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It Was Always His: A 5-Day Devotional for the Week After Stewardship Sunday Day 1: The Question Underneath the Question,...
10/12/2026

It Was Always His: A 5-Day Devotional for the Week After Stewardship Sunday

Day 1: The Question Underneath the Question, 1 Chronicles 29:10-16

“Where did it come from?” That's the question I can't get away from this week. Not the job, not the raises, not the good decisions, not the years of showing up and doing the work. I mean underneath all of that. Where did it come from?

David stood in front of the whole assembly and asked something similar. He looked at everything Israel had gathered for the temple and he said it out loud: everything comes from you, and we have only given back what already belongs to you.

That's a strange thing for a king to say. Kings accumulate. Kings build. Kings want their name on the thing. But David had learned something in the years between the shepherd's field and the throne, and it took him a long time to learn it. What he held was never his to hold.

Everything you're holding right now, the income, the house, the plans, the years you've already lived and the ones you're hoping for. Here is the question to ask yourself…

Reflect: Where did it come from? Don't rush to the answer. Sit in the question for a time. Let it get under your ribs. I think once you answer that honestly, everything else in your life starts to rearrange itself.

Pray: Lord, before I say anything else, I want to sit in the question. Where did it all come from? Open my eyes to see your hand in what I've been calling mine. Amen.

10/11/2026

Good morning, New Beginnings Church!

Today's message is entitled: “It Was Always His”

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We have lived believing "that's mine." But is it really? How do we look at ownership from a Biblical perspective? Joi...
10/11/2026

We have lived believing "that's mine." But is it really? How do we look at ownership from a Biblical perspective? Join us this morning at 10:30am as we encounter the grace of Jesus together.

Day 5 — Grace Pours Through Us (1 Peter 2:24)“He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die t...
10/09/2026

Day 5 — Grace Pours Through Us (1 Peter 2:24)
“He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.” 1 Peter 2:24

All of Jonah points to Jesus: Jonah sat outside wanting the city to burn. Jesus came and wept over it. Jonah built a shelter to keep his distance. Jesus tore it down so there would be no distance left. Jonah wanted grace for himself and judgment for his enemies. Jesus took that judgment on Himself on the cross — "He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed" (1 Peter 2:24).

Jesus fully pays our way. When we turn and believe and are saved, we do not get to restrict grace from other people. It is not ours to control.

The question is not whether God is good. The question is whether we want Him to be good for all people — even when that good comes through us. Grace that stops with us has stopped being grace. It is time to come out of the shelter. It is time to stop waiting for fire to fall on people we think deserve it. God brought us out so He could bring us back. He brought us back so His grace would pour out through us.

Reflect: Where have you been keeping grace for yourself instead of handing it over?

Pray: Jesus, thank You for bearing what I deserved. You tore down every distance between us. Now pour Your grace through me — not just to me. Make me someone who hands over what I have freely received. Amen.

10/08/2026

SOME THOUGHTS ON RELATIONAL PRIORITIES

One of the value decisions we make regularly is what relationships are most important to us.

When we are born—the most important people in our lives are the ones who act daily to keep us alive by feeding and caring for us—our parents. As we grow—our relational circles expand to include family and friends. When we begin to mature into adulthood—our circle of relationships is ever expanding—significant others, teammates, co-workers, and neighbors to name a few. If we’re fortunate, our multi-generational, nurturing family forms the tightest circle of relationships.

Most people assume that God is pro-family, and there is much in the Bible to support that idea. God created marriage (Genesis 2:21-22). He is against divorce (Matthew 19:8). The Lord commands us to honor our parents (Exodus 20:12), and he provided a family for Jesus to be raised and nurtured within (Matthew 1:18).

But if God is pro-family, he is pro-Jesus even more. We are commanded to follow Christ, even at the cost of losing our family. Jesus himself said,

“If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple.” (Luke 14:26)

Jesus needs to be our top relational priority. I’ve seen Christian wives be rejected by their unbelieving husbands, and Christian husbands be rejected by their unbelieving wives. I’ve seen the same between parents and children and brothers and sisters.

Jesus also said:

“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.” (Matthew 10:34-36)

When Jesus said we are to hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, he didn’t mean that we are to wish them harm. He meant that our love for him should be so great it makes all other loves seem like hatred by comparison.

Love Jesus first and best, my friends!

Bishop Jeff Greenway

Day 4 — The Question Left Hanging (Read Jonah 4:9-11)9 But God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the...
10/08/2026

Day 4 — The Question Left Hanging (Read Jonah 4:9-11)
9 But God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the plant?” “It is,” he said. “And I’m so angry I wish I were dead.”
10 But the LORD said, “You have been concerned about this plant, though you did not tend it or make it grow. It sprang up overnight and died overnight.
11 And should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left—and also many animals?”

That is all we know about Jonah. No resolution. No scene after the credits. The book ends with a question: Should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh?

Maybe the question is not just for Jonah. Maybe it is for us. Scripture is clear that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23) and that everyone who believes and has faith will be saved (Acts 16:31). Those two truths hold together. When we start deciding who grace can and cannot reach, we are asking God to be smaller than He is. We are asking Him to give less grace than He offers.

God's answer to Jonah is: "The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love." God is not done with the people who have caused hurt, pain, trauma, and chaos. His grace is offered to them too. That includes people we read about in the news and people who have wounded us personally.

Reflect: Where in your life have you been asking God to be smaller than He is? How do Romans 3:23 and Acts 16:31 hold together in your understanding of grace? Is there someone whose eternal destiny you have quietly taken it upon yourself to decide? Give them to God.

