New Life Family Fellowship

The Mind of Christ and Your Perspective

The mind of Christ has a lot to do with your perspective. How do you view yourself and the ones around you? Having the mind of Christ means having His perspective of yourself, others, as well as the events in our life and the part we play in them. Many factors can affect how we perceive things, what we think of God, what we think of ourselves, as well as past trauma. Let's go to the Word to dive into what God has to say about our perspective and how He may want to change it.

 

3-9-2025

Evan Burks

Having the Mind of Christ (The Family is His Heart and On His Mind)

We oftentimes underestimate the importance of our family; our spouses, children, and parents. To understand that the fruit of the womb is both a blessing and our primary ministry and calling. To have the mind of Christ is to love like Christ, but first, that means our families. It would seem we often get it backwards and look outward for ministry, and make loving others our main focus. We run to other countries and build ministries that leave our first calling, our families, lacking. How can we love like Christ if we're not truly "present" for them? How can we have His mind and "be" love when we often forsake our first ministry and chase another? Let's look at what the Lord has to say about this. 

 

3-2-25

Paster Anthony

Think the Thoughts of Christ

How do we think the thoughts of Christ? To put on the mind of Christ is to put on love. Love is both a noun and a verb. So, what is the difference between the two? To be or to do? It is a good and right thing to "practice" love, but a different thing entirely to "be" love. A right relationship with God produces the noun. When you only practice love like a verb without becoming love, you can easily turn into a Pharisee. Clearly love is a two-part process. Let's take a look and see what the Word says about this process in our lives. 

 

2-23-25

Pastor Anthony

Putting on the Mind of Christ in Love ("Loving from a Place of Brokenness")

Is perhaps on our knees in surrender and brokenness the proper starting place for seeking the mind of Christ? When we replace the word "love" in 1st Corinthians with the name of Jesus, we quickly find that walking in such a way is difficult, even when we are not broken. When we replace that word "love" with our own name, our shortcomings are painfully obvious. The mind of Christ is simply...love. God is love, so in order to have the mind of Christ, we must love as He does. How do we turn our pain and brokenness into the mind of Christ? How do we become love when we find ourselves crippled by trauma? Let's take a look at what the Word says, not only about love, but also about what that should look like.

 

2-16-25

Pastor Anthony   

Putting on the Mind of Christ in Love ("Love is a Verb")

In continuing our study on how to put on the mind of Christ in love, we are looking at 1 Corinthians 13 and it's description of what love is and what love is not. Today's sermon focuses on verses 4 and 5 and what love is not. Love "is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil." So, what do those mean to us as believers and how can we each exhibit the love of Christ to others in these ways this week? Let's listen in...

2-9-25

Pastor Anthony

Pursuing the Mind of Christ - (A Lesson from Proverbs)

What does it mean to pursue the "mind of Christ?" How do we do that? In today's sermon, Jeremiah uses the book of Proverbs to describe some of the building blocks of that process. The first step to having the mind of Christ comes when we have a right relationship with Him. We recognize who God is and who we are in response to that. Then, we need to get in the Word and learn from what it says. Lastly, we need to more than read, we need to obey it. Only then can we start the never-ending journey of knowledge and wisdom that Christ has called us to in pursuing Him. Let's listen to today's sermon and see what God's Word says to all of us!

2-2-25

Jeremiah

Fresh Start Series #3 ("What Does Love Look Like?")

Love - what a loaded word. It's a word that is used in so many ways and for so many things. We love cookies, we love our animals, we love the color blue. Is that the same word to describe the love of God, or the love we should show one another? Let's take a look at how we can love according to the Word. Let's go to the Word and walk through what the Lord has to say about love from 1 Corinthians 13.

1-19-25

Pastor Anthony 

Fresh Start Series #2 ("Can We Grow and How?")

Let's ask ourselves, "Can we really grow?" Are we as people really capable of growth? If we look at our life, as well as the lives of others, the answer, more often than not, isn't encouraging. The truth is, outside of the Lord, true growth is impossible. In Christ, change and growth is not only possible, but it is the by-product of relationship...if we yield. If we become so desperate to see His face, there is nothing left but to grow as a result. Let's take a look at the Word and see what this means and how this would look for us personally... 

1-12-25

Pastor Anthony

Fresh Start Series #1 ("How Do We Pray? - Jesus' Example")

Prayer is such a simple, and yet difficult practice. How do we pray properly? Should we sit? Should we stand? Should we kneel? Prayer takes practice, intention, and effort when done correctly, but what should we say? Do the words we say matter as much as we think they do? We seem to treat prayer as if we and God are just ships passing one another in the night. Not only do we tend to think our deeds for God are more important then our communion with God, we spout words randomly at him instead of stopping to focus directly on him and having a two-way conversation. Yes, we need to look to God, but what would happen if we actually slowed down to look at him face to face? Let's look at the Word and see what God has to say about how we should pray... 

 

1-5-25

Pastor Anthony 

Advent - Week 4 ("Love Is More Than a Feeling")

There is so much to the word "love." There are so many ways to love one another. However, it seems that we stop short of the depth that love can take us. We tend to love selfishly instead of selflessly. How can one thing such as love transform so much in so many ways? Let's look at what the Word has to say about what love really is and how deep it can change us to love authentically. . .  

 

12-22-24 

Mel