a Witness
• God Gives Us The Plan to Reach People Who Seem To Be Unreachable
• Serving God, as We Serve Others, Opens Doors

The Choice of God

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We are responsible for making decisions all day every day. From getting cold coffee to having a peppermint latte to going to work (on time) or going fishing (with the crew). To be or not to be and the decisions we make go on. Even if we choose not to decide, we have decided that too.

Isarel was given an assignment to choose a new king (I Sam. 16). The people had their standards, but failed to realize, that God’s ways were not theirs. God sees things from a divine perspective and wants us to trust him and confident in his ways. God wanted them to transition from Saul into a new day, new era under the new man that he was going to select.

As we approach a new day a new era in our life and ministry, let us consider the direction God wants for us by:

Next: Trusting God’s Decision

The Call to Pastor

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The call to Pastor is the call of God to shepherd, oversee, lead, feed and disciple people to live lives to the glory and honor the Lord. He is a vessel chosen (Acts 9:15) to look out for and look over the people who make up the church of Christ and locally meet to fulfill the “The Commission” which he has ordained.

The call comes from God’s heart to fulfill his plan. His plan involves providing a person with his mindset, “And I will give you shepherds according to My heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding” Jer. 13:15. The word shepherd is translated from the word, rāʿâ, which means to tend, feed, teach and rule over. The divine call to pastor is to submit to the role of servant by giving of themselves for sake of the flock, God’s flock.

As we approach these historic of days at New Berean, we are encouraged to submit ourselves to God’s will and God’s word in prayer continually and showing ourselves approved by searching the scriptures daily (not weekly, monthly or conveniently), encouraging one another . when we meet and when we are away from one another until we meet again.

Next: The Choice of God

Sunday’s Coming

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Welcome to A Brand-New Day at New Berean

Join our Prayer Warrior’s Ministry this Sunday beginning at 9 am for a moment of time before the Lord’s holy throne. We are encouraged to extend God’s invitation to come in confidence to corporately seek his face (I Chron. 16:11) and fellowship with other believers.

This Sunday we remember the calling on our lives to be witnesses for the Lord Acts 1:8

Sunday morning is a time of excitement, filled with anticipation of fellowship and being renewed with God’s people from the previous week’s blessings, trials and challenges. It is also a moment to be refreshed and encouraged by the teaching, preaching and songs about the great and mighty God who loves us with an everlasting love. In addition to honoring the Lord and fellowshipping with Saints of the Highest:

  • We share and distribute our possessions among one another (Acts 4:32-37)
  • We are trained and taught the doctrines of Christ and his apostles (Matt. 28:18-20)
  • We fellowship and exercise our spiritual gifts among each other (Heb. 10:24-25)
  • We willfully submit and are accountable to our ministry leaders (Heb:13:17)

As we prepare to enter into the house of the Lord, let us also prepare to be trained and discipled in the things of Christ (Matt. 28:20). The “Commissioner” has commissioned all his followers to assemble and be taught as a means to properly equip us with the tools need to carry out his order. It is our duty and obligation to our Lord to faithfully obey.

WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL

Observing His Teachings – Jesus told his disciples that they are to teach others to observe the things he taught them (Matt. 28:20). In this month’s lessons we will follow the Lord as he teaches his disciples the commandments, the principles and doctrines he expected them to teach. This is what he called discipleship. We will look at lessons as recorded by Luke, Matthew, John and Mark. Join us in our Sunday Devotional this month.

We are currently gathering under our “Safe Fellowship Protocol” for the safety of our guests and family

Because our environment is still so unstable and our health is so vulerable, we are still asking all our guests, family and visitors to wear masks and facial covers while inside the facility. We are asking everyone to be as considerate as they can to help protect and demonstrate the love of our Lord by

I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord!” Psalm 122:1

READY – SET – GO !

Considering One Another in Love, Click to Learn More

Welcoming you as our “Special Guests” to our in-persons services. For your safety and confidence, we are conducting these in-person service under our “Safe Fellowship Protocol” which we ask you to review. This Protocol includes:

  • The wearing of masks or facial coverings while inside the facility.
  • Initial temperature readings are taken on the forehead or wrist
  • We ask you to be considerate and maintain a safe a respectable distance from others within the building and minimize congregating session times
  • We have ample supply of hand sanitizers for you and our facilities are cleaned and sanitized frequently

At the time, we are monitoring the VDH and CDC dashboards to ensure we are complying with the medical expert’s recommendations for safety and the safety of all our guests. If you have any questions, please let us know and we will seek to get you the information. The VDH is constantly providing the public with important health information relating to COVID, the flu and other communicable diseases specifically within the Churches and other “faith-based organizations. Please take a moment and be educated, click here Faith-based Organizations Health

Members, friends and guests, as a reminder, your financial gifts and offerings are the lifeblood which keeps our ministry functioning. As a good steward of the Lord, your gifts and offerings are an integral part of helping us share the word of God as we do with the potential to do greater things. Thank you again for your continued support of God’s work.

