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Got Life A newsletter about spiritual enrichment for the Body of Christ
A Monthly Newsletter This is the day the Lord has made
What’s Going On The monthly calendar, birthdays and anniversaries, and Daniel’s Fast resource information. Page 3
Words From Our Ministries. Page 5
The cross alone did not remove
Celebrate Freedom
the chains of sin. But we had to except and obey God’s plan of salvation.
There is a country song that says these words, “Let freedom ring...it’s
Not only were we made free. But
Independence Day!” To most who are it would be words in a patriotic song. However, the song is dealing with a woman who could no longer stand being oppressed and brutalized, so she takes matters into her own hands. But as most country songs go, there isn’t a real happy ending. And you have to ask yourself was freedom really achieved?
Church Information NLTC ministry staff, service information and statement of faith. Page 10
The Lite Side
The Lite Side Biblical principles through humor Page 7
An address from the Senior Pastor. Page 2
not country music fans, it sounds like
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the separation between God and man, However, as Christians we should that took place in the Garden, forcing celebrate continually our man to leave a place where God independence from the oppression of
communed with him, was removed.
sin through the death, burial, and
Through salvation in Jesus Christ we
resurrection of Jesus Christ. When we, were reconciled - brought back into as individuals, were filled with God’s fellowship with God. spirit and baptized in Jesus name, we were made free indeed. Nothing else could bind us up. We were made free!
That’s something to celebrate! As Christians we can not take our freedom for granted. Let’s celebrate it by sharing our freedom story with others.
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IN OTHER WORDS My, my, my! May and June are gone. Never to be relived again. No matter how much we may wish we could rolled back the clock and live a certain moment or moments over again, it can’t happen. Sorry, no amount of pleading will help you (loughs). This year I made a pack with myself that for my 38th birthday I would try new things, visit new places in the city, and enjoy time with me the whole month long. If I wanted to go somewhere and there was no one to accompany, I would not allow that to keep me from taking in the experience. During the mont of June I got used to taking a table for one, just so I could delight my tastebuds. I was happy to share photos with friends and people on social network of what I was doing and where I was. I was claiming every moment of 38th birthday. Sure there were things I wanted to do, but didn’t. But there were far more things that I did do because I didn’t want to regret the “moment” that passed. That little experience gave me a greater determination to do what I’m always saying. LIVE!
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The Fall of Man By Bishop Brenda K. Perry
When I read the story of the fall of mankind, it amazed me that two things are being carried over from Adam and Eve to this day. It’s not a gender thing, nor a blame game. If they would not have fallen, it could have been their children. God has given us a will to serve and love Him. When you read chapter 3 of Genesis, you see they both were together walking in the garden. When the enemy of our soul approached Eve, Adam’s hands were not tied up, nor his mouth cover with tape or glue.
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The Power of Hope Luke 1:78-19 By Minister Isaac Bazile
Have you ever seen a Navy Aircraft Carrier and wondered how something that big can be held in place by an anchor that is only maybe one tenth the size of the ship? Have you ever wondered how things in life can seem so huge and impossible to They made a choice, and Adam chose achieve or overcome? Well, I’ll tell to disobey God, and take heed to the you. Hope is the anchor to life, and voice of his wife. (Genesis 3:17). Look the word that keeps us going in all at Genesis 3:11, “…..and He said, who seasons of life. Hope sees the present told you that you were naked? Have you moving towards a good future, even eaten from the tree of which I with all its imperfections. Hope has commanded you that you should not eat”? come and we have received this hope By Adam’s disobedience, sin was brought in the person of Christ. into the world”. Roman 5:12a, “Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world.” “Disobedience”
