New King Church

Jesus According to Jesus: I Am the Good Shepherd

This Sunday, Aaron Clark spoke about the true goodness of our Good Shepherd with a main focus on the scripture verses of John 10:1-30. Jesus came so that we would be able to know our shepherd and be guided into true abundant life. As the Good Shepherd, Jesus cares about our souls; He knows us better than we know ourselves and Ezekiel 34 is a foreshadowing of our Shepherd by showing us what He will do to bring us back to Him. In John 17:3 Jesus defines eternal life as "knowing God," and we need to make sure we are getting to know our Good Shepherd- let's make this a priority in the days to come!

Jesus According to Jesus: Light of The World

There is a distinct difference between the God who loves us and the god of this world. This Sunday Pastor Ben taught us how deadly ignorance and distraction is along with how our choices are what is determining which god we serve. We have a say in this battle- we can choose the domain of darkness, or we can sacrifice our flesh and live in the presence of The Light of The World (John 8:12).

Jesus According to Jesus: Soul Satisfaction

This Sunday we started in our new sermon series with leader Aaron Clark teaching on the importance of finding satisfaction in the Kingdom of God rather than the world we live in. Jesus is the only source of life and we have a tendency to "seek Christ to use Christ rather than to satisfy and delight in Him" (Aaron Clark). We need to be living in such a way that we can remove ourselves from a life of covetousness and worldly desires to life of joy in Christ. Listen as Aaron describes more of the life we are intended to pursue.

The Ascended Jesus

This Sunday at New King we had the privilege of hearing from Ben Whittinghill who pastors Rivertown Church in Brattleboro, VT. Ben Whittinghill was our Pastor Ben's first Christian friend after coming to Christ in college at the University of Georgia and has also been called to Vermont for church planting! We are so grateful for his presence this past Sunday and teaching. Listen as Ben takes us through the scriptures to look at the ascended Lord Jesus and see who He is for us today.

Made for More: Eat Like Jesus

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work" (John 4:34).This week Pastor Michael taught us that from the Great Commission (Matthew 28:16-20) we, as Christians, are called to make disciples and not only when it's convenient to us. There will be a lot of times when making disciples may not go way we want, or the opportunity comes at a time not befitting of our schedules- but that doesn't mean that the call gets put on hold. God has a plan, don't let yourself stand in the way of opening the door for someone else to learn about Jesus.

Made for More: True Worship

We were created to have a relationship with God yet we still find ourselves drifting to things that are apart from God for soul satisfaction. This Sunday, Pastor Ben teaches us that if we are living for anything other than God, we are setting ourselves up to be disappointed. Jesus died so that we would live our whole lives for Him- our response should be to tear down all other idols in our life and to trust Him to have access to all of us, "God calls us to yield" (Pastor Ben).

Made for More: Love

This Sunday we continued in our Made for More series with Aaron leading us into how we were made for love. Jesus didn't come into the world to condemn it, but to save it (John 3:17); this shows the immense amount of love God has for His children. We have a Father that not only offers us grace, but also sympathizes with our weaknesses. "The love we were made for is truly amazing" (Aaron Clark) so let us learn to live in that love. (2/17/19)

Made for More: Word & Spirit

Our Made for More sermon series is all about how God is calling us to be more than what we see ourselves becoming. He has such great plans and we seem to have such great blind spots to our potential. Listen as Pastor Ben shares on how important it is to have the Word and the Spirit working in unison, because having just one isn't enough. 2/10/19

Start Here: Welcome Home

Welcome Home is the last sermon in our series Start Here. This Sunday we had Pastor Michael teach on the nostalgia of coming home after being gone for a long time and how Jesus must've had that similar feeling for the temple. However, when we return home it may not always be as we left it and that can ruin the taste of past memories. Listen as we are encouraged to make Jesus our home and sanctuary from the world, He is the only thing we can count on to be constant. (2/3/19)

Start Here: Do Whatever He Tells You

This Sunday, Pastor Ben taught on the importance of total obedience to God through the scripture passage of John 2:1-11. We are shown that God prefers obedience and listening over sacrifice (1 Samuel 15:22) and with that obedience, we are allowing Him to take complete control of our lives- which makes room for the best outcomes possible.
To choose obedience we need to make sure we are disciplining ourselves to trust Him:
1. We will do whatever He tells us, exactly as He tells us.
2. We will do whatever He tells us to do even if it's not logical.
3. Do what He says even when it's risky.
Jesus never shows the outcome alongside what He's asking from you, so faith is always required but that faith is also rewarded. (1/27/19).