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New Day-Dawn is Here

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Thank you, the New Berean family ministry for your faithful dedication to our Father’s Business. You have allowed to use you, mature you and live through you for His glory. We are grateful and are excited for the things are yet to come at this local assembly.

Happy New Year to you New Berean! This is a new and exciting day for the ministry, and we are part of it. Just as the Israelites experienced a new day after crossing the Red Sea (Ex.14), we too will be experiencing a new day. God’s grace is our hope for tomorrow. We are here because of his grace. We gained somethings this past year and we lost some things. There were some areas of growth and maturing in our faith and some areas were we still need growth. but through it all, our God has remained faithful as he always is (I Cor. 1:9, 10:13).

But Joy Cometh in the Morning

This new year, the Lord our God will again introduce some more of his will to us and through us. He is going to introduce some new things and take away some old. He will manifest his divine will and solidify his word in our hearts. He is going to usher in and present to us a new Pastor to oversee and lead us into his glory. God is going to do some great and marvelous things and we will be called on by the Lord to make ourselves available for service in carrying out “The Commission“.

Exodus 32:29 “For Moses had said, consecrate yourselves today to the Lord, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.”

In wanting and receiving God’s blessings, we must do as Moses said to the Israelites. Consecrate ourselves and everything around us. We are a royal priesthood, a holy nation of people who are representing a holy God. All of who we are is to be holy from our speech, our actions and thoughts (Philippians 1:27). We are not the same anymore. We are, as the people of God growing and maturing into a body fitly joined together in love and supplying the needs we have (Acts 4:34).

The Lord is going to go before us in everything that we’re going to experience tomorrow and the next. Consecrating ourselves is our way of accepting God’s ways, his plans and his will. He is our hope (I Tim. 1:1), our peace (Eph. 2:4) and our joy (I John 4:4).

As we cross over into another new year, let us do so as Israel did in crossing over the Red Sea, in God grace, confidence and hope. Blessed New Year!

2 “Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore, arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I am giving to them—the children of Israel. 3 Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to Moses. 4 From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the River Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your territory. 5 No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life; as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you nor forsake you. 6 Be strong and of good courage, for to this people you shall [a]divide as an inheritance the land which I swore to their fathers to give them. 7 Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go. 8 This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. 9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Join us this Sunday as we usher in a new year under God’s eternal grace

Staying Healthy for Service

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Stay alert, watch and pray.

The Lord has assigned us the commission to spread the gospel to as many as will hear (Matt. 28:18-19a). But we limited our options to share with people when we are physically unable due to certain transmittable diseases. There are some things we cannot help but when the opportunity presents itself to take care of our bodies, and guard ourselves, we should. So, while we are spreading the gospel, let us not spread the diseases

Order your lot of COVID 19 tests from the CDC beginning today (12/15/2022). Click on the link CDC Tests before we all start gathering for the Christmas holidays.

Contact your Primary Care Provider, let them know your concerns and follow their instructions and advice on getting the FLU and COVID vaccines

Giving Thanks to the Lord

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Giving thanks to the Lord is his will. We are obliged to be mindful, grateful and humbled to the Lord for the many things we are afforded. His grace, his love, his providence, his provisions are all displayed in the person of his son the Lord Jesus Christ. The scriptures state “that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation” 2 Cor. 5:19. God did not spare even his only begotten son that we might be able to experience his precious love and intimate fellowship. 

 I Thess 5:18
"In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you"

So, as believers, no matter our traditions or customs, let us lift up our family and friends, situations and circumstances in prayer and thanksgiving to the Lord for his grace and mercy.

From our New Berean family to yours, Happy Thanksgiving

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Giving thanks to the Lord is his will. We are obliged to be mindful, grateful and humbled to the Lord for the many things we are afforded. His grace, his love, his providence, his provisions are all displayed in the person of his son the Lord Jesus Christ. The scriptures state “that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation” 2 Cor. 5:19. God did not spare even his only begotten son that we might be able to experience his precious love and intimate fellowship. 

 I Thess 5:18
"In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you"

So, as believers, no matter our traditions or customs, let us lift up our family and friends, situations and circumstances in prayer and thanksgiving to the Lord for his grace and mercy.

From our New Berean family to yours, Happy Thanksgiving

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