Dick Jaques Hired as New Hope’s Lead Pastor The Elders are excited to announce Dick Jaques has been officially hired as lead pastor at New Hope! He’ll start work November 1st. In the meantime, please pray for their transition details to all fall into place. Find out more on our website.

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Mark 12:28-34 (ESV) 28 And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” 29 Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” 32 And the scribe said to him, “You are right, Teacher. You have truly said that he is one, and there is no other besides him. 33 And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.” 34 And when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And after that no one dared to ask him any more questions.  

Broken Relationships with God with ourselves with others with creation

Love God w/ All of You Heart—emotional health Soul—spiritual health Mind—mental health Strength—physical health

The Object of our Affection Mark 12:35-37 35 And as Jesus taught in the temple, he said, “How can the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David? 36 David himself, in the Holy Spirit, declared, “‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet.”’ 37 David himself calls him Lord. So how is he his son?” And the great throng heard him gladly. 

The Object of our Affection Mark 12:35-37 35 And as Jesus taught in the temple, he said, “How can the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David? 36 David himself, in the Holy Spirit, declared, “‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet.”’ 37 David himself calls him Lord. So how is he his son?” And the great throng heard him gladly.  …but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.  Romans 5:8

We love because he first loved us. 1 John 4:19 The Object of our Affection Mark 12:35-37 35 And as Jesus taught in the temple, he said, “How can the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David? 36 David himself, in the Holy Spirit, declared, “‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet.”’ 37 David himself calls him Lord. So how is he his son?” And the great throng heard him gladly.  We love because he first loved us. 1 John 4:19

To know God, you must know yourself To know God, you must know yourself. To know yourself, you must know God. –John Calvin

Insanity—Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. –Albert Einstein

“We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.” –Dr. Henry Cloud, author of Boundaries Insanity—Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. –Albert Einstein

Reflection Questions What step can I take TODAY to more fully love God with my heart, soul, mind and strength?

Reflection Questions What step can I take TODAY to more fully love God with my heart, soul, mind and strength? What generational sin/issue am I using as an excuse to not change (if any)?

Reflection Questions Am I hiding behind something? What step can I take TODAY to more fully love God with my heart, soul, mind and strength? What generational sin/issue am I using as an excuse to not change (if any)? Am I hiding behind something?

Reflection Questions What step can I take TODAY to more fully love God with my heart, soul, mind and strength? What generational sin/issue am I using as an excuse to not change (if any)? Am I hiding behind something? What ditch do I tend to swerve towards—being overly emotional or overly cerebral?

Reflection Questions Am I content? Am I grateful? What step can I take TODAY to more fully love God with my heart, soul, mind and strength? What generational sin/issue am I using as an excuse to not change (if any)? Am I hiding behind something? What ditch do I tend to swerve towards—being overly emotional or overly cerebral? Am I content? Am I grateful?

Reflection Questions What step can I take TODAY to more fully love God with my heart, soul, mind and strength? What generational sin/issue am I using as an excuse to not change (if any)? Am I hiding behind something? What ditch do I tend to swerve towards—being overly emotional or overly cerebral? Am I content? Am I grateful? Every scene you remember from childhood and youth is significant. Pick a scene, positive or negative. What comes to mind quickly? How has that scene shaped the adult I am today?

Resources on Mental/Emotional Health Article (search online): “The Depression Epidemic: Why we’re more down than ever—and the crucial role churches play in healing” by Dan G. Blazer on March 6, 2009 in Christianity Today   Ted Talks (search YouTube): “Why we all need to practice emotional first aid” by Guy Winch “The power of vulnerability” by Brene Brown

Resources on Mental/Emotional Health Books (available at The Greenhouse library): “The Emotionally Healthy Church: A Strategy for Discipleship that Actually Changes Lives” by Peter Scazzero (available on the Resource Table for $10) “Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change” by Paul David Tripp “The Happy Christian: Ten Ways to Be a Joyful Believer in a Gloomy World” by David Murray “Soul Talk: The Language God Longs for Us to Speak” by Larry Crabb “Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures” by Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones “Depression: Looking Up from the Stubborn Darkness” by Edward Welch  

If other means will not do, neglect not physic [medicine]; and though they will be averse to it, as believing that the disease is only in the mind, they must be persuaded or forced to it. I have know the lady deep in melancholy, who a long time would neither speak, nor take physic, nor endure her husband to go out of the room, and with the restraint and grief he died, and she was cured by physic put down her throat with a pipe by force. –Richard Baxter, The Cure of Melancholy and Overmuch Sorrow, by Faith