My mother taught me a great lesson about hope while she lived, even though she had been diagnosed I don’t want to just apply this to my natural In Genesis 3:17, “and the Lord God with colon cancer in the spring of life. But I want to stretch myself spiritually said to the woman, what is this you have 2005. I’m sure things looked bleak, and go for the “moment” God wants me to done? The woman said, “The serpent and it seemed that there was no hope experience. I may not achieve everything right deceived me, and I ate.” The Word of of her living past 2005, but she never away. But not achieving is not my focuses. God in Matthew 24:4, “and Jesus gave up. I believe she knew that in Living is. answered and said to them, take heed that order to keep the flicker of hope alive I want to experience the new things. If I have no one deceives you.” “Deception” that she might someday be healed of to go it alone, then hey at least I will be able to cancer, she needed to practice every From these two acts, deception and say I’ve experienced something new. day trusting God for that healing. She disobedience, we have a snowball I close with this question, what “moment” has affective that has multiplied throughout began by declaring it. Then is August God been waiting for you to LIVE? of 2005 hurricane Katrina hit New humanity. When we chose to disobey Orleans. She lost everything, and was God, no matter how small, we think evacuated to Houston. This was maybe it has a great affect on our lives Mel A. Perry, Editor In Chief something that would have tried and others. When you read the next anyone’s faith, and made hope for chapter of Genesis 4, here you see sin compounded with interest. Look how sin healing seem next to impossible. She has climaxed from the fall. Thanks be to accepted Jesus as her Savior, and was Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. He is our sin breaker and destroyer too. He has 2
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Looking Ahead Please mark your calendars for the upcoming events for July & August
JULY 4 Fourth of July 8 Evening Service 9 Leadership Prayer 22 Evening Service 24 Bishop B.K. Perry’s Birthday 25 Individual Ministry Bible Class (Women, Men, Children, Youth, Crosswalk) 28 Leadership Prayer 28 Children With Purpose Outing 29 Outreach Sunday AUGUST 11 Ladies Fellowship 12 Evening Service 14 Leadership Prayer 12 Celebrate/Recognition Sunday 25 Leadership Prayer 26 Evening Service
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Birthdays & Anniversaries Monthly birthdays and anniversaries of NLTC members. If your birthday is not listed, email the church office.
July 2! !
Chancellor Hines
July 13! !
Joshua Williams
July 16! !
Carey Mitchell
July 21! !
Stephanie Green
July 23! !
Esstine Padgitt
July 24! !
Bishop Brenda K. Perry
July 27! !
Tyron Chambers
July 27! !
Chynna Hines
July 27! !
Samuel Bell
Anniversaries Paul & Denise Dalcoe July 10 Raymond & Pam Wright July 10
Aug. 1! !
Christiana Christian
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Ja’Qualon Scott
Aug. 5! !
John Davis
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James Ramzy
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Valerie Padgitt
Aug. 8! !
Denise Bates
Aug. 16!!
Robin Green
Aug. 16!!
Jenika Jones
Aug. 17!!
Barbara Ademolu
Aug. 18!!
Angela Hardiman
Aug. 20!!
Elizabeth Gabriel
Aug. 25!!
Clayton Bates
Aug. 27!!
Capricious Wright
Aug. 28!!
Isaac Bazile
Aug. 31!!
Catherine Powell Anniversaries
Steve & Donna Stephens Aug. 6 Billy & Gwen Williams Aug. 12 Isaac & Jackie Bazile Aug. 25
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of being dead to sin.
We have a choice like Adam and Disobey: Defying against God, and Eve. God did not make any robots. We His authority. Satan was the first to do still have a free will to choose life or so death. Roman 6:12-14 tells us that we have to make a decision to not let sin It will cause you to go against the reign or rule in our body. That means Word of God we must reject those things that do not please God. Sin has no dominion over It will cause you to challenge us. Just like Adam and Eve before the leadership, whether they are Christian, our government, parents, fall, they had no struggle with sin. What they gave up is what we are or education leaders fighting to have, and that is a great It will cause you to violate the relationship with God. And what we righteousness and holiness of God fight to keep out our lives is what they chosen to have. We must be like It will cause self-destruction Enoch to choose to walk with God 365 It will cause more sin to come forth days, and leap year too, until He comes to take us out of this world. into your life It will cause your relationship with God to diminish Deceive: We know it originates from Satan. He is the father of all lies
I would like to end with Ephesians 1:4, “Just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love”.
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4. Because God never forgets who we are. C. JESUS IS OUR DAYSPRING OF HOPE 1. Luke 1:78-79 reads, “Through the heartfelt mercies of our God, God's Sunrise will break in upon us, shining on those in the darkness, those sitting in the shadow of death, then showing us the way, one foot at a time, down the path of peace”. 2. Jesus is our hope and Jesus our hope is our dayspring. We all have a dayspring horizon coming into our life. Hope is the power of a dayspring experience. 3. Dayspring defined: the particular point on the horizon at which the sun comes up on any day, changing the day into a new day, a daybreak, a breaking out, a sunrise.