Pray: Father, I confess that I have wanted grace for myself and judgment for my enemies. Your mercy is bigger than my understanding of it. Help me trust Your heart, even when it reaches people I would not choose. Amen.

Day 3 — A Vine, a Worm, and a City (Read Jonah 4:6-8)6 Then the LORD God provided a leafy plant and made it grow up over...
10/07/2026

Day 3 — A Vine, a Worm, and a City (Read Jonah 4:6-8)
6 Then the LORD God provided a leafy plant and made it grow up over Jonah to give shade for his head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was very happy about the plant.
7 But at dawn the next day God provided a worm, which chewed the plant so that it withered.
8 When the sun rose, God provided a scorching east wind, and the sun blazed on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint. He wanted to die, and said, “It would be better for me to die than to live.”

God gives Jonah a plant. Shade, comfort, relief…Jonah is happy. Then God sends a worm, the plant dies… Jonah is angry again.

Think about this: God gives Jonah personal relief and he rejoices; a city of thousands repents and he rages. Jonah is more moved by a vine serving his needs than by a whole city comforted by the mercy of God. He wept over a plant and shrugged at souls.

God does not want this to settle in Jonah's heart. A vine and a worm — two very small things in a very big world — are being used to draw him back. It is grace again. A small storm, if you will, giving Jonah a taste of what he wanted for Nineveh.

We do the same thing. We cry over the inconvenience and pain in our own lives and shrug at the people around us — especially the ones we think are undeserving of mercy. Some of them we may know. Some we only know from the news and judge from a distance.

Reflect: What has your heart's attention right now, while a person God loves has none of it? Why do we feel our own pain so much more sharply than the pain of people we don't know? Name one person or group you have been "shrugging at." What is one concrete act of grace you could extend toward them this week?

Pray: God, break my heart for what breaks Yours. Don't let me weep over vines while I shrug at people. Give me eyes for the souls You love, even the ones I have decided are undeserving. Amen.

Day 2 — The Shelter We Build (Read Jonah 4:5)5 Jonah had gone out and sat down at a place east of the city. There he mad...
10/06/2026

Day 2 — The Shelter We Build (Read Jonah 4:5)
5 Jonah had gone out and sat down at a place east of the city. There he made himself a shelter, sat in its shade and waited to see what would happen to the city.

Jonah settles outside the city. He obeyed, he preached, and now he is at a distance, city-watching — maybe hoping God changes His mind.

Tarshish was running from God's call. This shelter looks like running from God's heart. Jonah is doing the religious thing while keeping God at arm's length, and the question the text puts in front of us is this: does Jonah truly desire what God desires, or is this a selfish desire dressed up as faithfulness?

Most of us have built shelters of our own. Places where we follow God but ask Him not to mess with certain things — media I consume, finances, politics, mercy for that person, kindness toward that group, habits, what I drink on Friday nights. We sit in the shelter and wait for God to agree with us or maybe to just give in to us.

God's word this week is not asking us to obey more. It is asking us to come out of the shelter. And maybe the first step is admitting we have one.

Reflect: What is your shelter? Where have you built a place to follow God while keeping Him at a distance from one area of your life?
What would it look like, or take, to come out of that shelter this week?

Pray: Lord, I have built a shelter and called it faithfulness. Show me where it is. Give me the courage to step out of it and let You into the area I have fenced off. Amen.

Day 1 — When Good News Makes Us Angry (Read Jonah 4:1-4)1 But to Jonah this seemed very wrong, and he became angry.2 He...
10/05/2026

Day 1 — When Good News Makes Us Angry (Read Jonah 4:1-4)
1 But to Jonah this seemed very wrong, and he became angry.
2 He prayed to the LORD, “Isn’t this what I said, LORD, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity.
3 Now, LORD, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
4 But the LORD replied, “Is it right for you to be angry?”

Jonah prayed from the fish. Jonah obeyed in the city. And now, with an entire city on its knees in repentance, Jonah is not relieved, thankful, or praising. He is furious.
Listen to what he does: he quotes God's own self-description back at Him — "gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love" — and he uses it as an accusation. He ran in chapter 1 because he didn't want God's goodness to reach people he had decided were beyond it. Now he is angry that it did.

Have you ever been so angry that when something good happened, something else rose up instead of joy? Contempt, maybe. Bitterness. That's where we find Jonah; not as far from us as we think.

Reflect: Jonah is angry about God's character, not just God's decision. What does that reveal about what was driving his obedience in the first place? Is there a person or group you have quietly decided is beyond God's reach? Be honest before God about that today.

Pray: Father, expose the places where I want Your goodness for me but not for others. I don't want to quote Your mercy as an accusation. Soften my heart toward the people I have written off. Amen.

10/04/2026

Good morning, New Beginnings Church!

Today's message is entitled: JONAH (pt. 4)

If you missed church lately, you can now listen to the sermons on our Podcast using the link below!
https://newbeginningschurch.buzzsprout.com
(Also available on Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music by searching New Beginnings Church)

Below we have listed some resources that may be helpful to you before, during, and after the service.

Our Website: https://www.delawarenewbeginnings.com

Online https://app.aplos.com/aws/give/NewBeginningsChurch/nbgeneral

Current Events
https://www.delawarenewbeginnings.com/currentevents

Online connection card: https://www.delawarenewbeginnings.com/connect

Weekly Devotions: https://www.delawarenewbeginnings.com/devotions

Worship Music Playlist: https://www.delawarenewbeginnings.com/worship

Copyright Licensing by CCLI.com

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