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Does your foot automatically come off the accelerator pedal when you buzz by a police car on the side of the road? Do your eyes then anxiously glance up to the rearview mirror? Sure we respect authority— when we have to. But can living under authority enrich our lives? Read More →

Sometimes inadequate information hinders us from making good decisions. But often we simply lack the necessary wisdom to make the right choice at the right time. In this section the Teacher will address where such wisdom comes from and how we can capitalize on it for future decisions. Read More →

The same lifestyle of discontent that infects our culture also held sway for many of the Teacher’s contemporaries. In this section he challenges his readers to stop seeking satisfaction from accumulating things. Instead he offers an alternative, one that leads to a lifestyle of... Read More →

“The church is full of hypocrites!” Christians often hear this from those outside the church. Instead of uncomfortable acknowledgment of the obvious, I like to respond by saying, “Yes, but if you think they’re bad now, you should have seen them before God got hold of them!”  When... Read More →

This famous chapter of Ecclesiastes poses a solution for life’s bothersome dilemma. The solution hinges on how we answer a third question: Who is really in control? If people are in charge, then life is a game of chance whose rules are controlled by the most powerful among us.... Read More →

In this section of Ecclesiastes, the Teacher will look back at his own life’s work. If anyone had a great job, he did. Even so, he asks, “Does it really amount to anything significant?” Read More →

The water in the glass measures exactly at the halfway point. Now comes the classic test to determine whether you are a pessimist or an optimist: Do you consider the glass of water to be half empty or half full? Read More →

As you may know, New Life church is different than many churches you may have seen or attended.  Join with us in looking back over 2017, while looking forward to God’s direction for you in 2018. Read More →

Come celebrate the birth of Jesus with us and take a look “behind the curtain” at the reason for our celebration. Read More →

Unity, diversity, purity and harmony—these the apostle has stressed as major characteristics of the new life and the new society in Christ. It has seemed a beautiful ideal, an obviously desirable goal, and not so difficult to attain. But now Paul brings us down to earth, and to... Read More →