My mother passed away this past April, seven years after being It will lead you into rebellion against baptized in His precious name. She then diagnosed. Even her doctors said it was began to increase her faith through the a miracle, and that she truly trusted in authority word of God, prayed and believed in God. My mother made a choice to live It will cause you to wander far from that hope (Jesus Christ). She did this her life to the fullest and trust in God your position in God every day for the next seven years. and live in expectation. Every day she renewed her hope that It will entrap, trick and capture your The person who chooses to live life she would one day be able to be in total mind and heart to the full will need to nurture a heart remission. that is filled with God-given It main goal is to steal, kill and I. HOPE IS OUR DAYSPRING expectations. Our expectations are destroy your life making it a total based on the God of hope. Our obliterate A. HOPE HAS COME confidence is not in chance or good Hope is the confident fortune but in the true and living God. If Because of the fall of man we all are expectation and firm assurance of you have been disappointed by placing sinner born and shaped into iniquity. things that are unclear or unknown, your expectations on a fallible person, There is no power within oneself to save things we cannot see and have not as good as that person may be, you may or deliver oneself. But, “God so love the received. be discouraged and hopeless or angry. world that he give His only begotten Son, Lift your heart and eyes and place your who so ever believeth on Him should B. HOPE IS REAL expectation in the God of hope. He have everlasting life”. Because of Christ 1. Because we hope in the person or never leaves you, nor forsakes you. He becoming that perfect sacrifice for all spirit of God not a philosophy. loves you at all times, and His word humanity, to those that believe in Him, 2. Because nothing is impossible abides forever. He is trustworthy. we have power to overcome the pitfalls of with God. the devil. Take the time to read the whole 3. Because God knows the future chapter of Romans 6. We have the choice and is in control. It gives false hope, and security
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New Life Temple Ministries Words from our ministries
Outreach Ministry
BUILDING ON YOUR FAITH
Faith is the key ingredient in our relationship with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Hebrews 11, verse 6 states, “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him”. 1Peter 1:1 states, “that we have obtained like precious faith”. This translated from the Greek word “isotimos” means “of equal value”. There are no first class and second class Christians. Galatians 3:28 reads, There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus”.
Roman 2:11 tells us the God is not a respecter of person. Aren’t you glad about that? In order for our faith to be truly established, scripture tells us that we have to add to that measure of faith that our Lord gave to us. In Romans 12:3 we read, “……. as God has allotted to each a measure of faith”. Tony Evans gave this illustration that gives a great picture of adding to your faith.
added. “KNOWLEDGE” must be added. Peter uses the word “gnosis” for knowledge which is “practical wisdom”. True knowledge is acted out. “SELF CONTROL” must be added. Self control means to control our passions. “PATIENCE” must be added. We, as Christians, must persevere with courage against all odds. “GODLINESS” must be added. Godliness is a life of worship. “BROTHERLY KINDNESS” must be added. We must be affectionate one to the other. We are to add friendship to our faith. Lastly, “LOVE” must be added. Can you believe Peter put “love” and the end? No matter how we add to our faith, unless it is done in our Lord’s love, it is useless.
“Cement, in order to become concrete, must be mixed with sand and water. If bags of cement in a store are never stirred in with water, that cement will never become I encourage you to look at concrete. these building blocks of Water and faith to see where you are. sand must be In which area(s) do you married if need to make you want to improvements? After get adding to your faith, please something remember to share your that is faith. cementable. In order for God to make The word “isotimos” also refers to your life concrete, you are going to “equal standing”, or “equal rank”. In have to learn to mix it. You have to Elder Edna Johnson serves as the take faith, mix it with works, and other words, no matter who you are, Outreach Director of New Life Temple no matter your educational level, rich watch God lay some concrete in your Church life”. or poor, as a believer in Christ Jesus you have equal standing with other Peter tells us to give all diligence believers before God. We are able to in adding to our faith. The building have equal standing and equal value block begins with “VIRTURE”. The in our faith through the righteousness excellence of Christ likeness must be of God, and our Savior Jesus Christ. July/August
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Confession: I enjoy NPR. In fact I listen to s Not ’ NPR, PRI and t a h T “Uh, ture” l local public u C My radio more than I do any other radio station. Lite The d Si e
The strange thing is that though I’m a huge fan of public radio, I don’t financially support them in any way or agree with half of the things I hear being played. I’m sure I’m not the only listener who enjoys NPR’s service while refusing to be a financial supporter. But I wonder how may avid listeners enjoy their local public radio station or maybe they have the NPR or PRI apps on their phone for constant listening pleasure while finding they don’t agree with a large percentage of the content they hear? It’s almost like a Christian going to a Muslim mosque each week just because they admire the beautiful artwork on the dome, the expenses turkish prayer rug or the beautiful voice of the Imam as he prays. LOL! Seriously? It would never happen. However, I have this strange delightful reaction when I hear Cokie Roberts’ voice coming through my radio on a Monday morning. Her voice makes me feel like I’m in a room full of intellectuals.
