New Beginnings Blog

Bellevue Public Schools is extending a program similar to our summer meals program to ensure all students have food at home during this closure. Drive-Up Dates & Times: Beginning on Monday, March 23rd from 11:00am-12:00pm; and then each day through the school week. We will provide updates if/when changes are made to this schedule or locations. ...

My devotional a couple of days ago...be encouraged! The present world crisis is calling us to put our trust in more than our own efforts ... "Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest. [I will ease and relieve and refresh your souls.]Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am gentle (meek)...

"Did you know, my child, that all this time you have been struggling, you have actually been growing roots? I would not quit on bamboo. I will never quit on you! Don't compare yourself to others. The bamboo had a different purpose than the fern. Yet they both make the forest beautiful. Your time will come," God said to me. "you will rise high." "Ho...

One day, I decided to quit. I wanted to quit my job, quit my relationships, and to quit my spirituality; I even wanted to quit my life. I went into the woods to have one last talk with God. "God," I said, "Can you give me one good reason not to quit?" His answer surprised me. "Look around," He said, "do you see the fern and the bamboo?" "Yes", I re...

God has only one requirement for entrance into heaven: that we be clothed in Christ. Listen to how Jesus describes the inhabitants of heaven: They will walk with me and will wear white clothes, because they are worthy…." Rev. 3:4 Listen to the description of the elders: "Around the throne there were . . . twenty-four elders . . . They were dressed ...

Don't brag about tomorrow, since you don't know what the day will bring. Let someone else praise you, not your own mouth— a stranger, not your own lips. A stone is heavy and sand is weighty, but the resentment caused by a fool is even heavier. Anger is cruel, and wrath is like a flood, but jealousy is even more dangerous. An open rebuke is better t...

"Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us" Ephesians 3:20, NKJV. Many of us read this scripture, but do not understand what we read. God says, "He is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that ___(put your name here)___ can ask or think, according to the power th...

"Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert." Isaiah 43:19 My sister. My friend. You've seen the LORD come through for you many times over the course of your life. You've seen how He has made a way out of no way for you. Don't pretend like you do...

"That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises." Hebrews 6:12 One day while my son was busy playing with his toys I went into the kitchen to warm up some milk for him. As soon as he saw his cup he started to cry. He had to wait for it to warm up, but in his precious mind, he saw it and he wanted ...