New Hope's NT90

Welcome to New Hope's New Testament 90-Day Challenge!

 

New Testament 90-Day Challenge

For the 90 days between New Year’s and Easter,  be challenged to engage in five vital practices that typified the early church as described in the New Testament.  These include:

Worship:  Make it a priority

Scripture: Read through the New Testament in 90 days- together!

Community: Be part of a LIFE Group or class that is committed to one another's growth through the NT90 Challenge.

Prayer: Make it a daily practice

Service: Do one act of service that will stretch and challenge you .

Use this page (under construction) to be part of the NT90. Become part of the New Testament Story!

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in my internet travels found what is called abstract photography. it is way cool, no photoshop, it is all done by the camera after you take the picture.

Day 91: Easter Sunday

Easter Sunday

Vesre of the Day: March 30

Finished?

Congratulations!  If you started on New Year's Eve and followed the readings till today, you have read the entire New Testament! Today is the last day of the 90 Day New Testament Challenge- but are we finished?

My Verse of the Day from today's reading points to something more:

“I am sending you, just as the Father has sent me.” (John 20:21)

The scriptures of the New Testament may be completed, but the story of the New Testament continues. The goal of the NT 90 was never just to read through the New Testament, but to also extend and become part of it.

It is fitting that we conclude on the day before Easter, since the resurrection is anything but the end. It is a new beginning and signals the ongoing work of God in the world.

“I am sending you, just as the Father has sent me.”

Day 90: March 30

John 19-21

Day 89: March 29

John 17-18

Day 88: March 28

John 14-16

Verse of the Day: March 27

  Love

Things are starting to happen fast in today's reading. The anointing of Jesus by Mary, the rejection by Judas, the triumphal entry on Palm Sunday and finally, the Last Supper. It is here that Jesus sums up his ministry and gives some final instructions to his disciples.

But I am giving you a new command. You must love each other, just as I have loved you.  If you love each other, everyone will know that you are my disciples. (John 13:34-35)

A new command- a mandate:  Love on another. Our Maundy (Latin for "Mandate") Thursday service is a commemoration of this event and a reminder that this mandate is still in effect.

"Love one another as I have loved you."  That is a pretty high bar. It was about to get higher, but that is the reading for another day.

Day 87: March 27

John 12-13

Verse of the Day: March 26

Believe

The stories that are part of today's reading revolve around belief, and the contrasts couldn't be greater.  We start with the people asking for a clear answer from Jesus and refusing to believe in spite of the signs that have already been done.  When they don't like the answer Jesus gives, they try to kill him (a theme that repeats). 

Martha's brother (Lazarus) dies and she is sure that if Jesus had come sooner, he could have cured him. Yet in the midst of her disappointment of what Jesus didn't do, she still declares:

“I believe that you are Christ, the Son of God. You are the one we hoped would come into the world.” (John 11:27)

The line is drawn. Some refuse to believe in spite of what they see. Others (the sheep that recognize their master's voice- see John 10:1-15) believe, sometimes in spite of what they see. Everything is set now for the confrontation of the final week.