Post Category: Life Together

In 1995, our family moved from Sunrise, Florida to St. Charles, Illinois. Following the Lord’s leading, we joined a church with a heart for expository preaching and missions. At the very same time, this church, the former Fox Valley Bible Church, was developing a partnership with a sister church in Poltava, Ukraine. Over the years, we have seen this partnership deve...

Happy Fall! I’m a four-seasons guy, and I love every time of year living in the Midwest (except maybe the month of March, no offense intended to those of you who were born in that dreary month…). But I don’t think life in the Midwest gets any better than in October: pumpkin donuts, pumpkin spice lattes, pumpkin pancakes, and, for variety’s sake, ...

Brothers and sisters at New Covenant. I want to commend you for your participation in the newly formed Institute of Disciple Makers, which actually began back in Mid August ...

Have you ever gotten a thought stuck in your head that you can’t seem to drive out or dismiss? Whenever there’s a quiet moment it pops into your head. You lay down to sleep and sleep won’t come because you’re turning this matter over in your mind. This has been my experience over the last several months. The thought I have been grappling with...

I don’t know which sins come easiest for you. That is, I don’t know how you find yourself most frequently tempted and embattled in the good fight of faith. But I think a strong case can be made from Scripture that the easiest way to sin is with our tongues....

This past Sunday we heard how we are to be disciples of Christ who are engaged in making disciples for Christ. As I considered the implications of such a statement I began to reflect on my life. My thoughts were drawn to those who discipled me....

I am deeply strengthened in my faith as we have been feeding together on the Book of Job. Preparing these sermons has been for me and my brothers who have preached alongside me one of the most intensely challenging exercises I’ve ever experienced in preaching the Word. By God’s mercy, it’s been unusually fruitful and rewarding in our own lives, and fro...

As our New Covenant family journeys through the book of Job, we can all find ourselves at times relating painfully to the experience of Job, which we often refer to as our own “Job experience.” Isn’t it wonderful how God speaks so clearly to our life experience in His Word?...

This summer in the youth group, we have been picking a few different Proverbs to study on Wednesday nights. This week we will be looking at Proverbs 14:30 and discussing the sin of envy....

Have you ever heard anybody ask, “Is adult Christian Education really necessary?” It is not uncommon in our day for Christians to believe that Christian Education for adults is really a waste of time....