New Day Baptist Church Arcadia, Fl.

01/31/2026

Due to inclement weather conditions expected tomorrow February 1, 2026 all church services have been canceled. We will have our Homecoming Celebration that was scheduled for tomorrow next Sunday, February 8, 2026. Please stay safe and warm. God bless.

12/19/2025

Join us on Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 6:00pm as we come together to celebrate the past year and ignite a brighter future in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ at our annual year-end bonfire.

12/19/2025

Join us on Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 6:00pm for a joyous Christmas celebration that will fill your heart with love, hope, and inspiration as we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

12/07/2025

Please join us on Tuesday, December 9, 2025 at 7:00AM for the monthly Men’s and Women’s Prayer Breakfast at MyShelly’s Kitchen.

11/24/2025

Per Ken Clark, President of the Advisory Board for New Day Baptist Church Bible Study for Wednesday, November 26, 2025 is cancelled. Please spend time with your family and we will resume normal church services on Sunday, November 30, 2025. Sunday School at 09:30 AM and Worship Service at 10:30 AM Evening Service at 6:00PM. God Bless y’all and Happy Thanksgiving.

“O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: For his mercy endureth for ever.”
‭‭Psalm‬ ‭107‬:‭1‬ ‭KJV‬‬

O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: For his mercy endureth for ever.

09/17/2023

This is the primary message of the Good News; the basis of our faith. Paul is telling the Corinthians that this is the teaching that they must hold fast to. We have been saved to the death and resurrection of Jesus. What does "being saved" mean to you? When I read the Gospels and the letters from the apostles to the churches, I understand that being saved means that the gates of heaven have been opened to me; but that I must choose to enter them. Many doors and gates are open to us each day of our lives. Some of these we choose to enter and others we walk past, some of them we walk past quickly! If we accept the fact that we are saved by Jesus, it comes with the responsibility to share the Good News and to work with Jesus to bring a message of love and the need for justice to a world that is not always open to it. Christianity is more than a belief system; it is a way of life. We can walk through the doors of prayer, compassion and forgiveness, or we can walk through the doors of envy, discrimination and indifference. It's not enough to claim Jesus as your Savior if you don't let him lead you to the gates of the Kingdom. If Jesus is your Savior, he is also your Lord and King and that demands loyalty. Remember the Israelites who claimed Yahweh as their God. Things didn't work out so well when they were unfaithful and worshiped idols. We are not immune from worshiping idols either. We may not build altars to Baal, but some may build shrines to their favorite sports "idol." Others might put money in first place in their lives. Walking through these doors leads us away from the gates of Heaven, not toward them. We believe; now we need to follow the road to the open gate. - Daily Bible Verse KJV 9/17/2023

09/14/2023

I am dead, but I am still living, Paul says. My old, sinful nature was crucified, put to a slow painful death on the cross of Jesus Christ. And now I live by the vibrant, resurrection power of Jesus Christ.

Paul is writing to the church at Galatia, who had been greatly troubled by the teaching that salvation is, in essence, earned by works. Instead of resting in the grace of God, they had been encouraged to legalism and law service.

Interestingly, when Paul writes to them he does not claim that godly living is not a part of salvation. However, he turns the order around entirely. I am not saved because I am good, Paul says, I am good because I am saved: the life I now live, I live by the faith of the Son of God.

This is the essence of Christian living. It is not about a set of rules for us to follow gloomily; it is about a Person for us to follow joyfully. Because Christ loved us and gave himself for us, we then love and give ourselves for him!

Have you felt the sin-crucifying, love-inspiring grace of Jesus Christ in your life? If so, then it will display itself in the way you now live, by the faith of the Son of God. - Daily Bread 9/14/2023