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with 88.1 and work my way down to find the gospel station for my mum and I. I think I first fell in love with public radio back when I was in junior high school. I developed a love for the finer side of music, hmmm. But it was somewhere around the Gulf War that I came to love the “talking” side of public radio. Being that we didn’t have televisions in our home, and KTRH 740 AM didn’t always come in at night, I needed something to feed my need for talk radio news- thanks to my dad. I didn’t pay much attention to whether I agreed with the opinions or slant of the news. I just needed to hear intellectuals ramble on about the world. Now that I’m wiser and know that I stand at an opposing side of a great deal of the stuff they feed my brian, I’m still addicted to my local public news radio station. I’m not saying that I disagree with everything that comes on public radio, but there is a great deal of stuff that comes across my radios that causes me to have a one-sided debate with my radio. Some people may say that is absolutely crazy! However, how many people do the same thing when it comes to issues of morality, our Christian faith, entertainment, or other issues that matter to us? How many of us just accept what we don’t agree with because we are addicted to appeals to our flesh?
Over the last year the issue of homosexuality, same sex marriage, and “bullying” have been pushed into just about every part of our lives. Let’s forget politics for a moment. In the first quarter of the year Starbucks stop hiding behind their “love everybody” agenda and came out and said they would finically support When I travel out of town, the first the same-sex marriage agenda. And thing I want to find when I get into the because they know most pro-traditional rental car is where is the Classical or NPR are addicted to whatever, they would station. Of course when my mum is in the never rally enough people to boycott car with me I have to pretend to look for Starbucks and change the mind of the a local gospel station. However, I’m smart corporate office. enough to know that all public stations start at the top of the dial. So even if the Then a couple of months back JC station is on 107.3 I’ll find a way to start Penny lent their support to the same-sex agenda by showing a tv ad for Father’s I’ve even been known to sleep through hours of NPR’s Morning Edition, while the stories become dreams playing around in my head, only to confuse me when I wake up. “Was I in Belarus yesterday?”
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Day with a non-traditional family that had two daddy and kids. Very little outcry was heard. But it didn’t just start...our addiction to accepting what we don’t agree with. For years we have watched shows with non-traditional families (I’m speaking from a biblical sense). How many of our favorite shows have promoted common law marriages (like what is that?) or extreme violence and vulgarity, legalize prostitution (excessive divorce) and the list goes on, and on. Ok, I’m being too deep. So what about the stuff we accept in our personal lives that we know we don’t really agree with, but we have become addicted to them being there or happening? It’s almost like the tragedy of a person who is in an abusive relationship, but when they try to leave they feel like something relevant is missing from their live. There are people who we would be better off, naturally and spiritually, if they could just instantly replace the need for the “bad” person in their life with someone or something else. They know they don’t agree with the lifestyle of their friend, which is also having a negative effect on them. But they are addicted. We treat our bodies like disposals, though we know that what we are eating or doing is harm to ourselves, we are just addicted. Addiction is a powerful little enemy. Most of the time we justify the small good over the much larger evil. When you take the two ideas, choice and addiction, it seems like addiction wins more battles over choice. Does my addiction influence my choice or does the reality that I have a choice give me power to over come my addiction? While I love talk radio, NPR isn’t my only choice. It’s just what I’m addicted to. What about you?
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The purpose of New Life Temple Church is to instill the faith of Jesus Christ into the lives of all people, bringing them into spiritual perfection with a spirit of excellence.
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We believe that - in Him (Jesus) dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fullness dwell.
We believe in being born again of waterby immersion in the name of the Lord “Jesus� Christ for the remission of sins, and in Spirit baptism of the Holy Ghost speaking in other tongues as the Spirit gives utterance. We believe in divine healing, communion and foot washing.
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We believe in presenting our bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God.
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We believe this one true God, who revealed Himself as Father in Creation, as Son in redemption, and as Holy Ghost in regeneration.
We believe in the death, burial and resurrection.
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We believe in one eternal God; infinite in power, holy in nature, attributes and purpose, as well as omniscient and omnipresent.
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