Each week thousands of New Lifers gather with one another to worship together, pray together, and live life in community with each other. During our main services we gather as a congregation to unite as a family in worship of our God. There are services for all ages, schedules, and locations available, read more about them here.
Are you looking for a place to belong and would like to gather more information about New Life Church or discover how you can begin your journey here? We would like to invite you to join us for New Life Next.
We are so excited that you're considering visiting us at New Life Church. From the moment you walk through our doors, we want you to feel at home here.
Find out more about churches affiliated with New Life, including our church plants in Denver, downtown Colorado Springs, Austin, TX, and Fort Collins as well as our foreign language services.
Desperation is a youth movement for local churches based out of New Life that is all about empowering the next generation to willingly spend their lives in desperate pursuit of God.
One of the best ways to connect with people in healthy relationships is through a New Life Group - a small group of people aiming to connect with God and connect with each other!
New Life Church recognizes the special calling on the members of our Armed Services and their families. As such, we commit to developing their spiritual condition through love, support and discipleship.
Marriage and Family Ministries wants to be a part of helping you keep your family strong, healthy and vibrant. Through marriage enrichment, pre-marital counseling, "Conversations on the Family" gatherings and much more, we want to walk alongside you and your family, encouraging healthy communication and happy homes.
Whether it's at a Saturday morning men's breakfast, a fishing, golfing, or camping trip, men can find friendship, challenge and encouragement through the New Life Men's Ministry.
New Life Women is about helping women become ambassadors of Christ through building great relationships, discovering their full potential, and reaching out to those around them.
Are you 50 or older? This is the place for you. Through groups, social activities, and worship just for you, connect with others in your stage of life.
New Life Church's Restoration Ministries is launching a lay counseling course designed to raise up men and women who will competently and compassionately meet the real needs of broken, wounded and hurting people.
The King's University and Seminary was founded by Dr. Jack W. Hayford for those who sincerely desire to mature in their walk with Christ. New Life offers local classes accredited through King's University and Seminary.
At New Life, we value your children! From Birth thru Sixth Grade we want to take care of your children and create a place where your child can genuinely experience the presence of God.
DSM is the weekly expression of the Desperation Movement, whereby we live under the core convictions of the vow: passion. intercession. consecration. mission.
theMILL is a gathering place for a diverse, dynamic mix of 1,000-plus college students and 20-somethings engaging in heartfelt worship, compelling teaching, and fervent prayer.
The home schooling families of New Life Church offer a three-part program including support, services, group activities and events for those currently home schooling, an independent school, and enrichment classes geared toward supplementing your home schooling program.
The Desperation Leadership Academy is a full-time internship program beginning in August of every year. Leadership development, spiritual intensification, ministry placement, theological equipping, these are all aspects of the program to send students back into the world ready to conquer.
Each week at New Life, we join together in praise and worship to experience the power of God's presence. Visit us here to find out more about New Life's Worship ministry.
A great way to stay connected is to receive our email newsletters. From our weekly NewLifeNow email to emails from specific ministries, you will always know what's happening at New Life Church.
Now you can stay up-to-date with what's happening at New Life Church right on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod mobile device! You can watch live services, listen to podcasts, browse groups, read blogs, connect with our staff, and much, much more!
Fill out this application to volunteer at New Life Church. Whether interested in serving the Dream Team (New Life Ministries) or through outreach with Local (Dream Center, Community outreach) and Global (Missions and global outreach), this is the place to start.
New Life Church has a deep heritage of extending Christ's kingdom to the ends of the earth through praying, giving and sending. We commit our time, talents, and treasure to this end and embrace a theologically sound and strategically relevant approach to accomplish the building of Christ's kingdom globally.
At New Life, we believe that we have a responsibility to be "salt and light" to the world around us. Find out how you can join us in meeting practical and tangible needs in our community through New Life Local.
Through the Dream Centers of Colorado Springs, we are reaching out to our community to help people in a tangible way. Visit here to find out how you can get involved in our latest initiative - the DCCS Women's Clinic.
Visit here to access our safe, secure online giving system. Here you can manage your tax-deductible donations by scheduling recurring donations, initiating one-time donations, and viewing/printing your giving history and tax statements among many other options.
New Life Church is fully accredited by the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability. ECFA accreditation signifies that it's accredited members have faithfully complied with established standards for financial accountability, fundraising, and board governance.
NewLifeSundaySchool is an opportunity to deepen the roots of your faith and renew your mind as we tackle topics that are central to the Christian life. Through in-depth Bible study and explorations of core Christian doctrines and spiritual practices, you will be challenged in your walk with Christ.
We will be focusing on studying the Bible and the core Beliefs of Christians. We will doing a "survey" study of the whole Bible in 5 sections: This first one is the Pentateuch, the first 5 books of the Bible.
We will be focusing on studying the Bible and the core Beliefs of Christians. We will doing a "survey" study of the whole Bible in 5 sections: This first one is the Pentateuch, the first 5 books of the Bible.
Have you lost your way? Often in our Christian walk we need to be reminded of what we already know. This is the first part of 3 talks moving from Knowing to Being then Doing. Spiritual practice will help us move from knowing about to knowing Him. Henri Nouwen shared that spiritual disciplines are 'not the solution but a direction.' Let's walk in the direction together of really Knowing Him.