09/13/2023

I'm sure you are familiar with the parable of the unjust servant. The servant in this story owes the king a lot of money but when he begs the king for mercy and promises to pay it all back if he will just give him a little more time, the king forgives the debt. Then the servant sees another servant who owes him some money – nowhere near the amount he owed the king! – and he demands that the servant pay him back immediately. When the servant begs for more time, he refuses and has him put into prison until he can pay back the full amount. The other servants are horrified at his behavior and tell the king what has happened. The king calls in the servant and has him turned over to the "tormenters" until he can pay back the full amount. Any offense against God is a major offense, and yet God has forgiven us, and forgives us over and over again. We pray in the Our Father asking God to forgive us AS we forgive others. I'm not sure we mean it. Is there someone we still can't forgive? I'm not saying anything about forgetting. Have we asked God to help us forgive? The problem here, is that a lack of forgiveness does nothing for the person not forgiven, but it can keep us from moving on. In families it can keep brothers and sisters apart; parents and children, and can cause problems for generations. Let us be more like the King and less like the unworthy servant. - Daily Bible Verse KJV

09/12/2023

When someone asked Jesus what the great commandment is, he replied that we must love the Lord with all our heart, soul, strength, and mind. He commanded love!

Here Jesus commands forgiveness -- and, again, it must be a genuine forgiveness from your hearts.

It is difficult for us to live by the reality of an all-knowing God. We assume that if no one else sees that lustful glance, or hears that private thought, then we have gotten away with our stealthy sin. But God searches the heart!

For this reason, he demands heart-deep obedience, even in relation to forgiveness. We might feel as though we have done our duty -- and maybe a little more -- to let an offense or injury go without confrontation or angry words. But Jesus is not satisfied until we have actually forgiven that person in our heart.

How could Jesus demand so much from us? The context explains it all. Jesus relates the parable of a man who is forgiven an enormous debt to the king, and yet refuses to relinquish another person from a very small debt. The king therefore is angry and requires the enormous debt to be paid in full.

This is a clear picture of salvation. If we have been forgiven so much sin, freely by God's grace, how could we ever demand justice for some small offense against our own person?

Do you have some small debts you need to forgive, in light of God's free and amazing grace to you? - Daily Bread 9/12/2023

09/11/2023

We are called here to worship God with unending doxology. And we are given several reminders of his worthiness of that worship.

First, we are reminded that God is the only wise God. There is no other source of true wisdom to be found anywhere in the universe: "in [Christ] are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge" (Colossians 2:3). There are literally millions of false teachers and philosophies and deities that claim to have the answers for life, but God alone gives truly wise counsel, in his Word.

And God is only wise. Not only does he share wisdom with us in his Word, every word he speaks is wisdom. It is not a mixture of good and bad answers, right and wrong philosophies, wise and foolish solutions. God is only wise; there is no foolishness or failure in him or in any word he speaks to us.

Second, God is our Savior. The very Judge whose righteousness would certainly condemn our sinfulness is the one who also provided a way of salvation for us! Before we had ever sinned, before we were even born, God had planned a perfect way of salvation for us.

Verse 24 reminds us that God's salvation includes the here-and-now preservation from faithlessness and utter failure: God keeps "you from falling" and presents you "faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy."

Who else but an all-wise, saving, and loving God would we wish to hold the reigns of the universe? To him, indeed, be all glory and majesty and power and authority, both right now and forever. Starting with you and your life. - Daily Bread 9/11/2023

09/10/2023

What was the subject of the apostles' message? Christ crucified.

Why? Not merely because it was a good example, or a tragic lesson. As the rest of this chapter, of this book, and of the New Testament clearly reveals, it was the crucifixion of Christ which put away our sins and provided for us the righteousness we needed for salvation.

To the Jews this message was a stumbling block. It was offensive to think all their good works, all their prayers, all their obedience to Moses' law could not save them. And especially to hear that they had to trust in this lowly Jesus of Nazareth for their salvation.

To the Greeks this message was utter foolishness. Whereas the Jews were religious, the Greeks were intellectual. The whole idea of salvation through a crucified carpenter was nonsense to their philosophical minds. While many of them had theories about life, purpose, meaning, and even salvation, the cross of Christ was certainly not among the plans they had formulated.

Yet, many Jews did receive the message of Christ crucified, and countless Greeks embraced Jesus as their Lord and Savior! What made the difference?

Some, Paul says, were called. To them Christ was powerful enough to save them from dead law service and wise enough to transcend their best philosophies. To them Jesus was not offensive or foolish; he was salvation from their limitations!

How do you view the cross? Is it offensive and foolish, or is it powerful and wise and liberating? - Daily Bread 9/10/23