New Heart Nazarene

The Attractiveness of God

While all Christians know they are supposed to love God, it sometimes helps to look at things from a differenent perspective.  To take a fresh approach let's consider the following question: Do you like God?

Christmas and Hope: Advent 2017

While joy and peace are common themes of Christmas, the idea of hope belongs to the true meaning of this season as well.  We can gain much by stopping to consider just how they are connected.

Christmas and Peace: Advent 2017

Though for many the Christmas season is full of stress, the gift Jesus longs for each of us to recieve is his peace.  But do we realize it, and do we even know how to open this gift?

Christmas Joy: Advent 2017

All the festivities make Christmas a time when everyone is expected to full of joy.  But if you take away all the parties, food, music, decorations, and gift giving - what's left about Christmas to fill us with joy?

Myth Busting Heaven pt 2: Keeping Heaven Really Real

As amazing as our bodies are, they continually cause us ailments.  They are subject to disease, illness, injury and disfunction. A primary tenet of eternal life is that our bodies will be resurrected to a new and glorious state.

Three Reasons to be Grateful

Thanksgiving is a bigger thing than most of us realize.  Here are three very good reasons for being grateful. 

Myth Busting Heaven pt 1: The Missing Ingredient

For most Christians, Heaven has become a vague and blurry vision of the after life.  But if we pay attention to what the Bible says, it can become a deep sense of comfort, motivation and joy

Rev. Steve Scott: A Heart of Stone, or a Heart of Flesh?

Steve Scott, District Superintendent of the Sacremento District of the Church of the Nazarene, opens up a passage in Ezekiel 36 and asks what kind of heart we have. 

Why I Am a Protestant: 500 Years After Luther

On the 500th  Anniverary of Luther's 95 Theses, we look at the three main themes of the Reformation, and how they should remain central to our own faith journeys.

Dan Anderson: Friendship Evangelism

For thirty years, Dan Anderson served as a missionary in Africa.  In this message he tells just one story of conversion, and requests that we each ask a very important question:  'Who is my Mohammed?'