News and Notes
Faith Life Weekly
May 5-11, 2013
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for the Glory Bees 2013-2014
school year. The brochure and
registration can be found online
and in the brochure rack.
*ALSO*
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NEW Parent and Child Interactive
Class
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Glory Bees’ Summer Program
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Wednesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Opportunities for all this week at New Heights:
Contemplative Worship
10:00 am
Faith on Fire
5:15 pm
Craft Group
10:00 am
High School Lock In
6:00 pm
Women’s Bible Study
7:00 am
Have you seen our Future Building Site
on the corner of HWY 78 and 14 near Mazo?
Watch for upcoming events
this Spring and Summer:
FOOD, FAITH, AND FUN!
Campfires, Prayer Walks
and Fellowship opportunities!
May 8th
5:15-5:50—Meal
6:00-7:30 Faith on Fire -Youth Skit Team
Stop by anytime for a picnic lunch,
evening campfire or some quiet
time to yourself!
Geared for school age children on up to adults!
Sunday Morning Faith and Fellowship
9:45-10:15
Adult Bible Study with Jerry Schara — Fellowship Hall
Middle and High School Youth Fellowship — Youth Room
Sunday School (ages 3yrs—5th grade) — Downstairs Classrooms
Nursery Care available throughout the morning
www.newheightslutheranchurch.org
767-2247
May 15th
5:15-5:50—Meal
6:00-7:15 — Faith formation for all ages
May 22nd — YEAR END CELEBRATION
AT OUR NEW LAND
5:30-7:00 — Meal (provided) and Fellowship
If weather is inclement celebration and meal will be
held at NH Black Earth.
Galatians 1:13-17, 2:11-21
You know what I was like when I followed the Jewish religion—how I
violently persecuted God’s church. I did my best to destroy it. 14 I was far
ahead of my fellow Jews in my zeal for the traditions of my ancestors.
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But even before I was born, God chose me and called me by his marvelous grace. Then it pleased him 16 to reveal his Son to me so that I
would proclaim the Good News about Jesus to the Gentiles.
When this happened, I did not rush out to consult with any human being.17 Nor did I go up to Jerusalem to consult with those who were apostles before I was. Instead, I went away into Arabia, and later I returned to
the city of Damascus.
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But when Peter came to Antioch, I had to oppose him to his face, for
what he did was very wrong. 12 When he first arrived, he ate with the
Gentile Christians, who were not circumcised. But afterward, when some
friends of James came, Peter wouldn’t eat with the Gentiles anymore.
He was afraid of criticism from these people who insisted on the necessity of circumcision. 13 As a result, other Jewish Christians followed Peter’s hypocrisy, and even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy.
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When I saw that they were not following the truth of the gospel message, I said to Peter in front of all the others, “Since you, a Jew by birth,
have discarded the Jewish laws and are living like a Gentile, why are
you now trying to make these Gentiles follow the Jewish traditions?
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“You and I are Jews by birth, not ‘sinners’ like the Gentiles. 16 Yet we
know that a person is made right with God by faith in Jesus Christ, not
by obeying the law. And we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we
might be made right with God because of our faith in Christ, not because
we have obeyed the law. For no one will ever be made right with God by
obeying the law.”
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But suppose we seek to be made right with God through faith in Christ
and then we are found guilty because we have abandoned the law.
Would that mean Christ has led us into sin? Absolutely not! 18 Rather, I
am a sinner if I rebuild the old system of law I already tore down. 19 For
when I tried to keep the law, it condemned me. So I died to the law—I
stopped trying to meet all its requirements—so that I might live for
God. 20 My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who
live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the
Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 21 I do not treat the
grace of God as meaningless. For if keeping the law could make us right
with God, then there was no need for Christ to die.
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God’s Story—
Story—Our Story!
31 weeks Through the Bible Together
Today: Made right with God through faith in Jesus
READ: Galatians 1 and 2
Talk about:
Paul’s primary concern here is to emphasize that that we can in
know way save ourselves by being ‘good enough’, but rather are
saved by one thing only: the (undeserved) grace of God.
Paul is concerned because he feels the leaders (particularly Peter)
are sending mixed messages about this and thereby acting as
hypocrites.
- Can you think of time that you have sent mixed messages about
your faith by being hypocritical?
Paul also addresses the idea of ‘cheap grace’ at the end of the
reading.
- What are ways we treat God’s grace as ‘cheap’ or meaningless?
This Week: We are all one in Christ
READ: Galatians 3
Practicing the FAITH 5 at home:
SHARE– Share Highs and Lows
READ — Read some of this weeks readings
TALK — Talk about your highs and lows and how they might connect to
God’s Word (The Story)
PRAY— Pray for one another
BLESS — Bless each other by marking a cross on each other’s fore-
heads and say: ‘Jesus loves you and so do I’
In our prayers this week….
The friends and family of Robert Stoller as they grieve his death
NHLC Mission Partners with long-term prayer requests
Blondel Adkins, Marissa Bode, Kensel Disrud, Sabine Lobitz,
April Kalsow, Ardyth Birch, Helen Johnson