This podcast unpacks how the Psalms were used as the prayer-book as the people of God, from Israel to the early Church, and even today. We discuss the value of learning the language of prayer by praying the Psalms so that we can be in conversation with God.
This class begins with an overview of the use of poetry versus prose in the Bible and why poetry plays an important role. We then discover the basic poetic elements within the Psalms, spending the most time unpacking the most common device of Hebrew poetry: parallelism. The class closes with a discussion of the movement within the Psalms, from hope to disappointment to trust and praise, by rivers, through valleys and deserts, ultimately culminating in an eruption of praise.
In this massive collection of 150
poems, we find a variety of 'genre,' including praise, laments, teaching,
and 'enthronment' Psalms. We'll explore their distinctives and how they
speak to us today.
In this podcast, we take a look at several of the 'big ideas,' the primary theological and faith issues that permeate the Psalter,
including God's "Shalom, justice, and righteousness."
How should we live in the light of God's in-breaking future? This podcast begins with a sketch of what it means to say that the Kingdom of God has come "here and now and not yet." We then turn our attention to three verbs that help us to live within that Kingdom: we prepare, we announce, and we anticipate. Within this framework, we understand how self-giving love is the language of the future that God is bringing, and how miracles and justice-work are all ways of pointing to the Kingdom that has begun and will culminate at Christ's return.
In this podcast, Glenn Packiam provides a Biblical framework for thinking about the New Heaven and New Earth. The narrative of Scripture is the story of Creation, Covenant, Jesus, New Covenant, and New Creation. The Creator God made a good world. The result of human sin is the fracturing of heaven and earth, of human relationship with God, and of human relationship with each other. But Gods plan of salvation is a plan to pull it all together again to make all things new. The vehicle for Gods salvation is the Covenant, specifically His covenant with Abraham. But Abrahams descendants Israel is unfaithful. Enter: Jesus. Jesus, as the seed of Abraham, remains faithful to the covenant and by suffering our death, renews the covenant; Jesus, as the Divine Co-Creator, brings about new creation through His resurrection. Through Jesus, God is faithful to His project of Creation and His promise to restore and bless it through Abrahams family. It also means that when we surrender to Christ, we become a new creation in advance of heaven and earth being made new. While we dont know much detail of the precise continuity and discontinuity between this heaven and this earth and new heaven and new earth, we suspect that like Jesus physical body that passed through death and was transformed, this earth and heaven will experience a death of judgment and then be made new: the same materials reconstituted with new properties.
Pastor Glenn discusses the significance of Jesus' bodily resurrection as the firstfruit of those who die in Christ. He then discusses what we know from Scripture about the state of believers who die. Correcting some popular but unbiblical notions along the way, this session explores the significance of what it means to "look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come".
Pastor Glenn reframes "Eschatology" around the question "What will God do in the end?" instead of "When will the end come?" After a quick explanation of the Book of Revelation as apocalyptic literature instead of prophetic literature-- and the difference that makes-- Glenn then unpacks the Jewish vision of hope in the 1st century and how the Christian picture redefined that vision around Jesus the crucified and risen Messiah.
It's hard for us to be alone, and yet Jesus frequently withdrew to "lonely places" to pray. It's hard for us to keep the Sabbath, and yet there are specific ways that the Sabbath "keeps us". It's hard to be silent, to not pray to not ask, to not talk. Yet it is in the silence that God often speaks.
Going without food doesn't sound like a good idea and definitely not any fun, so why would Jesus say that His followers will fast? This Sunday we will unpack the value of fasting, the role it plays in the life of a believer, and how it teaches and trains us. We will cover both practical and spiritual dynamics to this ancient discipline.
Jesus talked about the Kingdom of God most often. In fact, the backdrop of the Gospels have in mind how Jesus as Messiah was inaugurating God's Kingdom. But what is the Kingdom of God? Is it here? Is it coming? What does it mean for us here and now and for our future?
Every religion has a way of describing the human situation and the future or ideal goal of all things. But what is the Christian story? How do we account for the goodness and the evil in humans and in the world? And what is God's plan with all of it? We'll unpack the broad strokes of "soteriology"--the theology of salvation--and its implications for the whole cosmos.
Many of us know that the Christian view of God is a God who is "three-in-one." Few of us know why this belief is core to our faith and what its implications are on our everyday living. We'll uncover how the Trinity is not so much a concept to be explained but a reality to be lived into.
We'll discuss a basic plan for studying the Bible in a way that every layperson can engage in by using with three phases of study--observation, interpretation, and application--and a few basic tools. You'll learn how to avoid many common mis-readings and misinterpretations of Scriptures and how to enter the Scriptures, and, by the Holy Spirit, let the Scriptures "enter you."
The Biblical canon of scripture is our best window into the truth of God. Often, we are confused and led into believing misconceptions about how these books were formed and then standardized. On this Sunday we will talk about the story, and importance of how God used His church to form Scripture and why the canon is the best window into the truth of God.
There are many well-intentioned, but misguided approaches to the Bible. Some imagine it a rule book with laws; others see it as a sort of cook book with recipes for success and health; still others treat it like a textbook full of facts and ideas to be memorized. In this class we will explore the Big Story of the Scriptures, and uncover the single, sovereign, saving plan of God.
